Comments on: Halloween horror http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/10/halloween-horror/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: Lynn http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/10/halloween-horror/comment-page-1/#comment-19540 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:53:15 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/10/halloween-horror/#comment-19540 I'm surprised that no one has mentioned The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty. Perhaps more people remember the film rather than the novel, but I was scared out of my wits by both!

]]> By: Jim Donahue http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/10/halloween-horror/comment-page-1/#comment-19522 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:39:31 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/10/halloween-horror/#comment-19522 It's more dark fantasy than horror, but I found Jonathan Carroll's "From the Teeth of Angels" to be deeply unsettling.

]]> By: Tamara http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/10/halloween-horror/comment-page-1/#comment-19520 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:51:11 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/10/halloween-horror/#comment-19520 Oh! And my friend Pembroke Sinclair!

]]> By: Tamara http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/10/halloween-horror/comment-page-1/#comment-19519 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:46:54 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/10/halloween-horror/#comment-19519 As a kid, my dad and a family friend had a long biblical discussion late into the night about the end of the world, so I would have to say that, as a kid, Revelations was pretty scary.

Now I like Stephen King, Chuck Palahniuk, Cormac McCarthy, Dennis Lehane, and Chris Adrian, among others. (Why can't I think of any women who write horror?)

But I have to say I find horror in all kinds of places. I haven't worked myself up to reading Room or The Road or Gone, Baby, Gone yet because what could be more horrible than a child in jeopardy?

]]> By: Jill http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/10/halloween-horror/comment-page-1/#comment-19518 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:50:16 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/10/halloween-horror/#comment-19518 What Was I Scared Of? by Dr. Seuss. Thirty years later, and I'm still creeped out by the pale green pants with no one inside them.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/10/halloween-horror/comment-page-1/#comment-19517 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:18:49 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/10/halloween-horror/#comment-19517 Great post!

Some of my favorites…

Ghost Story–Peter Straub
'Salem's Lot–Stephen King
House of Leaves–Mark Z. Danielewski
Hell House–Richard Matheson
Off Season–Jack Ketchum
The Road–Cormac McCarthy
The Nightrunners–Joe R. Lansdale
The Ceremonies–TED Klein
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
Rosemary's Baby–Ira Levin

Sorry to steal a couple of yours, Jim, but those novels deserve multiple mentions. :-)

Jonathan Janz

]]> By: Rosalie Lario http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/10/halloween-horror/comment-page-1/#comment-19515 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:44:18 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/10/halloween-horror/#comment-19515 I read The Shining in my teens. Even now, (many) years later, it still has the ability to terrify me. Yes, the movie too. :-)

]]> By: Em-Musing http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/10/halloween-horror/comment-page-1/#comment-19514 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:38:01 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/10/halloween-horror/#comment-19514 No one creeps me out more than H.P. Lovecraft. I will NOT read any of his stories now that I live alone. I won't even bring them in my home for fear they'll be "calling me" to read them. 😮

]]> By: Tim http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/10/halloween-horror/comment-page-1/#comment-19512 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 23:28:09 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/10/halloween-horror/#comment-19512 It's hard to argue with Peter Straub's Ghost Story. A truly creepy story that I'm sure would keep me awake all night if I read it again now. I'm a huge Stephen King fan, especially The Stand, The Shining, and Bag of Bones. Of recent books, Scott Sigler's Ancestor is a real creepfest. You'll never feel at ease around a cow again.

]]> By: Suzi McGowen http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/10/halloween-horror/comment-page-1/#comment-19511 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:08:45 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/10/halloween-horror/#comment-19511 Dean Koontz's "Odd Thomas". I'm an avid re-reader, but have only had the strength to read that book one time.

The scene where he sees the evil shadows swarming around the beds of the children freaked me out so much I had to stop reading and study how he did it, because I can't figure out how to do creepy w/o music (and my current WiP has lots of creepy).

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