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Originally Posted by Huffmeister
I know it says sci-fi and fantasy books "only", but I'm looking for a good horror book. Something more creepy/spooky than gory. And not Stephen King (I've already read most of his).
Any suggestions?
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Ever read Ghost Story by Peter Straub? It's pretty popular.
I haven't read that many horror books, but here are a few older short stories that are more spooky than gory that I like:
The Squaw by Bram Stoker
The Seed from the Sepulchre by Clark Ashton Smith
Pollock and the Porroh Man by H. G. Wells
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H. P. Lovecraft
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
The Tell-Tale Hear by Edgar Allan Poe
The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
Hop-Frog by Edgar Allan Poe
It's a Good Life by Jerome Bixby
The Invaders by Terry Tapp
The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson
The Playfellow by Lady Cynthia Asquith
Headlamps by Tony Richards
The Snake by Dennis Wheatley
Close Behind Him by John Wyndham
The Girl from Tomango by Rick Ferreira
The Tower by Marghanita Laski
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Rats in the Walls by H.P. Lovecraft
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison is a great sci-fi story with a lot of horrific elements.
All of those are pretty old fashioned so caveat emptor.
Edit: For a more modern story, give "If You Take My Hand My Son" by Mort Castle is pretty good.