Books

[Emphyrio]

Ya The Exorcist is great. If you liked that I would recommend a book called Naomi's Room. It's one of the few books to genuinely creep me out and is quite short too and really well written. Author is from northern Ireland too.

I read Naomi's Room earlier this year, probably my first horror book since The Omen, Exorcist ones about 25 years ago. Really good.

Any other horror recommendations?

[blessed1]

Ya The Exorcist is great. If you liked that I would recommend a book called Naomi's Room. It's one of the few books to genuinely creep me out and is quite short too and really well written. Author is from northern Ireland too.

I read Naomi's Room earlier this year, probably my first horror book since The Omen, Exorcist ones about 25 years ago. Really good.

Any other horror recommendations?

Bentley Little - The Mailman. Similar to Stephen King when he's at his best.

To Reign In Hell - Stephen Brust. This one is very cool. About the fall of
Satan.

The Moorstone Sickness - Bernard Taylor. Very good folk horror.

Headhunter - Michael Slade. Serial killer thriller.

The Treatment - Mo Hayder. Very dark thriller about child abuse. There's actually a movie based on it that's excellent as well.

Survivor - J.F Gonzalez. Very gory splatter type book about snuff movies.

Ravenous Ghosts - Kealen Patrick Burke. Short story collection from a great Irish author.

I would also try some of Jonathon Aycliffe's other books. Especially the The Vanishment and The Talisman. The Talisman is very influenced by The Exorcist and just as good imo.

And while I'm at it I may as well plus one of my own stories lol
I had one of my short stories published in an anthology called Screams From The Ocean Floor. It's a cosmic horror type tale if you are into that sort of stuff.

[Carnage]

One I read recently was The Boughs Withered (When I Told Them My Dreams) by Maura McHugh, a collection of folk horror short stories. Very enjoyable, she's an American based in Claregalway and most of the stories are Ireland-set.

[Emphyrio]

Excellent, a note made of them. Just gotta get through a fairly large collection of just-started Matthew Stover books.

[Eoin McLove]

Picked up Waiting for the Barbarians by JM Coetzee. I'll be juggling now 

[Don Gately]

The sound and the fury by William Faulkner, round 2 with this beast it won't defeat me again

I hated that when I read it before and it took me far too long to register the structure, which was so blatantly obvious once the penny dropped. I would have had to go back to the start and begin again but I was so fucking fed up of it that I didn't care who was who and what was happening by that point  probably one I should revisit at some point with that little extra bit of knowledge. "But really... maybe not...

Yes I gave up 1st time round but I listened to Hardcore literature episode on this and decided to give it a go. Im armed with a better idea of what is going on in the first section anyway.

[Eoin McLove]

The sound and the fury by William Faulkner, round 2 with this beast it won't defeat me again

I hated that when I read it before and it took me far too long to register the structure, which was so blatantly obvious once the penny dropped. I would have had to go back to the start and begin again but I was so fucking fed up of it that I didn't care who was who and what was happening by that point  probably one I should revisit at some point with that little extra bit of knowledge. "But really... maybe not...

Yes I gave up 1st time round but I listened to Hardcore literature episode on this and decided to give it a go. Im armed with a better idea of what is going on in the first section anyway.

I'll have to give Hardcore Literature a listen.

[Carnage]

Was given a Kindle as a birthday present the other day so I nabbed Heat 2 by Meg Gardiner and Michael Mann. It's set both in the aftermath of the film and a few years beforehand, with bits of various characters' backstories thrown in. It's fairly good so far (about 100 pages in).

[Sworntothecans]

Heat 2 was great. Right amount of pulp and nerdy Mann-isms.
You can definitely tell a load of the research he did about the Triple Frontier for Miami Vice turned up in it.

[Carnage]

I never really watched Miami Vice when it was on, I'd imagine it's aged badly too, I'd hardly go back and watch it. I enjoy Mann's obsession to detail alright.

[Mooncat]

I never really watched Miami Vice when it was on, I'd imagine it's aged badly too, I'd hardly go back and watch it. I enjoy Mann's obsession to detail alright.

If you're in any way curious just go back and watch the first episode. It's more or less a TV movie directed by Mann himself and plays just like one of his films. It's really good! The rest of the show isn't to that level, more like a lower budget tv version, but that first episode is quality if you like Michael Mann.

[Carnage]

I might give it a look, Manhunter is a personal favourite.

[Don Gately]

What heat 2 is a book ? And youre reading it?

[Carnage]

With my eyes!

Yeah, he initially wanted to follow it up as a book because most of the actors would be too old now, but I gather that there was enough interest that he's going to recast and film it.

[Don Gately]

Ok i thought we had strayed into movie thread here, phew!