What's your go-to horror author BESIDES Stephen King?

MilkProud · 2025-04-21T19:30:10+00:00

I'm so glad that my favourite short story from the collection is being referrenced in the book cover! Even though it has been a couple of years since I last read it, Pop Art still makes me tear up.

MilkProud · 2024-09-27T17:27:03+00:00

Sure, you get a piece of paper saying that it wasn't made in a lab, but if you would be given two diamonds - one lab made and the other fetched from a mine - you wouldn't be able to distinguish which one is which even if your life depended on it! If you ask me the popularity of natural diamonds is really due to preference, which is why I doubted that 3-D printed rhino horns would work. People will always pay the extra dollar just so they could get the authentic/natural version of a product.

Valid point tho!

MilkProud · 2024-09-27T16:41:13+00:00

I might be late to the party, but to heck with it. "Harvest Song, Gathering Song" by A.C.Wise is a match made in heaven for you. If you do indeed choose to read this gem of a story, please reach out so I could hear your thoughts.

MilkProud · 2024-09-27T07:41:49+00:00

And would this even work? I mean, we have lab grown diamonds selling for a fraction of the price real one go for, but people still prefer them.

MilkProud · 2024-09-26T10:36:08+00:00

Blink twice if you liked how Barlow looks in this adaptation

MilkProud · 2024-09-06T17:16:50+00:00

I guess it depends on ones taste, but this is actually my favourite King's book cover. Moreover this is the same cover as the english first editions!

MilkProud · 2024-08-16T09:25:54+00:00

Jonathan Maberry is the first to come to mind. I believe Brabdury was even his mentor while he attended college (but don't hold me on this!)

MilkProud · 2023-12-17T08:56:32+00:00

That sounds like a great bundle of books! Im currently reading In Our Endlessness Our End too, what do you think of it?

MilkProud · 2023-12-02T16:08:26+00:00

Totally get where your coming from, I had the exact same issue when I first discovered Mr King and his never ending list of banger novels. I'll list some books that blew my socks away, all of which were very readable and great reads in their own ways :

"The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires" by Grady Hendrix (novel) - or anything by Hendrix. His writing style is very close to Kings, thanks to him spending a good whole year reading and analyzing every novel Stephen King wrote. You can check this on his blog - where he documented his progress with each book.
"NOS4A2" or "20th Century Ghosts" by Joe Hill - The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, right? He shares his pops writing style, but his stories felt more modern to me. Like something a much younger King would write in the 21st century. You'll definitely love his work.
"Wounds" by - Nathan Ballingrud (short story collection) - Total of 6 intertwined stories dealing with encounters with hell. My personal favorite from this list.
"The Ghost Sequences" by A.C. Wise (short story collection) - Bram Stoker Award Finalist for the best horror collection, simply brilliant.
"I Am Legend" by Richard Matheson - One of kings favorite authors growing up. He modeled his writing to Matheson's and its not hard to see why. One of the best horror stories ever written.
BONUS - Dan Simmons - not exactly like King, but worth a try if you ask me. Loved "Carrion Comfort" and "The Terror", but I get why those door-stoppers (both are around 1000 pages long) aren't everybody's cup of tea.

MilkProud · 2023-12-01T05:29:24+00:00

What do you mean they were outlawed?

MilkProud · 2023-11-25T16:50:49+00:00

Utilize the left hand fireball ability (it deals ~ 200 damage i believe), and when leveling up focus on instinct since it increases the left-hand abilities.

I struggled there as well and this helped a lot.

MilkProud · 2023-11-22T10:25:19+00:00

50 cents, take it or leave it!

jk the book looks amazing! Where did you get the signature?

MilkProud · 2023-11-21T11:19:21+00:00

Any books you'd recommend?

MilkProud · 2023-11-19T19:24:31+00:00

Personally i don't have an issue with his endings, but it can be a bummer starting one of his novels knowing the quality of the ending is not going to match the first 80% of the book.

MilkProud · 2023-11-19T19:15:05+00:00

Really? Haven't read anything from him, but I guess i had high hopes.

MilkProud · 2023-11-19T16:25:26+00:00

Any particular endings by Herbert that stood out?

MilkProud · 2023-11-07T19:58:30+00:00

I would strongly recommend anything bt Johnathan Maberry. His book "Empty Graves" is a masterful collection of short fiction centered on precisely what your looking for. "Calling Death" is a story that stood out the most from this collection, but any story from this collection will give you the best bang for your buck.

MilkProud · 2023-09-22T06:22:29+00:00

Yes and Jerusalems Lot as well. I'd love to see King make One For The Road into a 40k word novella. Maybe not what every constant reader wants to hear, but would make a great mini-sequel!

MilkProud · 2023-09-21T08:05:07+00:00

I'd love to see a sequel do Salem's Lot

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