A good Psychological horror

DeadlyByDesign

Can anyone reccommend a good psychological horror book? Been ages since I read one.

Mardy Bum

American Psycho prehaps?

E.T.

Val McDermid's books are psychological thrillers - not sure what exactly the criteria for horrors are, but there's plenty of nasty moments in the books! They're very dark, the series Wire in the Blood is based on her work, haven't seen it, but it sounds good.

Apolloyon

Anything by Peter Straub is a good bet. There is always some kind of psychological element to his stories and you always come away from his works with something to think about.

Mellor

Mardy Bum wrote: »

American Psycho prehaps?

It's prob a fine line, but American Psycho is a psycological thriller and not a horror imo.
It's all pretty much from the killer's point of view, so the uncertainty (or what ever you want to call it0 that makes horrors scary isn't there.

That said, its one of my top 5 books of all time and I'd read it anyway and look for a horror next time

Paddy Samurai

For Horror you could try James herbert or Brian lumley.Some of their stuff is well worth a look.

booksale

dont really know this one suits you or not, but i found it a great book:

Patrick Suskind's Perfume.

mountain

Try "let the right one on" by John Ajvide Lindqvist.

It is a good thriller, with unexpected twists, [hopefully you dont know what it is about]

E.T.

mountain wrote: »

Try "let the right one on" by John Ajvide Lindqvist.

It is a good thriller, with unexpected twists, [hopefully you dont know what it is about]

I read that recently and was really disgusted by parts of it. Nothing to do with the standard horror aspect, it was the paedophilia references in it - found them horrific.

zimovain

booksale wrote: »

dont really know this one suits you or not, but i found it a great book:

Patrick Suskind's Perfume.

Amazing book!

pookiesboo

Have you read any Karin Slaughter books? very dark, her first one Blindsighted is fantastic, couldnt put it down and its the same characters in the first few books,would really recommend her, start at Blindsighted. not a horror but dark and disturbing from start to finish

E.T.

Karin Slaughter is really excellent, would agree with pookiesboo. Dark and gripping, scary stuff about rural America and drugs.

Denerick

Turn of the Screw by Henry James. It probably terrified 19th century readers but all it did to me was leave me a little bit confused.

Eoin

pookiesboo wrote: »

Have you read any Karin Slaughter books? very dark, her first one Blindsighted is fantastic, couldnt put it down and its the same characters in the first few books,would really recommend her, start at Blindsighted. not a horror but dark and disturbing from start to finish

I'm not a fan. I've given 3 or 4 of them a go now, but I think they're very average books with a little gratuitous gore thrown in to try and make them a bit different from all the other detective books out there.

pookiesboo

Eoin wrote: »

I'm not a fan. I've given 3 or 4 of them a go now, but I think they're very average books with a little gratuitous gore thrown in to try and make them a bit different from all the other detective books out there.

Different strokes for different folks!!:rolleyes: