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Pet Sematary. The description of Louis carrying Gage through the woods, then the creepy mask appearing in front of him with its tongue rolling out, THEN the Wendigo footsteps he heard scared the crap out of me. The whole book from beginning (the jogger on campus getting hit by the car) to end (Rachel) was easily the most disturbing horror book I've ever read.
For me, it was when he opened his son's coffin and thought that the head was missing.
Brian Keene writes zombie novels, I have not been able to finish the only one I've started, and I've tried 3 times. The Rising. It just creeps me out too much.
There are a trio of lawyers from Vancouver, BC who write under the name of Michael Slade. They've written a number of good, frightening books and my favorite is Ghoul.
I have to amend my post from yesterday, #74. I guess there have been others who have collaborated in the Michael Slade books also including the main author's daughter.
If you like mysteries, the supernatural and police work you'll probably enjoy them.
A prize-winning horror author whose work is subtle, but chilling, is Joyce Carol Oates. She write novels and short stories.
Just off of the top of my head, for fiction it's King. I think what is so disturbing about his writing is how he writes about dark sides of human nature. The Stand, Carrie, The Shining, Tommyknockers. Tommyknockers just sets an uneasiness into you as your reading, even when you don't yet get the "wrongness". Then there's many other King books that I didn't feel, like Under the Dome & Needful Things.
OMG, Helter Skelter. I used to read a lot of true crime (and there were some that still make my stomach turn even though I can't recall the title or names, but remember the crimes!), but HS takes the cake. Maury Terry wrote a book about The Son of Sam murders that also scared the **** out of me!
And I grew up on LI, where Amityville Horror wasn't a "story", it was NEWS & it was real.
The Road, The Gulag Archipelago, Flowers in the Attic (and those girls being found in Cleveland just confirmed that it could really happen!), Oryx & Crake, and...The Jungle.
Brian Keene writes zombie novels, I have not been able to finish the only one I've started, and I've tried 3 times. The Rising. It just creeps me out too much.
I like Brian Keene. But, you're right. Some of it is just too creepy.
I'm about 30% through Get Off My Lawn by Perry Kivolowitz and it is a much less creepy zombie apoc book. It leans more to the survival of the good guys. It's almost too technical in places for me because we are dealing with a hubby who is an extreme tech guy while the wife is more of a prepper who also knows her stuff when it comes to self-sustaining roof gardens and weapons. They live in a concrete house which is actually kind of cool. I highly recommend this one because it also has a bit of humor in it to take off the edge of terror.
The croning by laird Barron.
The carrion comfort by Dan Simmons.
Intensity by Koontz
And all of the sweetheart novels by Chelsea Cain. A female serial killer who is on par with Hannibal Lecter.
Just the newspaper stories of the Manson Murders terrified me,since they were the most detailed graphic stories I had ever read in a newspaper,by including the sick,psycho thoughts Susan Atkins had about Sharon Tate's baby,so no way on earth could I read Helter Skelter.
Do not even want to know how the mind of some psycho sub-human defective works!
I like Brian Keene. But, you're right. Some of it is just too creepy.
I'm about 30% through Get Off My Lawn by Perry Kivolowitz and it is a much less creepy zombie apoc book. It leans more to the survival of the good guys. It's almost too technical in places for me because we are dealing with a hubby who is an extreme tech guy while the wife is more of a prepper who also knows her stuff when it comes to self-sustaining roof gardens and weapons. They live in a concrete house which is actually kind of cool. I highly recommend this one because it also has a bit of humor in it to take off the edge of terror.
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check the library for Get Off My Lawn, wife/weapons, sounds good to me. Kind of Christopher Moore meets Brian Keene perhaps.
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The whole book from beginning (the jogger on campus getting hit by the car) to end (Rachel) was easily the most disturbing horror book I've ever read.
