Fright is a special thing and fear and Stephen King's brand of fright goes beyond witches and goblins and ghosts. Case in point: five early Stephen King works that will scare the hell out of you.
Odd Thomas is back and this time a ghost leads him to a mysterious estate owned by a reclusive billionaire. The situation becomes more perilous than ever, but luckily Dean Koontz infuses his supernatural story with a sense of humor.
About This Book: The stallion reared over me, silently slashing the air with the hooves of its forelegs, a creature of such immense power that I stumbled backward even though I knew that it was as immaterial as a dream. . . . The woman astride the ghostly mount reaches out desperately, the latest spirit [...]
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Mayan prophecies, the decline in the honeybee population, rising temperatures at the Earth’s Core, melting icecaps. These are just a few of the things that can keep me awake in the middle of the night. And now, thanks to Stephen King’s The Stand, I can add the cold and flu season to the list.
When I look back at all the King books I’ve read -- and believe me, I’ve read many -- there is one moment, one scene, if you will, that most strongly stands out in my memory. It is a moment from The Talisman.
So, are you Team Bloodsucker or Team Wolf? Because it seems like you've gotta pick one these days. And it may come as a bit of a surprise to learn that Anne Rice – the vampire queen of Gothic horror - has not, in fact, penned a werewolf book. Until now, that is.
"What accounts for the ongoing fascination with Lovecraft’s tales? How is it possible that his stories, although almost a century old, are still as gripping as any modern horror movie with high-tech sound and special effects? To say it with H.P. Lovecraft’s own words, “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
Simply put, Koontz is a master storyteller. He has a way of drawing you into a world you never could have imagined -- creating chilling stories with terror at every turn.
Don’t let Justin Cronin's The Passage fool you. It is not your typical end-of-society story, where we are being ravaged by vampires, zombies, fill-in-the-blank creatures.
Zone One endeavors to explore the materialistic aspect of humans losing their humanity by highlighting the necessity of the zombie plot. And it certainly succeeds.
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