Horror Aficionados discussion

Hi! I'm looking for some recommendations about getting lost in space, can be both fiction and non-fiction, but I want to feel unsettled. Thank you!

This is a great thread! Interested also. Serious question: was the movie Event Horizon inspired by a book? If so, I wanna read it!

Kris wrote: "This is a great thread! Interested also. Serious question: was the movie Event Horizon inspired by a book? If so, I wanna read it!"

It wasn't, but a book adaptation was written.

Joseph wrote: "Hi! I'm looking for some recommendations about getting lost in space, can be both fiction and non-fiction, but I want to feel unsettled. Thank you!"

I was pretty impressed by S.A.Barnes' debut horror novel, "Dead Silence", which definitely had an "Event Horizon" vibe to it. Her second novel "Ghost Station" was also a pretty decent space-horror novel.

I second the book Dead Silence as a good space horror novel.

The space horror books I've read or are on my tbr pile:

The Luminous Dead
The Scourge Between Stars
Semiosis
The Voyage of the Space Beagle
2389
The Hematophages
The Outside
The Numinous
In Space No One Can Hear You Scream

I disliked "Dead Silence"...marketed as horror, but had more of a sci-fi feeling to me....kin a deus ex machina feel to it....felt cheated by the end.


Jeff McIntosh

If you don't mind shorter stories, there's
"Black Destroyer" by A. E. Van Vogt
"Nightflyers" by George R. R. Martin

The former is a 1940s novella you can find in a lot of anthologies, and The Voyage of the Space Beagle. The latter can be found in Martin's story collections; it's not great, but there are spots where it feels like it should have been.

This is a great space horror book. :)

Hellweg's Keep

Alien
Aliens
The novelization of the first two alien movies