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Neil Gaiman, likely stories and a question about the horror genre
Has anyone seen this, it's been on Sky Arts the last two weeks. I just watched the one with Johnny Vegas in and loved it! I didn't realise that there's two stories in one episode, when the credits rolled I thought that was the end. I've also watched Foreign Parts but I didn't get it.
Anyway the one with Johnny Vegas I found a little bit scary or unsettling which ever way you want to put it.
I love horror but besides Stephen King I can't seem to find any horror novels these days. Do people still write horror? Or is it all 'thrillers' which are more crime than horror? I've read all but one of James Herbert's novels and I'm not really a fan of King's style, I'm sad to say. He takes too long to get to the point and if I don't read it constantly (sometimes work intervenes) I will lose interest. Sadly. But that's just my opinion.
I seem to find other authors or other genres to read these days but I've always been a horror fan and I miss it. I can find short stories but no novels.
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I am finding a lot of stuff really samey and predictable. With Joe Hill I loved Heart Shaped Box and Horns but found N0S4RTU far too much like his dad's stuff (and I really don't like King), but will be giving THe Fireman a go at some point, don't like to give up too soon. Graham Masterson I love, Shaun Hutson too.
I try and justify my thoughts of these few books I read by explaining that maybe because I've been reading books in a different genre that is more wordy or whatever it's put me off these other books. I think i'm just defending or making excuses.
I love James Herbert. I don't mind Stephen king, he's a great writer but I prefer something a bit more fast paced (to put it nicely). I read books by Carlos Ruiz Zafon and Elizabeth Kostova and Kate Morton then when I read some horror books the style isn't as good.
I think Shaun Hutson might have been one of the writers I wasn't fussed on and I guess reading one of two books I don't like puts me off as I had a moment where I couldn't find any I liked.
I liked Susan Hill.
I read a lot of Anne Rice in my teens and I'm going to read more soon. I loved her vampire chronicles, I have found as I've got older that my tastes have changed(still love vampires) but after reading Prince Lestat, I'm hooked again.
I guess that there's just only one James Herbert And not many as good as him.