Scary Books?

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If you haven't read it, check out Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. It's an excellent haunted house story, sometimes regarded as the best of them. Stephen King considers it a classic of the horror genre. There are two film adaptations if you'd prefer that, though I'd stick with the 1963 one if I were you.

Also, if you want a great twist on the vampire story, Richard Matheson's I Am Legend will surely not disappoint, and you'll likely find it in a collection with some of his other horror stories. Absolutely excellent tale.

Also, if you've never read Lovecraft before, check it out, though be advised he has an archaic writing style reminiscent of the 1800s. Lovecraft was fascinated with the century, preferring the old to the contemporary, and it shows in his writing style. Now if you have read Lovecraft and are interested in his influences or materials he read and praised, read some of William Hope Hodgson's or Algernon Blackwood's stories. Hodgson's are bizarre and disturbing, as are some of Blackwood's, though he wrote in various genres so don't expect it all to be horror.

And there's always the classics: Frankenstein, Dracula, The Portrait of Dorian Grey, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

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Poe.

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I remember reading Something Wicked This Way Comes and then I saw movie.

[Gooseberrysoda]

There are two film adaptations if you'd prefer that, though I'd stick with the 1963 one if I were you.

*Shudder* I own the most recent, and I've gotta say, it made me dislike Owen Wilson more than I already did. Although (SPOILERS) I really liked the way he died, quite satisfying indeed.