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What are some of the best horror novels?

>> No.20848762

>>20848759
Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs arguably count.

>> No.20848774

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1P6rys6aZiH2JKhjYkQ0bWn3LMS7N49gJl5MMrtXm7SY/edit#gid=0

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>>20848759
The Exorcist is not a horror. Damn good book though.

>> No.20849515

>>20848759
Call of the Crocodile.

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>> No.20849796

>>20848759
It's not *great*, but The Last Days of Jack Sparks touches the scary bone.

Although there are not a few haters of the book on this board, I do think that Salem's Lot is one of the best horror novels. It is King in peak form and something of a tour de force, developing story arcs for some 30 distinctly etched characters. A very good read. (Also, be sure to read King's follow-up coda to Salem's Lot, the excellent short story One for the Road.)

>> No.20849926

I wish for less known recommendations. The same novels keep turning up in these threads. Anyways:
Thomas Tryon - The Other
Jack Ketchum - The Offspring
Ken Greenhall - Hell Hound

I hope those weren't mentioned every other thread.

>> No.20849980

>>20848781
then what is it ?

>> No.20850025

>>20849980
Blatty said it was a book about the mystery of faith which was supposed to be uplifting at the end which Friedkin agreed with people just reacted to it like a horror and its been stuck with that reputation.

>> No.20850621

>>20850025
check
never read it
but the movie scared the living crap out of people so maybe that's why the book gets lumped in with the horror genre. Also based on a true story or something ?

>> No.20850643

the elementals

>> No.20850849

I don’t know why, but the book that got to me the most is the Amityville Horror. I read it at an overnight job I was doing and it really unnerved me.

Currently reading Carrion Comfort, which I would say is just OK. Try Universal Harvester by John Darnielle or Last Days by Brian Evenson (sp?).

>> No.20851207

>>20850621
He took details of the possession from a case that happened yeah but it was just mental illness (which was known at that point, they even mention it in the book/film). And what I said applies to the film too, they didn't set out to make a horror but it freaked people the fuck out.