Suggest a"CLEAN", CHILLING-White-Knuckle read for Halloween!

soblessed53 · Sep 28, 2010

No graphic gore/detailed murders,profanity(absolutely no using the Lord's name in vain),graphic sex(especially not rape),serial killing,no harm/molestation/abuse to a child,and no demon possession.

That leaves out King with his profanity, and sexual perversion,and Koontz with his profanity and gore.

This would leave books more in the unexplained and psychological thriller realm,or an excellently done haunted place or ghost story.

Just a mention of a dead body or two,or a few mild curse words,will not put me off.

I posted this challenge at another site and was pleasantly surprised at how many excellent responses I got. Several were for books by Christian authors,and that's great,but there are also many by secular authors.

I love "old School" horror in my books and films and avoid what I call the "shock-sex-gore-inappropriate content" called horror today.

But I wanted some new material for this Halloween season. For an idea of what I am looking forward to reading that I got suggested from others~ check out "Nightmare" by Robin Parrish and "White Out" by Ken Follett. (unfortunately White Out had the profanity)

kittycat7 · Sep 28, 2010

The short story "The Trapdoor" by Ray Bradbury is one of the scariest things I have ever read. Partly because there is no gore of any kind, and the monster is entirely off stage. You know something is going to get the old lady, but you don't know what.

soblessed53 · Sep 29, 2010

Ah yes,Horror book anthologies. When I was a teen -twenty-something I read Poe and others and just picked up~ "The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre by H.P. Lovecraft". Some of the short stories really used to be chilling. Remains to be seen if I still think so.

soblessed53 · Oct 1, 2010

I couldn't get into the Lovecraft book,plus the text was very faded and small so I read Nightmare by Robin Parrish,which isn't chilling but I still loved it as a great,fun read.

I found these that I have High Hopes will be contenders for truly chilling/White Knuckle reads~

The Breach by Patrick Lee

Veracity by Laura Bynum

Ammie, Come Home, Here I Stay, House Of Many Shadows, and The Walker In Shadows by Barbara Michaels

Shadowland by Peter Straub

The Wolfen by Whitley Streiber(loved Communion by him)

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Has anyone read these?

boswd · Oct 12, 2010

You can never go wrong with The Legend of Sleepy Hallow

soblessed53 · Oct 13, 2010

boswd said:
You can never go wrong with The Legend of Sleepy Hallow

Ahh but at only 28 pages there is not enough for any lasting enjoyment!

Catherineanne · Oct 13, 2010

soblessed53 said:
No graphic gore/detailed murders,profanity(absolutely no using the Lord's name in vain),graphic sex(especially not rape),serial killing,no harm/molestation/abuse to a child,and no demon possession.

I don't know any in the genre you ask for, but Wilkie Collins is second to none for a (clean) gripping read. The Woman in White or the Moonstone.

Either is very difficult to put down, once started. The Woman in White has probably the most chilling villain in all of literature; the incomparable Count Fosco.

keith99 · Oct 13, 2010

As best I can recall Kafka is clean. Disturbing, but 'clean'.

Very disturbing if you have a music teacher who decides to read Kafke with the lights dimmed and the right music. I'm really glad it was Highschool, or more correctly I'm glad it was not a night class.

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