The Sword and Laser discussion

I'm new to good reads and The Sword and Laser. I'm just starting to get into Sci-fi and I was wondering if anyone could recommend some good Sci-fi horror stories. I'd like to find some haunted house in outer space stories like the original Alien or Event Horizon.
Sorry if I've posted this in the wrong place.

Thanks

You could try "The Crypt" by Scott Sigler. Its only on audio podcast though but its free from itunes(I think?). Its about a spaceship called "The Crypt" which has a high mortality rate because it not only goes on the most damgerous missions but is an alien artifact in itself. The worst of the worst are sent there to engage in "experiments" as well as conduct the high risk missions.
Its only book 1 of a series though and the first book focuses on crew introduction so it reads a lot like a compendium of short story "Tales from the Crypt."

I've just finished Nocturnal also by Scott Sigler - not really Sci-fi Horror - more like pseudo science(at best)horror and not set in space. But entertaining.

"Spar" by Kij Johnson comes to mind.

Also some of Jennifer Pelland's work falls into that category.

Does Lovecraft in space count? Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette have stories with that premise...

Lovecraftian: The Mind Parasites, In the Walls of Eryx, Color Out of Space


Medical/Experimental horror: Parasite Eve

Monster: Prototype

Outer space: Death Troopers, Crescent, Hyperion, The Legacy of Heorot, Ship of Fools, The Skinner

Not sure if Martin's Fevre Dream falls under SciFi, but it has aliens and vampires in it.

Thank you for all the suggestions! I'm going to have a hard time picking which one to start with.

The Color Out of Space is great - it's probably the best story that HP Lovecraft ever wrote.

Blindsight is well worth reading - it probably counts as a classic, and was a Sword and Laser pick a while ago. You can get a free ebook copy at the author's Web site.

Some books by Michael Crichton such as Sphere.

And we can't forget the classic SciFi/Horror, Frankenstein.

Who Goes There?, the SciFi novella that the horror outer space movie The Thing was based on.

George R.R. Martina's Wild Cardsbooks have sci-fi/supernatural and horror elements, ESPECIALLYaa you get deeper into the series. The original starts light but they get more horror-ific as they go along.

terpkristin wrote: "George R.R. Martina's Wild Cardsbooks have sci-fi/supernatural and horror elements, ESPECIALLYaa you get deeper into the series. The original starts light but they get more horror-ific as they go a..."

I never read any of the Wild Cards books, but this topic jogged my memory of Martin's novela Nightflyers. I read it years ago, but it's been so long, I can't say, now, how good it is.

I think Apex Magazine (which Jennifer Pelland appears in) is basically sf horror.

http://apex-magazine.com/



Or how about Star Wars and zombies?

A couple of my favorites:

I think Neal Asher is an author who is sci fi with some horror elements, books like The Line Of Polity and his other agent Cormac novels are excellent

Meat -I've spent two years trying to name it after loosing it when moving house. Definately worth a read!

Hey, there's actually a Goodreads list of Space Horror books here: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/17...

I started it and a few other people have added books too.

Not exactly "in outer space"...yet, but the prequel tie-in novel to Dead Space is actually really good and sets up the basis for the religion that pops up in the game's storyline. It's pretty much the haunted house feature of the games, but rather than being in space, like the two games thus far, they're set under the waters of the Gulf of Mexico (where the first marker is found) and on the Yucatan Penninsula. Dead Space: Martyr

Some of HP Lovecrafts later works fall into this category, though they are not set in space. Even The Call of Cthulhu has scifi elements to it. (Note: Lovecraft's copyrights have expired so these links are OK).

Other examples include
The Colour out of Space
At the Mountians of Madness
A Shadow Out of Time