Yes, I know how white and male this list is, but that was all I knew back then. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Laymon, Brian Keene, and Bentley Little come to mind. In fact, there are so many that, instead of specific books, I often think of writers who had a huge influence on me early on and fed my budding love for dark, spooky, eerie, scary, dark, gory literature. There are dozens of books and movies that contributed to me falling in love with the genre at a relatively young age (parents: your kids will turn out like me if you let them read horror and watch The Exorcist when they’re way too young). Below, Gabino Iglesias, whose story “The Song of the Lady Rose” you can listen to here, writes about three books that had an indelible impact on his life and writing.īefore I was a horror writer, I was a horror reader, and before I was an avid horror reader, I was lucky enough to come into contact with horror books that had a huge impact on me. To celebrate the release of the second season of Come Join Us By The Fire, our audio horror anthology, we’ve asked authors with stories included in this year’s anthology to join us and write about horror.
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