looking for truly gory-won’t sleep for a week-nailbiting scary authors?
October 9, 2009 by
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right now i am reading richard laymon’s books. i only have 2 more books to go and am looking for similar authors, if not scarier. i am not a fan of stephen king or dean koontz, so please do not suggest them. a friend told me that clive barker is very scary and gory. please give authors, and book titles if you can, but do not spoil the book!
The Tell Tale Heart and others by Edgar A. Poe
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Shadowmancer by GP Taylor
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
Well I really like Jack Ketchum’s books. The best one in my opinion is Off Season: A group of tourists go to a cabin in the woods and a tribe of savage cannibals targets them. Very intense and scary, just make sure you get the unedited version. The first version was too scary and gory so the publishers made him tone it down (in like 1981) and he was able to later publish the version he originally wrote. Happy reading.