Her 1983 novel, The Woman in Black, is essentially a slim thesis on the return of the repressed, but it has had an enormous impact, spawning a viewer-scarring BBC adaptation in 1989 and a two-person stage play in 1987 that has become one of the longest-running plays in West End history. The party continued with the third book, Queen of the Damned, but the series began to stutter after that. ", What must it be like to know your family will all return to the deep to live forever under the waves in fabled Y'ha-nthlei — and to know that a genetic quirk dooms you forever to dry land? A gallery of darkly glittering fairy tales, Angela Carter's 1979 book takes "Sleeping Beauty," "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Bluebeard" — among others — and mutates them until they're poisonous draughts of sex and death, garnished with baroque curlicues of sadomasochism and cruelty. Two men, Abe and Dan, have both lived through terrible losses. "The Shining is one of those rare novels in which the premise pulls us in immediately," says judge Stephen Graham Jones, "before we're even through listening to the whole sentence: A writer at an empty hotel for the whole winter — and just like that, we're racing down those hallways, throwing balls at the wall, no schedule, a stocked pantry, a typewriter waiting over there and thousands of feet of floor space for us to fill with our imaginations.". The Ruins could have become a travelers' advisory on the dangers of Latin American tourism, but instead it's a cautionary tale about the risks of bumbling around foreign countries and assuming their culture and traditions only run as deep as what you see on the manicured grounds of your five-star resort. by Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III and Sam Kieth. Though he is best known for writing the screenplay for Beetlejuice and contributing to the one for The Nightmare Before Christmas, McDowell's books are being rediscovered now by readers who want more humanity with their chills. Not so much because of Alvin Schwartz's stories themselves, which are certainly creepy but nothing to look under the bed about. Depending on the hero, it could involve Let's Split Up, Gang! Where before he had been happy collecting and immobilizing butterflies, now it's Miranda he must pin down and keep. 92 %: Consensual Sex, Oral Sex, Teen Male / Female, Teen Male/Teen Females, Virginity: I Didn’t Know Who She Was: Fiction: 38235 times. Partly a haunted house story, partly a love story, partly an account of a fictional film, partly a saga of mental illness — and did we mention that it's written in different colors for different concepts and multiple fonts to designate the multiple narrators? Gammell or get out. Simultaneously comforting and creepy, the New Zebedee books, with their scratchy illustrations by Edward Gorey, scarred children throughout the '70s and '80s. He shows up at the end and doesn't do much (*shudder*). Readers of the gothic genre will wish to begin with. Richard Matheson's novel about the last man left after a plague turns humanity into vampire-zombie hybrids is as much a meditation on loneliness as it is a horror story. Looking for not-too-scary? Our judges had a hard time deciding between Communion and Whitley Strieber's equally scary fictional Roswell alien tale Majestic -- so why not read them both? But are the ghosts real? "The terrifying thing isn't meant to be the strange creatures — one hesitates to call them monsters — but the simple fact that all civilizations, all species, fall eventually to entropy. Anne Camp aka Obi-quiet is a fanfiction author that has written 79 stories for Static Shock, Danny Phantom, Star Wars, Naruto, Bleach, Fullmetal Alchemist, D.Gray-Man, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy X, Doctor Who, Avatar: Last Airbender, How to Train Your Dragon, Harry Potter, Merlin, Rurouni Kenshin, Legend of Korra, Rise of the Guardians, Nightmare Before Christmas, … But Banks adds extra layers of African spirituality, mythology and musical knowledge — Damali's guardians and guides travel with her in the guise of her backup band, camouflaging their weapons as instruments. Franklin's real fate — frozen and starving, locked in the Arctic ice — is awful enough, but Dan Simmons ratchets up the horror with a mystery and a monster that looks like a giant polar bear. In Josh Malerman's near-future apocalypse, it has been five years since "The Problem" began, and only a few survivors are left. Ever laughed when setting up camp as some random dude puts a worn acoustic guitar next to his chair? "This is the best of the lot and a sterling example of a story where the narrative undermines the narrator's prejudices (and eventually everything else he says). The heir to M.R. The horrors of reality manifest when Fred confronts his ultimate fear. Or savages?" Alternatively, you can use it to squash any pesky monsters under your bed. Dr. Spock's 1946 Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care reassured nervous parents that their children were going to be just fine and that you couldn't hug them or love them too much. It'll warm your heart at the same time it sends a chill down your spine. A scientist convenes a group of four paranormally-experienced people at a mysteeeerious mansion, hoping to find some concrete evidence of the supernatural. We can help. But except for maybe HAL 9000, none of them are as scary as AM, the supercomputer created by warring nations in Harlan Ellison's horrifying short story. "Coraline is deft and creepy and fun and dark and wrong," says judge Stephen Graham Jones. Why do you think I'm mad? In 1984, Clive Barker burst onto the scene with one of the most remarkable debuts in horror: three volumes of short stories known as the Books of Blood. However, she adds, "I'm a hard scare and it scares me." Louder! And then there is the 1989 story "24 Hours," about a villain who steals an artifact from Dream and uses it to trap a group of people in an all-night diner and torture them — forcing them to confess their sickest secrets, worship him as a god and ultimately kill each other in gruesomely beastly ways. They were married 66 years, until Sol’s death in June, 2013. Full Horror Movies. Brite's first two novels, Lost Souls and Drawing Blood, were inspirational texts for goth kids, gay kids, lost kids, unwanted kids — basically everyone the Happy Shiny '90s didn't have room for — telling them that no matter what anyone said, they belonged. Ray Bradbury wrote these 19 stories early in his career, but they read like the work of a mature master, gripping and stylish. Burke makes the pain of loss physical and malevolent, and her writing feels like riding in a car at night, watching strange things flicker at the side of the road. The book that named this category — a generation of children were scarred by Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Then I caught you ignoring the list! And then she gets her first taste of human flesh. The bad news: Living with him means that Lewis will probably die. Want to scar your children for life? And the dreams — at night, she dreams of a woman with sharp teeth, standing beside a bloody sea. Between 1904 and 1925, M.R. 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"David Wong is an editor for Cracked.com and his John Dies At the End books (three and counting) deliver the overeducated, undermotivated smarty-pants tone of the best Internet writing, in an anything-goes whirlwind of flying dogs, reality-warping drugs and monsters made out of frozen meat," says judge Grady Hendrix. Stylish and nasty, Elizabeth will make you look twice at any mirrors you may pass. A young boy gets everything he wants — or else he makes bad things happen with his mind, resulting in a town of helicopter parents who live in mortal terror of denying this little monster anything. Neil Gaiman's tale of a young girl who steps through a strange door and finds a magical new family is charming ... at first. Stine's long-running and immensely popular Goosebumps series. But, wait, you just did Edgar Allan Poe in the listing above! Every modern haunted house book about a deal that is too good to be true — from The Amityville Horror to The Shining — has its roots here. In Mira Grant's zombified world of 2040, humanity is confined to tightly patrolled safe zones and bloggers are their primary source of entertainment and information. Or maybe it's not? Published in 1835, it's short and savage: A young husband travels through the dark woods and stumbles upon a satanic orgy. An allegory for the changes America was going through in the 1960s? Imago Sequence is a great read if mere noir isn't dark enough for you, and it has a peculiar humor all its own — Lovecraft's Great Old Ones become, in Barron's world, crotchety but plenty scary old people. Sarah Crowe may be a novelist, a storyteller by nature, but she is the most unreliable of unreliable narrators in Caitlin R. Kiernan's dark tale of love, obsession and suicide. Read to find out what's next, if you dare. Something is out there — something you can't see. Take your time with this one. (Also, Slappy the Dummy was extremely creepy, I don't care what you say.). 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I Am Legend was turned into several movies, and it was also a major influence on horror master George Romero, who once said he had taken the idea for Night of the Living Dead from Matheson's novel. "'At the Mountains of Madness' is a classic of cosmic horror and one of Lovecraft's best stories," says judge Ruthanna Emrys. "Worse, it leaves us there, doesn't allow us any of the usual outs, it makes us accept that this horror is a potential built into ... people? Made into the movie Stand By Me, it's still one of the great American coming-of-age stories." But Robert Marasco knows what really scares us: Money. ". Long before Dracula had any brides, Sheridan Le Fanu's deliciously shivery novella gave readers a thrill with its barely-veiled lesbian subtext. Give this to the Shackleton fan in your life, but then run away quickly. I'll buy, I'll buy. 50,000 women murdered at German camp; 2,500 gassed in one weekend 'Undesirables'at the camp included gipsies, political prisoners, …
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