Top Ten Horror Books 2012
House Of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski (2000) Put it this way: You’ve never read anything remotely like Mark Z. Danielewksi’s House Of Leaves. Essentially two books in one, the eccentric and mad genius author’s 2000 debut takes the age-old haunted house setup, rips it apart, and then pieces it back together as a kind of Frankenstein’s monster of a novel.
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If Lauren Beukes’s internationally bestselling The Shining Girls was a time-jumping thrill ride through the past, her Broken Monsters is a genre-redefining thriller about broken cities, broken dreams, and broken people trying to put themselves back together again.
It is unlike any horror novel you’ve read, and yet hauntingly, frighteningly familiar. (Sara Gran, author of Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead and Come Closer) A Head Full of Ghosts doesn’t end just because you close the book. Some horror, it bleeds through the pages, gets onto your hands, stays with you.
The Ruins is the second novel by American author Scott Smith, whose first novel was A Simple Plan. The Ruins is a horror story set on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. It was released on July 18, 2006. A film adaptation of the novel was released in the United States and Canada on April 4, 2008.
Carrie (2013 film) Carrie is a 2013 American supernatural horror film, directed by Kimberly Peirce, and is the third film adaptation of Stephen King's 1974 novel of the same name. The film was produced by Kevin Misher, with a screenplay by Lawrence D. Cohen & Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.
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Carrion Comfort, Dan Simmons second novel, can be faulted for being overly long, needlessly complex and in dire need of a talented editor. Yet after I've said all that, it still remains one of the best horror novels of the second half of the 2oth century.
A purely classical story of a haunted house, Shirley Jackson’s novel was the basis for the movie “The Haunting” (both versions – 1963 and 2009.) The Haunting of Hill House is considered among the best horror books ever written and what makes it frightening is the psychological fear it manages to instill in even the bravest reader.
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An 1894 love story, When the Sky Rains Gold, reveals Stoker's love of maps, also reflected in Dracula, and an American frontiersman brandishing a Bowie knife – like Quincey Morris in his famous work.
Richarad Matheson’s Hell House is one of those horror novels that readers proclaim as brilliant or completely dreadful. Rarely do we hear anyone who kinda liked reading Hell House. In today’s blog, we take a deeper look at the novel Hell House and its shadowy influence on readers.
In 1973, fear had a name, that name was The Exorcist. This article however does not concentrate on the chilling horror starring Linda Blair and Ellen Burstyn, rather the novel that preceded it by two years.
Pet Sematary is a 1983 horror novel by Stephen King, nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1986, and adapted into a 1989 film of the same name. In November 2013, PS Publishing released Pet Sematary in a limited 30th Anniversary Edition.
The Shining is a horror novel by American author Stephen King. Published in 1977, it is King's third published novel and first hardback bestseller: the success of the book firmly established King as a preeminent author in the horror genre.
The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly magazine (January 27 – April 16, 1898). In October 1898 it appeared in The Two Magics, a book published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London.
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The Silence of the Lambs is based on Thomas Harris' 1988 novel of the same name and is the second film to feature the character Hannibal Lecter following the 1986 film Manhunter. Prior to the novel's release, Orion Pictures partnered with Gene Hackman to bring the novel to the big screen.
Rosemary's Baby is a 1968 American psychological horror film written and directed by Roman Polanski, based on the bestselling 1967 novel of the same name by Ira Levin. The cast features Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans, Ralph Bellamy, Angela Dorian, Clay Tanner, and, in his feature film debut, Charles Grodin.
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Yes my friends, this is just as much a dramatic coming of age tale as it is horror. But somehow Ray Bradbury fused the two elements, creating a timeless tale that will forever hold sincere relevance. Regardless of time, location, way of life, cultural backgrounds… Something Wicked This Way Comes is a figuratively true story.
Apparently, the horror label is so squalid that merely applying it to a book does actual harm not just to the book but to its readers. If horror’s going to be taken seriously (and with some of the Great American Novels considered horror, it should be) it needs to claim more books like Beloved as its own.
The Amityville Horror is a book by American author Jay Anson, published in September 1977.It is also the basis of a series of films released from 1979 onwards. . The book is claimed to be based on the paranormal experiences of the Lutz family, but has led to controversy and lawsuits over its truthfuln
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Golding's Lord of the Flies is an excellent example of an allegory, and is comparable to other members of the genre published around the same time, including Animal Farm. Lord of the Flies as a Bildungsroman. Lord of the Flies is also considered a Bildungsroman, or in other words, a 'coming of age' tale.
The book was not published in hardcover in the United States until 2012, when a limited hardcover edition was published by Centipede Press, although a deluxe paperback was offered. Ellis received numerous death threats and hate mail after the publication of American Psycho.
Let the Right One In (film) Let the Right One In (Swedish: Låt den rätte komma in) is a 2008 Swedish romantic horror film directed by Tomas Alfredson, based on the 2004 novel of the same title by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who also wrote the screenplay.
The most horrifying thing about Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door is that it is based on a true incident - horrendous abuse, torture and eventual murder of the 16 year old Sylvia Likens in 1965.