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Post by benedictjjones on Feb 25, 2009 14:51:39 GMT
you can find list upon list of the best horror novels but i was wondering what the board readers and posters thought were some of the the best horror novellas and long shorts??
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Post by che2000 on Feb 25, 2009 18:34:51 GMT
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker is right up there at the top for me, as are .220 Swift by Karl Edward Wagner and the rather wonderful Midnight Mass by F. Paul Wilson and The Mist by Stephen King.
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Post by carolinec on Feb 25, 2009 20:35:09 GMT
Ramsey Campbell's "Needing Ghosts" - absolutely superb, I couldn't put it down once I'd started
Stephen Gallagher's "White Bizango" is pretty good too
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Post by che2000 on Feb 26, 2009 11:26:46 GMT
Joe Lansdale's On The Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks and Kim Newman's original Anno Dracula novella, Red Reign - both rather wonderful fun.
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Post by benedictjjones on Mar 3, 2009 21:50:12 GMT
some great sounding ones in the there. i've got 'hellbound heart' and i loved the karl edward wagner stroy in 'dark forces' so i'll be trying to get that one! just got back from holiday and fund 'the mammoth books of short horror novels' waiting for me - 'nadelmans god' first i thinks...
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Post by David Kartos on Mar 3, 2009 23:11:28 GMT
Well, I plan to read "The face in the Abyss" by Merritt, followed by either The finding of lots wife or The devil tree of eldorado.
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Post by benedictjjones on Mar 4, 2009 15:33:15 GMT
apparantly i have '.220 swift' in the mammoth book of monsters (which will teach me to dip in and out of anthologies...)
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Post by Stephen Bacon on Mar 4, 2009 20:59:13 GMT
The anthology 'We Fade To Grey' from Pendragon has 5 fantastic horror novellas in it, from Paul Finch, Stuart Young, Gary McMahon, Mark West, and Simon Bestwick. Highly recommended.
I also loved 'The Scalding Rooms' by Conrad Williams.
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Post by Calenture on Mar 4, 2009 22:27:17 GMT
One that keeps drawing my attention on the bookshelves is an anthology of six novellas from the BFS - Houses on the Borderland. I'm not sure which of the six seems more inviting - Allen Ashley's Today We Were Astronauts is about a haunted lighthouse. It suggests some lovely possibilities. If there's a knock at the door during a storm, it's hardly likely to be a next-door neighbour...  |
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Post by David Kartos on Mar 4, 2009 23:11:02 GMT
On the other hand, your prety damn corect at guessing its them pesky Jehovah's witnesses- they will do ANYTHING to sell you their crapy magazines, I tell you.
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Post by benedictjjones on Mar 11, 2009 19:44:20 GMT
read 'nadelmans god' and really enjoyed it. i also now have 'petey' by the same author (TED Klein) to read so i've managed to get all four of the long stories from his collection without actually buying it (as it seems a bit rare here in the UK)
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Post by benedictjjones on Mar 18, 2009 14:52:54 GMT
'petey' was definitely one of the best contructed horror tales i have ever read.
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