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09-20-2011, 11:26 AM | #17 |
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I second Storm Front (it's the third time I vote for it, but IMHO it does not qualify exactly as "Horror"...) and Shelley's Frankenstein.
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09-20-2011, 12:17 PM | #18 |
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Are you saying you second Frankenstein or are you saying you don't think it's horror?
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09-20-2011, 12:33 PM | #19 |
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09-20-2011, 12:53 PM | #20 |
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09-20-2011, 01:49 PM | #21 |
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I second The Great and Secret Show.
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09-20-2011, 05:51 PM | #22 |
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I will third Frankenstein.
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09-20-2011, 08:36 PM | #24 |
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I would like to nominate "Sven the Zombie Slayer" by Guy James.
It combines horror with humor and written in a very good contemporary American. |
09-20-2011, 08:37 PM | #25 | |
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09-20-2011, 10:31 PM | #26 |
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I would like to nominate "Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim" by Mark Twain and W. Bill Czolgosz. A book that caught my attention and is on my TBR list.
Free at last! Free at last! This ain't your grandfather's Huckleberry Finn. It's nineteenth century America and a mutant strain of tuberculosis is bringing its victims back from the dead. Sometimes they come back docile, and other times vicious. The vicious ones are sent back to Hell, but the docile ones are put to work as servants and laborers. With so many zombies on the market, the slave trade is nonexistent. The black man is at liberty, and human bondage is no more. Young Huckleberry Finn has grown up in a world that shuns the N-word, with its scornful eye set on a new class of shambling, putrid sub-humans: The Baggers. When his abusive father comes back into his life, Huck flees down the river with Bagger Jim, seeking a life of perfect freedom. When the pox mutates once again, causing even the tamest of baggers to become bloodthirsty monsters, the boy Finn is forced to question his relationship with his dearest, deadest friend. In this revised take on history and classic literature, the modern age is ending before it ever begins. Huckleberry Finn will inherit a world of horror and death, and he knows the mighty Mississippi might be the only way out... |
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I'd like to nominate Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith.
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09-21-2011, 12:57 AM | #28 |
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Post #2 is updated to this point and there are now 2 fully nominated books.
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09-21-2011, 02:40 AM | #30 |
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I found the book listed at the below sites under a mostly Fantasy Genre.
Storm Front by Jim Butcher ebook Subjects: Fantasy, Science Fiction And Fantasy, Contemporary (Audiobook) Subjects: Modern Detective, Mysteries / Crime, Crime & Thrillers Books on Board - Fiction - Fantasy - General Little, Brown Book Group - Urban Fantasy Diesel eBook Store - Fantasy Amazon - Fantasy > Magic & Wizards, Fantasy > Contemporary So, it appears that Storm Front is not a Horror choice. I'll wait for the Grand Muckity-Muck to chime in on this. |
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