Wall of Mouths

I don’t read horror. Unless you count ‘The Stand’ as horror - I thought that was an amazing book :)

Try a Barbara Cartland, that will definitely freak you out! :)

Just finished “Haunted” by Chuck Palahniuk, was a lot better than I expected. Some of it is VERY creepy / sick.

Also, I’ve banged on about this book a lot on these boards, but if you haven’t read House Of Leaves by Mark Danielewski you definitely should - I can guarantee it’ll be like nothing you’ve ever read!

Thats a good question!

Well, first of all the book itself is massive and heavy - costs about £20 to buy I think. The pages are *slightly* bigger than the front and back covers as well (which hints towards the themes inside).

Its basically about this guy called Johnny Truant (I think a band are named after him now) who befriends this blind old man called Zampano. Johnny is a bit of dude, hes a tattoo artist in LA who sleeps around a lot / drinks / parties etc. When the old man dies, he clears out his apartment and finds these claw marks on the floor and a manuscript scattered everywhere.

The rest of the book is Johnny obsessively sorting through the manuscript and adding footnotes to it as it goes along. The manuscript is a story called The Navidson record, about a family (the Navidsons) who move into a new house. After a while a door appears in their new home that leads into a dark corridor - however, the way the corridor goes is impossible, because it leads to where outside the house should be - yet theres nothing outside. They decide to explore it.

So basically Johnny’s story and the Navidson’s criss-cross and parallel for the remainder - its very creepy / claustrophibic - i really think you’d like it

Dermot wrote:

i really think you’d like it

Cool, sounds pretty good - I’ll try and check it out!

mr self destruct wrote:

Cool, sounds pretty good - I’ll try and check it out!

Yeah, you’ve got me interested as well now.

I have read it though, actually…if I remember correctly I wrote an essay on it at university in fact :)

They’re not horror, though, surely? Grisly crime/thriller?

@ Sam :cool:

:D yeah, that’s great (I mean, ‘Matthew “Monk” Lewis’, not Necrophilia).
I’ll have to read it again at some point. I remember being pretty shocked by some of it when I first read it, mostly because I was expecting your typical Gothic Romance-style of ‘horror’ (which are great, but often about as scary as the Munsters. :) )

Heheh, I was going to mention Melmoth, but thought that we were getting sidetracked. :D:)

I’ve read Shaun Hutson, just because the book was cheap, and I loved it.

Have you seen his latest book, Only Revolutions?

I was going to buy it in the store, but had a flick through it and decided against it. The typography is insane and you have to read 8 pages from the front, turn the book upside down and around, read 8 pages from the back, then turn it back round again and so on and so forth to give the impression that you’re swirling down a whirl pool then out of it again :rolleyes:

Apparently it’s a poem told alternately between two eternally youthful American Teenagers running away from Time… I just basically think he’s getting to clever for his own good :mad: