10 Best Horror Novels of All Time
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ส.ค. 2024
- Author and avid reader Michael Wertenberg shares the list of his top 10 favourite horror novels of all time. Some of these books have won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel or the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel of the Year (given by the British Fantasy Society). Some of the books are horror classics, horror must-read books, or the best horror books of the 21st century. #books #booktube #horror #clivebarker #horrortube
The best horror novels from the best horror writers featured in this video include (in alphabetical order)
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
Blood Kin by Steve Rasnic Tem
Burnt Offerings by Robert Morasco
The Damnation Game by Clive Barker
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Psycho by Robert Bloch
The Redenning by Adam Nevill
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin - บันเทิง
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1) Ghost Story - Peter Straub 2) Carrion Comfort - Dan Simmons 3) Last Days of Jack Sparks - Jason Arnopp 4) The Ceremonies - T.E.D. Klein 5) The Road - Cormac McCarthy 6) Swan Song - Robert R. McCammon 7) The Damnation Game & The Hellbound Heart - Clive Barker 8) The Doll Who Ate His Mother - Ramsey Campbell 9) The Land of Laughs - Jonathan Carroll 10) The Shining - Stephen King
I need to check out Ramsey Campbell. You named several books I did not like at all, though🙃Variety is the spice of life, as they say...
Sour Candy: a fun read. You recommend this story in the future.
Great list! Love your #1 pick.
House of Leaves is one of strangest and most compelling books I've ever read. The story of the house itself is so interesting, but I think you could read each layer of the book individually and get a complete story out of them.
100% agree. And the matchbook scene!!!
Morning , I didn’t realize House of Leaves is a horror story, I just remembered i’d seen it on our bookshelf courtesy of my son,🐾🤭🐾😱🐾
Your son has excellent taste! 😁@@T-M123
Sorry, I thought House of Leaves was a mess. Respect to you anyway.
Fair enough. You're not alone in disliking it. It's quite polarizing, that's for sure.@@Donna230
Burnt Offerings is so underrated. I think it is one of the few books that really got under my skin.
I agree! I don't know why it's not more celebrated.
Awesome list, I did a top ten when I started and our tastes do seem to differ, but hey, different strokes and all that. The Damnation game is a great novel and I am crazy about Clive Barker, especially Weaveworld and The Great and Secret Show. Burnt Offerings is on my tbr and I would love to get to it sometime. Oh Yeh, now you are speaking my language, Something Wicked This Way Comes I rated in third position. Thanks for the recommendations! I highly recommend Swan Song by Robert McCammon, my favorite novel of all time!
Thanks :) I'll be curious to hear if you liked Burnt Offerings like I did. I know I should read McCammon. I hesitated between Boy's Life and Swan Song. Ultimately, I put Boy's Life on my TBR list and plan on getting to it in a few weeks. Am I starting off with the wrong one?
@@Michael_Wertenberg Both are absolutely magical novels in their own way but Swan Song is just perfection for me.
Love Adam Nevill but I haven't read the Reddening yet. Haunting of Hill house is my favorite book ever! Great list!
Thanks. 😊
I found you through your Adam Nevill ranking video (my favourite horror author). This was a very interesting video, I like your style - there are some new horrors on here for me to look forward to. Many thanks!
Hi Daniel. Thank you for the kind words, and for stopping by to say hi! Glad to meet another Adam Nevill fan. Stay on the lookout, I'll be posting my interview with him later next week.
@@Michael_Wertenberg Excellent, I'll look forward to that!
Already a Nevill fan; really dug The Reddening. Certainly will check out the other titles you listed. Merci!
Je t'en prie😃
Big Charles L Grant reader.
Love the oxrun station books.
I hadn't heard of Oxrun Station. Thanks for bringing it to my attention🙂
Been enjoying your content the last little while. Thanking you by subscribing.
Hi David. Thank you for the kind words!😁And thanks for subscribing!
Thanks for the list! Several of these I haven’t heard of and am only part way into Hill House. House of Leaves sounds fascinating.
Hi weeturtle? I'm glad you like the list. I'm hoping you end up liking Hill House as much as I did!
I've seen "The Haunting" several times. I'm a literary sort (but poorly read in horro) so along with the book, I'm enjoying comparing the characters to how they were represented in the movie. Especially Elenore and Theo.@@Michael_Wertenberg
Way to go putting the Bradbury at the top...a beautiful book about horrible things...
Thanks. I agree. It's a beautiful book (as horror sometimes gives us)
I completely 😱🐾😱abhor horror! Yet you’ve compelled me to give a try!job well done!
Thank you for the kind words 😀I'm hoping your try goes well😀@@T-M123
@@Michael_Wertenberg I’ve decided to go with Dracula,😅
Great choice! 😄@@T-M123
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It’s great that Ira Levin is represented, but the title of his that should be on the list in place of “The Stepford Wives” is “Rosemary’s Baby”.
Rosemary's Baby is great, too (even though I have it at #4 on my Ira Levin ranking; wow! he wrote some great books). But I love the many layers of the Stepford Wives🙂
@@Michael_Wertenberg Levin was indeed a superb writer and I read his entire oeuvre excepting his final two novels (which were poorly received). A shame he didn’t write more books in his early career. The only misgiving I have about “The Stepford Wives” is its brevity-I wish this superb story had been fleshed out more for character buildup and suspense.
One novel written between the two aforementioned is “This Perfect Day” and is eerily prescient in a current world running down an increasingly dystopian path.
I agree about the brevity. I think you did well not reading his last two novels. I didn't think much of them. I liked the camp touch in This Perfect day, but the sexual assault kind of ruined it for me 😌Just my opnion. Thanks for watching and for your feedback😀@@michaelschramm1064
nice :)
Surprised The Ruins, by Scott Smith, didn't make it on here. Also The Deep, by Nick Cutter.
The Deep made my scariest books ever video. Unfortunately, I haven't read The Ruins. Instead, I read A Simple Plan (by the same author) and hated it🙁so it's unlikely I'm going to read another one by him. I wish I had read The Ruins instead😔
Something Wicked No.1??!!! Wow! I thought it was really average🎃🤕 Didn’t enjoy Hill House one either, thought that was really boring but each to their own😎👍🏻
Fair enough😀What's your favourite then?
@@Michael_Wertenberg Stephen King’s IT. Absolutely Awesome book. Salems Lot & The Shining are in my Top Ten too 😎👍🏻