Didnt want to start another thread,.but off on holiday in about 14 days. Any recommendations for another book to take? I love horror and Stephen King is my favourite author. Over to you lads and lasses
I watch every horror film going but haven't read all that much, Lovecraft any good for you? If anyone has any recommendations for authors along the lines of King I'd be interested to hear them.
Have you read Dracula? Frankenstien? Just starting to read one called The Vampyre John Polidori (1819) I have no idea how good it is. Try Salems lot by Stephen King
I've read Bram Stoker's Dracula, very good, not sure on Frankenstein I don't think so. I watched the Salem's Lot remake the other day, wasn't great but no doubt the book is much better it's always the way. It's mainly audiobooks for me these days and I'd like to get stuck into another prolific author like King but I don't know who they might be. Read all of Lovecraft's stuff and there's some really good ones, I remember The Shadow over Innsmouth being the best. Can't go wrong with Poe either.
Try Dean Koontz, mate. He's done some brilliant horror stories. My favourites of his are "Winter Moon", "Sole Survivor" and the "Odd Thomas" series.
Reading a book about Passchendaele at the minute. Basically true life accounts as to what actually happened. First time I ever cried reading a book. Roughly what I can remember off the top of my head....... During a lull in the battle 'John' and others stumbled into a shell hole and came across a Sergeant, dying, with both legs blown off and a terrible wound to his stomach. They patched him up a little, did the best for him, but they knew he was a gonner. However nobody had the nerve to put him out of his misery. He just wasnt making a noise. Motionless, all except his eyes just watched the every movement of those entering and leaving this shell hole. Bear in mind even though there was a lull in the fighting, shells exploding around them was still a regular occurrence. Anyway, John kept on having to reluctantly use this shell hole repeatedly over the next few hours, every time he jumped into it, expecting to see this Sergeant dead. Nope, still alive, in the same place. His eyes still jumping but fixating on him and others around. The Sergeant's eyes continued to haunt John. John's pal 'James' was later ordered to find and connect communication wires through the battle field as the shelling had cut them somewhere. Off he went. Later John was asked to look for James and to help him in his task because the communications had obviously not been fixed yet. Once again he stumbled upon what he was sure was the Sergeant's shell hole. But it must have been another one. Because only James lay dead in it. However the equipment to fix the communications was nowhere to be seen, he found the wire, but not the end of it. So he crawled and followed the wire about 50-100 yards to another shell hole. There, in this shell hole was the Sergeant, dead, finally, but in his clenched fist was the end of the wire and the equipment needed to fix it lay nearby. John surmised that the Sergeant witnessed James' mission, witnessed his death, and despite being legless, and with an open stomach wound, continued James' mission and crawled across to where he thought that the other end of the broken wire would be. He wasnt far off it before he'd succumbed to his wounds.
James Herbert did some good ones. The Rats and The Fog canny. The Magic Cottage too. I quite enjoyes Interview with a Vampire books when they landed. Dont know if they have aged well. Dan Simmons (Hyperion fame, sci fi) did a Stephen King IT stylr story.
