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Any horror recommendations? (lemmy.world)

submitted 20 hours ago by Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world to c/books@lemmy.ml

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It's been too long since I've read anything, but I do love horror books. My favorite horror book so far is Last Days by Adam Nevill. Almost put it down, it was that scary. In general, any horror books that are a must-read?

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[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Novels

Stephen King is very hit and miss but I loved Salem's Lot.

Kim Newman's Anno Dracula series is kind of alternative universe history themed where the premise is that the events of Bram Stokers Dracula actually happened but the main characters failed to kill Dracula so he takes over Victorian Britain. Popcorn stuff but fun if you like hypotheticals like "what if Oscar Wilde was a vampire?"

Short stories

Classics like Borges and Poe have a few existential horror stories like The Aleph by Borges. Borges is more consistent than Poe. Lovecraft is similar to Poe but not quite as good for me.

More modern short stories I'd definitely recommend some Ted Chiang for sci-fi horror (some lean more towards pure sci-fi but many are horror). It's a shame Neil Gaiman is allegedly such a monster because he had some good horror short story collections.

Manga

Junji Ito manga are well worth reading. Often you can find scanlations of the best stories through web searching but the books are also cheap on kindle; and look good with e-ink since it's all black and white.