Reddit reviews The Shining

The Amityville Horror or perhaps The Shining.

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.

How about Hot Sauce, a Head Massager or a Stephen King Book?

Despite the fact that it's got comedic elements, there are plenty of parts in John Dies At The End that are pretty wonderfully creepy.

House of Leaves always needs mentioning, it works its magic on numerous levels.

The absolute scariest ghost story I've ever read, and I never hear anyone talking about it, is Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel.

You can't go wrong with Stephen King, but if you haven't cracked into his books yet it can be a daunting task, he has a huge bibliography. For me, IT, The Shining, Salem's Lot, and Pet Sematary are some of the scariest, plus pretty much any of his short story collections are golden. In fact, any one of his short story collections might be the best place to start with King, I would recommend Skeleton Crew.

And while I wouldn't necessarily categorize it as strict "horror", one of the books that's scared me the most is Alan Moore's graphic novel From Hell. It's an absolute beast (and it's pretty much nothing like the film adaptation with Johnny Depp, so don't let that color your perceptions).

1. Check.
   
2. A physical book of The Shining, a classic, and while the movie was good, wasn't as good as the book. Never is. And used is totally okay. <3
   
3. Who hasn't? If you haven't, go read the book and watch the movie, like now. But I haven't read the book in forever and a half, so I would seriously love to again.
   
4. the books are always better than the movies!
   
5. Okay.

Perhaps Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn would be something for your Grandmother.

As to Murder Mystery's I can recommen Scandinavian crime literature(I'm Scandinavian myself, so I might be a little biased). First I can recommend a series by Jo Nesbø, it's a link to the first book in his series about inspector Harry Hole.

I can also recommend Jussi Alder-Olsens series about Department Q It's also a link to the first book in the series. It's about a cop, who is not following the rules of the murder department and as a result gets put in the basement and have to work on old cases. It's quite good and surprisingly funny.

Somwhat of a classic series in Scandinavian Crime literature is The Millennium by Steig Larsson Series Series, which has a pretty damm good story. The first book is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

As to Horror The Shining by Stephen King is always a good read, maybe not gory, but it freaked me out, when I read the first time.

You can check them out and see if anything would fit to what your Grandmother enjoys. I hope you find something good.

theres a raoa discussion going on about books right now

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the shining

Ive seen the movie and wanted to try reading the book, it was soooo good that i read it in 10 days. easy to read, great original story, its a best seller


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I would like a copy of The Shining to add to my Stephen King collection

The dog ate my homework!

Heres a phot if you want to see it:

http://i.imgur.com/rkJ4CTS.jpg

It's a fairly new collection, and I love reading, and I wold love to grow my collection a bit more!

Thank you so much for the giveaway Op!

I have a lot of books that I have really enjoyed but the one that pops out in my head is The Outsiders.

I would really love [The shining] (https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0307743659/ref=aw_wl_ov_dp_1_1?colid=3JZMG8TYD5160&coliid=IHY9ET7LIPNED)

Thank you for this contest :)

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https://www.amazon.com/Shining-Stephen-King/dp/0307743659#immersive-view_1540304841518

For example:
The copy of the Shining I bought that had this cover started to deteriorate very easily while I read it.

I do like the larger print like you mentioned. And the cover art is often more aesthetically pleasing for sure.

These editions (that I posted a reference to) all had the same layout. I liked that in general for some reason. Even though the art wasn’t nearly as nice maybe.