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     Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
Similar to the film thread - but for books Whose hand was I holding? - Haunting of Hill House You killed me you bitch - The Shining the end of The Last Vampire - TM Wright The maggots!!! - Hungry Hearts (you bastard Zed) The maggots and the spoon!! - The Wasp Factory | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.31.19.28 |
The desecration scene in The Influence. The mum and kids and what they see through a Stargrave lounge window. Foot-chopping in Misery. The sand figures in McDowell's The Elementals. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (Lovecraft) – glimpse of prisoner in pit in Curwen's basement. Our Lady of Darkness (Leiber) – face of creature seen through telescope. The Influence (Campbell) – Rowan's journey home from Wales. Midnight Sun (Campbell) – the family around the table. The Dark Half (King) – when the two writers share a beer. Rendezvous in Black (Woolrich) – the line "You couldn't guess, you had to know." The Scarf (Bloch) – the narrator's sexual dream. Some of Your Blood (Sturgeon) – the document quoted in the title. I Am Legend (Matheson) – the narrator's memory of the last time he saw his wife. Death is a Lonely Business (Bradbury) – the description of the killer's body odour. These are all among my favourite novels.  | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
The power of suggestion, Joel... I've been so meaning to read Bradbury's DEATH IS A LONELY BUSINESS, just checked to make sure my library had it, and am now off to check it out and enjoy—thanks for reminding me! I wish I could contribute here, but my knowledge of horror novels is deficient, me having spent most of my horror-reading time on short-stories, novelettes, and novellas.  But despite that, I've still read exactly half of Joel's list! I must have great taste!  | ||
| Paul_finch (Paul_finch) Username: Paul_finch Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 92.5.38.35 |
Wilson alone on the tenement roof in THE WOLFEN. A blizzard in progress, and the pack drawing steadily closer. The skinned priest hopping around like a marionnette in THE DEVILS OF D-DAY. A vintage Masterton moment. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.229 |
That . . . thing in the bed in Incarnate. The stamping scene in One Safe Place. The whole of Grin of the Dark. The final sequences in Darkest Part of the Woods. Inside the house in Thieving Fear. The stand up comedian and his two mates in the back seat in The Hungry Moon. The cage in the house in The Nameless. The suicide sequence in Long Lost. The underground railway sequence in Creatures of the Pool. The clsoing passages of The Overnight. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.229 |
Norman Daniels' mental skips in Rose Madder. The water-level line in Cold Moon Over Babylon (McDowell). The collapsed half of the body in Blackwater. The "cat" terrors in The Ceremonies. The furtive domestic atmosphere of Secret Strangers (Tessier). | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
Chapter 38(I think) of silent Children His skull broke as he did and then he was no more... (apologies if I've quoted it wrong) - The One Safe Place | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.229 |
I don't have the book to hand, but that line isn't right at the end. But yes, horribly basic, monosyllabic word choices reflecting such a brutal act. Is it: "His skull broke as he did and then there was nothing." ? | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.156.233.176 |
The bit in Dandelion Wine when that woman hears a cough. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.150.143.176 |
Found the correct version of the quote "He broke as his skull did, and there was nothing left of him." Makes my skin crawl typing that line. In a good way... |