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Horror authors?

LoLth · 1999-05-03 12:39:00

Can anyone recommend a good Horror author. Not the Stephen King type, more along the HP Lovecraft/Cthulhu line (and not Lumley. His mythos stuff was generally crap!). So, any suggestions?

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03-05-1999 1:39pm

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LoLth

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Can anyone recommend a good Horror author. Not the Stephen King type, more along the HP Lovecraft/Cthulhu line (and not Lumley. His mythos stuff was generally crap!).

So, any suggestions?

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#2 05-05-1999 11:55pm
Trojan

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Clive Barker perhaps?

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#3 06-05-1999 9:08am
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hmmmm, Barker's OK but he always seems to have an obsession with genitalia ('it was so cold he could feel it in his balls'!). Always struck me as a bit sensationalist.

I'm thinking more along the Poe style, maybe a contemporary of his??

thanks anyway. but Barker never really got me hooked in his books.

J.

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#4 08-05-1999 11:43pm
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Jonathan Carroll, its not mythos stuff like, but his book o short stories 'The Panic Hand' scared me anyways. Psychological stuff, classic twists at the end of most of them.

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