Favorite Stephen King books and other suspense/horror

[Hookabelly]

I used to love SK. but seemed around the late 90's his stuff got boring and too drawn out. I need a good read for next month. Big Lou, I know you're a fan. The las one I remember liking was "it" or maybe it was "thinner"

What's your fave SK or other horror/suspense novel?

 

[ruby fruit]

I really did like the dark tower series..some heavy reading but great for the imagination and fantasy of your brain cells.
Desperation was a great novel to read by SK as well

 

[Growdict]

I liked the mist but hated the ending of the book. I loved how the movie redid the ending. Funny as hell.

 

[sunni]

The long walk is my fav

I'm actually quite a fan I really like a lot of the movies too
Cujo pet cemetery, stand by me , dream catcher
Carrie fire stater , the shining ,

Pretty much everything he wrote or had a movie done from a book is quite fantastic

 

[ruby fruit]

I liked the mist but hated the ending of the book. I loved how the movie redid the ending. Funny as hell.

the ending of that movie is one that prob sticks out in my mind more than any other movie ive watched

 

[ruby fruit]

The long walk is my fav View attachment 3731872

I'm actually quite a fan I really like a lot of the movies too
Cujo pet cemetery, stand by me , dream catcher
Carrie fire stater , the shining ,

Pretty much everything he wrote or had a movie done from a book is quite fantastic

cujo was awesome...never heard of the long walk before

 

[sunni]

cujo was awesome...never heard of the long walk before

The long walk was under one of his covert names
I believe it's in a book with 2 other stories in it

It's pretty intense

 

[testiclees]

Storm of the Century! Tv movie

One cold ass night last winter i watched the whole thing while puffing up a storm, chillen, out here in my crib. I loved the goofy, creepy, and familiar in the cheesy adaptation.

 

[sunni]

The giver is another one

 

[Lacedwitgame]

4 past midnight
Nightcshift
Cujo
Tommyknockers
The shining
Christine
Pet sematary

 

[Morbid Angel]

my addition to the "and other" category, HP Lovecraft. He has an immense collection of stories long and short. You can find all his works for free if you look as anything over 100 years(?) old cannot be charged for.

great to have for spontaneous reads. some require time, some can be read on a short transit ride. I have all his works on my phone.

 

[tyler.durden]

Clive Barker has some cool stuff, he's really disturbing. He did the Hellraiser movies, some were good. King is one of the greatest story tellers: I loved It, The Stand, all his novellas and short stories. Some of his best stuff was written under his pseudonyms, especially Richard Bachman. I love Apt Pupil, The Long Walk, and The Running Man was one of the best short stories I've ever read. The movie sucked ass (as most of his movies do)...

 

[.Pinworm.]

Beep beep, Richie! (I just finished the audiobook last week) Soo much better than the shitty movie. Although Tim Curry nailed it. I remember being so scared that I couldn't pee alone for like a year straight...

 

[tyler.durden]

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Beep beep, Richie! (I just finished the audiobook last week) Soo much better than the shitty movie. Although Tim Curry nailed it. I remember being so scared that I couldn't pee alone for like a year straight...

That must have been some close friend to be with you when you peed for more than a year

 

[.Pinworm.]

That must have been some close friend to be with you when you peed for more than a year

Do not tell anyone, but I was like 9 years old, and made my uncle stand outside the potty for months when I had to go. I was legitimately afraid of the sink eating me.

 

[tyler.durden]

Do not tell anyone, but I was like 9 years old, and made my uncle stand outside the potty for months when I had to go. I was legitimately afraid of the sink eating me.

You're lucky to have had that dude for an uncle. I would do that for my niece for maybe a week, then tell her to just get over it. I am not a great guy. Hope you can pee alone after the audiobook. If not, I'll stand outside your bathroom for no more than a month...

 

[.Pinworm.]

You're lucky to have had that dude for an uncle. I would do that for my niece for maybe a week, then tell her to just get over it. I am not a great guy...

Lol, I am. My old man just told me to stop being such a pussy, but my uncle was always cool like that. He would tell me if you ever get attacked by an evil clown or monsters in general, just let me know and I will fuck their entire family up. RIP Uncle Gary. I miss those days, way back before the internet existed and imagination could do some really fucked up stuff to one's self. I watched again with my kid recently, and she just laughed at all the gnarly scary shit. I was blown away. Takes a lot to rattle her cage. Just last week she asked me for a blowtorch for her birthday...

 

[tyler.durden]

Lol, I am. My old man just told me to stop being such a pussy, but my uncle was always cool like that. He would tell me if you ever get attacked by an evil clown or monsters in general, just let me know and I will fuck their entire family up. RIP Uncle Gary. I miss those days, way back before the internet existed and imagination could do some really fucked up stuff to one's self. I watched again with my kid recently, and she just laughed at all the gnarly scary shit. I was blown away. Takes a lot to rattle her cage. Just last week she asked me for a blowtorch for her birthday...

I know. I watch shit with my 15yo boy that freaked me the fuck out in my 20s. He just laughs and says, 'that's nothing...' I don't think I could handle the shit he must watch...

 

[WolfieLee]

can't really put them in order of preference but here goes

The Running Man (part of his Richard Bachman books) Hollywood absolutely eviscerated that one BTW (The Schwarzenegger flick very LOOSELY based on the Premise of the story, it is completely different from start to finish)
Dragon Tears
Pet cemetary
The Long walk
IT
The Stand>>>if you like that story with a twist (I Liked it better , but "The Stand" is still great) by Robert R. McCammon - instead of a nearly omnipotent man made strain of super-flu, its Nuke Holocost..."Swan Song"

Another Robert R. McCammon great (Post -Fall of the House Of Usher sequal by another Author...): Usher's Passing
1 more of his (Mystery Suspense): Boy's Life (one of all time top five for me)

BUT, all time Fave Horror (but his new stuff is more GRIPPING suspnse with great human insight) Author is hands down Dean Koontz short list of his greats:

My first (and the creepiest tale I've ever read): The Bad Place
Firefly
Twilight Eyes
Strange Highways (4 Shorts, "Dolan's Cadillac" my pick from those, but all great)
Fear Nothing / Seize the Night
The Face
Watchers
Intensity
From the Corner of His Eye
His Modernized Frankenstien Series with a twist with the "Prodigal Son" being the first(**spoiler**) (He hunts down and Kills the Nth version of his maker by the end of the series)
The Odd Thomas Series
The Taking (creepiest version of what I can only compare to "The Rapture"...)
By the Light of the Moon
(and if you think that wasn't short I promise, You're wrong...many many more greats)

And there is another Suspense Author I have enjoyed a read or two of who is only what I could describe and Dean Koontz alter "Christian" - ego his name is Ted Dekker his suspense is similar with Koontz's very well crafted:

Blink
The "Circle" Series

 

[WolfieLee]

The long walk was under one of his covert names
I believe it's in a book with 2 other stories in it

It's pretty intense

Yes I had that it one THICK Hardcover it was called The Bachman Books (I can't even remember all four of them (I thought 4 could've been 3?), but that one dose SHINE in it for sure..."The Regulators" maybe another one not sure but THAT one is about one of his Weirdest to me mondo creepy... along with "Cell" as in (Cell Phone) which was not a Bachman book)

In the end, he did get a little long winded for me (had to take a break and read a different book then come back to the second half of "The Stand" (though I did thoroughly enjoy it, it was just his charachter development started to drag out for my tastes)