Others: Leaning positive "It" is a 1986 horror novel by American author Stephen King. "It" was his 22nd book and his 17th novel written under his own name. The story follows the experiences of seven children as they are terrorized by an evil entity that exploits the fears of its victims to disguise itself while hunting its prey. "It" primarily appears in the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown to attract its preferred prey of young children. The novel won the British Fantasy Award in 1987, and received nominations for the Locus and World Fantasy Awards that same year. In 2003, "It" was listed at number 144 on the BBC's The Big Read poll.
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Stephen King
1989 · 450 pages · 1 review
Others: NegativeThe Dark Half is a horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1989. Publishers Weekly listed The Dark Half as the second best-selling book of 1989 behind Tom Clancy's Clear and Present Danger. The novel was adapted into a feature film of the same name in 1993.
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Stephen King
1998 · 548 pages · 1 review
Others: PositiveBag of Bones is a 1998 horror novel by American writer Stephen King. It focuses on an author who suffers severe writer's block and delusions at an isolated lake house four years after the death of his wife. It won the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, the 1999 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and the 1999 Locus Award for Best Dark Fantasy/Horror Novel. The book re-uses many basic plot elements of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, which is directly referenced several times in the book's opening pages; however, the relation of these elements (including a wife who is dead as the book opens, her posthumous effect on future romance, a drowning, and house haunted by the memories of previous inhabitants) to the plot and characters is markedly different. When the paperback edition of Bag of Bones was published by Pocket Books on June 1, 1999 (ISBN 978-0671024239).
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V.C. Andrews
1979 · 411 pages · 2 reviews
Others: Leaning positiveFlowers in the Attic is a 1979 Gothic novel by V. C. Andrews. It is the first book in the Dollanganger Series. The novel is written in the first-person, from the point of view of Cathy Dollanganger. In 1993, Flowers in the Attic was awarded the Secondary BILBY Award. In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's 200 "best-loved novels."
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Mark Z. Danielewski
1998 · 736 pages · 21 reviews
Others: Mostly positiveNothing, in all it's entirety.
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Riley Sager
2024 · 384 pages · 9 reviews
Others: Mostly negativeThe worst thing to ever happen on Hemlock Circle occurred in Ethan Marsh’s backyard. One July night, ten-year-old Ethan and his best friend and neighbor, Billy, fell asleep in a tent set up on a manicured lawn in a quiet, quaint New Jersey cul-de-sac. In the morning, Ethan woke up alone. During the night, someone had sliced the tent open with a knife and taken Billy. He was never seen again. Thirty years later, Ethan has reluctantly returned to his childhood home. Plagued by bad dreams and insomnia, he begins to notice strange things happening in the middle of the night. Someone seems to be roaming the cul-de-sac at odd hours, and signs of Billy’s presence keep appearing in Ethan’s backyard. Is someone playing a cruel prank? Or has Billy, long thought to be dead, somehow returned to Hemlock Circle? The mysterious occurrences prompt Ethan to investigate what really happened that night, a quest that reunites him with former friends and neighbors and leads him into the woods that surround Hemlock Circle. Woods where Billy claimed ghosts roamed and where a mysterious institute does clandestine research on a crumbling estate. The closer Ethan gets to the truth, the more he realizes that no place—be it quiet forest or suburban street—is completely safe. And that the past has a way of haunting the present.
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Peter Benchley
1973 · 309 pages · 2 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveJaws is a 1974 novel by American writer Peter Benchley. It tells the story of a great white shark that preys upon a small resort town and the voyage of three men trying to kill it. The novel grew out of Benchley's interest in shark attacks after he learned about the exploits of Montauk, New York shark fisherman Frank Mundus in 1964. Doubleday commissioned him to write the novel in 1971, a period when Benchley worked as a freelance journalist.
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MixedIt does have a problematic scene in it. I'm fully aware. And yet getting to know those kids and how what their lives turned into when they grew up and Pennywise and the kind of analyzation of humans being the real monsters along with Pennywise just oh this book is so incredibly good.
Loved itit by Stephen King is my favorite horror novel but that's not why I love it and that's not why it's number 11 on this list
MixedI every one of the losers Club I was that kid I love that kid I want to follow that kid to the gates of hell and I thought it was such an amazing stroke of Genius having the caricatures come back around in their older age... it's still a little bit cringe I don't think he got there
Loved itthe interesting thing to me as far as the horror part of this novel is concerned is the town of Derry in this novel the town of Derry acts almost like a collective unconscience
Not a fani was not overly interested in the characters i just found it to be too long as i mentioned and i really had problems with the ending
