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Horror Timeless Classics From Great Authors

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pWhen individuals think of authors who have written horror classics through the years, they quite often think of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Clive Barker, McCammon, and perhaps several others. A lot of these writers are definitely the best selling of the bunch but in no way the whole spectrum. The horror genre has become even more famous through the years considering that Stephen King first wrote his bestselling novel Carrie, the 1 book that did more than any other to push the boundaries of scary literature in the 20th century. Following that came a multitude of copycat writers, Koontz included, and even Stephen King himself started to be somewhat stuck in the genre, in spite of his repeated tries later on in life to sneak out.p pp pHorror classics may be the most difficult form of books to create because of the expansion of horror movies, a lot of people believe theyre experienced. Since most people these days dont read but instead wait around for the movie which is a huge mistake because only 1 book out of a thousand gets converted into a film they do not know all the heart stopping chills they are missing. Great horror classics in literature form are a great deal more terrifying than their celluloid or digital knockoffs. Few very good scary motion pictures have been made from fantastic horror books but the best of the bunch are The Exorcist original book written by William Peter Blatty, Carrie Stephen King, and The Shining King once more.p pp pOne of the greatest books ever written and of the real contemporary horror classics is Song of Kali by Dan Simmons. Published in 1985, Song of Kali shows the story of a poetry editor who travels to Calcutta along with his wife and baby girl to find a number of poetry left behind by a allegedly deceased poet. What he finds is a dirty, awful, criminally nuts city that holds deep mysteries, crazed cults, and supernatural terrors far beyond anything he could ever have imagined. Read this one with the light on.p pp pCarrie by Stephen King remains to be widely considered the authors best and 1 of the everlasting horror classics of the last century. Kings power to turn the mundane, in this instance the story of a nerdy, introverted girl being bullied in secondary school, into a captivating tale of the supernatural is amazing and absolute genius. The excellent characters that fill Carrie, including her religion crazed mom, are very unforgettable and youll never forget the ending. Although the movie was good, the book is actually much better, as they often are.p pp pOther scary classics include Something Wicked This Way Comes by the late, great Ray Bradbury who is better known for his science fiction than his startling horror, and Ghost Story by Peter Straub. Both of them are fantastic books and you must not miss them. Another great writer of horror classics is Ramsay Campbell and his fantastic book The Hungry Moon will certainly leave you howling. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson was converted into popular Hollywood movie but once more the book is way better. These are just some of the horror classics made into movies, of which some are shot in a hrefhttpatomicstudios.comgreen screena studios making use of a hrefhttpgreenscreenla.orggreen screen backgroundsa.p