the real deal scary story tellers
 

who in the horror world rattles you so much or tells their stories so realistically that you actually start believing the scary stories? Id say rod serling is a great choice because each story of his just seems so real that I almost forget that they are just stories!

Twilight Zone or Night Gallery or both?
...either way, they ARE real stories.


I go into the Twilight Zone quite regularly

Garrett Cook's Murderland series. It IS real.

Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill

heart shaped box.. never heard of it what is the general idea in it?(dont spoil the ending)

Joe Hill is Stephen King's son, right? I have heard some great things about his books but haven't looked into them yet.


The only contribution I have is one I can't truthfully recommend, since it scared me so much that I never actually finished reading it..

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/3346/comecloser.jpg


Also, anything by M. R. James is pretty creepy.

interesting Ill give it a chance since I havent read many scary books lately!

I'm thinking of giving it another go myself actually...

I still have to go with H.P. Lovecraft who, more often than not, has the ability to really creep me out.

Since we have an entire forum section for books, moving this thread there.

yeah I do too after all who can't be pulled in by rod serling's haunting intro newer versions just can't compare at all!

I know, it really isn't the same without him. He's such an icon that he is one of those people you just can't replace or recast, like Vincent Price.

how true Vincent price is quite an icon too,it's like he makes movies creepy just by talking in his slightly eerie yet calming voice,every movie he's in you just think he's going to freak you out somehow but, he keeps you in suspense,edgar allen poe's poems were his best based movies but,his most memorable to me was "last man on earth"(aka the movie I am legend was created from)the movie was just much more realistic then the remake,for example the one thing that was far different in that movie is that one of the zombie/vampire creatures was talking to vincent as the supposed last man on earth,which really adds to it's eerie glory!

Real deal scary story tellers
 

Who in the horror world rattles me so much or tells their stories so
realistically that I actually start believing the scary stories? That's an interesting one, I am a fan of the usual suspects Stephen King, James Herbert, Clive Barker etc but recently I have been delving into the world of indie horror writers, some novels are free, others very cheap indeed, some of the stuff is pretty crap to be honest. At present I am enjoying reading a novel called The Ebethusa by a guy called Solomon Strange, not only is it scary and believable. It's, and I don't like to say it, as good as anything I've read by any of the above named authors. Have you heard of this guy before?

no,I haven't actually which surprises me because I usually know about such good story writers,in fact the whole reason I got into horror in the first place was because of a writer that I read the books of when I was around ten!

R.L. Stine,I'm 19 and I still enjoy his tv series and his books!

I even watch the tv series so much that I can imitate the dummy slappies voice and laugh quite well!

Wrath James White, Supervert, Robert W. Chambers and Joyce Carol Oates.

I read The Resurrectionist by Wrath James White. I didn't really like the way the story went but he's really talented.

The stuff in Book of a Thousand Sins is better, but his work always takes a strong stomach.

Oh that i have. I just thought it was going to be something else and was disappointed i guess. But i still thought it was good.