Stephen King- God of horror
 

Hey dudes and dudettes. Just wondering, what's everyone's fav Stephen King book? I think they're too big and only read the smaller ones so mine's Misery or Carrie. Both brilliant horror.:D

God of horror? No, I think not. I can think of a dozen authors who outclass King right off the top of my head.

But, in keeping with the spirit of the thread, my fave King book is It.

Edgar Allan Poe- The God of Horror

Stephen King- Runner up.

I do love Mr. King. His best book is The Shining. I also quite enjoyed Dreamcatcher.

Stephen King is not what i'd call my favorite author (that title would go to Clive Barker or H.P.Lovecraft.)altho he is right up there for damn sure,..and from a marketing aspect,he is practically a God of horror ,hands down,but there are so many other authors whose style is is creepier and sometimes even more imaginitive.,this is the case with 2 more authors i am reading more and more of,Robert R. McCammon and Bently Little.

As for my favorite King book ,i like his short stories best,and my favorite of those is "Skeleton Crew" and my favorite story from that is "The Mist" (DAMN WHEN THEY GONNA FINALLY MAKE A MOVIE OF THIS?.LOL:p ) as for full lengh novels "Desperation" (which by the way is on TV tonite(got me sorta occupied even as i type..lol).i liked pretty good as well as The Regulators (maybe they shoulda had a companion movie as the did with the novels?..just a thought..lol:rolleyes: . anyway my very favorite King novel would have to be "The Stand"!

My favorite King book is The Stand for it's sheer scope, but the story that scared me the most is Pet Sematary....the whole thing about the wendigo and the dead kid....makes me shudder...

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he is the god of horror because he is so awesome.

r l stein = the god of horror for kids

stephen king = the god of horror for people who have yet to discover better authors.

For me it was the whole memories of the sick sister thing.

for me it's 'salems lot hands down. i also enjoyed the stand, needful things and IT immensely.


on a side note...

evil_deadman...which bentley little books have you read? i have recently discovered hima dn have read the association, the mailman and the walking. what do you recommend? i have about 10 more of his books.

Definatively "The Collection.the stories are a bit bizarre,but fun as hell to read..also The Revelation.
The House
The Ignored
The Store
as well as the ones you've mentioned..especially ..The Mailman and The Walking .Lots of "The"in his titles..lol,but hell i dont care..i just like his style

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. :)

Re: what in the world?????????
 

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.

Re: what in the world?????????
 

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:

his fault you live in the wrong part of the world at the wrong time ?

:cool:

Still being somewhat new to the genre, I haven't read a lot of horror novels, per se, but in the last year or so, I've worked through a decent mix of contemporary and classic horror.

The only King novel I've read so far is 'Salem's Lot, which I liked well enough, but it didn't stick to my ribs as much as, for instance, the book I'm reading now, which is Peter Straub's Ghost Story.

That said, I've seen plenty of interviews with Stephen King, and I like him quite a bit as a person, and I do look forward to the next novel of his I'll read (probably Carrie).

Somehow, he manages to be an author who is praised beyond his abilities by some, while others dismiss him unfairly.

Good choice there. Ghost Story is far superior to anything King has ever written.

The cover of the book mentions a couple of novels he co-wrote with King. The Talisman and another I can't remember off the top of my head.

How are those?

black house is the other.

in my oipinion they are both terrible

Did you like Ghost Story?

I'm enjoying Straub's prose. I discovered him around Halloween, when I read one of his short stories in October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween. When I saw a small number of his novels at the store, Ghost Story seemed pretty promising.

i read ghost story when it first came out - shadowland before that ..
i read most of his earlier novels back in the day.

i enjoyed ghost story then .. dont know how i'd feel about it now.

I enjoyed The Talisman, but thought Black House was a bunch of rubbish.

If you do like Ghost Story, I'd suggest reading If You Could See Me Now and Julia next. Unfortunately, Straub's work has seen a decline in recent years, and I don't think anything he's written lately has been up to the standard of his earlier work.

black house has the distinction of being the only book i ever started and then abandoned (so far)

smarmy and self serving piece of crap

That is unfortunate. One of the exciting things about Ghost Story for me has been knowing that he's got a decent-sized body of work. In the past year, it's the only modern horror novel I've read that's really grabbed me (before this, I read F. Paul Wilson's Midnight Mass, which had an interesting premise, but sort of fell apart in the execution, in my opinion). I'll check out your suggestions.

As for King, should I bother with Carrie, then? I really liked the movie, but that might be due to De Palma more than King.

probably the only 2 king books worth reading are carrie and salems lot (particularily salems lot)

once you read those two - you've read everything he's written.

Ah, okay. Thanks for the advice. Those are the two that seem to appeal to me the most.

I guess there was a subconscious reason for that. ;)

I have a friend who swears by the Dark Tower series, but when I read the dust jackets, my spider-sense tingles. :p

Same here... I know a lot of people that love the books and have recommended them to me, but something about the series just kinda turns me off. I'm not really sure why. I guess fantasy by Stephen King is just not a very appealing idea to me.

Insomnia was a confusing book to me. i had to read it twice to understand atleast some of it.

Actually the dark tower is just like his horror novels but they are in a series and have fantasy aspects to it.

It would have to be my favorite King novel.

As far as king of horror goes he is not it. I have no idea why people keep bringing up clive barker though, most of his stuff is fantasy with a little horror in it. only a few of his books are horror.
As king of horror I would have to give the nod to h.p. lovecraft or richard matheson. I am legend is still the best book ever in my opinion.

clive barkers books of blood (his best works) are pure horror

no love for the Dark Half? I thought that was pure gold.

and yep Books Of Blood are amazing.

I thought The Dark Half was good too. Not very many people seem to like it though. As for Clive Barker, I like to pretend that everything after Books of Blood and The Hellbound Heart never happened.

I need to read those. I started reading one of his fantasy works and it was total crap, didnt get past page 20.