Reddit reviews Hell House

I've been reading a lot of horror recently, so I can suggest a few off the top of my head.

Hell House by Richard Matheson

Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill

The Shining by Steven King

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (You might hate this one.)

Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

Also, I'm not sure if you're into comics, but there's a bunch of great horror there. I recommend Locke and Key, Colder, and Wytches.

Hell House

One of these:
The Imago Sequence--Laird Barron
Inferno--edited by Ellen Datlow
The Dark--also edited by Datlow
Hell House--Richard Matheson
Ghosts--Noel Hynd
Things that Never Happen--M. John Harrison

Not sure if "scared" is the word for some of these. Profoundly unsettled.

That is NOT my experience in shopping for ebooks.

Chosen at random from my recommendations on amazon.com:

Breathless, same price as paperback

Full Dark, No Stars, Same price as paperback

Daniel X, -$1 from hardcover

The Art of Fielding: A Novel, +$1.88 over paperback

Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever. = to hardcover

The Heroes of Olympus, Book Two: The Son of Neptune, -$1.41 over hardcover

Hell House, -$0.18 over paperback

Fight Club, -$2.57 over paperback

Prices are only slightly lower, if at all over physical books. Obviously this is a small sample, but whenever I go looking it is typically what I find.

Your overhead arguments are mostly false as well:

• marketing cost are equal for ebook vs physical
  
  
• royalties are equal for ebook vs physical
  
  
• conversion? The books are all edited electronically already and it only needs to be done once
  
  
• Data center storage is vastly less expensive than warehousing and retail shelf space space needed for physical books which should result in lower price
  
  
• you only need 1 secure digital copy, vs thousands of physical books which should result in lower price which should result in lower price
  
  
• ebooks need never be shipped which should result in lower price
  
  
• publishers will never overprint ebooks which should result in lower price
  
  edit: formatting

Hell House by Richard Matheson. The very opposite of Hill House, also recommended by me below. Where Hill House is subtle and eerie, Hell House is a violent and brutal exploration of many of the same themes in Hill House. Written by the author of I am Legend, and What Dreams May Come, Hell House is one of the most infamously grotesque horror novels of all time.

The horror genre is filled with garbage. What is often considered good is neither scary, nor engaging. For example, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House is considered a classic, and yet it's really not that good. Hell House by Richard Matheson is considered a great novel, and quite scary. It ends in the most ridiculous manner ever, and is not scary at all.

With that said, the only horror I've really enjoyed is Stephen King, and he's considered a low brow novelist. But really, The Shining is incredibly creepy, and a fun read -- it's actually far better than the movie, which is also quite good. It is an engaging read that will make you understand why people fear clowns.

If you're looking for disgusting and horrifying, Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" has the most visceral descriptions of gore and violence I have ever read.

That being said "Hell House" by Richard Matheson. The book isn't particularly great, in my opinion, but the atmosphere created provides great tension. A real "afraid of the dark" kind of book.

Also, Edgar Allen Poe. The Pit and the Pendulum and Masque of the Red Death really haunted me for some reason.