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Hi,

So I've found myself becoming bummed out by a lot of novels I've been looking at recently. I understand that a lot of horror includes agonizing things, but some of it is more 'fun'. For instance I'm currently reading Reincarnage which is definitely not a 'happy book' but it's also not so devastating, there's an underlying foundation of fun which goes along with the whole 80's slasher package. Meanwhile I just got 2 hours into an audiobook of Horns though Overdrive and returned it because it was getting agonizing without being fun.

Where my request might differ is what I find 'depressing'. I have no problem reading Ligotti, on the other hand Gifune speaks to me on a level that's too darn real sometimes. Edward Lee has terrible things happening but they're insulated by his general style whereas Survivor by JF Gonzalez or The Summer I Died had people too easy to empathize with in terrible situations.

You can make fun of me if you want, I don't mind. I just figured I'd give it a shot. Oftentimes I find myself saying 'I need to read happier books' but it's another thing to actually find them. And I don't mean happy-happy... I know it's still horror, I just hope that my earlier comparisons give a good enough example of what I mean.

Thanks in advance

Scott Nicholson does that fun feel, some of Richard Laymon's too.

Gord Rollo

try Valley of the Scarecrow, awesome
"fun" horror

You might like fun horror like that of Jeff Strand.

Draculas, (which he co wrote) and Wolf Hunt are a blast.

Have read Wolf Hunt and his two short story collections. Definitely does fit the bill.

Thanks for the suggestions!

I haven't read his whole bibliography yet, but I think Richard Laymon's novels have rather positive messages with the bad guys getting their asses kicked at the end most of the times. Well, perhaps "positive" in a nietzschean way... His version of pulp horror has in my opinion many similarities to the works of Robert E. Howard.

If you're a Ligotti fan, I just read Mr. Suicide which is directly influenced by him.