what in the world?????????
 

how can you love horror and not love stephen king. i'm 24 now and i've loved him since i was about 9. first book ever read geralds game. first movie that blew me away needful things. if you don't like him then obviously you just don't get him and that's cool not everyone is the same.

favorite book: all he ever made and every 1 i ever read. :)

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Horror, in all its mediums, is all based on personal opinions. You can't knock someone for not liking Stephen King, it just means he's not their style. Good for you for finding a notch in King's works, and I agree he's a great writer. But not everyone will think so, and that doesn't mean they don't love horror.

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God, I can't stand this attitude. "If you don't like it, that means you just don't understand it." I mean, Stephen King is not J.G. Ballard. His work is not that hard to "get." Some people just don't like him, end of story. I think some of his stuff is good, maybe even great. But he's far from the best.

That's what really got me, too. It was horrible.


And my favorite Stephen King book is Bag of Bones. Brilliant.

That's like saying 'Mickey Rourke- God of good decisions'.

aint that the sad truth

(and i'm a big rourke fan)

Ive read some of his stuff...not bad, I enjoy it, but far from "the God of horror"

So who are your dirty dozen?




"It" - would also have to be my favorite. One of the best books i´ve ever read actually.

"Salems lot" - was also good, but the movie was a lot scarier.

"The dead zone" - Good, even though it had a sad ending.. Sniff..

"Dreamcatcher" - First half: Good, fun and disgusting/ second half: Long...

"The girl who loved Tom Gordon" - Zzzzzzz....

Alright, here we go...

Thomas Ligotti
Clive Barker
Peter Straub
Brian McNaughton
Kathe Koja
Caitlin R. Kiernan
Simon Clark
Bentley Little
Tim Lebbon
Robert Aickman
Harlan Ellison
H.P. Lovecraft

I knew it.

It´s all authors who´s either dead a 100 years ago or who´s never been translated.

Great, thanks.:rolleyes: