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.
Zoe: First rule of battle, little one. Don't ever let 'em know where you are. Mal: Whoo-hoo! I'm right here! I'm right here! You want some of me? Yeah, you do! Come on! Come on! Aaah! Whoo-hoo! Zoe: Of course, there are other schools of thought...
'The Message'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Atropa - Aug 11, 2011 4:44:17 pm PDT #15964 of 28293
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
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.
Atropa - Aug 11, 2011 4:51:44 pm PDT #15971 of 28293
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I used that book as a checklist when I first read it. I read every book he recommended in it.
DawnK - Aug 11, 2011 4:55:44 pm PDT #15972 of 28293
giraffe mode
Floating Dragon
Oh GOD yes! I swear I slept with the light on for 3 nights.
When I was a kid/tween there was a couple of anthology books published under Alfred Hitchcock Presents name, man there were some scary stories in them. I read those till the bindings were ragged.
Anne W. - Aug 11, 2011 4:56:59 pm PDT #15973 of 28293
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Amy, I'll second that statement on Floating Dragon. I read it over twenty years ago, and there are still images and ideas from that book that haunt me.