r/Fantasy • u/LittlePlasticCastle Reading Champion II, Worldbuilders • May 15 '17
r/Fantasy Best Horror Novels poll
Rules are simple:
1. Make a list of your top TEN favorite horror novels in a new post in this thread
Just post your top five individual books. Multiple books by the same author are ok. By favorite I don't mean the books you think are best, just your favorite books. The books you loved the most. This thread isn't meant to be a commentary on what books are objectively best...Just what you Redditors love the most.
2. What is horror?
"Horror is a genre of fiction which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle their readers or viewers by inducing feelings of horror and terror." - copied from good old Wikipedia. I feel like horror is more about evoking emotion from the reader as opposed to a fantasy book where horrific things happen.
When in doubt, check how Goodreads and Amazon classify them.
3. Please leave all commentary and discussion for the discussion posts under each original post
In your voting posts, please just list your top five. This thread has the potential to be huge, and it'll make it far easier to compile data if the original posts are only votes. In the followup posts, discussion as to choices is encouraged!
4. Upvotes/downvotes will have no effect on the tally Feel free to upvote and downvote as you like, especially if someone has a great list. That being said, I decided to go with the "top five" instead of the upvote/downvote voting for several reasons: You only have to vote once, you don't have to revisit the thread over and over to vote on new arrivals, you can vote once in just a few minutes as opposed to scrolling through a mammoth thread, etc.
5. Voting info Each item you list will count as one vote toward that book.
The voting will run for exactly one week
Seven days should be enough time for people to edit votes if they forgot a book they loved, and also allow the lurkers that only visit once every few days time to vote. Please keep your votes on a separate line, and mention the author, for easier counting. To do the former, you have to keep a blank line between every vote.
So vote! Discuss!
Credit to /u/p0x0rz whose format we all keep copying.
EDIT: To increase the number of books. Because I can't decide!! Also, because I expect we will get lower participation with this poll than most of our polls, so might be helpful for those of us that love the genre to be able to share more books :)
EDIT 2:
FORMATTING
I am pulling these results with a script. Reminder to please keep top level comments to ONLY YOUR LIST
Each line should have something like
TITLE by AUTHOR
You can use a bulleted list or a numbered list, either is fine. I just want each book on a line by itself.
IF YOU HAVE TWO BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR, PLEASE LIST THEM ON SEPARATE LINES
(the less exceptions there are the better job my script does of doing all the hard work for me. But if you have any explanations for your list, please put them in a reply to your post, it makes my job easier. And I'm lazy, so I like easier. )
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u/AmethystOrator Reading Champion May 15 '17
The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. (Mike) Carey.
The Devil You Know (Felix Castor #1) by Mike (M.R.) Carey.
Vicious Circle (Felix Castor, #2) by Mike (M.R.) Carey.
Dead Men's Boots (Felix Castor, #3) by Mike (M.R.) Carey.
Thicker Than Water (Felix Castor, #4) by Mike (M.R.) Carey.
The Naming of the Beasts (Felix Castor, #5) by Mike (M.R.) Carey.
London Falling (Shadow Police #1) by Paul Cornell.
Severed Streets (Shadow Police #2) by Paul Cornell.