any short story collections ud recommend

[predfan]

hey

ive only read a couple of horror books, im mostly into horror movies. but i read a very entertaining horror book called 'omnibus of horror' and it had a collection of short stories which were great. im gonna try and find some more to read.

so anyone know any other good books of short horror stories?

[VampRocker]

"Omnibus of Horror," huh? I'll have to check that out...

I'll suggest "The Museum of Horrors," although I have yet to read it...

Cool cover, though!

[Arioch]

Im reading clive barkers "books of blood" im only a couple stories in but it kicks ass already. Really enjoying it.

[VampRocker]

Originally posted by Arioch
Im reading clive barkers "books of blood" im only a couple stories in but it kicks ass already. Really enjoying it.

Hell yeah! Those are some of the best...

Hard to find, too. Or was that just me...?

They might have reprinted them since, but I've got the original printings, which is sort of neat...

[predfan]

vamprocker if u read it id recommend the short stories called 'chicken soup' 'the pursuer' and i think ones called 'the gingerbread house'. theres also one weird one by king.

and ill check out 'books of blood' and 'museum of horrors'

[VampRocker]

Originally posted by predfan
vamprocker if u read it id recommend the short stories called 'chicken soup' 'the pursuer' and i think ones called 'the gingerbread house'. theres also one weird one by king.

and ill check out 'books of blood' and 'museum of horrors'

Thanks!

[abbycomix]

Poppy Z. Brite has a few collections, I've read and enjoyed 'Wormwood' and 'Are You Loathsome Tonight'?

[livin_dead_88]

I would recamend 'Vampires, Encounter with the Undead' by david Skal.
I'm only a couple of stories in but what I have read is great,
All the stories are real old like written back in the 1700's and the 1800's

[predfan]

old stories....sounds interesting

[nightbreed]

anything by joyce carol oates or hp lovecraft. lovecraft fucking owns.

[heapodd]

At the risk of stating the obvious - a few threads down from this is the same topic - recommendations for short stories. I put my response there last time - I believe there are lots of other recommendations there as well.

cheers :)

[Sam The Egg]

999

[livin_dead_88]

Originally posted by predfan
old stories....sounds interesting
they are pretty interesting at lest what I have read so far

[brucetorce]

Yeah, there is this cool horror writer named James Chaplin that writes some pretty horrific stuff. His website is www.laydenrobinson.com. Check it out!

[horrorfellow]

If you want to go back aways--The October Country by Ray Bradbury seems pretty fine.

[horrorfellow]

I already mentioned it, but not in this thread. The short story collection Toybox by Al Sarrantonio which just recently casme out in a mass market paperback really kicks. Some of the stories are Bradburyeske, some not. It's *really* good.

[battlstarr]

The Mammoth Book of Zombies is awsome!!!! With a great choice of authors such as Joe Landsdale,Ramsey Campbell,Brian Lumley,Les Daniels,Graham Masterton and a bunch more!!! Its a killer book!!!!Way worth checking out,trust me!!!!

[MythMan84]

I'd have to say any Stephen King books and Ann Royce, but most of all i'd have to say The Exorcist is awesome.

[Vodstok]

I have to agree with Nightbreed %150.

Lovecraft Rocks

He is and always has been my favorite weird/horror writer. Get the Del-Ray collections. They usually have several shorts by lovecraft, as well as stories from frieinds and contemporaries of his, not to mention some modern authors who were inspired by him (their stories touch his mythos).

One of them has Jerusalem's lot by stephen King. I was told it was a piece of crap, but read it anyway, and thought it was a great story.
Here are some of the books:
heres one (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/034542204X/qid=1075211296/sr=2-3/ref=sr_2_3/002-8611152-3740806)
heres another (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345384210/qid=1075211296/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-8611152-3740806?v=glance&s=books)

I actually have both of these books and have read them into the ground

[MythMan84]

I personally find that some of edgar allan poe's work is quite scary to me, so i'd have to recomend like the tell-tale heart, the raven, the pit and the pendulum.....etc

[99devlinm]

You sould read IT by stephen king. Its one of his best books.

[MythMan84]

Or you could read The Exorcist, it's pretty kool

[myster6]

Peacable Kingdom by Jack Ketchum is one of the best collections of psychological horror that I've ever read, and I'm not really a fan of short stories. The Books Of Blood by Clive Barker is priority.

[evil_deadman]

I think some of the Best New Horror series has some awesome stories in it.Edited by Stephen Jones,they contain some of the best stories ive ever read.Also "Dark Forces" edited by Kirby McCauley,which includes the Stephen King masterpiece"The Mist".also..as far as collections by individual author.'s I'd reccomend the Books of Blood series.Lovecraft collections,and Stephen Kings Night Shift,Skeleton Crew ,and Nightmares and Dreamscapes ..as well as Bently Littles "The Collection"..Robert R McCammon's Blue World,and Dean Koontz,"Strange Highways".

[urgeok]

try to locate some Harlen Ellison.
most of his work is short story.

[splatjoe]

I have some free shit on my site at www.joeknetter.com (http://www.joeknetter.com)
I have 2 books coming out soon. Twisted Loneliness and Zombie Bukkake. It's nasty but fun.

[tom-tom]

I don't often read short stories for the simple reason that you have hardly began reading when you in the midst of mayhem...
i like a story to take it's time, so novels are superior...do you guys agree?
Anway...
The collection of short stories by Stephen king (aka Richard Bachman) are cool.

[bschulte]

Some of my favorites:

999 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380805189/mycivilwarboo-20/103-7922675-2274230)
October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0451458958/mycivilwarboo-20/103-7922675-2274230)
The Dark Descent (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312930356/mycivilwarboo-20/103-7922675-2274230?creative=327641&camp=14573&link_code=as1): I haven't read this yet, but it contains TONS of classic horror stories from all of the masters of the genre, including Poe, Lovecraft, M. R. James, King, Barker, Shirley Jackson, Algernon Blackwood, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, and many, many more. I can't recommend this one highly enough!
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Series, now in its 15th year (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0786714263/mycivilwarboo-20/103-7922675-2274230)
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/034542204X/103-7922675-2274230)
Gathering The Bones (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0765301792/mycivilwarboo-20/103-7922675-2274230)

[alkytrio666]

As far as short story collections, nothing beats Everything's Eventual by Stephen King. King's the MAN, I don't care what anyone says.

[GOODandEVIL666]

i recomend wheres walddo? its horrifying.

[evil_deadman]

Some of my favorites:

999 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380805189/mycivilwarboo-20/103-7922675-2274230)
October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0451458958/mycivilwarboo-20/103-7922675-2274230)
The Dark Descent (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312930356/mycivilwarboo-20/103-7922675-2274230?creative=327641&camp=14573&link_code=as1): I haven't read this yet, but it contains TONS of classic horror stories from all of the masters of the genre, including Poe, Lovecraft, M. R. James, King, Barker, Shirley Jackson, Algernon Blackwood, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, and many, many more. I can't recommend this one highly enough!
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Series, now in its 15th year (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0786714263/mycivilwarboo-20/103-7922675-2274230)
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/034542204X/103-7922675-2274230)
Gathering The Bones (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0765301792/mycivilwarboo-20/103-7922675-2274230)


The Dark Descent...just got recently..and its most definatively one of the biggest,AND best out there.. a GEM!!!

[MattKilby]

I loved Clive Barker's Books of Blood Vol. 1-3. Very creepy/gory stuff. Still need to pick up the rest of the scattered collection...

[zombie ash]

i know this isnt a horror persay. and isnt a collection. but read the house of leaves. if you have a good amount of time on your hands. takes like about a month to read. fucking intense book.

[Doc Faustus]

Night Shift, the Illustrated Man, Twice Told Tales, The King in Yellow, 20th Century Ghosts, Dubliners (not horror but the best damn short fiction ever written), for humor Andersen Prunty's The Overwhelming Urge

[sfear]

Any collection of Jack Vance stories would be worth your time and money.

[bubsy]

anything by joyce carol oates or hp lovecraft. Lovecraft fucking owns.

true dat!!!!:d

[Doc Faustus]

The only books of Oates stories I'd recommend is Haunted:Tales of the Grotesque.

[Chris_Morey]

One of my favorite short story collections is "Voices from Hades" by Jeffrey Thomas. The entire collection is based in the depths of hell... pretty awesome stuff. Jeffrey Thomas is incredibly creative.

[Doc Faustus]

Jeffrey Thomas' stuff sounds cool. Did you guys publish Punktown? By the way, since you're one of those people I know on Myspace but don't really know too much, I'd like to say howdy, glad to see you at HDC and hope to see you here more often.

[videorat]

This one is dark and twisted:

"Slice Of Life" by Paul Haines

Meet the mind of Paul Haines. Slice of Life contains seventeen glittering stories, dripping with twenty first century paranoia and anxiety. The honesty of Paul's writing horrifies as he describes the private mind of men.

Reviews:
Exuberant, profane, and totally whacked out - Ellen Datlow
The anxiety in these stories is palpable. Love the paranoia! Love the self loathing. Love the psychosis - Aurealis Magazine
It's a great, nasty read. Recommended - Jenny Blackford, World Fantasy Awards judge

More info: www.themaynepress.com or www.paulhaines.com