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[Deadthings]

Its probably out of print now.  But my favourite book as a kid was simply titled "Textbook of Forensic Medicine."

It was a medical textbook (im not sure when it was published) but I spent hours poring over the black and white photographs of corpses of all kinds showing details of exactly what people look like when they die in a range of ways.

Yeah my mum gave it to me. 

Favourite images from that included a picture of a baby from India that had it's skull chewed by rats while it slept in it's cradle.  Imagine that mother coming in after that nap time... rats in the crib, blood everywhere and those dripping yellow teeth.... 

Other fascinating ones were details on forensic evidence of strangulation after a body had been burned to hide the cause of death.... what a body looks like after sealice have eaten it down to the bone (they only attacked the exposed parts of the flesh, the clothes protected the rest.

It was a very cool book. I think the best thing about it was that it was so dry and non-sensational because it was a textbook dealing with real people and forensic science of the 1960's.

It totally immunised me against being afraid of anything after that.

[Stephen Blundell]

Actually I believe McCammon has sort of come out of retirement, but from the sounds of things he's a little tired of being labelled a horror writer (I don't see the problem there?!).  He has hinted on his web site that he had a sort of sequel to Wolf's Hour which sounded cool (its been put on the back burner), and he always hated the idea of sequels though ... he liked the idea that the readers could imagine the story continuing on in their own heads (Swan Song left it very open ended!)

 

[Permuted Press]

Okay, I’ll say Richard Laymon’s Midnight’s Lair.  Everyone should read that.  It’s the only horror book that has given me true shivers, and that’s hard to do.

I'll have to pick that one up.  Laymon rules. 

Jacob

[Snell]

I'll have to pick that one up.  Laymon rules. 

Midnight's Lair is the first Laymon book I ever read.  My friend loaned it to me, almost brand new.  My sunroof leaked on it; I accidentally bent the cover.  When I joked and told him I dropped it in the toilet, he said I could keep it.  After that, I vowed to never mistreat a book again.  Now I keep them in protective boxes or sleeves.  It’s highly recommended.

[Lord of Filth]

The Stand by Stephen King in all its majesty.

[Bret Jordan]

Yea, I have to agree about The Stand. It was one awesome book. Stephen King at his best.

I just remembered one that I read years ago. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. It was the basis for the old movie Omega Man with Charlton Heston. It wasn't all that gorry, but it was an excellent book.

[Snell]

I just remembered one that I read years ago. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. an excellent book.

I Am Legend seems to be quite the inspiration.  I’ve heard that Romero credits it for the idea behind the zombie outbreak in Night of the Living Dead, and it also inspired my short zombie story, “Limbless Bodies Swaying,” which I’ve expanded into a novel, Roses of Blood on Barbwire Vines.

Stephen King once wrote, “Without Richard Matheson I wouldn't be around.”  I think a lot of writers can say the same.

[Eric Turowski]

Matheson rules. He wrote the Night Stalker movies, too. But I have to go with Big Steve's Pet Semetary. I think that's the only one that actually scared me a little. And Misery was very intense.

[Philip.Hansen]

Alan Moore's Watchmen  or   Richard Matheson's I Am Legend

[Permuted Press]

Alan Moore's Watchmen

Did you know they're making a movie of Watchmen?

[Bret Jordan]

Alan Moore's Watchmen

Did you know they're making a movie of Watchmen?

That was an awseome comic book.

When is it scheduled to release?

[Permuted Press]

When is it scheduled to release?

I don't think they've actually started filming and I'm not sure if there's an official release date but I know it's in the works.

Jacob

[Philip.Hansen]

Did you know they're making a movie of Watchmen?

Oh yes! Did you know that Zack Snider, director of Dawn of the Dead (2004), was attached to the project as Director?  Sounds like it will be awesome to me - I'm a huge fan of Dawn of the Dead (2004).

[Stephen Blundell]

I think Watchmen will be a very hard comic to turn into a movie ... I would be concerned a lot as there is a lot of depth to the comic which I don't feel film would do justice to it.  I look forward to it with baited breath though.

I wonder if Alan Moore will be happy (NOT) about this translation?  Like he had for V for Vendetta?!  Man he was pissed about that film!!!

[Joel A. Sutherland]

I'm a long-time fan of Moore's comics, and I thought that V For Vendetta (the movie) was really good! Waaaay better than the film of From Hell (although Johnny Depp was, as always, fantastic), and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen isn't really a movie, it's just a puddle of puke on a screen. Love The Watchmen comic, hopefully the film will do it justice. But what I'd really like to see as a movie -- I think it could be great -- is The Saga of the Swamp Thing!!!