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Atropa - Aug 11, 2011 4:38:18 pm PDT #15961 of 28293
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

If it helps your horror list, Something Wicked This Way Comes came out in '62. Is that a horror novel to you?

Strangely, no. I mean, I get that it should be, and probably is to a lot of people. But for me, it's not.

I remember you talking about Caitlin R. Kiernan, Jilli. I haven't tried her yet.

She bristles at the "horror writer" label, and says she's a dark fantasist. Which, fine, whatever makes her happy. I just think that she writes some of the most unsettling, creepy, terrifying fiction I've ever read.

Amy - Aug 11, 2011 4:42:44 pm PDT #15962 of 28293
Because books.

dark fantasist

I have Kelly Link's Magic For Beginners, which I haven't read yet, and I think she's a dark fantasist. Or a fantasist at any rate, if not dark. The line can be pretty blurry -- more than a few of the stories in Joe Hill's book were not strictly horror.

hippocampus - Aug 11, 2011 4:43:29 pm PDT #15963 of 28293
not your mom's socks.

Clive Barker also sits on the dark fantasist bench a lot.

Atropa - Aug 11, 2011 4:44:17 pm PDT #15964 of 28293
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Clive Barker also sits on the dark fantasist bench a lot.

Clive! Again, an author who should be listed somewhere in a "Best Horror" list, but personally, none of his work ever scared me.

zuisa - Aug 11, 2011 4:45:26 pm PDT #15965 of 28293
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)

Right now I'm stuck trying to figure out which Stephen King I would put on the list. I loved Salem's Lot but it wasn't his scariest or best, for me.

My favorite Stephen King is The Stand but it definitely isn't scariest. I'm not sure which his scariest is! Hmm.

DavidS - Aug 11, 2011 4:46:38 pm PDT #15966 of 28293
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Peter Straub?

Whitley Streiber? (Did anybody read The Hunger? He also wrote The Howling, so he's got as much claim to being King of 70s Horror as anybody, unless you concede the whole decade to Anne Rice for Interview With a Vampire.)

DavidS - Aug 11, 2011 4:47:01 pm PDT #15967 of 28293
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I'm not sure which his scariest is!

The first half of It?

Amy - Aug 11, 2011 4:49:28 pm PDT #15968 of 28293
Because books.

The Stand isn't really a horror novel, in my mind.

Peter Straub's Floating Dragon scared the shit out of me.

Atropa - Aug 11, 2011 4:49:33 pm PDT #15969 of 28293
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Dear Stephen King, please write an updated version of Danse Macabre. The horror genre needs a new overview.

Amy - Aug 11, 2011 4:50:27 pm PDT #15970 of 28293
Because books.

Oh god, what Jilli said. That's one of my favorite books, period.

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