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What are some good horror/thriller books? Looking for some that will scare me.


Though none with any weird shit in it, not looking to be overly grossed out or anything like that.

>> No.1725305

b ump

>> No.1725306

Sepulchre by James Herbert. A damn fine horror read.
I am paradoxically delighted and disappointed that this story was not adapted for a film.

>> No.1725315

>>1725306

thank you sir, I will look into it :]

>> No.1725335

Richard Laymon.

In The Dark.
Did you have an interesting childhood as a boy? The Travelling Vampire Show.
You don't squirm from perversion? The Cellar.

>> No.1725358

>>1725335
I was actually surprised at how good The Traveling Vampire Show was. It took a good seemingly innocent nostalgia story and turned it around to something creepy as hell.

>> No.1725362

Sucks to your dislike of perversion or wierdness. Bentley Little is your man.
The Town,The Resort,Dominion,The Association. Begin with these, Thank the heavens or the hells later.
Its like Stephen King but with more of that "cuttin to the chase" thing.:P

>> No.1725406

>>1725362
I love Little but his books are tremendously formulaic. The thing is that they still manage to be good, and the books where he deviates from that (death instinct) are usually worse.

>>1725358
Yeah Laymon's surprisingly good at doing that. I picked up one of his books (in the dark) on a whim years ago, and quickly collected every other book he wrote.

>> No.1725428

Try any of the Michael Slade books, the early ones are the best.

Headhunter
Ghoul
Cut Throat

>> No.1725429

>Though none with any weird shit in it, not looking to be overly grossed out or anything like that.

Richard Laymon - Beast House.
Classy, frightening, in a classical way. None of this over-the-top graphic monster sex crap.

>> No.1725432

>>1725335
>>1725358
>>1725429

damn lol. I should have read the thread before I started trolling. What are the odds?

>> No.1725435

One of the best horror stories I read when I was younger was The Shining. That's a great little novel. Also I remember once my dad said he read an H. P. Lovecraft story when he was a kid and it scared him so bad that he threw the book away...lol. Can't remember what the story was, maybe The Haunter in the Dark or The Whisperer in Darkness. Something 'dark' iirc. Haven't read it anyway, but some Lovecraft stories are pretty awesome and some are creepy as hell.

>> No.1725441

>>1725432
The Beast House is great, and may not be what OP is looking for, but it's still tame in comparison to the splatterpunk of Edward Lee's writing, or the sheer brutality of Jack Ketchum's more realistic horror.

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>>1725441

Nah Beast House was a P.O.S. but I did get a boner during the part where he rapes his kid daughter.
>dat hairless cleft
Wait, might be thinking of The Cellar now.