Richard P. Feynman, "QED - The Strange Theory of Light and Matter". (QED = Quantum Electro-Dynamics). Surprisingly easy to read. Feynman is a master at explaining difficult concepts to non-practitioners.
Somehow the list grew beyond 20 over the years. I'm always on the lookout for very scary. Send me a PM with your recs.
By Stephen King- ( I've read almost every single King novel)
It
The Shining
Pet Sematary
By Clive Barker
Damnation Game
Books of Blood (Series of Barker Short Stories...must have)
by Dan Simmons
Summer of Night
The Terror
Song of Kali
by Bentely Little
The Association
The Store
The Resort
by Peter Staub
Ghost Story
The Floating Dragon
VAMPIRE'S!
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Salem's Lot by Stephen King
The Narrows by Ronald Malfi
The Light at the End by Skipp and Spector
The Passage by Justin Cronin
Live Girls by Ray Garton
The Summoning by Bentley Little
Salem's Lot by Stephen King
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
They Thirst by Robert McCammon
The 1980's
Darklings by Ray Garton
Off Season by Jack Ketchum
The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
Stinger by Robert McCammon
Since 2000
House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski
Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Lindqvitz
The Ritual by Adam Neville
Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Maberry
Risen by Jan S Stanad" aka- "J. Knight".
The Ruins by Scott Smith
Heart Shaped Box - Joe Hill
Earthworm Gods by Brian Keene
Ghoul by Brian Keene
60's-70's Haunted Houses
Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco
House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons
Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Maynard's House by Herman Raucher
Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon
Hell House by Richard Matheson
RIP...The Masters
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
H. P. Lovecraft- get a version of his Collected Works
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Bradbury's short story- "Frost and Fire" scared me.
Terrifying classic literature!
1984 by George Orwell
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
In my world terrifying horror sometimes differs from well written horror. For example Stephen King's "The Stand" is a well written horror novel but I feel "Pet Sematary" is scarier. Most of the above novels are both well written and terrifying. Literary classics 1984 and Blood Meridian are scarier than most horror novels I've read. Some folks consider the non fiction epidemiology book "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston chilling horror. My epidemiology professor assigned The Hot Zone as supplemental reading back in the day. I found my Organic Chemistry text book more terrifying.
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Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter (loaned to me @ ProgDay by my good friend Phil Sunset)
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
Great! I'll purchase a copy by midnight! Thanks for the terror tip Lopez.
Valancourt republishes lost horror novels from the past.
http://www.valancourtbooks.com/horro...e-fiction.html
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Did you listen to the album by Mark's sister Poe, called "Haunted"? It contains many details from the book plus a lot of personal stuff (a bit like Roger Waters).
Great list b.t.w. Especially in the upper regions there are many I've read, but also in the second part there are some that have a place in my collection.
The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman
"House of Leaves" Interbellum Yeah, I have Poe's first album. Makes me ponder genetics and memories of Grandma,
" The Walker's were always talkers. Their mouths run... in the family." I miss Grandma.
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The Best of Richard Matheson
400 + pages of his short stories. It is amazing how many I recognized through various film adaptations.
A Comfort Zone is not a Life Sentence
I have that. Excellent collection.
I'm about 40 pages into the Dennis Dunaway (bass player in the original Alice Cooper, the group not the guy) autobiography, Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! (2015). I'm at the point in the book that the Earwigs have changed their name to the Spiders and have become quite the local Phoenix sensation in early 1966.
Lou
Looking forward to my day in court.
Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward - The Final Days. Their account of the final days of the Nixon administration, and the sequel to All the President's Men. Amazingly, I bought this in a bookshop in Hanoi, which seemed richly ironic!
Joining in this late in the fray ... Currently reading In Search of Wonder, subtitled "Samuel R. Delany, Race, Identity and Difference", it's a study of one of my two favorite living SF writers, specifically intended to demonstrate that he writes in a number of black traditions/influenced by his AfricanAmerican heritage (as how could he not be...?)
On the horror front I highly recommend the trilogy "Night's Children" by Peter F. Hamilton. It's a space-opera where the dead are coming back and possessing the living, and they are not nice. The three volumes - sometimes each split in two, because they're big - are The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, and The Naked God.
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson’s Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism by Timothy Denevi.
Along with Sheldon Wolin, one of the better chroniclers of the death of US democracy.
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
Just bought the latest Richard K Morgan - Thin Air, a sci-fi novel based on a future Mars, and Rich Zahradnik - Drop Dead Punk, a New York 70's journalist detective novel. Rich is a friend I used to play soccer with in CT, he really gets the grittiness of NYC in that period, and he's a good guy (though a lousy full back).
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
Just started Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City. Seems to be amiable but monumentally pointless.
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
Carbon Ideologies by William T. Vollmann.
"Nearly every book about climate change that has been written for a general audience contains within it a message of hope, and often a prod toward action. Vollmann declares from the outset that he will not offer any solutions, because he does not believe any are possible: 'Nothing can be done to save the world as we know it; therefore, nothing need be done.' Carbon Ideologies is in the vanguard of the coming second wave of climate literature, books written not to diagnose or solve the problem, but to grapple with its moral consequences."
It's over, babies.....
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
I agree that we cannot save the world as it was when we were growing up. I don't agree that nothing should be done. "I can't do my homework because it's difficult," is a lame excuse. We're better than that, even if our politicians are not.
Well, Vollman isn't saying that saving the world--like homework--will be "difficult;" he's saying it can't be done. He predicts a “hotter, more dangerous and biologically diminished planet,” where humans inhabit "underground caves in order to avoid the unendurable heat, plagues, droughts, floods, and methane fireballs racing across boiling oceans. Because the soil is radioactive, humans will subsist on insects and recycled urine."
It's about the violence inflicted by the production of coal, natural gas, oil, and nuclear energy. The victims of these "carbon ideologies" are not only the species of fauna and flora that are going extinct, the fragile ecosystems that will collapse, and the future generations of humans who will have to subsist on insects. The victims are us—we who are now living and who deny, to varying extents, the degree of damage we are inflicting upon ourselves, but that something "can be done." This book is a chronicle of self-harm.
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
I've picked up a few "free" books and series on Amazon over the last 6 months. No, they're not Pulitzer winners but they also aren't bad, most of them. Little known (or unknown) authors hanging their books out there for free so anyone can enjoy them. Some of the story lines and writing are pretty damn good, just not publicized. Worth taking a shot. If you don;t like it in 50 pages toss it and try another.
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A gentleman is defined as someone who knows how to play the accordion, and doesn't.
That's about as far as I go with a book if it doesn't click with me. Sometimes I'll go another 25 pages or so just in case. Life's too short to waste time on a book that just isn't doing it for you. I used to believe that once I started a book, I had to finish it no matter what. Not any more.
Lou
Looking forward to my day in court.
Søren Sveistrup, the architect of the series "The Killing", wrote his first novel "Kastanjemanden" (translated in Dutch in "Oktober" and in English in "The Chestnut Man").
It reads like one of his tv-series: short chapters, quick actionscenes, a lot of characters, politics and of course horrible crimes....
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