I’m thoroughly sick of the real horror story currently in progress and am looking to read some good fiction. I like the old Stephen King stuff but haven’t much cared for anything he’s written in the last 30 or so years. I still remember the chapter in "Salem’s Lot "when a priest refused to toss a cross aside and it lost it’s power to protect him from the vampire because he’d shown he had no real faith that god would protect him even without it. I wonder how many christians, so proud of their “faith”, would pass that test? Of course atheist would be screwed, so I guess we’re all lucky none of that shit is real. Anyway…got any ideas for a good horror story read? I liked “The Shining” too, so not just vampire stuff.
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How about some classic Poe, such as The Pit and the Pendulum?
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I’ve been a fan of H.P. Lovecraft since I was in high school, so I’d recommend his stuff. And Poe is also an excellent suggestion. I also just finished reading a series of books by Michael Penning that he refers to as his Book of Shadows series. It begins 100 years after the 1692 Salem witch trials in colonial America, and deals with one of the women hanged for witchcraft vowing revenge. It continues the story for at least 4 books(so far), and I’d recommend it as well, I liked what I read.
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Maybe read current events about Trump’s second presidency?
I think the current news is about a million times more frightening than any Stephen King or Dean Koontz novel.
Also, have you ever read Peter Straub? I also think highly of John Saul.
I wrote a couple of horror short stories that were published in Blood Moon Rising.
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I have an unusual suggestion. Nightmares of Eminent Persons, and Other Stories by Bertrand Russell. Among these, The Existentialist’s Nightmare is possibly the most noteworthy. Worth persevering with is Zahatopolk, as bizarre as it is, because it’s a suitably devastating critique of religion into the bargain.
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It was not exactly a jump-scare type of book, but the textbook I was forced to use for the course I took in thermodynamics at university was horrific. So horrific that I ritually defaced, defiled, and destroyed it after the exam.
LOL I’m afraid it would all be gibberish to me. A simple calculation they had to do in the movie “Apollo 13” made me sick to my stomach. They had to get it right or they’d bounce off the atmosphere and be forever lost in space. Geez, I’m trying not to hyper ventilate thinking about it.
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What I found more intimidating than the math (which, as astronauts, they would – especially with help from ground control – be able to ace). It was executing the maneuver manually with what appeared to be an improvised line-of-sight / dead reckoning method, and also using the LEM thrusters to do things they weren’t really designed to do, pushing around the dead weight of their disabled ship. So it wasn’t just getting the math right, it was executing the maneuver according to the math, under difficult conditions.
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I know a great horror book you can read.
It starts off: "In the beginning . . . "
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Steven King’s: The Jaunt
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