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Originally Posted by Syzygy
Hi Everyone!
Please can you recommend six horror novels that I can teach to undergraduate students?
As it is a course within popular culture, I have chosen to focus on vampires and zombies. It is an introduction to horror.
What do you think of the following selections? Please feel free to make suggestions / changes.
1) Richard Matheson - I am Legend
2) Stephen King - 'Salem's Lot
3) Anne Rice - Interview with the Vampire
4) Max Brooks - World War Z
5) Dean Koontz and Kevin J Anderson - Frankenstein: Prodigal Son
6) Robert Kirkman - The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor
I would really appreciate your guidance.
Thanks.
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Originally Posted by Syzygy
If I attract very few students, then they will cut my stream. This is my only opportunity to teach horror.
I'm guessing that the students will choose books they know have television / film adaptations. They will choose the thinnest books, etc.
If they see my books on a list, then chances are they will know about Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Anne Rice. They may not know who Richard Matheson is, but I am sure that they will say, "Hey! That's a Will Smith movie!"
Bottom Line: I need students before I can start prescribing Thomas Ligotti.
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You might be surprised there are some student costumers who don't want read books of films they've ready scene, &/or didn't much like. Not only that, I bet you there will be students looking forward to reading some horror classics they haven't yet had a chance to read. (I would have been one of those.)
I'd recommend:
The Body Snatchers, Jack Finney
Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelly
Dracula, Bram Stoker
Some novellas & short stories:
Who Goes There?, 168 pages, John W. Campbell, Jr.
The Lottery, 30 pages, Shirley Jackson
The Tell-Tale Heart, 25 pages, Edgar Allan Poe (and take your pick of others The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Fall of the House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, etc)