Suggest Me Some Good English Horror/Ghost/Paranormal novels/Books

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Asandhimitra

@LadyMacbeth

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Posted: 10 years ago

Please suggest Me Some Good English Horror/Ghost/Paranormal novels/Books . I'm totally into the mood of halloween & want to read some awesome novels of the horror/ghost/paranormal genre .

Thank you so much . 😳 Hope to see some nice suggestions . 😃

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@goody2shoes

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Posted: 10 years ago

Have you read Stephen King before? He tends to have the horror genre down well.

A few suggestions: IT, Dreamcatcher The Stand and Carrie.

My all time favourite spooky read is: Mary Shelley's Frakenstein ;p

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Asandhimitra

@LadyMacbeth

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Posted: 10 years ago

Originally posted by: goody2shoes
Have you read Stephen King before? He tends to have the horror genre down well.
A few suggestions: IT, Dreamcatcher The Stand and Carrie.

My all time favourite spooky read is: Mary Shelley's Frakenstein ;p

I have read Frankenstein as a kid . 😃 I agree , it was awesome ! 👏

I'll definitely try the books by Stephen king as you suggested . 🤗

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zephyr29

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Posted: 10 years ago

Among the classics there's The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe (also believed to be the very first horror/ghost story published), The Tell-tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe (basically any work by Poe is pretty creepy), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins and works of H.P. Lovecraft and Shirley Jackson off the top of my head 😆

Among contemporary, you can try Peter Straub, Dean Koontz, then R.L. Stine & Christopher Pike for YA horror. Since you are in the Halloween mood you might be interested in Neil Gaiman's Coraline and The Graveyard Book. They have mostly been clubbed under children's or young literature but can be enjoyed by all.

But like goody2shoes mentioned above, there's no beating Stephen King in this genre 😊

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@goody2shoes

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Posted: 10 years ago

Originally posted by: VasusenaRadheya

I have read Frankenstein as a kid . 😃 I agree , it was awesome ! 👏

I'll definitely try the books by Stephen king as you suggested . 🤗

I loved Frankenstein too. It's one of the classics that I adore.

Yes King's books are rather creepy and quite long too LOL. So fair warning ;p Let me know what you go for and what it is like :)

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Angel-likeDevil

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Posted: 10 years ago

I did not read many horrors/ghost/paranormal... but for horror, I'd say Wuthering Heights... There is brutality, some sort of darkness and a lil touch of spookiness in this story. The rawness of certain characters, just the psychological and emotional impact the novel had on me was scary.. 😆 It's realistic and has some madness, hence scary.

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zephyr29

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Posted: 10 years ago

Originally posted by: Angel-likeDevil
I did not read many horrors/ghost/paranormal... but for horror, I'd say Wuthering Heights... There is brutality, some sort of darkness and a lil touch of spookiness in this story. The rawness of certain characters, just the psychological and emotional impact the novel had on me was scary.. 😆 It's realistic and has some madness, hence scary.

I totally get it. It's a really dark tale full of brutality and madness and it is a pretty disturbing read. In fact the way the book begins clearly hints at the paranormal. And if nothing else it elicits so many emotions. Probably the reason why it's been clubbed under Gothic fiction.

If you're interested there are some other realistic horror tales you can check out 😉: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and some of Louisa Alcott's works (yeah she's the one who wrote Little Women 😆)

Funny how all such tales were mostly written by women back then 🤔

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Angel-likeDevil

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Posted: 10 years ago

Originally posted by: zephyr29

I totally get it. It's a really dark tale full of brutality and madness and it is a pretty disturbing read. In fact the way the book begins clearly hints at the paranormal. And if nothing else it elicits so many emotions. Probably the reason why it's been clubbed under Gothic fiction.

If you're interested there are some other realistic horror tales you can check out 😉: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and some of Louisa Alcott's works (yeah she's the one who wrote Little Women 😆)

Funny how all such tales were mostly written by women back then 🤔

It disturbed me for a few days...I dont even wanna say :(

@bold --- exactly! And Wuthering Heights was first novel to have horror content in it.. wonder why is it like that though, the Bronte sisters had a different familial background, so their gloominess is quite understandable... but even the others were women, why is that?

Thankyou Zephyr 😃 I've already taken mental note on the ones you mentioned above. Just that I am a little careful about picking a book with horror content as I cannot afford to lose my brain right now 😆

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Posted: 10 years ago

Originally posted by: Angel-likeDevil

It disturbed me for a few days...I dont even wanna say :(

@bold --- exactly! And Wuthering Heights was first novel to have horror content in it.. wonder why is it like that though, the Bronte sisters had a different familial background, so their gloominess is quite understandable... but even the others were women, why is that?

Thankyou Zephyr 😃 I've already taken mental note on the ones you mentioned above. Just that I am a little careful about picking a book with horror content as I cannot afford to lose my brain right now 😆

Hahahaha I understand. It's the same with me reading such stories and always it's the authors of long ago and their works which make me feel this way 😳. No beating them when it comes to creating atmosphere. I read a short story long ago by Louisa Alcott and it disturbed me no end, hard to believe it was the same person who wrote all those beloved children's classics.

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AnuMP

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Posted: 10 years ago

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Try the scariest of them all.

The Omen

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