MY TOP 10 HORROR BOOKS COUNTDOWN! Brian Lee Durfee

[@bmoneybby]

Me: Nice I love top 10 lists. Brian: Coming in at number 21!

[@HikkikoGoblin]

You have the best Top x lists. Every time I watch one I end up pausing and buying a few before the list is over.

[@jessezigg]

I vividly remember reading Intensity too! And not being able to stop! I love Koontz, and that is one of his top 3, unforgettable novels!

[@jackmckenzie926]

Brian, you are going to make me broke with all the awesome recommendations.

[@mikemcdonagh8710]

Something Wicked This Way Comes is beautifully written. It is my all time favorite!

[@garyrobinson5092]

I came across a new book called "the village" now one of my favorite.

[@dielmlon]

Hi! I'm currently reading The shining, so far so good... btw I just bought your book The Forgetting Moon, hope it'll be awesome! Greetings from Italy!

[@bryanvanloh8217]

Fantastic list! Excited to check out a couple new ones for me. Thank you

[@justinjacobs1520]

Dude. When comes to reading, you’ve achieved what my child self wanted to grow up to be.

[@AllenFreemanMediaGuru]

Love your shirt! I recently reread Christine and Thinner. SK-my fav. Thanks for this video! Now I must own them all.

[@alexnieves]

Jaws would definitely make a great monster movie. You are a genius.

[@Cherbookie]

DiCaprio could play the shark 🦈

[@Spafon1]

Great list. Love The Keep. Thought it was mostly filmed in Wales? Swansong great, his They Thirst is one of the best vampire novels out there. Always preferred Barker's short stories. His Books of Blood were the best collection of horror short stories I've ever read.

[@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS]

Well. For some reason I thought a lot of the exterior shots anyway were from Berg Hohenwerfen Austria anyway. But then i just re-watched it and couldn't find it. So i confused even myself. I wonder what movie I was thinking of. Anyway. You are right. Inside of the Keep was filmed in a studio in Wales it looks like

[@matthewbrown1151]

What are your thoughts on Speaks the Nightbird if you have read it? I'm pretty curious, it's on my TBR pile

[@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS]

I really like that series.

[@tricky2058]

I love that series. Now, I will say Speaks the Nightbird starts off a little slower than the rest of the books in the series, but it is well worth it. McCammon sets the scene beautifully. This was the first book of his that I have read, and I had no idea he was a big horror author prior to that. Then, I was floored when I discovered he lives here in Birmingham, AL. After reading the Corbit series, I have branched out and read the rest of his work. Great stuff!

[@thecaffeinatedbookwyrm3051]

***screams*** So excited to see NOS4A2 on the list. One of my favorites, and Joe Hill is one of my favorites as well!! ****screams again**** Haunted Mesa!!

[@Michael_L_Morrison]

Great list. Picked up a few for my TBR list. And there were about 7 of them I've read. I tried Ghost Road Blues, but just couldn't get into it. I may give that one another try one day.

[@rishabh2069]

Wow!...he mentions JAWS and says "Someone ought to make a movie out of this".....I mean it's one of my favourite movies!!!!! There are 2 such movies!

[@michaelbooker6142]

That was funny joke. His videos are always funny.

[@virgilflowers9846]

Wow I just read Fevre Dream and loved it, and immediately picked up Armageddon Rag as a musician. Also loved the inclusion of the Throat, I think Koko is a masterpiece but that one can’t be far behind! Straub is arguably the best prose writer in horror IMO, but Simmons and McCammon can come pretty close at times. Excellent list as usual, I’m glad I found your channel.

[@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS]

Thanks,

[@bmoneybby]

I recently read Fevre Dream as well. Man, I really liked it. Im a musician too, now I'm looking to find Armageddon Rag. You guys have convinced me. Not that it's hard, my tbr is only like 500 books long..

[@virgilflowers9846]

@@bmoneybby My TBR stays unmanageable lol. To be honest I wasn’t expecting much out of Fevre Dream besides a fun read, and I ended up tearing through it in a couple days-it far passed my expectations. I hate to add yet another to your TBR lol, but if you are a musician you absolutely MUST read The Five by Robert McCammon. It is absolutely a 5/5 read

[@bmoneybby]

@@virgilflowers9846 Thanks, I'll check it out. I like good "musician" character books. I've never read many now that I'm thinking about it. Edit: Revival by King and Name of the Wind by Rothfuss are the only two coming to mind right now. Huh..

[@AllenFreemanMediaGuru]

Silence of the Lambs-read it this year. The movie was great and so is the book.

[@loudoesreviews]

Great list. Need to check out The Haunted Mesa.

[@DanielGFreeman]

Nice to see Bentley Little - I haven't read any yet, but I have The House only shelf and I'm getting itchy to read it!

[@tomscharf8812]

Love the shirt Brian!!

[@MichaelRomeoTalksBooks]

Once again you've added to my tbr list.

[@johnnythepillpopper1974]

My ten favorite in no particular order SKing…..Salems Lot (first horror book I ever read) PStraub….Ghost Story BLittle….The Ignored CBarker…..Books of Blood JHerbert…..The Others DKoontz……Phantoms NCutter……The Troop DSimmons…..Song of Kalii Forgot author……The Ruins SKing…..It JLong….The Descent And many,many more

[@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS]

Great list

[@adamrenfrow]

Badass list.

[@Thecatladybooknook_PennyD]

Added more to my growing tbr as usual. Lol

[@jimgorman3600]

Very informative - Your videos are top notch - I am just getting into Horror and Sci-fi (not fantasy yet) and would appreciate some recommendations on entry level sci-fi. I just read Ben Bova's COLONY as my first Sci-fi novel and it was pretty good. Finished it in 2 days. Appreciate any help you could give. Thanks, and keep the reviews and best of lists coming.

[@EAHorror]

Monster by Frank Peretti is a great book. Have you read it?

[@carlosbranca8080]

My favorite horror novel of all time is The Ceremonies by T.E.D. klein. His collection of 4 stories Dark Gods is also great. Thats the only things hes written but is a master. May second favorite is Ghost Story by Peter Straub. Good video.

[@anewby67]

I've worn out several copies of Swan Song!! Gawd I wish they would make a movie already!!

[@danielkibira4064]

Hey McDurf 😎 curious collection you got there watch out for the Bibliocrypts 😱. But do you mean🧐 Ann Rice' 🦇 INTERVIEW with a VAMPIRE 🤨 didn't cut it, at least just for it's lyrical value?! I mean...? Anyway great list, your mentioning Clive Barker's DAMNATION GAME has got me really curious 🤔 as well as Dan Simmons.TheTERROR. As always may The 👑 HaShem Yehushuwah keep you.💯

[@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS]

I've never read Ann Rice

[@rhyleygrant5660]

My top 3 favorite horrors of all time are 1. The terror dan simmons 2. The stand 3. It

[@rishabh2069]

I just llllooooovvvvve❤️❤️❤️ Stephen King....I adore that guy. He is a master of storytelling. Though I don't really dig his prose, his stories are good enough to keep me distracted from the fact and still give me enjoyment. The Stand is my particular favourite.

[@bmoneybby]

Earlier this year I read like 200 pages of The Terror then ended up not continuing. I hate when I do that, I should pick it back up.

[@rhyleygrant5660]

@@bmoneybby its a slow burn it picks up but if u didnt like the first 200 pages probley wont like the rest

[@bmoneybby]

@@rhyleygrant5660 I didn't not like it, I just never got back to it after that first session. I could tell it was getting good as well.

[@rhyleygrant5660]

@@bmoneybby youll like then it gets more intense and gets more brutal

[@rishabh2069]

What happened to the lonesome crown btw...did you not write that too?

[@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS]

Ya. i forgot....

[@bookgirl1195]

Ghost Story by Peter Straub is really good too!!!

[@TH3F4LC0Nx]

Yo, Intensity is literally in my top 10 books of all time! Definitely Koontz's masterpiece!

[@M0rd3a]

Ok, we have the same tastes apparently. I love Stephen King, Dan Simmons, Clive Barker, Dean Koontz and Thomas Harris. I’m going to try some of the others you have on your list.

[@rustypatch9543]

Brian, have your read the Joe Pitt series by Charlie Huston? It works better as an audiobook as the written book sometimes gets confusing as to who is speaking but LOVED this series. The Stand still ranks as my favorite all around book. Just read it for the first time this year. Was kind of turned off by the TV series. Nothing like the book.

[@wvu9787]

Joe Hill needs to bring a new book out, it’s been a while.

[@jamesfetcho6315]

Necroscope series should be way higher. Hmm. You mentioned 6 sense. Wonder where they got the Idea from. Could it be Necroscope ? Dean Koontz Odd Thomas ...wonder where that idea came from...could it be Necroscope? What Vampires are more different, and original than the Necroscope series?

[@bms2001]

Have you ever read Paul Tremblay? Stephen King is a big fan, and A Headful of Ghosts is my personal favorite horror novel.

[@IvoLouro]

Great list man! :D Although I was almost certain you would mention H.P. Lovecraft, the grand master of horror!

[@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS]

Never read a word of Lovecraft

[@IvoLouro]

@@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS I only read Herbert West: the Reanimator. But I heard his horror stories are the stuff of nightmares.

[@etluxaeterna]

BLD I make a humble request for your top 10 favorite Literary Classics as well !

[@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS]

Good idea

[@etluxaeterna]

@@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS doesn't have to be 'classics' though but just top 10 (or preferably top 20) literary books period, so it can be modern literary or 'classics' like Dickens or whatever

[@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS]

I just filmed the video Tune in tomorrow

[@etluxaeterna]

@@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS you're the man !

[@SummoningSnakez]

I am now broke because of you. And ThriftBooks

[@martinsFILMS13]

me too but its still worth it

[@Tonysmithmusic]

i couldn’t pick a top ten, most of them would be stephen king, dean koontz and james herbert.

[@mamba2242]

Great list. I understand why people like The Stand, but for me, It will probably always be my favorite by Sai King as well as my favorite horror novel in general. Pennywise is just so good. The Stand feels pretty boring and anticlimactic in my opinion when compared with others on this list but to each their own!

[@davidkean5680]

Hey Leefee im scared

[@thomasmartus1873]

Yeahhh, Shutter Island !!! But never never never watch the movie before reading !!!! The novel is so so so much better than the movie - because everything goes so mad in your mind while reading.

[@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS]

Books are mostly always better

[@etluxaeterna]

BLD how many books total have you read in your life? Is it true it's over 3000?

[@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS]

About 3500. And a lot of those I've read multiple times.

[@etluxaeterna]

@@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS how many books would you say you read per year? 3500 is about 100 per year for 35 years straight which is roughly what I imagine you do? 100 per year comes out to about 2 per week every week. I read about 60-70 last year but I want to get my numbers up.

[@alejandrorubio305]

I did

[@DrMetalpin]

Surprised there’s no Summer of Night by Dan Simmons. Love that book better than IT by Stephen King.

[@jdsantibanez]

Did you like The Terror TV miniseries adaptation?

[@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS]

Never seen it

[@jdsantibanez]

@@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS HBO. I got bored by the third or fourth episode, but many people loved it.

[@hexum7]

Etc horror novels ever written, and none of the classic horror titles? The genre didn't start the day you were born? I mean, where's Frankenstein, Dracula, and the rest?

[@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS]

read them. didn't like them. not on my list. sorry. where would you put some of the classics?

[@wadejohnston4305]

Love your channel but the constant pushing your books in every intro with a giant poster in the back for the books. Alot of bpoktubers say it's fine to push your work to your audience but I personally thi k you take it a bit fat. But Iove your channel otherwise immensely

[@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS]

Thanks for loving the channel!! Imma do the same intro forever. Its kinda my thing at this point. Things might look awkward without it

[@batman102]

Jaws was a great movie, but the book is just a piece of shit 😂

[@debbiemcnamara7059]

I hate It! Terrible ending.