What is the best new horror author you've read? It's been a while since I've seen a new horror author, or any fresh ideas. How about you? Since we're all writers, we should know what's considered publishable these days. So, what's new and good?
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Nobody new except for me (unpublished yet) and Fotsgreg. I am reading one now by an Aussie writer and I'll let you all know if it is really icky bug or not. I am pretty sure it is. We'll see.
Let's see...
King's dome tome
Jonathan Maberry's The Dragon Factory
Willie Meikle's Invasion
JA Konrath's Suckers
Jack Kilborn's Afraid
I'm currently also reading Dominant Species whose author I don't remember.
King's dome tome
Jonathan Maberry's The Dragon Factory
Willie Meikle's Invasion
JA Konrath's Suckers
Jack Kilborn's Afraid
I'm currently also reading Dominant Species whose author I don't remember.
Stephen King's by no means new. I've heard mixed opinions on his new offering.
I have Maberry's Bad Moon Rising, and wasn't able to get into it.
I'll have to check out Willie Meikle's Invasion.
Konrath's not new either.
Thanks for the recommends--I'll check some out--but, it's the new and good that I'm searching for. (Just to be clear, I wasn't meaning new King, Koontz, Saul, Wilson, McCammon, Harris, Keene or Ketchum.)
I have Maberry's Bad Moon Rising, and wasn't able to get into it.
I'll have to check out Willie Meikle's Invasion.
Konrath's not new either.
Thanks for the recommends--I'll check some out--but, it's the new and good that I'm searching for. (Just to be clear, I wasn't meaning new King, Koontz, Saul, Wilson, McCammon, Harris, Keene or Ketchum.)
My apologies. I read "best new horror" and missed the word "author".
By your standards, none of the authors I named are "new".
However, there are a couple of new AW authors that come to mind. Lilly's one that I can think of who just got a book published and Damien's might be seen soon enough.
By your standards, none of the authors I named are "new".
However, there are a couple of new AW authors that come to mind. Lilly's one that I can think of who just got a book published and Damien's might be seen soon enough.
Right.
I'm just wondering what is being snatched up by publishers nowadays, and what new ideas are floating around.
I'm just wondering what is being snatched up by publishers nowadays, and what new ideas are floating around.
From the looks of a recent Amazon search publishers are going for splatter punk, graphically gory zombie, and anything with tons of gore, but very little real storyline. Obviously, they're angling for the teen market.
none of them are all that new (Piccirilli seems to already be moving out of horror in fact) but I like the following:
Tom Piccirilli
Douglas Clegg
Bentley Little
check out a few of them, and maybe Richard Laymon--very not new, but also not widely read in the US.
Little is probably closest to King, Clegg is a bit more wordy, maybe more towards Straub, Piccirilli is lyrical
Tom Piccirilli
Douglas Clegg
Bentley Little
check out a few of them, and maybe Richard Laymon--very not new, but also not widely read in the US.
Little is probably closest to King, Clegg is a bit more wordy, maybe more towards Straub, Piccirilli is lyrical
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I really loved Mira Grant's Feed--zombies, but told from a journalistic perspective, very character-driven. It's the first in a trilogy called Newsflesh, but I don't know when the second one comes out. The first came out earlier this year.
Sounds like my kind of vampire story. Thanks for the rec, I am going to check this out. Been in a horror mood lately, but not sure what to read.
Bentley Little used to be horror. However, now I think he should use a pseudonym for what he's been writing lately. It may be terror, but it certainly isn't horror.
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