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1 for James Herbert. I've read all his novels and would say that the Rats/Lair/Domain trilogy is well worth a look, they are my favourites of his, and Haunted/Ghosts of Sleath are good if you're into ghost stuff (the third in that trilogy "Ash" is out this year at some point)
I've not been too keen on his more recent books aside from Once, which i enjoyed, as he's doubled the length of them without actually adding anything worthwhile so they're really padded out and hard going. No word of a lie, in one of them (i think Nobody True) he describes in detail someone walking round a grocery store including the products they pick up off the shelves..
Stephen King's short stories are really good as well, he has a few books full of those like Different Seasons, Skeleton Crew, Night Shift, Nightmares and Dreamscapes and Everything's Eventual. You'll be surprised at just how many of these have been made into films!
Dean Koontz is another one who has written a lot of good horror novels. He doesn't really write horror as much these days, he has branched out into suspense/crime but some of his older books like Dragon's Tears, The Watchers, Tick Tock etc are excellent.
Apparently Richard Laymon is good as well. I've not read any of this but my mum who is also into horror novels has read quite a few and liked them. He died back in 2001 so nothing new coming from him but he has about 40 published novels from the 80s onwards. I think "The Woods are Dark" is his most famous novel. |
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Author: djdhrubs
25-11-2019 04:49:40
