Recommend me some epic horror books

[ESB]

Swan Song
Terry Brook's Running with the Demon series (though I hated it)
Have you tried The Keep?
Not really epic, but certainly an awesome period book that one who likes horror should read.
ESB

[Spectrum]

Originally Posted by ESB

Have you tried The Keep?
Not really epic, but certainly an awesome period book that one who likes horror should read.

No, by whom?

[jenna26]

Originally Posted by Spectrum

No, by whom?

The Keep is by F. Paul Wilson and is the first book in the Adversary Cycle.

The Adversary Cycle

The Keep
The Tomb (the first Repairman Jack novel)
The Touch
Reborn
Reprisal
Nightworld

I would recommend them all actually. Except for Reborn, which unfortunately I haven't read yet. :)

[Doc Faustus]

Melmoth the Wanderer by Maturin is a classic horror epic. The Keep is definitely recommended, as are Barker's Great and Secret Show and Imajica.

[Spectrum]

BTW, those of you who are interested in things like what I asked for might want to check out an identical thread I made on the SFReader fora.

[chaibill]

Pedidro Street Station by China Meivelle
The Ruins by Scott Smith
The Others by James Herbert
Haunted, Moon, The Ghosts of Sleath by James Herbert
Neverwhere and American Gods by Neil Gaiman

[Shazbut]

Howzabouts the series by Stephen R Donaldson?:

"The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever"
"The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant"
"The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant"

They're certainly epic, and set in a world being destroyed by evil (Fantasia on a grander and darker scale!).


http://theland.antgear.com/

[Spectrum]

Originally Posted by Shazbut

Howzabouts the series by Stephen R Donaldson?:

"The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever"
"The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant"
"The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant"

They're certainly epic, and set in a world being destroyed by evil (Fantasia on a grander and darker scale!).

Oh, gods. I read the first two hundred pages of this, but I hated its guts. I just couldn't stand Thomas Covenant's self-pity and assholeish behaviour, nor the tree-hugging melancholy of the whole setting. No, not giving this series a second try.

[Shazbut]

Originally Posted by Spectrum

Oh, gods. I read the first two hundred pages of this, but I hated its guts. I just couldn't stand Thomas Covenant's self-pity and assholeish behaviour, nor the tree-hugging melancholy of the whole setting. No, not giving this series a second try.

But thanks anyway........ :rolleyes:

[Spectrum]

Originally Posted by Shazbut

But thanks anyway........ :rolleyes:

You're welcome. :P