I still haven't found any horrors as good as Stephen King :(

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BB49 · 16/09/2025 15:36

My fave author of all time. Can anyone recommend any authors / books that may be on a par?

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Guineapigdrama · 16/09/2025 15:55

BlooomUnleashed · 16/09/2025 15:48

Try The Rats by James Herbert.

But don’t blame me if you too become scared shitless of anything with a hairless tail no matter how small and innocuous looking.

Avoid any impressionable 11 year olds getting their hands on it (like I did). They may refuse to enter any non-sea bodies of water for decades while wibbling on about Wail’s disease (I can’t remember how i’d actually spelled).

I think it was a trilogy. But the sheer horror must have made my mind go blank on the later books.

That is a great book!

Dappy777 · 16/09/2025 15:54

Try M. R. James. He is the original horror writer, and still the best (just as the Sherlock Holmes novels are still the best crime fiction). Stephen King himself was influenced by James. I'd recommend Mark Gatiss' documentary on M R James on YouTube. It's a mini masterpiece in its own right.

BlooomUnleashed · 16/09/2025 15:48

Try The Rats by James Herbert.

But don’t blame me if you too become scared shitless of anything with a hairless tail no matter how small and innocuous looking.

I think it was a trilogy. But the sheer horror must have made my mind go blank on the later books.

FizzingAda · 16/09/2025 15:43

Michelle Paver has done some horror, one set in the Arctic, one in the Himalayas. Can't remember the titles.
still think Dracula takes some beating.
Some of James Herbert’s are very good.

mildlydispeptic · 16/09/2025 15:40

He’s a wonderful storyteller. Dean Koontz has his moments as well.

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