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- The Best Psychological Horror BooksReading list
Stephen King’s The Shining is a classic psychological horror novel that tells the story of Jack Torrance, a writer who takes a job as a caretaker at the Overlook Hotel. While at the hotel, Jack descends into madness, and his family is terrorized by the ghosts that inhabit the building.
- The Best Books About GhostsReading list
Stephen King’s The Shining is a classic horror novel that tells the story of the Torrance family, who is hired to care for the Overlook Hotel during the off-season. Soon, the isolated hotel starts to take a toll on Jack Torrance’s sanity, and he descends into madness, putting his wife and son in grave danger. The…
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- Stephen Graham JonesInterview
I read a lot of books over and over. The one I’ve read the most times is The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum (see Jack Ketchum’s reading list here). I’ve read Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich five or six times. Same with The Shining by Stephen King. I used to read VALIS by Philip K. Dick and The Crying of Lot 49 by…
- Christine MorganInterview
Of the ones, I’ve written or read? If it’s read, I have to go back to age 10 when I found a copy of The Shining by Stephen King on my grandfather’s garage shelf of horror novels (Grandma didn’t want them in the house; I spent a lot of time in that garage reading 70s schlock, it was great). For ones I’ve written, I’ll…
- Gina WohlsdorfInterview
Oh, so many. The Outsider by Albert Camus, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, It, Pet Semetery, The Shining by Stephen King, Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler, Deliverance by James Dickey, Dark Horse by Rory Flynn, We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, Les Sept Solitudes de Lorsa Lopez by…
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