Good scary novels?

[Taggart]

What good books gave you the creeps or a real scare? You know, the kind that make you hesitant to turn off the lights when you're done reading and want to go to sleep.

 

[HappyPuppy]

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

 

[bondboy]

John Saul

 

[MX2]

Dean Koontz

 

[walla]

The Hardy Boys where they investigate the haunted ghost train.

 

[walla]

Also Berenstein Bears: Sister Goes to the Dentist

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: walla
The Hardy Boys where they investigate the haunted ghost train.

:Q Remembering that.. looks like I need to sleep with the nightlight on again..

 

[Neurorelay]

Clive Barker

 

[RandomFool]

Originally posted by: Neurorelay
Clive Barker

yes

 

[thedarkwolf]

Robert McCammon stuff is pretty good
Koontz has some good ones although his is more suspense. Watchers is great.
Brian Lumley's Necroscope series is really good if you like Vampires

 

[Taggart]

Thx these are some good recommendations

 

[K1052]

H.P. Lovecraft

It is older, but still good.

 

[AMDZen]

All the authors I would have mentioned are already here, also consider Robin Cook - some good medical stuff. Its not horror horror, but its mostly medical horror/mystery-horror stuff. Just to reitterate:

Clive Barker - weird, strange, mystifying and sometimes scary? yea I guess
Anne Rice - not scary and probably not considered horror, just good reading (the original 5 vampire chronicles any way)
John Saul - cool, interesting, but again - not really scary

But then again I don't get scarred by anything anymore, this is a result of reading Stephen King at the age of 9-10.

 

[DainBramaged]

Originally posted by: walla
The Hardy Boys where they investigate the haunted ghost train.

Dude, the one where Joe gets kidnapped is much more intense. I think it was What Happened at Midnight. The one with Anchor Joe. I read that book probably twenty times about ten years ago.

 

[whistleclient]

"Everyone Poops"



thank god it's not true. (chicks don't poop)

 

[Mrvile]

Dan Simmons - Summer of Night and its sequel, A Winter Haunting. They were somewhat scary but were great books, but you gotta watch out for Dan Simmons' other books he's got some issues.

I've read like 3 or 4 of Koontz's books and they aren't really scary. More suspense and action.

I've always wanted to give Clive Barker a try, his Spawn action figures crap was pretty sweet.

 

[Doggiedog]

Koontz - Phantoms

 

[whistleclient]

"Zodiac" and "Zodiac Unmasked" (both non-fiction)

David Fincher is directing the movie version of this story.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Originally posted by: K1052
H.P. Lovecraft

It is older, but still good.

Yes very good stuff. Look for a compilation of short stories. See if you can find one with "The Moth" in it.

Edit: There's another good one called "The Land Ironclads" though it's not exactly horror.

 

[mordantmonkey]

koontz- watchers and phantoms
read them when i was much younger, and they were pretty good for entertainment, suspense, scare.

when i got older, clive barker.

now i hardly ever read fiction unless it's a classic.