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Two of my favorite King books of the "scary type" are The Dead Zone and Delores Claiborne.beezle said:I've only recently gotten to his writing, and so far, I like. I started with some of his short fiction collections, and then The Dark Tower. Maybe The Stand next?
Oh, then you'd just love Poe's The Case of M. Valdemar.Akuma said:I also recommend 'Everything's Eventual'.
One of the stories played off my biggest fears--still having awareness of sensation and thought even after you're dead.
And then the mortician arrives...
Mandy-Jane said:I love Stephen King too. The Shining was very scary; The Stand was horrific; Pet Semetary frightening; Christine ..... I've run out of adjectives. I'm not a horror fan as such, but he writes in a way that makes it all almost believable. He's great.
SouthernWriter1978 said:IT is soooo scary, there are no adjectives to describe it...
Both of those have rather simple premises. In The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon a girl is lost in the woods. That's bad enough, but is she being followed, stalked by . . . (I don't want to give away any spoilers). In Gerald's Game a woman is tied to a bed unable to free herself after her husband keels over during one of their sex games. There is no one around who she call yell for help. Then more unpleasant things begin to happen . . . Both are well-written but not King at the top of his form, in my opinion.Angelus said:Haven't read Gerald's Game or The Girl who loved...don't recall.
alleycat said:Both of those have rather simple premises. In The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon a girl is lost in the woods. That's bad enough, but is she being followed, stalked by . . . (I don't want to give away any spoilers). In Gerald's Game a woman is tied to a bed unable to free herself after her husband keels over during one of their sex games. There is no one around who she call yell for help. Then more unpleasant things begin to happen . . . Both are well-written but not King at the top of his form, in my opinion.
I'm currently reading Lisey's Story but I haven't gotten far enough along to say how good it is.
Delores Claiborne is one of my favorites of King's stories. I happened to be reading On Writing again this week and he talks about both Gerald's Game and Tom Gordon in the section on plotting vs. not plotting.Southern_girl29 said:I really liked The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, but not so much Gerald's Game. I agree that King wasn't at the top of his form in that one. I'm re-reading Dolores Claiborne right now, which is an awesome story. An awesome voice, too.
Edited to add: Just finished re-reading The Green Mile and found that it is just as good as the other times I've read it. Wonderful book.