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Something has been eating at me for years and I just have to get it off my chest. Despite being a massive horror fan, I don't like Stephen King. Its probably heretical to say both in terms of horror or books in general but I just don't think he's put out much worth reading besides The Long Walk and The Bachmann books. I own his stuff, I've read 90% of his output, I just never understood what the hubub was about. I can respect what he did for the genre but I think there are much better authors out there.

(Who do I think is better? Jeff Strand,particularly Pressure and Dweller. (I defy anyone to read Dweller without being in tears at the end.) Brian Hodge. Tom Piccirilli. William Peter Blatty. Richard Matheson. Nate Kenyon (particularly Sparrow Rock. Absolutely terrifying.))

I don't like Koontz either.

Anybody have any confessions they'd like to make? Maybe you despised a beloved book, think a popular author is completely overrated, etc.