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My favourites are Fluke, The Magic Cottage and Shrine. James Herbert once told me(in a letter)that Rats was the first story he wrote and he took it through only one draft.
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What's brown and funny?
Clown poo
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I studied Tang Soo Do under Master Hedges at Fulwood. Lots of leg stretching!
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Sounds very Ray Bradbury-esque to me...
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Always loved this one.
"Women are made to be loved not understood."
by Oscar Wilde
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Just realised...almost impossible to count. :readingtwo: :readingtwo:
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I read a lot of horror, and these are authors and books I would definitely recommend:
Richard Adam's The Girl in a Swing
Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes
William P. Blatty's The Exorcist
Anything by Douglas Clegg, but a good book to start with would be Neverland or Nightmare House
John Harwood's The Ghost Writer
Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House
Henry James' The Turn of the Screw
Dean Koontz's The Bad Place or Midnight
Richard Matheson's I Am Legend or Hell House
Dan Simmon's Song of Kali or The Terror
Anything by Peter Straub, but a good book to start with is Ghost Story
Excellent selection!
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Makes Perfect Sense. Heart Shaped Box actually comes across as Clive Barker-esque!
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There's only one for me...
Sir Tom Finney (bows as she types his name)
A Tom Finney fan from the Fylde coast???!!!
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Soory,forgot to mention I'm currently reading joe hill's heart shaped box which I'm enjoying
Just started Heart Shaped Box myself. Seems pretty good so far.
Clive Barker's Books of Blood series is definitely worth a look.
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I've been having a looksee through here, and I have to say I'm really intrigued by Emily Dickinson.
I'm not so well versed in poetry. I've read a lot of Shakespeare's plays and sonnetts, and I had John Donne in school. Beyond this, knowledge is very limited (the exception being Andre Bjerke, a Norwegian poet whom I adore).
But, I have one I like, kind of a classic to the point of being a cliche.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
BY ROBERT FROST
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
One of my all time favourties...
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DVD. The Howling, 1981. As good today as it's always been.
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Thanks for the welcome messages!
Yes, Chorley is just up the road from me. But they're all very posh up in Chorley! Nice pubs and gardens and no one ever splits the infinitive.
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Just a quick hello. My name's Stephen Melling and I love to read read read. I also write, but I read far more than I ever write. The book club forum appears well-rounded and pretty diverse. Interesting place to read and post.
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Anything by Ray Bradbury.
Also...
Clive Barker's books of Blood.................Jaqueline Ess
Salinger's For Esme, with Love and Squalor....Title story
Anything by H.G Wells.........................Time Machine
Anything by Ramsey Campbell...................The Companion
Stephen King's Night Shift....................Night Surf
Anything by Hemingway
Anything by Roald Dahl
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My favourites change with the, well, with the tides. John Betjeman's A Subaltern's Love Song is a particular favourite. I like The Raven, The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, William Blake(I like the use of it in Bladerunner, though the poem was deliberately misquoted)Mmmmm. Could go on for quite a bit here...
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I think the Narnia tales in Primary School. Particularly The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. First horror book was a pulp paperback called Spiders by Richard Lewis. I read this only once but can still remember lines from the narrative!
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I've just bought this and I'm seriously looking forward to reading it.
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('The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed')
I totally agree with you. I love that line...
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Lord of the Flies is not a bad holiday read. I read it in Florida. The climate added to the book's atmosphere.
Can you truly enjoy a book you've been forced to read?
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At school we were 'forced' to read Joby, a kind of Loving, A kestrel for a Knave, Lord of the Flies and Of Mice and Men. Gotta say, I loved them all apart from A kind of Loving. As an A-level student I was forced to read Death of a Salesman, Richard the III, The French Lieutenant's Woman and The Wife of Bath, Prologue and Tale. Only the Wife of Bath left me feeling grubby!! Although I've been lent books by enthusiastic friends and reading said books felt like pugatory.