There are ..a few.. brilliant novels - but they possess middling levels of spook. A medium sized novella can brew up some good chills. But the old school door-stoppers get slack and lazy: spinning out the same 3 climax, Indian graveyard, monster boxes for 600 plus pages. Nice for nostalgia (Stephen King still knocks it out of the park) - but we need to move on. Or maybe move backwards and re-examine the weird world that pre-dated the 70's and 80's horror boom.
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| Your Goodreads list sucks! |
The rules for this list will be a bit different. Because the pool of candidates is smaller - we will be giving Goodreads a good jostling down the forest path.
Still - one book / one author; and where possible I will always choose the path of greater obscurity. And when my poorly stocked shelf of horror novels gives up the ghost - i'll nab some from sci-fi and literary fiction... But baseline - as ever - you will be spooked!
Horror Novels and Novellas
William Hope Hodgson
The House on the Borderland
Dan Simmons
Song of Kali
Henry James
The Turn of the Screw
Thomas Harris
Red Dragon
Adam Nevill
Last Days
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski
Susan Hill
The Woman in Black
Dathan Auerbach
Penpal
HP Lovecraft
The Mountains of Madness
Strugatsky Brothers
Roadside Picnic
Stephen King
Pet Cemetery
Tim Powers
The Stress of her Regard
Gene Wolfe
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Peter Straub
Ghost Story
DM Thomas
The White Hotel
Clive Barker
Weaveworld
Ray Bradbury
The Illustrated Man
Michelle Paver
Dark Matter
Robert W Chambers
The King in Yellow
Richard Matheson
I am Legend
Fritz Leber
Our Lady of Darkness
Back soon with more reviews from the short story list, and further lists for video games and films.
Guten Nacht
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