10 من أفضل روايات الرعب باللغة الانجليزية. Top ten modern horror novels

10 من أفضل روايات الرعب باللغة الانجليزية. Top ten modern horror novels

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10.- The Stake by Richard Laymon:In an abandoned hotel in a California ghost town, horror writer Larry and his friends make a chilling discovery...
9.- Ghost Story by Peter Straub: It all starts with a group of five old friends, who have been dubbed The Chowder Society, who sit around telling tales and living like Victorian robber barons. Then the stories take a turn when one man asks the others, Whats the worst thing you' ve ever done? And their stories become the answers...
8.- Salem´s Lot by Stephen King: Ben Mears returned to 'salem's Lot hoping to cast out his own devils and found instead a new, unspeakable horror. A stranger had also come to the Lot, a stranger with a secret as old as evil, a secret that would wreak irreparable harm on those he touched and in turn on those they loved. All would be changed forever...
7.- I Am Legend by Richard Matheson: Robert Neville can hear them outside once again. Night after night they torment and tease him. "Come out Robert we have something to show you", the women say. "Scared", mocks his old friend Ben Cortman. Both he knows and they know he is probably the last human alive...
6.- The Doll Who Ate His Mother by Ramsey Campbell: A woman's brother is killed in a car crash, and a myserious figure flees from the scene with his dismembered arm. A crime author visits the bereaved sister, claiming to know the identity of the strange man, and together they begin to track him down, uncovering his bizarre history along the way... 
5.- The Books of Blood by Clive Barker: With the 1984 publication of Books of Blood, Clive Barker became an overnight literary sensation. He was hailed by Stephen King as "the future of horror," and won both the British and World Fantasy Awards.Hilarious and chilling, these has to be some of the best horror books done in the last decades. Alan Moore praised it, Stephen King praised it and with no few reasons.
4.- The Exorcist by William P. Blatty: The terror begins unobtrusively. Noises in Regans room, and odd smell, the displacement of furniture, and icy chill. Easy explanations are offered. Then frightening changes start in the eleven-year-old girl. Medical tests shed no light on her symptoms, but it is as if a different personality has invaded the child...
3.- Rosemary´s Baby by Ira Levin:What if you were a happily married young woman, living in New York, and one day you awoke to find yourself pregnant? And what if your loving husband had--apparently--sold your soul to Satan? And now you were beginning to believe that your unborn child was, in reality, the son of Satan?
2.- The Cthulhu Mythos by H.P. Lovecraft: The Mythos usually takes place in fictional New England towns and is centered on the Great Old Ones, a fearsome assortment of ancient, powerful deities who came from outer space and once ruled the Earth. They are presently quiescent, having fallen into a death-like sleep at some time in the distant past. The best-known of these beings is Cthulhu, who currently lies "dead [but] dreaming" in the submerged city of R'lyeh somewhere in the Southeast Pacific Ocean. One day, "when the stars are right", R'lyeh will rise from beneath the sea, and Cthulhu will awaken and wreak havoc on the earth...
1.- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson: The four visitors at Hill House, some there for knowledge, others for adventure, are unaware that the old mansion will soon choose one of them to make its own...