Vintage Horror Recommendations!

[@thepolitecatlovesu8973]

The Hellbound Heart is amazing! It's what the movie Hellraiser is based on :))

[@kellyhookedonbooks4394]

I've added so many of these books to my TBR and I'm a little annoyed that my library does not carry many of these! WTH? Looks like I'll be making a large book order soon! Dolores CLaibourne is my favorite King book. Love it so much! Thanks for all the recs!

[@bittersweetknots]

Michael McDowell is my favorite author! I read Black Water way way back in the day and just recently reread it. I’m so glad he’s getting the attention he deserves. Amulet is awesome too. I have just discovered you and love your reccs.

[@Alicia-Reads]

I loved Hell Hound! It’s about a sentient, sociopathic dog named Baxter. He’s just a dick. American Psycho, but a dog, really. 👌🏽

[@shannondiaz3811]

Your recommendations are awesome! Can't wait to read some of them! Oh and yesssss Shirley Jackson is spectacular!

[@rosiemon]

Thanks to your and other booktubers I have already read several of these books and loved them. You still come up with more books to try out and now my list is longer than I will be able to read but that's fantastic. Loved the twists in many of these books and the ones you haven't read yet I know you will enjoy.

[@roserose3928]

i love dolores claiborne too! it's the first stephen king i read. also, love your hair. :)

[@ginayoung130]

I trust your recs without question. I read Blackwater cuz you mentioned it so many times and it's now one of my favorite books of all time. I'm about to read The Elementals. Also... The Dumb House is great! Nobody else has ever talked about it ☺

[@karamarie6781]

Faerie Tale by Raymond Feist is fabulous! Creepy, fae folklore. I loved it! Read it twice.

[@catarinathebookworm]

Loved these recs!!! Vintage stephen king is THE phase

[@RGsDevilship]

Each time you talked about a book that I've read I was like "you NEED to read that!" 😂The Ring series is awesome, I feel like so many people have watched the films but few have read the source material and it's so interesting and the explanation as to why the paranormal stuff is happening took me by complete surprise. I always say American Psycho is my favourite book but in reality, it was the first book I read that gave me a taste for all things disturbing. I want to reread it at some point. The End of Alice is one of the most messed-up books I've ever read but you already know that 😅Communion is fun, it is creepy but enjoyable nonetheless. Thank you so much for the shoutout hun, I freaking love your videos 💕

[@melbindsfics]

I need to read more Vintage horror. Sad to say I haven't read much. Hoping to changing that. There is so many amazing books out there.

[@lavender7074]

The Other book was also made into a movie in the 1970’s. So was the book Burnt Offerings which stars Bette Davis and Karen Black.

[@girlrunsfromcastle]

Black Ambrosia by Elizabeth Engstrom is a great novel from 1988, it’s in reprint by Valancourt books at the moment!

[@speculativemagpie6160]

I have always wanted to read The Cipher. She had been on my radar for decades I just have never picked her up. thanks for the recs. they were awesome.

[@andreak.999]

i just got books of blood vol. 1-3 in the mail! i’m so excited to read

[@TheBookubus]

Aww shucks, stop! (No don’t really, lol 😁) Thank you so much, you are too sweet! Awesome selection of books here. I’ve read and loved a bunch of these. Kathe Koja and Bernard Taylor are two of my faves. Hope you enjoy them! 🖤

[@gece84-c1h]

Like the video as usual, I’ll start reading McDowell right away based on your recommendation

[@JordalineReads]

YESS! Trust me, McDowell will not let you down! 💖

[@youwerewild]

McDowell is so good, I've read 4 of his books in the past year or so.

[@ladi-da8053]

Excited about all mentioned books. Can I ask where you buy your books. I am interested in investing in some physical books

[@IReadToday]

I NEEEDED this video! I can't wait to add these to my tbr

[@gelaigurl]

I watched The Other years ago here on KZbin. I loved it. Total classic. I didn't know until now that it was based on a book.

[@katerinas4976]

I can’t read fast enough to keep up with your amazing recommendations!!! Love it though, makes me so excited to get to them one day😁

[@ClandestineGirl16X]

You are so awesome! I love your videos

[@StephanieReads85]

Girrllll wait until you read Misery!!! That shit is so good!!! Dolores Clairborne I’ve seen the movie but I haven’t read the book.. and I’ve had Amulet on my wishlist on Amazon since the last time I seen you haul it I need it!!!

[@walkerbait610]

I really love and trust your recommendations. Could you please do a video on horror audiobooks? There aren't very many reviews on audiobooks about horror on youtube

[@youwerewild]

I totally forgot about Communion. I read that in high school and I think that (along with the movie Fire in the Sky) fueled my intense alien fear. Also, side note: I wish I could find some more vintage horror written by women.

[@fiberartsyreads]

Loved this! Added more to my list. So The Communion-I read that a long time ago and remember liking it. There’s also a movie with Christopher Walken if you’re so inclined. 👽

[@kristinestaples7607]

Wow, I was so shocked to see The End Of Alice on here! I read that probably 20 years ago and I remember one scene that had me gagging.....and I still think about it. The whole reason I found R.G Devilship was because one day about a year ago I thought "I wonder if anyone on KZbin reviewed The End Of Alice????" And there she was. I think it says something that I STILL think about this book. Can't wait to hear your thoughts.

[@Tal.Bibliotek]

Great timing for me to hear these recommendations because the book I chose and ordered for my 70’s,80’s,90’s prompt is on back order and may not arrive in time and now I have plenty of others I can read 😁 enjoying my SpookySmartBitch reads 😉 📚

[@QueenieTT]

Love your channel!

[@JordalineReads]

Awww thank you!! 💖🌈🥰

[@thathorrorshow4126]

I own The Girl Next Door but I haven't read it yet.

[@mindysbookjourney]

I love vintage horror. These were great recommendations. If you like the idea of Slugs you might like The Nest by Gregory A. Douglas as well. It is about mutant killer cockroaches.

[@jessicanewmom1018]

I’m definitely ordering The Dumb House today. 😍💅🏾

[@LiteraryLightweight]

OMG! I was just about to recommend Hell Hound by Greenhall while you were talking about his previous book lmao. I highly recommend it and it's a quick read! So many awesome throwbacks in this video. Hell House by Matheson was a lot crazier than I expected. I also didn't enjoy American Psycho either. It's the only book where I had to skip whole passages that were just mind numbing descriptions of things. Movie is way better imo. I accidentally read part 5 of the Ring series (the book is called S) for the readathon😂 I also recommend listening to Dolores Claiborne on audio, it's like listening to your crazy aunt retell stories about her life.

[@realtimes-687]

I was trying to compare American Phyco and Girl Next door. Both made my toes curl but American Phyco I think goes a step or 2 further! - But it's also hilarious it made me laugh hard! Though the brutality was anything but..very cruel and nasty.

[@riomadre]

I stg every single one of your videos seems to recommend a book or two that I've just picked up or just read - alongside a ton of stuff I've never heard of! Last time it was The Forgotten Island, which I had just gotten the day before. This time, I just got The Elementals a few days ago, and I just read the story from Books of Blood called In the Hills, the Cities last night. Trust me, it's amazing. Also, Skin is on my SpookySmartBitch Readathon TBR :) I just vibe with your channel! 📚👸

[@warrenh]

You gotta give Burnt Offerings another chance! It was so good.....I freaked out reading it. The tension builds and builds.

[@beardscanty]

I recently read Burnt Offerings and I don’t know why I bothered finishing it, I thought it was bad the whole way through ☹️

[@cattitude7809]

The Girl Next Door, the movie, was super disturbing!!!! You wanted to just stop watching because it was hard to watch, but you can't cause you want to see what happens!! I've never read the book, but now I want to! I've always liked book versions of stories better than the movies, but I don't know about this one! I can't imagine it being any more disturbing!!!! I guess we'll see!

[@LiteraryStoner]

"This edition smells so good, it smells like old people"😂

[@pastorytime2683]

This is so great! 🧡🧡

[@aliibrahim4077]

“This addition smells like old people” Hahahahahhahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahah I died It was me who read ring for the readathon LOL 😂 as always you made me add some of these books to my TBR list 😍

[@anumrajput4234]

I love you!

[@JordalineReads]

💖💖💖

[@Alex-rz3hy]

Have you ever seen the old movie Village of the Damned from 1960? Since you love creepy children it may be right up your alley.

[@davebrzeski]

OK, I got most of the way through a really long comment, when KZbin decided to reload the page without consulting me. Lesson learned. Write comments in a text editor, then cut & paste it in. Dammit young lady, now I'm in serious danger of dying of old age at any moment! LMAO Really? Books published this millennium are vintage? All of the books you talked about that I have read, I bought new, when they were published - yes, that includes the 70s ones. :D I was also into vintage horror back then, but I think they qualify as antique now. I haven't read Thomas Tryon's 'The Other', but I liked his next book, 'Harvest Home' quite a lot. Clive Barker's 'The Hellbound Heart' novella id the book they based the film, 'Hellraiser' on. Quite a few of the stories in the excellent 'Books of Blood' books (my copies are the original 6 slim paperbacks release) ended up with film adaptations, notably 'Rawhead Rex'. Michael McDowell left us far too soon. We lost a lot of potential classic books when he died at the age of 49. Somehow, Owl GoingBack managed to pass me by too. I will endeavour to check him out. Shirley Jackson was a genius. 'The Haunting of Hill House' is the best haunted house story ever written, albeit Richard Matheson's 'Hell House' is also great. Another haunted house book worth checking out id Anna Rivers Siddons' 'The House Next Door'. This was also recommended by Stephen King in his excellent overview of the horror genre (at least up until 1981, when it was published) 'Danse Macabre'. Ah, Shaun Hutson... I have a few stories. He was very shy and self-efacing. I could never talk him into doing a book-signing for us, back when I co-ran a bookshop. He wrote schlock horror, but I remember Ramsey campbell tried so hard to convince him that he could easily wite higher quality stuff if he tried. Sadly without success. They made a film of 'The Slugs' . I remember Shaun telling me how he sat at the back for the premiere, with his face in his hands, because it was so embarrasingly bad (it is - you have to see it!). I also used to tease him about his sex life. When you read slugs, you will notice that every time anyone indulges in some sort of sexual activity - be it solo, couple, group, or kinky - they are doomes to die horribly withing the next few pages. I have to wonder what that said about him. I met his wife, Belinda & she was gorgeous! I never quite had the courage to read Strieber's 'Communion', since I hadn't heard a good word about it, but he wrote some pretty good horror novels prior to that. I remember enjoying .The Night Church'. That Bernard Taylor book is one of a depressingly huge number I've owned for around 30 years, but never got around to reading! I know you lean towards the seriously fucked-up stuff, but have you ever read anything my the master of "quiet horror", Charles L. Grant?

[@effloress]

I'll being picking up some McDowell asap! Need more good spooky bitch reads („• ֊ •„)

[@Punkersfictionreads]

The Girl Next Door is soooooo fucked!