Companion Question

[queenoftheskies]

Also in honor of Halloween...

What's your favorite horror book ever?

Comments

[pabba.livejournal.com]

Bag of Bones by Stephen King. Severely underrated.

[ashamel.livejournal.com]

Although perhaps not incredibly well-read, this is consistently mentioned among people's favourites of recent times, so I think the word is out there.

[stevenagy.livejournal.com]

Another book by King, but only because I read it when I was young -- The Shining. Scary, and a good piece of literature that examines the disintegration of an American family from alcohol and abuse.

[dragonmyst.livejournal.com]

The Stand by Stephen King

[dracschick.livejournal.com]

Dracula:)


PS--And Phantom. I don't wanna choose:(

[anaparenna.livejournal.com]

Where the Wild Things Are

Are you kidding me? Max was on an island for days, surrounded by monsters, struggling for some supremecy that would get him OFF the island, and he comes home, and there's no mother there...

But his food is still HOT after all that time? :D

Honestly though, my favorite horror "tale" is the ol' "Worms Crawl In" poem. Not a novel, but still creepy good fun.

[pabba.livejournal.com]

Hee. All excellent points!

[ashamel.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Song of Kali, by Dan Simmons perhaps.

There's a lot of Stephen King I love, but picking between them is tricky.

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

Well...hmmm.

The Amityville Horror scared the bejeezes out of me when I was in Jr High/High School, or whenever I read it. But it's not my favorite.

The Shining is one that I *always* come back to. I found that one when I was in High School, I think. It's a marvelous integration of character, motivation, and the supernatural.

And The Stand...I'm simply obsessed with it. I don't know why exactly. But I am. I keep going back to it, and I think I've read it at least five times in the three years since I found it in the bookstore.

[crossbow1.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what qualifies as a horror book. I know when I was reading The Witching Hour by Anne Rice, I was easirly startled, so I guess it spooked me pretty good.

[ashamel.livejournal.com]

I'd count it as horror -- and it is very good.

[crossbow1.livejournal.com]

It's definitely my favorite of her books. Unfortunately, the sequel, Lasher, is my least favorite.

[ashamel.livejournal.com]

I liked Lasher myself, in part because it was interesting how different Lasher was in this book than the first. But I thought she lost it with Taltos.

[ryan-howse.livejournal.com]

Frankenstein.

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

I think my favorite would have to be The Amityville Horror, just because it's true. (At least I think that's the book I'm thinking of... it was a looong time ago.)

[jamiekswriter.livejournal.com]

Salem's Lot by Stephen King. When the dead friend appears as a vampire outside the character's window, asking to be let in? Brrrr!!!