Any recommendations

[Tbird]

I'm looking for some new material to read, not so much any specific books but just good authors that seem to have a nack for writing a good book.

 

I'm looking for:

-A similar style to King/Koontz/Mccammon

-Horror/Thriller

-Likable characters

-An author that can entwine two or more stories and make a gob-smacking final twist

-Doesnt have to be horror; I really enjoyed 'Hearts in Atlantis' (King) 'A Boys Life'(McCammon)

-Some kind of 'evil' involved - be it super natural or human.

-Very good description and something easy to follow

-Don't mind ghosts as long as they utilized well (such as in 'Haunted' [James Herbert])

 

Dislikes:

-Vampires.

-Government plots to end the world and so on.

-Aliens (unless of course used in a heart warming way such as in 'One Door Away From Heaven [Koontz])

-'lX-rated' chapters clearly used just to bulk the book up

-I'm not into all the gore and stuff i dont want to be reading 'And as he ripped his spine out a heart stopping scream escaped him'

 

Any suggestions and/or help would be greatly appreiciated

[knitnat]

Hi ya....dare I suggest this ....Beckwood Brae! Look up author promotion site for more details. Complex, multilayered story with interesting and well-developed characters. The baddies are pretty yuk!

[Ummm]

I like Richard Laymon.

[Michelle]

Dislikes:

-I'm not into all the gore and stuff i dont want to be reading 'And as he ripped his spine out a heart stopping scream escaped him'

 

I think Laymon is probably a bit too gory!

[Owen]

Hi

I think Laymon is out due to his...interestng writing style.

If you've read "Hearts in Atlantis" I take it you have Read "IT"?

[Sedge]

You could try Joe Hill (Stephen King's son), especially Heart-Shaped Box and 20th Century Ghosts.

[Tbird]

Am I getting my aurthors mixed up or isnt laymond just kings pseudonym sorry if I'm being stupid lol

 

Thanks for the recommendatiosn ill deffinately take them into account

[Sedge]

You'll be thinking of Richard Bachman.

[Kell]

Richard Bachman is King's pseudonym - Laymon is a different author who is now dead.

[Tbird]

Yes thats it, wasnt the regulators written under bachman?

 

i see laymon is coming up alot so i asked my dear mother if id like him (lol) and she doesnt think so.. anymore authors ?

[Charm]

When you say you'd be interested in thriller would that include serial killer or forensic investigation type stuff?

 

Two really good horrors I would recommend would be Graham Masterton 'Burial' and 'Flesh and Blood'. They both have great underlying storylines in them.

[Kell]

Yes thats it, wasnt The Regulators written under Bachman?

Yes, it was.

[liveguy7]

Recommendations for horror you mean?

[Kell]

As stated in the first post - recommendations for horror/thriller:

 

-Horror/Thriller

[petit_canard25]

Scott Sigler is pretty good. I've read Contagious and infected. I loved them both.

[Scarlette]

I've been feeling in the mood for horror, also and my boyfriend recommended Thomas Ligotti to me. I am a scaredy-cat at best and his books seem terrifying to me, even though I haven't tried them yet. I doubt they have too much blood and gore, though - he wouldn't have recommended them to "faint-at-the-sight-of-blood"-me if they did . But, yes, perhaps give them a try? And if they're not too scary, maybe I can try them too...