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Bob Gray 02-28-2013 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by King_Koontz_KetchumKid (Post 946133)
I am reading Bag of Bones at the moment, it's a little big but not really
(529 Pg.) and I'm almost finished with it. Just twenty or so pages left and I love it! Really like it.. Next book I have in mind to start reading is 'The Hunger Games' because I liked the tale of it alot, saw the movie. Thought it was really interesting. Not sure if it's considered horror, probably more of a Fantasy but I happen to like fantasy alot as well. But who knows, I have alot of brand-new books in my library that I haven't read yet so we're hafto see but as of now, Hunger Games just seems right for me to start next. I've also noticed myself wondering alot about another book of mine that i haven't yet gotten to read, called; 'Cycle of the Werewolf', by S.K. And this story is also in film 9Silver Bullet). lol my father raised me on that movie. That was our favorite. Also 'Monster Squad' haha, anybody remember that film?

I own a copy of both films.

fulcher 03-03-2013 08:19 AM

I am reading North End at the moment. A horror story set on the London Underground.https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/205731. The best thing is it's free.

neverending 03-03-2013 08:31 AM

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Originally Posted by fulcher (Post 946467)
I am reading North End at the moment. A horror story set on the London Underground.https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/205731. The best thing is it's free.

You're reading your own book AGAIN? You said you were reading this back in August of last year.

Geek 03-03-2013 11:30 AM

Now That I've Lost You - Paul Edwards

Well written, great description and as it's a collection if short stories it's great for a bedtime read. Just read the first story and I'm impressed so far, he manages to get you seeing the characters in your mind so graphically in a minimal amount of time.

sfear 03-03-2013 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Geek (Post 946479)
Now That I've Lost You - Paul Edwards

Well written, great description and as it's a collection if short stories it's great for a bedtime read. Just read the first story and I'm impressed so far, he manages to get you seeing the characters in your mind so graphically in a minimal amount of time.

Sounds great. Always looking for good short story collections.

MichaelMyers 03-03-2013 05:52 PM

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Originally Posted by sfear (Post 946515)
Sounds great. Always looking for good short story collections.

You never gave your take on Dracula.

Geek 03-03-2013 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by sfear (Post 946515)
Sounds great. Always looking for good short story collections.

Sfear its about £3 something on kindle, definately worth a look. The link to amazon is in the thread Now That I've Lost You by Evil Ed. Bout 3 threads down from this one :-)

Evil_Ed 03-04-2013 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Geek (Post 946479)
Now That I've Lost You - Paul Edwards

Well written, great description and as it's a collection if short stories it's great for a bedtime read. Just read the first story and I'm impressed so far, he manages to get you seeing the characters in your mind so graphically in a minimal amount of time.

Wow! Thanks so much, really pleased you're enjoying it! Hope you like the rest of the stories too.

sfear 03-04-2013 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by MichaelMyers (Post 946517)
You never gave your take on Dracula.

Oops! Sorry. I really liked it. I don't think it was the first vampire story ever written but I was impressed how well Stoker fleshed out the milieu, validating vampirism in one literary quantum leap as a genre if not actually creating it. And it was an excellent, exciting story to boot. (SPOILER ALERT!) The ways of killing a vampire didn't always seem to jive. Most of the time the required implement of destruction was a wooden stake but Dracula himself was done in with a Bowie knife.:confused: Something was said about sacred bullets being effective...perhaps the knife was forged in a dark corner of the Alamo.

Some people don't like Dracula but that's normal. Can't please everyone. But I wouldn't hesitate recommending it. Next Halloween I think I'll try Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Geek 03-08-2013 08:34 AM

Gated by Matt Drabble. So far it's ok.

MichaelMyers 03-13-2013 04:05 AM

Just picked up Detritus by Widener et al. Looks like a good companion piece to the excellent Death to the Brothers Grimm from 2012.

Check it out: http://www.amazon.com/Detritus-Kate-...words=detritus

neverending 03-13-2013 07:02 AM

Wow- awesome! Thanks!

Geek 03-17-2013 09:00 AM

Now reading "Hollywood Monster - A Walk Down Elm Street With The Man Of Your Dreams" By Robert Englund with Alan Goldsher

sfear 03-23-2013 10:29 PM

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/z...esJuly1951.jpg

I know, I know, this is sf and HDC is a horror site. So whadya gonna do, hire Chronogirl to spank me to death? Thing is, there's a story in here called "Venus Mission" by J.T. M'Intosh that should appeal to any horror fan. It's about an alien race on Venus who torture people for the sheer love of it. At one point it got so intense I wasn't sure I wanted to go on. But I did, and even though there's no supernatural element at all it would still be right at home in an edge-of-the-seat horror anthology. Reprinted in Donald A. Wollheim's Ace Paperback HIDDEN PLANET.

Now I'm reading this:

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/z...sMarch1951.jpg

See what horrors await me here.

Geek 03-28-2013 10:06 PM

Reading 10 Extreme Ghost Stories for the Hardcore Horror Fan Only - it's far from Extreme and I'm not sure I classify for a hardcore fan. But it is at least well written.

I just finished reading SICK (1) by Nelson Samuels. - DEAR LORD this book is awful! I think it probably took less time to write than it did to read (about an hour or two to read) and it's not sick, it should be renamed boring! How on earth someone makes the subjects in this book boring... he must be talented to do that. Oh and the spelling and grammar sucks too.

Geek 04-06-2013 10:24 PM

Reading Camera Five by Martyn Stratton

Faceman97007 04-07-2013 09:46 AM

Demonology by Elizabyth Burtis
 
I was lucky enough to get my hands on a pre release copy of Demonology: Book of Gabriel. I'm 3/4 the way through it and its awesome.

neverending 04-07-2013 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Faceman97007 (Post 948200)
I was lucky enough to get my hands on a pre release copy of Demonology: Book of Gabriel. I'm 3/4 the way through it and its awesome.

You're not doing your job very well, Elizabyth. You didn't even give us the link! Congratulations on your first novel.

The Villain 04-07-2013 10:42 AM

Reading The Funhouse by Dean Koontz

Geek 04-08-2013 10:33 PM

Currently reading Acetone Enema by Nicholas Tillemans

horrorfangirl66 04-09-2013 02:29 PM

Tuesday: Just starting The Lords of Salem.

Thurs 4/11: Finished today. Didn't want to stop reading. very good. It makes me more excited for the film because it is going to be different than what Zombie (the book is a collaboration with B.K. Evenson) has done before. The tone was psychologically creepy with very gruesome parts (that's still his style). I enjoyed it and the gore descriptions were intense.

Giganticface 04-09-2013 07:45 PM

A Storm of Swords.

I was hoping to be finished before season 3 of Game of Thrones started, but am only a little over halfway through. Great book though. Maybe my favorite so far in the series.

realdealblues 04-12-2013 09:37 AM

Now that the final book has been released thanks to Brandon Sanderson, I've finally decided to start Robert Jordan's Wheel Of Time Series.

I'm about 150 pages into the first book, The Eye Of The World (I'm going in written order instead of reading the prequel first). So far, I'm really enjoying it.

Cheyr79 04-16-2013 03:27 AM

Hi,

I'm reading Vampires of Arizona, the story of a girl fighting vampires in a town lost in the desert. A pretty cool kindle book, especially at 0,99 cents.

Vampiresofarizona

sfear 04-28-2013 06:36 PM

Time for some science fact:

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/z...ps5868c23f.jpg

neverending 04-28-2013 07:00 PM

I've been reading Knock Knock by SP Miskowski. Quite impressed that there are some parts that really did creep me out.

Up next, Gina Ranalli's Mothman Emerges.

TIHammer 04-29-2013 12:51 PM

Currently Reading
 
I am currently reading Zodiac by Robert Graysmith. Autobiography on the Zodiac killings of the 60's and early 70's.

Faceman97007 05-05-2013 03:10 PM

Demonology: Book of Gabriel
 
I just finished reading Demonology: Book of Gabriel (Volume 1) by Elizabyth Burtis. It was a really awesome book and the twist at the end ...well I never would have expected it. Definitely a must read if you ask me.
http://www.demonologybooks.com/Pics/...gycover300.jpg

The Villain 05-05-2013 04:12 PM

Finished The Funhouse by Dean Koontz. Not bad, a light easy horror story. The ending was abrupt and didn't really wrap up the storylines. I'm really craving a book that i'll really get in engrossed in, i think the last one i read that did that was Under The Dome.

Up next Just After Sunset by Stephen King

leezuki 05-15-2013 04:32 AM

just starting david moody autumn series looks like its going to be a fun read, hey villain hows you been.

The Villain 05-15-2013 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by leezuki (Post 949694)
just starting david moody autumn series looks like its going to be a fun read, hey villain hows you been.

Been pretty good man. How about you?

hammerfan 05-16-2013 03:55 AM

Currently reading two books: Cloud Atlas and a collection of H.P. Lovecraft stories.

The Villain 05-16-2013 04:31 AM

Been reading some stuff on the Kindle on my phone.

Scratch by Brian Keene
The Girl on The Glider by Brian Keene
The Man on The Bench by Robert Smartwood
Specimen 313 by Jack Strand
Wolf Hunt by Jeff Strand

Monas00 05-16-2013 07:23 AM

I'm actually reading "It" by Stephen King but once i read "Carrie" by Stephen King and it makes me very sad.

phantomstranger 05-16-2013 08:01 AM

Flint And Silver: A Prequel To Treasure Island
By
John Drake

MichaelMyers 05-19-2013 04:37 PM

Villian, what did you think of Under The Dome. I was thinking of just watching the tv mini-series but perhaps you think it is worth reading as well beforehand.

The Villain 05-19-2013 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by MichaelMyers (Post 949846)
Villian, what did you think of Under The Dome. I was thinking of just watching the tv mini-series but perhaps you think it is worth reading as well beforehand.

You should definitely read the book. It seems like the mini-series isn't going to follow it exactly so i wouldn't say you need the tie in but it's an excellent story that i couldn't wait to get back to whenever i had to stop reading it. I would put it among King's best.

neverending 05-19-2013 08:33 PM

One and Wonder
An anthology of science fiction stories from the golden age of sci-fi, selected by Piers Anthony, as the stories that turned him on to science fiction. Some of them have not aged well.

KitTheWolf 05-23-2013 03:23 PM

Silence of the lambs
 
Just finished reading this for the first time. I have a great love for the movie so I was pleasantly surprised with how similar the movie was to the book. Movie's now-a-days don't seem to make any real effort to follow the books they are based after.

sfear 05-23-2013 08:05 PM

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Originally Posted by phantomstranger (Post 949743)
Flint And Silver: A Prequel To Treasure Island
By
John Drake

Is this any good? I really liked Treasure Island.


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