Horror Books with GREAT Endings | Spoiler Free Recommendations

[@jocelync2409]

This was so fun! Would LOVE a video of books that were going great and then flopped at the end!

[@5Gburn]

Hear! Hear!

[@TheShadesofOrange]

I have a list started. Just need to find a few more

[@candicebarbata5028]

Would love to hear about horror books that disappointed you with their ending. And I really enjoyed the ending of Kill Creek!✨

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Working on putting together that video. I need a few more

[@PTHylton]

Ira Levin might just be my all-time favorite author. His plots are so tight, and his endings are all great. Mind of Winter sounds really interesting. I may check that one out!

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Yes I love his tight plots! So little fat in his stories

[@CliffsDarkGems]

Such an excellent idea for a video! Pet Sematary has a great ending, but I will argue that many of his other novels have brilliant endings as well, they may not be what you are expecting but not every good horror novel has a happy ending! Sometimes unhappy endings can be a kick in the gut and just as effective, I really need to do a re-read of Rosemary's Baby as it is a horror classic and I was not totally impressed on my first read. I say Swan Song by Robert McCammon has my favorite ending.

[@TheShadesofOrange]

I agree that a good ending doesn't have to be a happy one. I haven't read all of King's work so it makes sense that he has other good ones

[@DylanDoesBooks]

Rosemary's baby has been on my shelf untouched for years, I really need to get around to it! Only horror I have read recently with an ending I particularly enjoyed was a vampire-horror romance called 'Happiness' by Shūzō Oshimi. Such a bittersweet ending and got dark in some areas of the story.

[@marcystiff6287]

The Last Days of Jack Sparks has a great ending! It totally blew me away! From start to finish, it was a great book!

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Yes that was a good one

[@PieGuyBill]

The Nightmare Room is a good one. Read it a couple of years ago and liked it but can’t remember the ending. I need to revisit that one. Rosemary’ Baby is awesome and the ending is perfect. Loved it.

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Glad you also loved the ending of Rosemary's

[@teviston7288]

The dark tower series by Stephen King was SO good, right until the end :(

[@cmmosher8035]

And here I think that it's the perfect ending for The Dark Tower.

[@TheShadesofOrange]

I heard it was pretty rough

[@fiberartsyreads]

This was great!

[@dawnhermann3352]

I’m definitely getting mind of winter now! Thanks! I would love the bad ending video:)

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Working on it!

[@trishee7625]

Rosemary’s Baby…classic! Perfect!

[@Octobig]

now i'm looking forward to picking up ghost radio even more! 📻

[@bayoumuddah]

Cant wait to check some of these out

[@rysenshyne3805]

If you haven’t read it yet, Revival by SK is highly underrated imo amazing book with a great unexpected ending. The journey makes it worth it

[@TheShadesofOrange]

I have a friend who threw that book against the wall because of the ending

[@aleidadiaz2261]

The sixties are “olden times” 😂

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Oh man, I say dumb things on camea. This is why KZbinrs don't talk off the cuff

[@aleidadiaz2261]

@@TheShadesofOrange haha! Not stupid, but funny. I’m in my 50s but I still don’t feel old so I laughed! When I think of olden Times I think of the turn of the century (1900) or WWII.

[@3wwv]

That comment sent me lol.

[@halko1802]

Planning on checking out all of these! Also, yes! Would love to see good books with bad endings 👻 📚

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Currently in progress... I need a few more

[@Cold_Zero_The_Wise]

I went through something similar with Salem's Lot by the ending and the way the remainig protagonist took on the last bad guy it felt lackluster and anticlimactic, but on another note looking at it from a certain perspective (not sure how to put it in words) it was kinda ok ab passable for an ending.

[@annettesonnenberg7606]

I so agree with Pet Sematary. Fabulous ending. Just as good was the ending of Thinner by Stephen King. Wow I remember holding the book in my hand stunned. Wow it was good!

[@chrisconnors7418]

I’ve read most of them, and I agree. I do have Mind of Winter because of what you’ve previously said about it. I just need to start reading it. Have you read The Reincarnation of Peter Proud? Not really horror but the ending has stuck with me for, sheesh, nearly 50 years, I think. I don’t think it’s a particularly good book either (but I was young and dumb-as opposed to old and dumb now). But the ending left me disturbed and I remember it. Yes, I’d like to hear a list of horror books that didn’t stick the landing (no fair including more than 2 King books :). I do like his writing, so I enjoy the journey even if the ending doesn’t work.

[@TheShadesofOrange]

No I haven't read that one. And yes I would love to put together that video but I need a few more good ones

[@chrisconnors7418]

@@TheShadesofOrange The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell. 190 pages. Not really horror, but an ending that'll stay with me. And the character and the lyrical descriptions make the book almost literary. Some funny lines too--“...you can't put nothing past these southern boys. They just sit around waiting for somebody to kill their brother so they can get started on some vengeance. It's like a dang vocation with them”

[@JasonsWeirdReads]

I’m all about the journey too. I usually get sucked in with the situation driving the horror books. Endings are almost always meh for me. I recently finished a book called Transmuted by Eve Harms and that ending was so bat shit crazy it really made the book something special inside my head. 😂

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Glad it's not just me who doesn't sweat the endings too much

[@Darthmiguel89]

I thought the title meant like a happy ending, but now i see you meant like a great ending 😂 great picks!

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Oh you're right. I need to update the thumbnail

[@wedprez]

Yay yay Mind of Winter

[@mzktbzkt6005]

Ive recently read The lake house and found the ending a little bland its okay not one of my favourites this year Pet Sematary and the patient are my favourites this year. Currently reading taste like candy by ivy tholen 132 pages in and possibly figured out ending and going to read kill creek next.

[@cindywingetbooks]

I mistook this as "horror books with happy endings" 😂 but still a great video. I would love to see the reverse video with bad endings. Another author i think who struggles with their endings is Junji Ito. But i still love his bizarre stories so much so i don't let it bother me overly much 😉

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Yeah a lot of these endings aren't very happy... and yeah I feel like it's hard to end Junji Ito's stories

[@nevskislake]

I would love, love, love a "great books with bad endings" video.

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Working on it! I'm working on a few more bad ones

[@nevskislake]

@@TheShadesofOrange - Awesome! I look forward to it.

[@SuperStrangSshadow]

Not all endings by King are bad. The ending of Pet Sematary and Revival are pretty good.❤

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Yeah I think the ending of Pet Sematary was great

[@jessileemiller]

I just read Rosemary's Baby last month and made my boyfriend let me tell him the ending because it blew my mind!

[@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd]

read pet semetery but it was so long ago can't remember how it ended also have read most of ira levin's novels EXCEPT for rosemary's baby but saw the roman polanski film which was great though wouldn't call the ending exactly uplifting⚛😀

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Haha yeah my definition of "good" certainly isn't uplifting 😅

[@michaelfeeney6108]

King’s Revival was solid all the way through.

[@TheShadesofOrange]

I've heard mixed things about that ending

[@michaelfeeney6108]

@@TheShadesofOrange Interesting. I’ve heard nothing but good things

[@forevermoodreading]

Ghost Radio audiobook narrator might have helped 😏

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Yes! I had no idea it was Pedro Pascal until recently

[@daveshepperd1749]

How did you feel about the 1989 film version of Pet Sematary? I felt it came off corny, even though it followed the book.

[@TheShadesofOrange]

I haven't actually seen the adaptation

[@jjnewbold]

New Rachel vid! 💀🎃🔪👽

[@sams5963]

I DNFed Pet Semetary about half way, and with some exceptions, stopped reading King.The exception was The Dark Tower series, but the final two volumes were disappointing. Vol 5 King resorted to Wizard of Oz references, making me wonder if his imagination had bottmed out. Vol. 6 King made himself a character with a self indulgent recital of his accident, but it's King. And the ending disappointed with no real resolution for the Gun Slinger.

[@TheShadesofOrange]

I heard the ending of the Dark Towers was rough

[@TheBookclectic]

💐

[@deckard5558]

The movie adaptation of Rosemary's Baby is rather underwhelming.

[@TheShadesofOrange]

That's too bad

[@zubaerchaudhari8267]

Hi there Hi there 😊😊

[@ritatoth7487]

Stephen King messing up his books endings????? Never heard of that before. Wonder who said that...

[@TheShadesofOrange]

Hahaha