Horror Stories

[Smilla]

Smilla, I read this today at work and ...I don't get it! Please help, I hate when I don't get things...

I'll have to re-read "The Hortlak" again to be totally sure, but from what I dimly recall, (spoilers) everyone--or virtually everyone--in the story is a ghost, and doesn't know it.

Oh, and this spoilery review of the book in which "The Hortlak" was first published claims most of the characters are actually zombies.

[MrsCatHead]

OK, you guys were so right about The House Next Door. And The Strain. I bought those because of this thread and man, I just can't sleep anymore!

[trifle]

Also, I read a short story a couple of years ago that seems a bit Ramsey Campbellesque, but I can't remember if he actually wrote it. It's about a group of friends who get together for drinks at a quaint English pub. One friend inexplicably disappears, and the rest conclude that she has been sucked into the ancient fan that ventilates the pub, and that they can get her back if they just flip a switch and turn it on again. Anyway, they do, and soon wish they hadn't--shades of Monkey's Paw.

I finally found this story! It's Happy Hour, by Ian Watson. It can be found in The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories. Highly recommended!

[Smilla]

I totally crapped out on Shirley Jackson, et al, but have wound up re-reading Stephen King's Misery. Ugh. Annie Wilkes is evil. But it's nice to be experiencing King from the days before he lost his mind.

[ikmccall]

I can't wait for Stephen King's new book, Under the Dome? Plot line is intriguing.

[trifle]

Because it's Halloween...

The Upper Berth

[kateln]

Henry James' "Turn of the Screw" and Charles Dickens' "The Signalman" are both awesomely spooky little stories.

[trifle]

Smilla, thanks for the rec on The House of the Dead Hand. Those damned Englishmen and their etiquette!

Has anybody here read T.E.D. Klein's Children of the Kingdom? I am a bit confused by the ending, and I'd like to clarify something...

[Smilla]

I just finished Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Woah. That is one creepy little novel. Really twisted, especially for an old, musty classic. I think Vladimir Nabokov was right to classify it as "seldom read," though. I can't find a single person in my pod who's even checked it out.

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Oct 12, 2007 0:37:47 GMT -4 Smilla said:

For trifle: The Dionaea House.

I know the above post is YEARS old, but I've been tootling around this website and just spent all morning reading The Dionaea House. I enjoyed it; LOVE that Halloween is next month!