Horror Movies Forum - Underrated Horror Authors/ Authors in need of Attention- Let us know!

Re: Underrated Horror Authors/ Authors in need of Attention- Let us know!

dummy@example.com (thefinalsolution) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:07:18 +0000

A few extras not mentioned (of those mentioned Brian Keene is currently top of my list!):

Sergei Lukyanenko- Night Watch, Day Watch, Twilight Watch, and Last Watch are great russian horror/fantasy set in the modern day

Max Brooks- if you haven't read World War Z, GET IT NOW!

James Herbert- England's Stephen King. Try Once..., The Others or '48

Peter Straub- On par with a King or Barker, with less notoriety

My two-cents anyway... enjoy!

Re: Underrated Horror Authors/ Authors in need of Attention- Let us know!

dummy@example.com (Madbonna) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:44:59 +0000

Agree with a lot of the choices: Jack Ketchum, Brian Keene, David Wellington, Joe Hill (king's son), John A Lindqvist , Kim Paffenroth

For classic tales I'd say: OLD stephen King, Clive Barker, David J. Schow (love some good old fashion splatterpunk). Ones I read as a teen but still hold up as quick summer reads: Ruby Jean Jensen, HP Lovecraft.

Also more the category of thriller or mystery but Michael Slade has some really gruesome ones on the market too.

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dummy@example.com (31) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:24:15 +0000

I don't read a lot of fiction, but I'm a big fan of Jasper Fforde and Michael Chabon. I like my books laced with sophisticated vocabulary and complex and interesting language. For that reason you'd never catch me reading a Dan Brown or Stephen King novel. The only horror author who has impressed me is Bram Stoker.

Has anyone read Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt's Dracula the Un-Dead?

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dummy@example.com (420) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:34:13 +0000

Gregory Lamberson. www.slimeguy.com
his book Personal Demons was great, easy read very entertaining, would have made a great movie.

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dummy@example.com (LadyZ) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:40:41 +0000

Greg Isles. He doesn't write horror, he writes crime stories, but his books are very unnerving and very touching at times. His characters feel like people you want to know in real life, that's pretty hard to achieve. Someone mentioned Scott Sigler as well, amazing writer!
I would like to see David Moody get more love, the atmosphere and tension in his books is incomparable to anyone!!

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dummy@example.com (DemonicBrilliance) — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:34:27 +0000

David Wellington is my favourite horror author.

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dummy@example.com (mothermayhem) — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:22:39 +0000

LadyZ wrote:

For sure, Robert McCammon. If you haven't read anything by this man, do it NOW.
Swan Song is fantastic

Swan Song my favorite McCammon novel. He is an amazing writer right up there with King, Barker, etc
Read every book he wrote starting with BAAL in 1978 up to Gone South in 1992. After 10 long years wondering what happened to Robert R.
Speaks The Nightbird(2002) did not sing for me.

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dummy@example.com (Baby_Firefly) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:31:05 +0000

LadyZ wrote:

For sure, Robert McCammon. If you haven't read anything by this man, do it NOW.
Swan Song is fantastic

Alrighty. I'll get on of his books out

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dummy@example.com (Baby_Firefly) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:29:14 +0000

Everyone loves Richard Laymon . Hey we should do a sitcom called that lol.

Poppy Z. Brite isn't so main stream. She is great though, her book Exquisite Corpse is so fucking gross/wrong/disturbing but it's one of my favs.

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dummy@example.com (jmh314) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:30:34 +0000

Agree Lady Z. Swan Song is probably one of the longest books I have read (about a thousand pages) but it flew right by. Possibly the greatest post-apocalyptic book ever written.

As fas as other authors, I dont real a lot of horror novels. Just doesnt do much for me. I will say Scott Sigler wrote two cool books titles Infected and Contagious. They are kind of sci-fi/horror/thriller books. Infected is first followed by Contagious. It's mostly about the spread of an alien parasite but there is some good blood shed and kills because the parasties turn people paranoid.

The Red Tree by Caitlin R Kiernan is also pretty creepy.

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dummy@example.com (hellrat) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:19:18 +0000

Welcome LadyZ.

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dummy@example.com (LadyZ) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:04:20 +0000

For sure, Robert McCammon. If you haven't read anything by this man, do it NOW.
Swan Song is fantastic

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dummy@example.com (hellrat) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:52:56 +0000

Michael Moorcock.
The Elric Saga.

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dummy@example.com (BASSI) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:47:06 +0000

shaun hutson
Is the most underrated horror Authors ever.
His books are Amazing, i loved most of his books,
some of his books are full of blood and gore and it would make one hell of great horror movie.

some of his books are creepy and scary like Lucy's Child (This was book that got me into reading, i am clad i did, cause, i would be missing out one of greatest horror writer
of all time, it a shame it's only SK books that get turned into a movies,

all these Shaun hutson books would be great as horror movies
Assassin- Bloodbath, awesome book 10/10 MUST. MUST READ
Erebus- Not my fav, but it be hell of a movie 7/10
Deathday- Gore, blood and more BLOOD, 10/10
Spawn- A Masterpiece 10/10 MUST READ
Necessary Evil- Gory 9/10
Purity- who the killer? 9/10
Renegades- action packed 8/10
Lucy's Child 10/10 (Creepy)
Body Count - This more of Horror/Thriller ( Rob Zombie should make this as movie as it sound perfect for him) here the plot of the book.

Wounded. Exhausted. Losing blood. The figure in the mask stumbles through the streets. Closing in are others in masks but they don't stumble, they stalk. They carry machetes, clubs and knives. And they know how to use them. They've killed before and they're going to kill again. Who is kidnapping seemingly random victims and then slaughtering them in an elaborate game of cat and mouse? And why are these murders being streamed over the internet? Watching the horror unfold at New Scotland Yard is Detective Inspector Joe Chapman and his team. Chapman searches for clues, hints - anything that might tell him where and when this savage hunt is happening. He'd give anything to know. He'd give almost anything to stop them. Unfortunately for DI Chapman, 'almost' anything might not be enough...

Great book, 10/10

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dummy@example.com (Suspiria_89) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:14:14 +0000

Richard Laymon