(Part 2) Best ghost fiction books according to redditors

Sorry, had a brain fart. Summer of Night is by Dan Simmons not McCammon.

Used copies are pretty affordable. Also, many libraries will have copies. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0452257743/ref=sr_1_1_up_1_pap_olp?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1381349998&sr=1-1&condition=used

Cell, by Stephen King.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Dome_(TV_series) and also http://www.amazon.com/Under-Dome-Novel-Stephen-King/dp/1439148503

Time to sound like a pompous ass... I self-published On a Hill, which bizarrely became a top 10 bestseller on Amazon. I've also put out, The Face of Fear & Other Stories and The Horrors of Christmas.

I've also been published by Adams Media, with six stories in the Creepypasta Anthology.

I’m currently in the process of publishing one, and I was recently included in the Alphabet Soup book (a project that started on NoSleep - you can find more info at r/AlphabetStew) - that one is doing very well on Amazon at the moment. However, the person you want to talk to is u/TobiasWade. He published the Alphabet Soup book and has published many collections of his own, all of which continue to sell well to this day.

Like in What Dreams May Come? I love Richard Matheson!

I recommend this book.

Someone mentioned Cheesman Park, and the 1980 movie The Changeling is actually based on the Henry Treat Rogers mansion in that neighborhood.

Crooke Patterson Mansion in Cap Hill also has a creepy history.

This website has a few good leads.

Personally the only inexplicable things I've ever experienced were at the Stanley Hotel like /u/Shelbie007. My father's band was doing a concert up there in the Concert Hall (which is a separate building from the main hotel) and one of the members made a joke about ghosts and literally right after a large light fell from the ceiling above the stage and barely missed the guys.

I also recommend getting some drinks at their amazing whiskey bar and trying to get the bartenders there to tell you their stories.

Hi! So I'm not really sure exactly what genre of book you'd be interested in, but here are a couple of FREE Kindle books out right now from the bestseller list and with high reviews:

Highwater

Hope for Garbage

Truth Stained Lies

The Devil's Graveyards (This one has 11 5 star reviews and nothing else!)

The Timekeeper's Son

Reverb

A Family Affair

Pretty Little Liars (I watch the TV show...and so does my 32 year old husband...and we both really like it for being just fluff and teenage drama)

Unenchanted

Land

Hollowland

Nearly Departed in Deadwood

Hope you feel better!

Ah, creature features. Stephen King has a few fun ones tucked into in short story anthologies. Nightmares and Dreamscapes comes to mind. The Troop is sort of creature-y. Not really b-movie, but close. For that 'childhood summer of fighting monsters' feel, there's also Summer of Night.

I know we're in horror lit, but you should also check out Slither, Feast, and The Bay.

Here's one.

Here's another.

Here's one of my favorites.

This one is pretty freaking sweet.

I'm pretty sure this one qualifies...

Don't read this one before bed.

Here's an interesting read.

This one is a compilation of several of the above.

Bachman books. It's a collections of the Bachman books. Found it for like 12$ at a used book store

The Bachman Books: Four Early Novels (Plume) by Richard Bachman et al. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0452257743/ref=cm_sw_r_udp_awd_xLyXtb17GRPXH

The absolute perfect book for what you're looking for: Double Dead by Chuck Wendig. A fun, fast read about a vampire who wakes up to find the zombie apocalypse happened while he was underground.

Right, this is all guesswork, but, the ball part of your story reminds me a lot of a film called The Changeling, which was apparently based on real events that someone did, later, write a book about.


The book is called The Ghosts of Denver: Capitol Hill, and the cover does feature a house and a tree.


https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-Denver-Capitol-Hill/dp/0962216941

Stephen King's The Cell

Horns by Joe Hill.

The Troop by Nick Cutter

Ghost Story by Peter Straub

Books of Blood by Clive Barker

Read this book, Double Dead. It is about this exact scenario.

http://jlbourne.com/
http://zombie.wikia.com/wiki/Day_By_Day_Armageddon
http://www.amzn.com/1411608313/
http://www.amzn.com/143917752X/

Have you read Odd Thomas?

I might give it a try too, kind of reminds me of Justin Long's, The Passage.

You may be interested in The Reapers are the Angels. It reads sort of like a Cormac McCarthy book if he wrote one about zombies.

Recently bought these three. Reading through them, super good. Would recommend to anyone wanting to read LoveCrafts works.

Edit: forgot the link H. P. Lovecraft Omnibus 1: At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0586063226/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_CTxpxbKAEYEZD

The dome one is called, appropriately, Under the Dome.

This is the one where whenever anyone uses their cellphone they get a disease or die or something like that. It seemed to me like an updated, much worse version of The Stand, both in length and basic idea.

Yep, it's one of the things I'm the most curious about. Personally, I'm partial to the kind of afterlife/reencarnation presented by the book What Dreams May Come

It's not that I'd like to live forever or anything like that, and even if my most primitive part squirms in revulsion at the thought of it, I think that it would be nice if things would just...stop. However, that would mean believing that the supernatural doesn't exist, and I just can't do that. It makes me happier and it takes away the fear of death, it makes me curious about it. I do dread the possibility of it hurting, though.

Summer of Night?

I'm not overdue yet (38 weeks 2 days) but my plan is to continue to take care of me for the last few weeks. This weekend, I dyed my hair, got a pedi and shaved my legs. Next weekend, it's nails and a massage. My advice is to go to bed early and get as much sleep as you can. Read something easy and fun (highly recommend the Deadwood Mystery Series for this) and take care of yourself while you can!

• Has he read Anthem by Ayn Rand? It's a dystopian novel that takes place in the future in a collectivist society where the words/concepts "I" and "Ego" are pretty much unknown and punishable by death if they are used. It's fantastic. My description isn't.
  
• I'll recommend a classic that my husband had never read before me: Frankenstein. If he likes science fiction novels like the Dune series, he should really love this (if he hasn't already read it). It's such a sad and beautiful classic.
  
• I always recommend Odd Thomas. Seriously. To everyone. There are six main books currently out, and the seventh and last is set to come out this January. The first book is about Odd Thomas, who can see the dead and talk to them (although they don't talk back), and he can also see creatures he calls bodachs, whose presence signifies the coming of a significant amount of violent death. He sees a huge amount of bodachs in his town and, knowing what that means, attempts to stop whatever disaster is going to happen. It's a very witty and tragic book. The rest of the series (so far) is also pretty amazing. I probably don't do the best job of selling it, but I promise, it's worth reading!

Here is a series think you would love, it is also on kindle and for prime members, i hope you enjoy!

http://www.amazon.com/Day-Armageddon-J-L-Bourne/dp/1411608313

Day by Day Armageddon is literally just what you want. It's a journal of a survivor in a cataclysmic zombie outbreak in America.

I've also just started reading H. P Lovecraft and I am loving it. I've got Omnibus 1 At the Mountains of Madness which is a collection of short(er...? A lot of them are actually in chapters) stories including 'At the Mountains of Madness' which some consider one of his best pieces, but the second story, 'The Case of Charles Dexter Ward' is my favorite so far and had me in goosebumps.

This is my second collection of short stories. The first can be found here:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HLSMD9Y/ref=pe_385040_112047530_TE_DP

Two 26-person collaborations that I organized can be found HERE and HERE.

Thank you for the support! Please leave an honest Amazon review! :)

That's pretty much the way Z. A. Recht dealt with them in the Morningstar Saga (Plague of the Dead and Thunder & Ashes).


The living, fast zombies were called Sprinters, and the slower, dead ones were called Shamblers.

A pretty good couple of books, but unfortunately the author passed away.

The Reapers are the Angels

The Rising

The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Don't eat Cat

Ex-Heroes

I found a woman from reddit who volunteered to help a community project. Definitely recommend her. She's very proficient with photoshop and original illustrations, and very affordable because she's new to doing this professionally. I now have her doing a book cover every month.

Book she did: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C94TXX2

Her website: http://taylortate.com/

(Tell her I say hi if you contact!)

[On a Hill] (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D6QFZNC/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2TO408LL5V6YG&coliid=I2O9BQIA6M96QQ) by Michael Whitehouse because it's been a long time since I read a good horror book and this sounds like it has a lot of potential as well as good reviews.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Reapers-Are-Angels-Novel/dp/0805092439

Loved this book! A bit different take on what life is like during a zombie apocalypse but I DEFINITELY recommend checking this one out!

$278

Edit: if I happen to win, a used copy of this book is under that price

Wasn't 'Alien Harvest' the title of one of the books that came out after alien 3?.....

Edit : yes!

ALIENS: Alien Harvest
Even the 14 year old me thought this thing was trash.

This is the collection of stories that got me hooked.

http://www.amazon.com/Reapers-Are-Angels-Novel/dp/0805092439

Might I suggest Mars by Ben Bova, The Gunslinger By Stephen King, The Plague Of The Dead by Z.A. Recht, Neuromancer by William Gibson and Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan. I wanted to keep going, but I was getting too excited recommending books.

We Need to Talk About Kevin

The Bad Seed

The Fifth Child

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

The Virgin Suicides

Sybil

The Bell Jar

Suicide Notes

Before I Go to Sleep

Penpal

The Road

A Clockwork Orange

I Am Legend

and Odd Thomas (not on my list because I have it, but seriously spectacular)

Firestarter by Stephen King http://www.amazon.com/dp/0451167805/ref=cm_sw_r_udp_awd_ZCtftb0HBJPGR

From your description, I immediately thought of What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson. I think some might call it dated, because it's obviously set in the seventies, but then, most books written today will be considered dated in twenty years if anyone's even still reading them! Anyway, this is a book that had a profound impact on me when I first read it.

I'd also suggest Emergence by David Palmer, if you can find a copy. Or perhaps The Postman by David Brin -- haven't read that particular book by him but it seems to fit the bill and he's a very good author.

I don't know if any of these qualify as extremely dark, even though they do deal with mature subjects and events. I'm big on hope.

I really enjoyed Double Dead by Chuck Wendig - Vampires and zombies! :D

https://www.amazon.com/Double-Dead-Tomes-Chuck-Wendig/dp/1907992413

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Firestarter - Stephen King

One of my favorites :D Also a great song by The Prodigy

Here ya go. https://www.amazon.com/ALIENS-Alien-Harvest-Robert-Sheckley/dp/0553564412

Read From a Buick 8 or Cell and tell me he doesn't hack his way through books from time to time.

I love King, but holy shit were those bad.

Thanks for letting me know about the new David Wong, as I had not heard of that one before! Maybe you'd like the Odd Thomas series by Koontz?

Top 3 is hard.

I'll go 3 I've listened to and enjoyed recently.

Theft of Swords. Originally it was 6 books. They took them and made them a 3 part series. Books one and two together and so on. The 3rd part is coming soon.

The Knife of Never Letting Go Is also first in a series. One of the best read audiobooks I've ever had the pleasure of listening to. Disturbing story and characters. Also a new plot line that I hadn't heard before. if you like the first one I have the CD's of book 2 and 3)

Under the Dome by Steven King. It's about 27 hours long. There are about 40 different characters and somehow the guy reading it was able to give each one a different voice and personality.

With the astounding cost of audiobooks I torrent some from Demonoid. Quite a few get posted there.

favorite zombie books so far have been Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne and Plague of the Dead by Z.A. Recht. Adding in this album by The Gorillaz just adds on to the mood of the book.

Also being from SE Texas and driving most of the roads talked about in Day by Day Armageddon makes the book a little extra unnerving.

Dan Simmons. Carrion Comfort and Summer of Night.

Firestarter. - Stephen King.

I don't like King that much. There's too much Dickens in him. But this book was a page-turner. Certainly top-three in his catalog as a novel.

My bad, I meant Horns

What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson https://amzn.to/2x9hikP which is about a man searching to bring his wife out of Hell had me in tears, and it's hard for a book to make me cry.

Look for the Bachman books collection in any used bookstore or online. Rage is included in that compilation.
Here's the amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0452257743/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1415801620&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40

Rage is quite easily attained in The Bachman Books collection.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452257743/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=

Used copies starting at one penny (plus shipping).

Long shot, but The Ghosts of Denver: Capital Hill?

https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-Denver-Capitol-Hill/dp/0962216941