Christopher Pike isn't that bad at all.
(Dang I need to read more horror...)
Best Dark Writer?
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H.P Lovecraft, The Father Of Zombie Apocalypse, title justified by his story, Herbert West-ReAnimator. Also the world famous Mythos, including characters as Cthulu and The Preist Who Shall Not be Named!
Edgar Allen Poe= EPIC
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Well, I think that the best dead dark writer is Lovecraft, and the best has-been dark writer is Dean Koontz, and the best currently active and adequate dark writer is Thomas Ligotti, who is seriously as good as Lovecraft. The way Greg Egan is as good as Arthur Clarke. Meaning - excellent level of quality, total world obscurity
Seriously, I think that Lovecraft has a better prose than Tolkien and King combined. So tight, so economical, and yet so flowery. Koontz has very very well written stuff at his peak in books like Phantoms, Stranger, The Bad Place, Winter Moon. And Ligotti is a highly erudite true to life existential pessimist with clinical depression /like Lovecraft, I suspect/, who is very yummy.
King had excellent bursts of Bradbury-like poetic atmosphere here and there, but is a social drama queen.
Graham Masterton is pretty good no nonsense juvenile horror escapism, and so is Clive Barker, albeit a bit more poetic than Masterton. -
You guys are loco. I'm for Stephen King all the way. I happen to have over 40 of his works. You probably guessed it. I'm obsessed with Stephen King. Has any of you read the book called Wizard &Glass? That's the Dark Tower Volume Four. I got all seven Dar Tower books.
~~~~~Fang
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