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Woo boy!!! Lately, we've been looking at other people's lists of another 100 best horror books and find them lacking the horror master of our age, Stephen King! Perhaps this all goes back to when King was just getting started and getting noticed. Literary "experts" (read: turds) and we use that term loosely, didn't like this new young upstart novelist from Maine. So, in looking at other lists, we see one book, ONE, from King which is Salem's Lot! Faster then you can say, MOO! HOO! HA! HAHHAH!, we decided to make our own list of another 100 best horror books! (So there, we thought, take that!) Without further ado :
Another 100 Best Horror Books-Stephen King
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Carrie A tormented, abused, shunned girl with the power of telekinesis is surrounded by insufferable fools.
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Salem's Lot Taking out the vampires in a small town in Maine.
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The Shining The Overlook Hotel needs a caretaker for the winter. Driving him mad is its game.
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A student goes on a mad killing spree at school. *Taken off the market by King for obvious reasons.
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The Stand Mother Abigail vs. The Walking Dude Randy Flagg for the control of a post flu epidemic world.
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Night Shift A collection of 19 excellent horror tales. King's best shorts in our opinion.
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The Long Walk In the bleak future, reality games take a twist with a long walk. The prize is anything you may want. To fall, get tired, or stumble means being shot where you crumble!
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Firestarter A little girl who's got pyrokinetic powers is sought by a secret agency of the US Government.
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Cujo A tale of a rabid dog on the rampage, sometimes told from the dog point of view.
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Roadwork A man facing the razing of his beloved home by a major highway deals with it with violence.
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Different Seasons Another smaller collection of tales that you will notice were made into successful movies.
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The Running Man A bloody game show set in the future where the lives of the contestants are cheap and the game is all that matters to the public.
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Pet Sematary Beware the burial ground back in the woods! Anything dead has a way of coming back to life.
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Christine Romance, teenagers, and friendships bitterly destroyed by a possessed 1958 Plymouth Fury bent on destroying them all.
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The Talisman Jack Sawyer needs to find the Talisman to save his dying mother. A trip through an alternative America should do it!
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Thinner Messing with the Gypsies will only get you cursed, especially after running one over. The punishment? Getting thinner!
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Misery Ultimate fan Annie Wilkes captures author Sheldon and compels him to keep one of his characters alive, or else! A great addition to another 100 best horror books.
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Black House Follow up to The Talisman, Retired cop Jack Sawyer takes on the territories again when strange murders start happening.
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It Pennywise The Clown is killing again in Derry, Maine. The kids that faced "It" once, will face it again and hopefully destroy it.
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Another 100 Best Horror Books-Lovecraft, Stoker, Blackwood, Bierce
Another 100 Best Horror Books certainly can use some classic horror like:
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Frankenstein The madness of creating life, taking God's place, and the folly of trying to control what you bring to life.
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Dracula An old world blood drinking vampire taking people out one by one.
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The Lurking Fear And Other Stories 12 horror gems from the master.
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The Turn Of The Screw A governess with the ability to see ghosts suspect that her two young charges are being used for evil.
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The Willows Two campers, dark woods, and another dimension.
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The Damned Blackwood's best....a haunted house story.
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The Insanity Of Jones A tale of reincarnation.
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Another 100 best horror books presents more classics:
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I Am Legend A survivor of a modern apocalypse kills vampire like creatures during the day and barricades himself in at night for protection.
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Hell House Four strangers investigate Belasco House, the focal point for murder, suicide and insanity.
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The Haunting Of Hill House Hill House is a New England estate with a gothic creepiness and an underlying evil, manifesting itself through Eleanor Vance.
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Another 100 Best Horror Books-Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe owns another 100 best horror books (or, he should own it!).
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The Masque of the Red Death: *Selected Works These six are chilling tales of despair, grief, and madness as only Poe could create.
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The Murders In The Rue Morgue: *Selected Works These six are chilling tales of despair, grief, and madness as only Poe could create.
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The Raven: *Selected Works These six are chilling tales of despair, grief, and madness as only Poe could create.
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The Tell-Tale Heart: *Selected Works These six are chilling tales of despair, grief, and madness as only Poe could create.
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The Fall Of The House Of Usher: *Selected Works These six are chilling tales of despair, grief, and madness as only Poe could create.
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The Pit and the Pendulum: *Selected Works These six are chilling tales of despair, grief, and madness as only Poe could create.
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Another 100 Best Horror Books-Straub, Levin, Blatty, Anson, John Saul
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Ghost Story Four old men are haunted by a ghost of a young woman from the past.
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Psycho Norman Bates is a man totally dominated by his mother. Unbalanced by murders, and his mother's unfavorable view of Norman's personal life send him over the edge.
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Watseka Astonishing tale of a girl possessed by a dead girl in the town of Watseka, IL. Townspeople swear it's true to this day!
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The Exorcist The Devil possesses little Regan and two brave priests must drive it out.
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Rosemary's Baby Rosemary's next door neighbors are friendly, but strange. They seem to be just a little too helpful in helping her prepare for her new baby.
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Audrey Rose A man loses his daughter in a car accident only to find out she's been reincarnated into Ivy Templeton.
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Suffer The Children One hundred years ago in Port Arbello a pretty little girl began to scream. And struggle. And die. No one heard. No one saw. Just one man whose guilty heart burst in pain as he dashed himself to death in the sea. Now something peculiar is happening in Port Arbello. The children are disappearing, one by one. An evil history is repeating itself. And one strange, terrified child has ended her silence with a scream that began a hundred years ago.
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Cry For The Strangers Clark's Harbor was the perfect coastal haven, jealously guarded against outsiders. But now strangers have come to settle there. And a small boy is suddenly free of a frenzy that had gripped him since birth... His sister is haunted by fearful visions... And one by one, in violent, mysterious ways the strangers are dying. Never the townspeople. Only the strangers. Has a dark bargain been struck between the people of Clark's Harbor and some supernatural force? Or is it the sea itself calling out for a human sacrifice? A howling, deadly... Cry For The Strangers.
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Punish The Sinners Italy 1252. Inquisition. Accusation. Fear. Torture. The guilty and the innocent dying for sins real and imagined in the flames of the burning stake. Neilsville, 1978. Peter Blasam has come to this sleepy desert town to teach its youth, and finds a mystery of mounting horror. Something is happening to the young girls of St. Francis Xavier High School -- something evil. In bloodlet and terror a suicide contagion has swept the two... while a dark order of its holy men enacts a secret medieval ritual. Is hysteria manipulating these innocent children into violent self-destruction? Or has supernatural force, a thirteenth-century madness, returned to... Punish The Sinners.
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Another 100 Best Horror Books-Harris, Herbert, Wilson, DeFelitta
Another 100 best horror books blend of old and newer fiction:
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Beowulf Original poem Written sometime before the tenth century, this book translation is about the great warrior Beowulf who battles the monster Grendel and rips his ever-lovin' arm off at the roots.
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The Howling On vacation in Drago, a woman and her husband experience secrets that the town is hiding in the form of werewolves!
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Red Dragon Hannibal Lecter debuts in this book which The Silence Of The Lambs follows.
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The Silence Of The Lambs Clarice Starling of the FBI needs help solving some murders. Can she endure killer Hannibal Lecter's twisted mind long enough to solve them?
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The Rats Giant rats terrorize London inside 200 pages of tight script by James Herbert.
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The Fog The fog is itself the monster here, rendering people stark raving mad and causing them to hurt, hurt, hurt others, kill even.
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The Dark The Dark finishes people off that The Fog missed. It's hard to survive as a James Herbert character!
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The Keep A delicious story set in 1941 with Nazis trying to occupy a bloody 500 year old castle. Then the fun starts.
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Who Made Stevie Crye? A repaired typewriter actually types a horror book itself, making it's twisted vision a reality in writer Stevie Crye's life.
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The Entity Based on a real life case of a woman preyed upon by a ghostly rapist.
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Another 100 Best Horror Books-Anne Rice
We can't let Anne Rice miss out on making our another 100 best horror books list! Some horror fans are critical of vampires. Perhaps they grow tired of them. There are loads of vampire movies, books, and collectibles on the market, so the critics really can't be faulted. I am curious as to why there aren't more Anne Rice Books being made into films? Oh well, while we wait, maybe Anne Rice will write another book that we can add to another 100 best horror books!
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Interview With The Vampire A monument to vampire stories; exploring vampire humanity couched in immortality as set in the 18th century and beyond. Excellent read with poigent despair from the character's point of view.
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The Vampire Lestat The vampire Lestat's answer to Louis's claim that Lestat was an uncaring lout. Another great book by Rice!
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The Queen Of The Damned The story of Akasha, Queen of the damned, the damned being vampires, of who Lestat, Louis, and the rest spring from.
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The Mummy/Ramses the Damned A mummy doomed to wander forever goes to London as a society man. He finds romance, but his curse still hangs over his head.
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The Tale Of The Body Thief Lestat trades his immortal flesh with a mortal man. The man has no intention of trading back though. Lestat must get help from his supernatural friends to get his body back!
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Memnoch The Devil Lestat sees hell, argues with the Devil, and talks to God. A lot of theological ideas here from Rice, but excellent for deep thinkers!
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The Vampire Armand Armand's story of how he came to be under the guide ship of his mentor/vampire Marius.
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Vittorio The Vampire Vittorio's family gets slaughtered in old world Italy; he escapes but falls into the hands of vampires.
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Merrick Merrick is a powerful witch who is compelled to bring back Claudia, the vampire daughter of Lestat and Louis. Louis's guilt over the way she died gives him a convincing argument about raising her up.
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Blood And Gold The tale of 2000 year old Marius, guardian of "Those Who Must Be Kept", and mentor to Lestat.
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Blackwood Farm Quinn Blackwood has everything, looks, money, and a huge estate. Becoming a vampire and haunted by Goblin a sinister spirit world entity, he seeks out the vampire Lestat in New Orleans.
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Blood Canticle Written from the vampire Lestat's point of view, Quinn Blackwood and Lestat do what vampires do best...suck blood and make other vampires while dressed in the best fashions.
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Pandora David Talbot, a fledgling vampire, goes to Paris, where he meets Pandora, a two-thousand-year-old vampire.
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Another 100 Best Horror Books-Bradbury, Koontz
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Something Wicked This Way Comes A dark carnival, two boyhood friends, a tattooed man, a blind gypsy witch, and a killer dwarf make up this excellent novel from Ray Bradbury.
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Life Expectancy This book about Jimmy Tock and his connection with a murderous clown family will keep you twisting and turning all night wondering where the h** Koontz is going with this one......and that's what makes this gem worth it!
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Odd Thomas Odd Thomas is a man who can see and speak with ghosts which come in handy in heading off trouble in town, (or not!).
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Frankenstein Dr. Frankenstein lives into the 21st century as a biotech tycoon bent on starting his "New Race".
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Frankenstein Book 2 Dr. Frankenstein is now in New Orleans, and his "New Race" is out of control!
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Another 100 Best Horror Books-Miscellaneous Horror
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The Complete History Of Jack The Ripper A complete and full study of the Whitechapel murders of 1888 in London.
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In this last section of another 100 best horror books, we include some real life horror, hauntings, executions, Hollywood death and serial killers!
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Helter Skelter The true story of the Manson murders back in the late 60's in Los Angeles plus the following trials of the "family".
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Jaws A great white shark terrorizes a east coast community.
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The Bell Witch A true horror story about the 1818 haunting of the Bell family by an evil spirit.
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Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders Late 70's Chicago....little kids are disappearing, murdered one by one by Gacy. Read how he got found out, and hurl over the garish details of this man's sick life.
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The Crime Of The Century Another assault on the city of Chicago back in 1966: Richard Speck broke into a house, sadistically tortured nine student nurses and raped and killed eight of them with the ninth one actually hiding from him successfully.
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Deviant Wisconsin's own sicko, the cannibal butcher, bone furniture making, human skin lamp-shade making psycho, Ed Gein!
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A Macabre Miscellany A thousand grisly and unusual facts from around the world.
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The Only Living Witness An investigative team interviews the serial murderer Ted Bundy while he was on death row in Florida.
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Shock! Horror! Astounding Artwork From The Video Nasty Era 200 banned horror video covers from the British "Video Nasty" era.
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You are now at the end of another 100 best horror books. I am going to have to build another list because there are so many great horror books out there yet. One list doesn't do the horror genre any justice. If you have some favorites that aren't on this list, jot me a line below. (Use my email in the footer below, thanks!)
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