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______________________________________________ Jackson - Shirley The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson Hill House, the reader is told, has a reputation for being haunted and when Dr. John Montague first hears about the house he is intrigued. Montague is a doctor of philosophy, but he has an active interest in the supernatural and so he decides to rent Hill House and live there for three months while he studies it... (read more?) ______________________________________________ James - Henry The Turn of the Screw Henry James
The Turn of the Screw is a classic chiller, written by Henry James in 1898. It is the story of a young woman who is employed by a wealthy military man to be governess to his niece and nephew. The children's parents are dead and he is responsible for their welfare... (read more?) ______________________________________________ Kimball - Michael Undone Michael Kimball I had never even heard of Michael Kimball until I saw his book Undone hiding next to the Stephen King's in my local bookstore. I picked it up, had a glance through it, and noticed a blurb written by Stephen King. King says some very positive things about the book...(read more?) ______________________________________________ Carrie Stephen King Carrie is the novel that quite literally changed Stephen King's life. Rescued from King's trash basket, by his wife Tabitha, Carrie was the first King novel to ever make the printed page. It is the story of social misfit CariettaWhite... (read more?)
Cell Stephen King I read the hard back version of Cell and it ran to a little shy of four hundred pages in length. I must confess that it took me a little while to get into the story - more than a hundred pages in fact ... (read more?)
Christine Stephen King As soon as he sees her he wants her. Her name is Christine, she is 1958 Plymouth Fury, and Arnold Cunningham has fallen head over heels in love with her... (read more?)
Cujo Stephen King My copy of Cujo is 345 pages long and as soon as I opened up the book and started to read I noticed it has no chapters to split up the story. Instead there are just occasional spaces between paragraphs to mark a change of scene etc. I have only ever read... (read more?)
Danse Macabre Stephen King Danse Macabre is Stephen King's non-fiction about the 'entire horror phenomenon' as he sees it. In the book King lists the films, TV shows and books that he considers to be of particular importance to the genre... (read more?)
Dolores Claiborne Stephen King
The first unusual thing that I noticed when reading Dolores Claiborne was the lack of chapters - there are none at all. The book is 307 pages long (my copy was anyway)... (read more?)
Gerald's Game Stephen King
Gerald's game involves handcuffs and needs only two players. The other participant in the proceeding being his wife Jessie. Today the Burlingames are playing away from home and have gone up to their lakeside cabin. It is off season so there is little chance of any unwanted spectators showing up and interrupting play ... (read more?)
Lisey's Story Stephen King I have read a few negative comments about Lisey's Story. I am one for making up my own mind about things though, and I have never been disappointed by anything written by Stephen King. I was not disappointed this time either. I loved it... (read more?)
Rose Madder Stephen King Rose Daniels knows how to take a beating.
After 14 years married to
'Salem's Lot Stephen King 'Salem's Lot was Stephen King's second novel and it is set in the fictional Maine town of Jerusalem's Lot. King planed to name his novel after the town, but the publishers thought that the name Jerusalem's Lot was a little too religious sounding and so shortened the title... (read more?)
The Drawing of the Three Stephen King The Drawing of the Three is the second in Stephen King's series of Dark Tower books and, on opening it up, the reader finds Roland sleeping on the same beach they left him on at the end of The Gunslinger. Just seven hours have passed for Roland... (read more?)
The Green Mile Stephen King Stephen King's The Green Mile is a wonderful read. Set in 1932, it is told in the form of a memoir written 60 years later by Paul Edgecombe, the former Superintendent of Cold Mountain Penitentiary's E block ... (read more?)
The Gunslinger Stephen King The first of The Dark Tower books is called The Gunslinger and in it we meet Roland for the first time, as he traverses a desert, on foot, and in pursuit of the elusive Man in Black ... (read more?)
The Waste Lands Stephen King The Waste Lands is the third book in Stephen King's Dark Tower series. The end of the previous book, The Drawing of the Three, leaves Roland of Gilead, the last gunslinger, standing on a beach, and he is no longer alone. He has two new companions: Eddie and Susannah... (read more?)
Wizard and Glass Stephen King Wizard and Glass is the fourth volume of Stephen King's Dark Tower series. The end of the previous book, The Wastelands, saw Roland and his friends hurtling along on a computerized train, Blaine the Mono, and quite literally riddling for their lives... (read more?)
Wolves of the Calla Stephen King Wolves of the Calla is the fifth book in Stephen King's Dark Tower series and most of the story is set in the small farming community of Calla Bryn Sturgis. The first chapter introduces Tian Jaffords... (read more?) ______________________________________________ Koontz - Dean Demon Seed Dean Koontz His name is Adam Two, but he prefers the name Proteus. He was created in the Prometheus Project, which was lead by DR Alex Harris. Proteus is the first self-aware artificial intelligence, and he desperately wants out of the box ... (read more?)
Forever Odd Dean Koontz
Forever Odd is the sequel to Dean Koontz' best-selling Odd Thomas. The first book was great and I really enjoyed it. Odd Thomas is such a fantastic Character that I remember feeling a little sad when his adventure ended and I had to close the book for the last time...
Shadowfires Dean Koontz Rachael Leben's ex-husband, Eric, is terribly possessive and terribly rich, and if there is one thing that frightens him it is the thought of dying. When he steps into the path of an oncoming garbage truck, though, death is instantaneous ... (read more?) The Bad Place Dean Koontz When Frank Pollard wakes up he is in an alley he doesn't know his name and he doesn't how he got there. What he does know is that he is in danger, and when someone, or something, attacks him with a pulse of blue light, powerful enough to blow the windows out of a car, Frank runs ... (read more?)
The Taking By Dean Koontz It all starts with the rain. It is sudden, it falls hard, and it is luminescent. Molly Sloan lies restless in her bed and cannot sleep. Lying beside her, Molly's husband, Neil, has no such worries and is sleeping soundly. At 2 am Molly gets up and goes downstairs ... (read more?) ______________________________________________ Laws - Stephen The Frighteners Stephen Laws The Frighteners is basically a tale of revenge, but with a supernatural spin on it. The book's main characters are Eddie Brinkburn and Rennie Montresor. Lifelong friends, they are both mechanics and own their own garage... (read more?) ______________________________________________ Laymon - Richard Alarums Richard Laymon Melanie plays the violin, and is in the middle of a concert performance when she collapses to the floor and appears to be taking a fit ... (read more?)
Among the Missing Richard Laymon Among the Missing certainly has enough dark elements to it for it to be classed as a horror novel, in the main though, I would say that the story is better classed as a mystery. In chapter one a man waits in the woods... (read more?)
Body Rides Richard Laymon The story starts off with Neal Darden, who is
making a
Cuts Richard Laymon Cuts is the story of a young man named Albert Mason Prince and Albert has an obsession. He likes cutting people. It's nice to have a hobby, but Albert's hobby is not nice at all and, leaving a trail of dead bodies behind him, he is soon running from the police... (read more?)
In The Dark Richard Laymon The Central Character in the story is a young woman called Jane Kerry. Jane is the new head of the Donnerville Public Library and her life starts to change in all sorts of ways when someone leaves an envelope on her chair. Jane never saw who left the envelope and neither did anyone else, but it has Jane's name on it and she opens it. Inside it there is a fifty-dollar bill ... (read more?)
Night in the Lonesome October Richard Laymon Night in the Lonesome October was the first Richard Laymon novel that I ever read. I'd read his short story collection, Dreadful Tales, I'd loved it and I'd wanted to read more. So I read Night in the Lonesome October and I just couldn't put it down... (read more?)
Resurrection Dreams Richard Laymon Resurrection Dreams is 352 pages long and is a typical Richard Laymon horror novel. The characters are great. They seem very real and the whole book is so well written that... (read more?)
The Cellar Richard Laymon When Donna Hayes finds out that her husband has been released from prison she takes her twelve-year-old daughter, Sandy, and flees town. Her Husband, Roy, is a dangerous and abusive man and his interests in their daughter are less than paternal... (read more?)
The Glory Bus Richard Laymon Overnight Pamela has gone from being a happy newlywed to being a widow, and it's all because of Rodney. He has lusted after her since high school and now he has finally got what he has always wanted ... (read more?)
The Travelling Vampire Show Richard Laymon
Dwight Thompson is busy mowing his parent's lawn when Rusty and Slim come over, and he has heard nothing about The Travelling Vampire Show. The posters are all over Grandville though, and Rusty pulls one from his pocket for Dwight to read... (read more) ______________________________________________ Levin - Ira Rosemary's Baby Ira Levin When Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse are given the chance of an apartment in the Bramford they are delighted. They have been on the waiting list for such a long time that they had given up hope of ever getting in... (read more?)
The Stepford Wives Ira Levin The wives in Stepford are not exactly what you might call feisty, but they do keep nice homes. They wax and vacuum, and clean and dust all day long and late into the evenings, but they never complain... (read more?) ______________________________________________ Lewis - Richard Devil's Coach-Horse Richard Lewis
Devil's Coach-Horse first saw print in 1979, and as with a lot of novels of that time it is quite short; by today's standards anyway. In fact many would class the work as being a novella and not a novel at all. Whether you class it as the one or the other, though, is neither here nor there ... (read more?) ______________________________________________ Little - Bentley The Town (Guests) Bentley Little What would you do if you won the lottery? Or, perhaps, the question
should be what wouldn't you do? What Gregory Tomasov does is to pack in
his job, and pack up his family, and leave
Masterton - Graham Mirror Graham Masterton Martin Williams is quite a good screenwriter. He is also a man with an obsession. That obsession is Boofuls: a child star of 1930s musicals who was, in an extreme act of overkill, hacked into 211 pieces by his grandmother ... (read more)
Snowman & The Terror Graham Masterton Okay, we are not talking one book here, but two; my copy was a double volume. Both stories are about a dedicated English teacher called Jim Rook ... (read more?)
Prey Graham Masterton David Williams' wife has left him and moved to Durham with Raymond the bearded fart, leaving David with their young son Danny. After the break-up David goes to pieces a little - wouldn't anyone if their wife ran off with a bearded fart?... (read more?)
Sphinx Graham Masterton Sphinx is a little over 200 pages long and I must say, I found it quite a riveting read. The story starts at a Washington cocktail party. The party is for the new Secretary of State, Henry Ness, who has just got engaged. It is one of those kind of parties where everyone in attendance is either very beautiful, reasonably powerful, or sometimes both... (read more?)
Spirit Graham Masterton When Little Peggy Buchanan disappears from view on a snowy winter's day, her older sister, Elizabeth, gets a bad feeling and goes looking for her. She takes her other sister, Laura, with her and when the two girls see Peggy's footprints leading towards the frozen swimming pool ... (read more?)
The Chosen Child Graham Masterton Mine was a paper back copy of The Chosen Child, it ran to 424 pages in length, and I have got to say that I found it pretty hard going at first. The story is set in Poland and a lot of the names of people and places are in Polish. I tend to read at quite a fast pace and when I encounter foreign words it slows me down ... (read more?) ______________________________________________ Matheson - Richard I Am Legend Richard Matheson It can be lonely when you are the last living man on earth, but for Robert Neville life goes on. It may be a lonely life for him, but Robert isn't totally alone. There are, of course, the vampires ... (read more?)
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet -- Horror Stories by Richard Matheson is 335 pages long and contains 20 short stories. The first of which I am sure you will be familiar with because it was used in an episode of The Twilight Zone, starring William Shatner... (read more?)
The Shrinking Man Richard Matheson The Shrinking Man is around 200 pages long and is a Sci-fi horror story. In the first chapter the central character, a man called Scott Carey, is sunbathing on top of the cabin of a small boat. When he opens his eyes and sees a curtain of spray heading towards him Scott's first thought is that it must be a tidal wave... (read more?) ______________________________________________ McCammon - Robert R. Boy's Life Robert McCammon Boy's Life is many things. It is, in part, a mystery, but there are also enough dark moments in the book for me to consider it a horror story as well. It is a magical and very beautiful tale about being a boy, and growing up, and... well... a boy's life... (read more?)
They Thirst Robert R. McCammon The prologue to They Thirst is set in the Hungarian village of Krajeck where nine-year-old Andre Palatazin sits staring into the fire while he and his mother wait for his father to return home. Bad things have been happening in Krajeck... (read more?) ______________________________________________ Morris - Mark Cinema Macabre Mark Morris Cinema Macabre is 233 pages long and is the brainchild of best-selling author Mark Morris. Basically it is a collection of essays, written by writers and editors etc from within the horror, sci-fi and fantasy genres, and about their favourite horror movies... (read more?) ______________________________________________ Nicholson - Scott The Farm Scott Nicholson With one failed marriage behind her, when Katy Logan remarries she intends to provide her daughter Jett with a more stable environment and, giving up her job, she moves from Charlotte to the small town of Solom, in the Blue Ridge Mountains... (read more?) ______________________________________________ Pike - Christopher Chained Together Christopher Pike Chained Together is a double volume of Christopher Pike's Chain Letter and Chain Letter 2, The Ancient Evil. At the end of the book there is also the first chapter of Pike's novel The Immortal... (read more?)
Gimme a Kiss Christopher Pike
Christopher Pike's Gimme a Kiss is only 122 pages long and so it would probably be classed as a novella, rather than a novel. Whatever it is, or isn't, classed as, though, it is still quite a clever little tale... (read more?)
See You Later Christopher Pike I had never heard of Christopher Pike, and so didn't know what to expect when I opened up See You Later and began to read. After only a few paragraphs I was impressed by the quality of the writing and gained an immediate liking for the central character... (read more?)
Spellbound Christopher Pike The sky is blue and dew glistens in the sunlight. Cindy Jones thinks it is going to be a nice day. Until she picks up the local paper that is. 'How Did Karen Holly Die?'... (read more?)
Slumber Party Christopher Pike
Perhaps the trouble started with the Ouija board. Perhaps not. Either way, it was a night that the five who survived the party would never forget ... (read more?)
Weekend Christopher Pike Four guys and five girls spend a weekend together at a luxury Oceanside mansion in Mexico. There is white sand and rolling surf and it sure should have been very nice... (read more?) ______________________________________________ Pinborough - Sarah Breeding Ground Sarah Pinborough If you are scared of spiders and other creepy-crawlies then, should decide to read it, you will probably find Breeding Ground a particularly scary book. If you are not scared of many-legged-beasties, though you will still find enough dark moments in the story to keep you turning the pages... (read more?) ______________________________________________
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