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Um way to leave out Agatha Christie. Good list otherwise though; The Picture of Dorian Gray is one of my favorite books.

I'm just starting A Game of Thrones. I'm so behind. I've seen the first season of the show so I'm excited to start.

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I'll have to check it out. Tbh the only book of hers I've read is And Then There Were None, but she is famous for mystery novels.

if there are any zombie book fans out there, read Day By Day Armageddon.

seriously the best zombie novel I've ever read (it has a sequel too, and a third supposedly in the works, but the author is an active-duty member of the military, so the books tend to get delayed depending on where he's serving)

That's a good list. Some perfect reads for the Halloween season. Although I rather dig out my audio plays when the weather is changing for the extra creepy factor.

Definitely missing H.P. Lovecraft though.

Fuck, this list just reminded me how many books I want to read but don't have the time for :(

I've already read most of these. lol

I don't think books have ever really scared me though. :\

Loving this review. I bought it the other day and I'm waiting for it to arrive. I have such high hopes omg.

I had to stop reading it just over half way through because it was making me feel claustrophobic to read it in public

Ugh, same. I've been reading horror since I was little and House of Leaves is the only book that made me wish I had a night light D:

mm creepy books.

i'm working on my first book right now which is creepy and dystopian and awesome...i think, at least.

thanks :) bio warfare, women being forced to the front lines...should be interesting. :)

Last Halloween I read Under the Dome (it took me about a week, no lie). This Halloween, I'm going to read The Stand. I'vebeen legit saving it, I've read a lot of Stephen King but not The Stand (which is weird, I know) and I'm finally doing it. I can't wait.

From the start and then work your way through. LOL.

Nay - imho start with something shorter then, like Carrie, Misery, Pet Cematary or The Shining & if you enjoyed them move to the bigger ones, especially IT and The Stand. Many people have a problem with his longer stories, because he needs like 500 of 1500 pages to actually really start going, I never mind it.

And I really enjoyed his Richard Bachman work as well - The Long Walk is still one of my fave King books.

"It" is pretty long, but it's one of my favorite books by him, and the only one that leaves me scared for a bit after I read it.

Hmmm, he has a pretty distinctive style so I don't think you'll figure out if you're into it no matter what you pick up, even if the subject matter isn't to your taste. I've never been scared by him so much as fascinated by his characters' fears and how he plays on them, if that makes sense.

What do you like? He's written something for pretty much everyone. The Shining, Carrie, It or Pet Sematary would be great classics to start with. And if you want to go easier on the supernatural there's Misery, which has a great claustrophobic creepiness going on without any creepy crawlies. If you like more fantasy type stuff, there's The Dark Tower series, which is long but omg so intricate and good. The first book of his I read was The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, which is just about a girl that gets lost in the forest the whole time, but I couldn't put it down. It's a shorter one too.

I think my favorite thing ever tho is The Talisman, which he wrote with Peter Straub, a fantasy/horror/adventure hybrid that is such a fucking amazing quest story it will blow your mind. You should def check it out eventually. Hope I gave you some ideas. :)

The Shining was really good, and a pretty quick read. I'd start there.

You know what, it's huge and a random suggestion but I'd recommend 11/22/63. It's very new and all but imo SK has been on a roll these past few years and this particular book has a lot of my favourite SK elements (suspense, great pace, many characters, a great central idea, emotion) but it's also kind of mainstream and I think it'd be a good start for a new reader. It's not a horror book at all but it has some genuinely eerie moments. And out of all his huge books (that I've read) this is the one that gripped me immediately, like, 20 pages in. And it was such a fast read too. It would give you a good idea of SK's style imo.

For some more horror-y stuff, Salem's Lot is amazing (but also huge and imo harder to get into at first) and I think The Dead Zone would make a good start. Also, Cell is pretty awesome (it's also recent and it's not his best work but it's a fun, engaging and moving zombie story, plus it's a smaller book).

Or you can just go through his bibliography and choose based on the theme. You can't go horribly wrong, he's an engaging writer even in his lesser works imo.

18. G.W.M. Reynolds
Check out: Faust (1846)

Umm what what happened to Goethe's Faust?

ONTD Halloween icons are giving me life!

Read "A Night in the Lonesome October" by Roger Zelazny, and read it day by day. (The book is a collection of 2-5 page chapters, daily journal entry style, narrated by Snuff, a Dog, who helps his master, Jack, acquire Various Things needed for a ritual on Halloween).

21. Thomas Ligotti. Creepiest books I've ever read tbh.

And none for Richard Laymon, as usual. One Rainy Night is burned into my brain forever, he was a great writer!

The Forest of Hands and Teeth is YA, but pretty good.