By Raoul

October 31, 2011 10:23 AM | Link to this

I’m glad Steven King’s books were missing from your list. He seems to write well until he reaches the end of the story then dissapoints everytime. Patti, I don’t think the OWS zombies vote Republican. I think you might have it backwards.

By Patti

October 30, 2011 10:03 PM | Link to this

The “Turn of the Screw” is a creepy ghost story, but I have to give props to Alfred Hitchcock “Witch’s Brew” (cut my teeth on it), Edgar Allen Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Zombies? Yawn, they’ve been around and voting Republican for decades.

By H. Lee

October 30, 2011 12:09 AM | Link to this

The creepiest ghost story — period — is “The Turn of the Screw” by Henry James. I can read that while sitting in my living room, in broad daylight, and still get the shivers. Other than that, I don’t much care for fictional ghost stories. I read King’s “The Shining” (which is sort of a ghost story), and by the end I was grinning, because the “horrors” were so preposterous I just felt like saying “Chill, dude.”. I can get nervous reading “plain” ghost stories, as in the book “Haunted Ohio” and others like it. Stories about ghostly footsteps in the parlor or a dog that cringes and growls when there’s nothing there — those things can raise the hairs on my neck. Zombies? Yuck. Messy.