'Out Of Gas'
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."
Totally agree on Harvest Home. I just had a mental image of...stitches yesterday, in re a current discussion. The book made a huge impression and is always at hand for reference. (Non-closure of bone growth plates. Matriarchal society. Lilacs. Stitches. Shudder)
Yellow wallpaper is def horror. I was assigned it to read as a high school drama test, along with a couple characters from Spoon River. Brrr.
House of Leaves just came up somewhere else, so now I must.
and yes, Yellow Wallpaper is horror.
I liked Duma Key, Amy. But I thought Bag of Bones was possibly the best thing he's written. Not the scariest, but the best.
Not on the current topic, but there might be a few Buffistas who need this: [link]
Ghost Story is the only one of Straub's stories I found really compelling, but I haven't been able to find Julia to see, so...
Did you try Shadowland? Because that is both scary as hell and gorgeous on the subject of Magic (as performed by stage magicians vs. as performed by "real" magicians).
While Floating Dragon scared the crap out of me, Shadowland has stayed with me. I think I've read it maybe 3 times, and like Frank said, it'll come back and haunt ya.
I don't think I read Shadowland. Maybe I should.
I found it really weird that they had Straub in fiction in the used bookstore, but King in horror (even stuff like The Green Mile ).
Was Shadowlands the one with the house? And the kids?
Maybe I'm thinking Elizabeth Hand (whose, BTW, Waking the Moon? I really love. NSM some of her other stuff.)
Now I'm going to have to look for Shadowlands.
Tommyknockers will always freak me out, for the reasons described above. But the first half of The Stand is the scariest piece of King's horror I've ever read, period. (Though I have to put in a word for The Mangler ). Gaiman's We Can Get Them For You Wholesale freaked me out, too.
I know I read Tommyknockers, which was a huge book, staying up all night in sophomore year of high school. I totally don't remember the story though.-- id it have anything to do with menstruation?