Recommend a Horror book
 

Any recommendations? I'll start:

- "White Shark" a.k.a. "Creature" by Peter Benchley

- "The Damnation Game" by Clive Barker

- "Blue World" by Robert McCammon

Just a few that few have probably read.

Please don't make this into a list of the obvious. We all know "Salem's Lot", "The Shining" and "Jaws" are very good books. How about something you read that was good, but few have ever really heard of?

I would recoment:
Black Easter by James Blish. really creepy story.

The Ruins by Scott Smith soon to be a tweeny movie in april2008

Three great books are Year Zero, The Descent and Deeper (Part 2 of The Descent) all by Jeff Long. I read a few books every week and these three stand out. He's written other books also but none close to these three.
The Descent has nothing to do with the movie with the same name.

It - Stephen King
Book of the Dead - Various, ed. Skipp & Spector
The Undead - Various (inc. me; I'm shameless but it's a good'un) ed. D. L. Snell & Elijah Hall

Boy's Life by Robert R. Mc Cammon
20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill (MUCH better than Heartshaped Box, some of his stories outdo his dad)
Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates

Tick Tock - Dean Koontz

One of his more overlooked novels, but its awesome. Dies in the end (just like ALL Koontz books), but the plot is pretty straight forward and the characters are cool. Nice quick, light horror read - well worth checking out.

I read "Book of the Dead" a while back. Some good early splatterpunk stories in that one.

I just read "The Island" by Peter Benchley. I am on "The Hellfire Club" by Straub.

i have an author to recommend. brian keene. perhaps the best horror stuff i have read...ever.

his books include:
the rising
city of the dead
dead sea
dark hollow
the conqueror worms
ghoul
terminal

all of them are very good reads. i highly recommend them. i wouldnt dream of comparing him to anyone i have ever read but if i was forced to i would say a mash up of early king and koontz with a little robert laymon and bently little thrown in for good measure.

i am in the middle of duma key by stephen king right now and it is pretty good. kings last couple of books (well..that i have read. i havent read liseys story yet) have been very good and remind me of some of his earlier stuff.

"Flesh Gothic" by Edward Lee