Scary Monsters

[Violent Messiah]

Originally posted by urgeok
although i do enjoy his work .. i do find that lovecraft does one incredibly annoying thing - a lot ..

he will describe a creature as a thing of 'undescribable horror !!'
something that is so horrible to behold that it renders the viewer mad and uncomprehensible (in otherwords - too far gone to describe what he saw)

i can understand how he's attempting to build terror but after the second time it started to seem like a cop out - as if the octopus/whatever just didnt sound scary enough -and he knew it - so better just describe the terror of the person who saw it VS the thing itself..

HA!!! I knew I couldn't be the only one that thought Lovecraft was using that 'undescribable horror' bit to avoid having to describe it in detail!

I always thought I was some kind of horror genre geretic for thinoing that, but no more! :D

Originally posted by urgeok
maybe ... The Relic by Lincoln Child, Douglas J. Preston

I didn't read the book but I saw the movie and it's the only horror movie that has scared me since I became an adult.:)

[dw_horrorfan]

Hungry Moon by Ramsey Campbell. Hard to find but worth the read. The gloom and fog on the english moors just escalates as it goes along. But his style of writing takes a bit of getting used to, myself being more accustomed to his short stories rather than novels.

[stygianwitch]

Originally posted by Fresh
I didn't read the book but I saw the movie and it's the only horror movie that has scared me since I became an adult.:)

The book is way scarier than the film, it really will scare ya :D