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simon
citizen of the Loopworld
(8/2/02 10:00:01 am)
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Books
It's occured to me that I've never really read too much about the
books we all enjoy, so I thought I'd start us off. There's an
English authoer called Christopher Fowler who's really good,
especially his short story collections and two books called Rune and
Darkest Day (but all worth looking at). Michael Slade is good fun,
full of lashings of sex and violence clinincally described, but you
need to read them in order, and after Zombie, the get a bit weaker.
Worth reading the first five though (Headhunter, Ghoul, Cutthroat,
Ripper and Zombie, which I think was called Evil Eye in the USA).
Lincoln Preston is good, although mainly thrillers (The Relic was a
horror, which I thought was good, even if the film was a bit naff
and the sequal to the book, Reliquary, very weak).
Mark
Frost's The List of Seven is good, everything by CArl Hiaasen is ace
and J G Ballard just kicks ass. Don't believe me? Read Cocaine
Nights and see if I'm wrong, or Crash.
Well, this might
start us off (sound like some terrible group leader, don't I?).
Anyone got any other authors that are good? Let me know.
S
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Erasorhed
out from the well
(8/2/02 3:43:45 pm)
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Re: Books
Joe R. Lansdale, baby, yeah!
www.joerlansdale.com
Joe has
written many witty phrases, such as
"You fvck with me, tomorrow
your relatives will be splitting up your belongings."
"Their
faces were as warm and friendly as a switchblade."
"If you have
never seen an agitated squirrel you have seen very little."
His
books are FUNNAY! Esp. The Leonard Pine and Hap Collins series.
Check it out!
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NadareLJ
manipulator of the Virus
(8/3/02 8:33:58 am)
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Re: Books
Try Dean Koontz 
Watchers by him is good... Midnight is also reccomended.
--Nadare no Honou-- |
Narusegawa
manipulator of the Virus
(8/3/02 5:50:21 pm)
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Re: Books
Ah, Watchers was excellent! I havent read that in forever. Thanks
for the memories Nadare!
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Kiriyama06
manipulator of the Virus
(8/3/02 8:57:43 pm)
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Re: Books
If you like your horror stories good n dark and with a surreal
twist I can strongly recommend Clive Barker I especially liked
Weaveworld despite it not being a horror per se does anyone know if
there was a follow-up?
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Huw
Lines
manipulator of the
Virus
(8/6/02 9:47:10 pm)
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Re: Books
I thought Clive Barker started out quite promisingly with the Books
of Blood and The Hellbound Heart, and his first novel The Damnation
Game, but since then he's been a disappointment, churning out all
those horrible telephone directory-size
fantasy/horror/mainstream-crossover novels.
I second
Rebecca's recommendation of Joe R. Lansdale - I haven't read all of
his stuff, but what I have read is good, especially the collection
By Bizarre Hands.
My personal favourites of the contemporary
writes are:
LISA TUTTLE (Memories of the Body, A Nest of
Nightmares, Ghosts and Other Lovers, The Pillow Friend, My
Pathology, etc.)
RAMSEY CAMPBELL (The Darkest Part of the
Woods, Incarnate, The Nameless, Alone With the Horrors, Scared
Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death, etc.)
ROBERT AICKMAN (any of
his 'strange stories' especially Dark Entries, Sub Rosa, Powers of
Darkness, and Tales of Love and Death)
JONATHAN AYCLIFFE (The
Lost, The Vanishment, The Matrix, Whispers in the Dark)
PETER
ACKROYD (Hawksmoor, First Light)
TIM POWERS (Declare, The
Anubis Gates, Expiration Date, Night Moves,etc.)
JONATHAN
CARROLL (White Apples, The Land of Laughs, Outside the Dog Museum, A
Child Across the Sky, The Panic Hand)
T.E.D. KLEIN (Dark
Gods, The Ceremonies - very Lovecraftian)
LUCIUS SHEPARD (The
Jaguar Hunter, The Ends of the Earth, Life During Wartime, Green
Eyes, The Golden,etc.)
HARLAN ELLISON (Deathbird Stories,
Strange Wine, Shatterday, Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled,
Paingod, Angry Candy, etc.)
RICHARD MATHESON (Hell House, I
am Legend, any of his short stories)
ANGELA CARTER (The
Bloody Chamber, Fireworks, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor
Hoffmann, The Magic Toyshop, etc.)
Those are just a few of
the modern authors I like - there are too many to mention at once
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vampireslayer900
out from the
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(8/7/02 8:27:35 am)
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Re: Books
Although horror makes up most of my bookshelf, I also have recently
got into books by Guy Burt (although there are only three right
now)
His books - After The Hole, Sophie and The Dandelion
Clock - are class if you like books which are quite ambigious and
require a bit of thinking on the part of the reader. The Dandelion
Clock in particular is great and it is the first non-horror book I
read since I was at school and I can honestly say it was ace.
Apart from that though it's mostly the classic Stephen King
that I read. Desperation and it's "alternate" version, The
Regulators (written under King's pen-name, Richard Bachman) are
still my all time faves.
VampireSlayer900
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