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If by 'best' you mean the most scary or horror-like, I would have to recommend IT. There was something unsettling and creepy pervading that entire story, and I must admit I haven't quite felt the same while reading other horror novels (though I read IT when I was still in high school). I...

The Red Dwarf novels... I've never laughed harder while reading. Also by Rob Grant, incidentally (working with Doug Naylor). There are 3 of them, all highly recommended.

I agree, the translations can be cheesy on occasion... but just let that wash over you like something out of Lovecraft, and you can enjoy the story underneath!

I'm a bit different with my covers. I don't generally mind what the cover looks like unless the books are in a series - I hate having mismatched covers in the same series. In addition, if I know that new editions are going to be printed, I wait for those to come out before I buy the book...

Polishing off Jeff Long's The Descent at the moment, before moving onto either Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson, Air by Geoff Ryman or the first book in The Gap series by Stephen Donaldson. (I can't choose, help me decide! :p) I'm really enjoying The Descent. The book is about man's exploration...

:eek: That's bad news... I really enjoy those books and the way they look all lined up together, like a little revolutionary army... Better get cracking! (A rather small haul today, in Eternity's End by Jeffrey A. Carver)

I'm collecting the Masterworks series as well... it's taking some time since each one of my hauls is usually made up of other books for which I've seen recommendations here and elsewhere. My latest haul in fiction: The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent...

Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman. Grossman was (is?) actually a game designer who worked on a number of well known PC games, such as System Shock and Deus Ex. This first foray into literature is basically a homage to all Western-style comic books, and it works rather well. The...

Indeed it is! I've heard many good things about her, so I'll persevere, but I'm being distracted by several good books! Right now, these are: Live Without A Net edited by Lou Anders The Dog Said Bow-Wow by Michael Swanwick Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti Before They Are Hanged by Joe...

Half way through Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh. I have mixed feelings regarding this one... at times I find myself enthralled, and at others I find it difficult to keep reading. I don't think I've ever encountered the style with which Cherryh structures her sentences before, and it took a...

How could you even think such a thing?! ;)

Nesa and J.D., as always you've been most helpful and enlightening. I had no idea Ellison was so prolific, and learning that only made me more keen to start on his work. I've just put in an order for The Essential Ellison on the Book Depository. I'm especially looking forward to reading his...

I'd like to start working through Harlan Ellison's works; his personality, fame (and infamy), his contributions to television and what I've heard of the novel I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream have intrigued me no end. Where should I begin?

There is only one being that could hope to defeat either race. That being is....

Yeah, reading his novels is akin to reading a movie ;) Entertaining, which is what it's meant to be. If you pick up the books looking for speculative fiction, or social commentary or anything along those lines, you'll be severely disappointed. Only thing that bugs me about his books is the...

Anything by Traci Harding. I tried to read The Ancient Future and found myself contemplating suicide before I reached page 50. By page 100, it took a great deal of self control to stay away from my medicine cabinet. I decided I wouldn't try for page 101. Of course, her writing may have improved...

I will second, third and fourth IT (if I may :D). An incredibly unsettling novel.

You could try The Dark Tower books by Stephen King. They have elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror and westerns. The main character is a cross between a knight and a cowboy.

It's a strange world we live in. Nowadays, parents can be arrested on charges of pedophilia for photographing their little children in a bathtub, or on charges of child abuse for spanking them. Yet there's no problem when they dress their toddlers like prostitutes or enter them into beauty...

I suppose you could argue that the (dubious) science used to resurrect the hodgepoge of cadaver bits added to the science fiction aspect, and that it may have seemed more plausible back then than today. I'd rather link it to horror, myself. On another note, I'd argue that Arthur C. Clarke...