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Old 07-06-2004, 05:00 PM
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"Evil Child" books - any recommendations?

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Much as I hate to admit it, I've recently been suffering a rather embarrassing addiction to that ultry-cheesy sub-genre of horror known as the "Evil Child" story--you know, The Omen, The Bad Seed, that sort of thing...anything with Stepford-like kids, evil kids who wreck their families, genetically enhanced "perfect" children who go awry....I'll devour all of it.

But I'm running out of books to read...

Any suggestions of books that fall into this category?
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Old 07-06-2004, 05:07 PM
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Re: "Evil Child" books - any recommendations?

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Hullo all!

Much as I hate to admit it, I've recently been suffering a rather embarrassing addiction to that ultry-cheesy sub-genre of horror known as the "Evil Child" story--you know, The Omen, The Bad Seed, that sort of thing...anything with Stepford-like kids, evil kids who wreck their families, genetically enhanced "perfect" children who go awry....I'll devour all of it.

But I'm running out of books to read...

Any suggestions of books that fall into this category?
midwich cuckoos by john wyndham, turned into the film village of the damned.
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the exorcist if you would consider it evil child also night shift collection it includes children of the corn
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Old 07-07-2004, 11:11 AM
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I've read The Exorcist and everything by Stephen King...all the obvious stuff like that. I'm really looking for lesser-known books that I probably wouldn't have come across on my own--you know, all those mass-market paperbacks that proliferated in the '70s and '80s especially, with black covers featuring creepy-looking children... :D

Haven't read the John Wyndham, though, and I loved the movie, so I'll check that out. That's exactly the sort of thing I meant. Thanks. :)
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Old 07-07-2004, 11:49 AM
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I've read The Exorcist and everything by Stephen King...all the obvious stuff like that. I'm really looking for lesser-known books that I probably wouldn't have come across on my own--you know, all those mass-market paperbacks that proliferated in the '70s and '80s especially, with black covers featuring creepy-looking children... :D

Haven't read the John Wyndham, though, and I loved the movie, so I'll check that out. That's exactly the sort of thing I meant. Thanks. :)
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oh well you should have stated that earlier
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oh well you should have stated that earlier
but that's got nothing to do with an evil child..
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grab a copy of Threshold by Caitlin R. Kiernan...while your at it grab Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite....both great horror authors
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