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Author:  Matt Cowan [ Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:14 pm ]
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I like alot of fairly obscure horror novels so I would have several to list but I think the best and most obscure ones I have are:
1- Night Things by Micheal Talbot about a haunted house in the mountains with a very strange mystery attached to it. One that is pretty unique I think.
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2- The Occult Madonna by Douglas D. Hawk About an evil female entity that lives in a Graveyard and is very powerful. Most of the heroes of this story are older folks which is kind of unusual and it has some really great, memorable characters in it.

What are some of yours? :*
Author:  Scott Bradley [ Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:53 pm ]
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What a great question! My answer is FLICKER by Theodore Roszack. Even though the book has it's VERY devoted fans (including myself), I'm absolutely stunned at how few readers have heard of it. Not only a great horror novel, but a great novel by ANY measure...especially if you're a film buff!
Author:  ristow [ Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:16 am ]
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I'm not sure what exactly you mean by obscure, because enough time can obscure everything. Kathe Koja's "Skin" is a book I never hear people refer to, but that originally came out back when Dell Books had it's Abyss line. Heavy saturation upon release. But Dell threw in the towel on Abyss, and I think Koja has since given up on horror. Skin's great because it's a mixture of psychological horror mixed with cultism, without being mired in "satanic" or "ritual" tropes that have become cliche. It was soundly character based, while also grounding itself in some of the darker aspects of the modern primitive movement, without actually making a "modern primitive" tattoo-peirced monster that Dee Snyder did "Strangeland." In short, it first came out to acclaim from a major New York house, but nobody remembers it from what I've heard. P erhaps, maybe, it's because Poppy Z. Brite overshadowed it with stir she was causing.

Oh, and by the way. J. Sheridan Le Fanu "Carmilla." Lesbian vampires, I guess, written in 19th century. Hammer Studios did an adaption under a different title. I can't remember it, off hand.
Author:  Scott Bradley [ Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:24 am ]
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Author:  Mark Justice [ Sat Jan 27, 2007 5:21 am ]
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The Point Man by Stephen Englehart 1981). Englehart was one of my favorite comics writers in the 70s, and while his first novel was classified as fantasy, it had a lot of horror elements (and the hero was a disc jockey. :v)
Author:  ristow [ Sat Jan 27, 2007 1:01 pm ]
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This is one I haven't read, but I have it, and it's on my to-read list. "Night of the Triffids." by Wyndham Basically, man-eating plants rampage England and the world.

My reasons are ones I think anybody could relate to. I think all of us, when we are growing up, keep a list of scary horror imagery in our minds. You know, just freaky things that resonate to us to this very day. The original Omen -- that kid, and his demonic Nanny -- stick out in my memory. Especially the scene where damian is on his tricycle and kills his mom. Another is from Scanners, where two people are staring at each other, and one of their heads explodes. Ammityville Horror was another, part because my older sister pretended to be possessed and chased me around the house. The last, of course, is seeing big evil plants, walking around on the BBC
Author:  Matt Cowan [ Sat Jan 27, 2007 1:15 pm ]
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Yes, I see what you mean about horrific images that resonate with you throughout your life. That in fact would probabley be an interesting post, to see what those images are with each person. I think of the creature in the Carpenter version of The Thing but most of my favorites are images dreaged up in my minds-eye by some creepy novel. For instance, the child seeing the corpse in the window of his bedroom when he is outside looking up at his house in Dan Simmons' Summer of Night, the cretures in Ramsey Campbell's short stories Down There, Just Waiting and The Scar, the ghost made up of a swirling mass of body parts that are trying in vain to reassemble themselves in James Herbert's Ghosts of Sleath. One of the things I always find very creepy, and it's ironic that this comes into play in Mark Justice's recent short story Thief are things that are basically humaniod but are devoid of facial features. I have always thought that that is one of the creepiest things but can't say for sure why it resonates so strongly with me.

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Author:  ristow [ Sat Jan 27, 2007 1:36 pm ]
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