This is my Top Ten Modern Horror Novels and Stories. 10.- The Stake by Richard Laymon:In an abandoned hotel in a California ghost town, horror writer Larry and his friends make a chilling discovery… 9.- Ghost Story by Peter Straub: It all starts with a group of five old friends, who have been dubbed The Chowder Society, who sit around telling tales and living like Victorian robber barons. Then the stories take a turn when one man asks the others, Whats the worst thing you’ ve ever done? And their stories become the answers… 8.- Salem´s Lot by Stephen King: Ben Mears returned to ‘salem’s Lot hoping to cast out his own devils and found instead a new, unspeakable horror. A stranger had also come to the Lot, a stranger with a secret as old as evil, a secret that would wreak irreparable harm on those he touched and in turn on those they loved. All would be changed forever… 7.- I Am Legend by Richard Matheson: Robert Neville can hear them outside once again. Night after night they torment and tease him. “Come out Robert we have something to show you”, the women say. “Scared”, mocks his old friend Ben Cortman. Both he knows and they know he is probably the last human alive… 6.- The Doll Who Ate His Mother by Ramsey Campbell: A woman’s brother is killed in a car crash, and a myserious figure flees from the scene with his dismembered arm. A crime author visits the bereaved sister, claiming to know the identity of the strange man, and together they begin to track him down …
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Ghost Story by Straub was fantastic…A great ripping gothic horror!
Sorry to arrive and be Mr. Negative but as much as I love his short stories, Ramsey is hugely over-rated as a novelist. Try Incarnate if you don’t believe me. I thought it was just me until I read some reviews describing it as scary as a playful puppy. I also remember reading IT as a young man and being transformed and terrorised. We had a killer at large in my hometown when I was a kid and add in a scary clown (arent they all?) and the novel terrified me. I agree with most of the rest thanks.
@julianking93 Yes i have. Must be in my videos.
@makidtrej Fair enough. I actually haven’t read The Haunting of Hill House before, but I just love the Cthulhu mythos.
By the way, have you done a list of best sci fi novels?
@julianking93 I would have put it as number one but i read The Haunting Of Hill House and i found it quite groundbreaking, a bit more than the Cthulhu Mythos IMO.
Great list, though I think the Cthulhu mythos should be number one ;P
Good list. Some of my personal favourites are on it! Well made video.
<3 clive
Good video.
I shall be honest, I don’t know many of the books.
But what important is…the master of classic horror is there
SEEN? Horror N O V E L S.
You READ them, not see them.
Your spelling is atrocious, text talk is suppose to for sending texts messages.
You are killing your mother tongue.
Whatever happened to clockwork orang?
i mite hav seen salems lot if i did i lovd it and i saw the exorcist that scared me and my sibs
@makidtrej..
No worrys, nice one
sorry for the late reply i know i took ags to answer yo but you know… school… anyway i just typed post apocalyptic images on google and i found it there
Where did you find this first pic, the one of the ruined city?? I want it
Good list. I also likeThe Other by Thomas Tryon.
Can’t believe you put laymon at 10. Especially the stake which is probably one of his best.
Good list, I agree with almost all the books. I’m not so sure about number 6 though, I think “Dark Feasts” was a better Campbell novel.
And I know you can only have 10, but some other goods ones are “Something Wicked Comes this Way” and “House of Leaves”
Thank You…
decent list
Yes. I haven´t read that one i did read Stepford Wives and i did liked it but i coudn´treally find a genre for it i don´t know… It´s between sci-fi and thriller. I did liked it though.
And yes, Rosemary´s baby is WAY better than the movie and most horror novels.
I don’t find it. Never mind.
Rosemary’s Baby is great. I like how evil slowly sneaks into her life by harmless looking family Castevet. Ira Levin is very versatile by the way. He also wrote “The Boys from Brazil.”
I really don´t know… i used the audio swap here in youtube and chekd the ones who had the same time as my video and i found it on classics it was something about suspence precisely. It fitted perfectly so i just added it. I uploaded it at 1: 30 am, haha i didn´t really cared about music and since they changed the audio in some of my vids, i decided to play it safe this time.
Magnificent. What music did you use?