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mstgracy Regular user United States 139 Posts 
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Its not fair to compare them I know it isn't rational however I want some other opinions here.
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gaddy Inner circle Agent of Chaos 3226 Posts
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Lovecraft
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Andi Peters Inner circle 1331 Posts
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James Herbert trumps both.
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1192 Posts
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I prefer King, myself.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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mstgracy Regular user United States 139 Posts
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I have the 1930's Scfi magazines premireing Mountains of Madness.
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mstgracy Regular user United States 139 Posts
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I'm a barker fan personally. but I will have to read some herbert
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27137 Posts
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Try Charles Stross and/or Peter Watts. Both have put stories online so you can sample their works. May I suggest Watts "Ambassador" (space stuff) or "Bulk Food" (getting along with whales) to start. Charles Stross stories including A Colder War and Missile Gap are are also online to sample - and savor
Their most recent works, "The Fuller Memorandum" (stross) and "Blindsight" (watts) are fine reads.
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mstgracy Regular user United States 139 Posts
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Thanks I work at a library so I have acess to allot of these what a day job!
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crestfallenLyric Veteran user 309 Posts
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I found King's novels to be more psychologically thrilling, and Barker to be outright horror. Take that with a grain of salt.
Personally, I love both!
"It is better for a man to honor his profession, than to be honored by it." - Robert-Houdin
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27137 Posts
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Steven King wrote a story about a box of toys. Clive Barker might have added that the Barbies's set them up to it - and that it was all a plan by the leggo to bring back their popularity (after the other parties refused to make "intimate" movies for viewmaster) - ending with a reference to how tiresome it got when raggedy anne and andy found out they were siblings. Story left open to their revenge.
;) Perhaps some like Stross (Lovecraft/Flemming) will do thematic mashups between the meta-fiction of those authors.
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Dr. Van Van Mojo Special user 570 Posts
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Like 'em both, prefer Stephen King. Also really enjoy John Saul and Tim Lebbon.
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Whit Haydn V.I.P. 5449 Posts
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On 2010-09-19 20:21, Jonathan Townsend wrote: Barker may be more interested in Barbi and Ken's kinky eroticism driven by their anatomical limitations, which leads to horrific violence when Ken removes Barbi's head and hides it somewhere in her dream house. |
critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2551 Posts
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Also a Lovecraft fan. I would pick Barker. The Hellbound Heart was pretty psychologically disturbing to me. The whole idea of how to seperate pleasure from pain and that feeling pain is better than feeling nothing is pretty unsettling.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
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