I read more horror in 2011 than on any other year in my life. However, there was a lot left on my to-read pile at the end of the year. I guess it's one of the flaws of being a human and having two jobs. Many of the titles on that pile would undoubtedly have made this list, but I had more than enough great books to choose from with the dozens that I read. Take a look at my picks.
8. Jeffrey Thomas' "Blood Society" When you put together a demonic type of vampire and the great Al Capone, you can either get a messy book or an interesting, captivating and truly epic story like the one told in Blood Society. A horror book packed with action that never looses track of the opportunity it creates to explore humanity, death and love.
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6. Rob Scott's "15 Miles" Scott brings noir and horror together like no one else. 15 Miles truly deserves a cliché: it's very hard to put down. The horror elements work beautifully because their sprinkled here and there with such casualness that there's no option but to believe they're real. Also, this book has a likeable anti-hero that right up there with Lawrence Block's Matt Scudder.
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5. Jeff Strand's "Fangboy" Funny, heartbreaking, full of adventures, weird and truly unique, "Fangboy" is, simply put, unlike anything else you've ever read. The one-liners come at you at dizzying speed, Fangboy is impossible not to like and the bad guys are classic in a child's-story-evil-witch kind of way. Don't worry, the bit of gore there is and the way Strand presents to us the awful side of human nature are more than enough to make this one a horror story.
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[Editor's note, Fangboy also made Steve's Top Ten List.] |
4. Wrath James White's "Like Porno for Psychos"
This book would make Larry Flint blush and the incomparable Jack Ketchum cringe. Enough said. |
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