Supernatural Fiction Readers discussion

Pet Sematary

^This one. I was up half the night waiting for a little kid with a knife...

It. Reading it as a kid gave me chills. I'm not sure if any book has since.

Fun question. I read and review ghost novels, but I lean more toward vulnerable, sensitive ghosts in women's fiction (The Lovely Bones, The Girl Who Stopped Swimming) than demonic ghosts.

Two horror-style ghost novels that scared me are Stir of Echoes and Heart-Shaped Box. Both of these are well written and well worth reading. And both will scare you a little bit...

Yep I read both of those - ghost stories are my favorite! Bag of Bones was very creepy.

I think King's work makes fantastic movies; I've had less luck with his books. I read a re-release of The Stand that was absolutely terrible--riddled with typos and updated in uneven ways that no longer made sense with the story. Admittedly, that was a while ago.

Bag of Bones sounds like just the kind of story I would enjoy, however. I'm putting it on my growing tbr list. Thanks for the mention of it.

I'm sorry I missed the group read of Ghost Story. I'm pretty sure I saw the movie though. Generally, movies scare me more than books do. Probably the jumpiest movie I saw was Poltergeist. Just when it looked like the scary stuff was over...

Ghost story definitely had that creepiness and some level of fear for me. And so did The Haunting of Hill House. Not many others I can think of.

For me it has been Le Fanu's IN A GLASS DARKLY, James's GHOST STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY, Jackson's THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, and King's THE SHINING. I enjoyed Straub's GHOST STORY tremendously, but it struck my imagination without touching any nerves.

Jim wrote: "For me it has been Le Fanu's IN A GLASS DARKLY, James's GHOST STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY, Jackson's THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, and King's THE SHINING. I enjoyed Straub's GHOST STORY tremendously, bu..."

I missed another two books: Ramsey Campbell's novel INCARNATE and his collection DARK COMPANIONS.

The subject matter of this thread is essentially identical to that of this one: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... ; and the other one has considerably more posts. Keeping both of them just creates confusion and clutter. So, I'd like those who've posted here to use copy-and-paste to move your comments to the other thread, unless you also made a similar comment there already (this works best in "edit" mode, which I can't use for you!), and then delete them here, so that this thread can be phased out. Thanks for your cooperation!