Rec request
Jul. 19th, 2011 07:24 pmO Flist, I find myself in the mood for ghost story/haunted house/otherwise paranormally creepy-type novels. I do have a preference for...um..."atmospheric," I guess you'd call it? over blood-n-guts. My favorite ghost-related novel is James P. Blaylock's Winter Tides, which I like because the foggy, wintry California beach setting is so vivid, the characters are fun and quirky, and there are lots of tension-inducing scenes of people walking through fog and hearing ghostly footsteps and the like.
I've read everything of Poe that I care to, and I've also got The Haunting of Hill House, The Turn of the Screw, Carrie, and House of Leaves under my belt, but beyond that I'm wide open for recs. Classics are as good as obscure gems, because I don't read much horror/paranormal and probably haven't read them.
I've read everything of Poe that I care to, and I've also got The Haunting of Hill House, The Turn of the Screw, Carrie, and House of Leaves under my belt, but beyond that I'm wide open for recs. Classics are as good as obscure gems, because I don't read much horror/paranormal and probably haven't read them.