What is the best-written book to inspire a horror movie?
Kafka, Poe, Baudelaire, Maupassant, Ovid, Jacobean revenge drama, Jean Genet, William S Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, Gogol's short stories. Japanese horror novels and Kobi Abe in particular
>>25041226not barker. what a terrible fucking writer.
>>25041317Who's your horror writer if choice?
>>25041318I outgrew horror long ago but really anyone is a better choice than barker. maupassant was the last one I really liked. he led me to turgenev which was my exit from horror altogether. barker has a good imagination but the writing skills of a high schooler.
>>25041317his early stuff was good. he kind of lost it later on, and his novels were never as good as his short stories.
>>25041317what an awfully rude thing to say. he's a legend for a reason
>>25041317Go read Books of Blood and then come back here.>>25041390I've read Books of Blood and The Hellbound Heart, and I'm planning on reading The Damnation Game and Cabal this year.
>>25041226Loved night breed. That pedo thought-provoking Canadian lead is also a true gem.
>>25042422read cabal first. damnation game is worth reading, but like all his novels it suffers from barker's inability to write good characters
>>25042478Barker's characters really need good actors to elevate them.Everything iconic about Pinhead comes from Doug Bradley's performance, for example.
>>25042736Barker wrote that book after he conceived of the movie and basically it functioned as a rough draft for the film, which he did a very fine job of makingIf you want to read his horror as constructed with reading as the primary experience, the Imajica series, about a bitter art forger who gets entangled in the murdering, magic and sexing of other realms. But the concept is not nearly so good as its execution which only Barker can turn into an exploration of the limit of sin, pleasure and pain
>>25041226Baudelaire has a horror book?
>>25042770Baudelaire was deeply influenced by Poe and learned English just to read him. He wrote an essay on Poe. Baudelaire didn't write horror per se as a genre but his poems ooze and drip with the decadent, the eerie, the macabre and the grotesque. He probably writes about those things better than anyone else who has ever lived. So inspiration for horror imagery, be it film or writing, he is an absolute must
>>25041226Not Barker. His stories really wander in and out of excitement and normal, ho-hum, everyday life. They're a good read, but would have to be run through a fucking cuisinart to get up on the big screen, in under 2 hours.
