Hell House by Richard Matheson

>>8133724
House of Leaves is a pretty good horror book, but the concrete gimmick gets kind of annoying and gives authors who do it well a bad rap.

>>8134519
This looks pretty good, i'll check it out.

>>8134519

Meh, pretty boring if you ask me.

Horror is a difficult genre. Nothing really phases me.

>>8133724
>scary
>fast paced
Well, that pretty much kicks out most of the good stuff.
They either have a long build up or somewhat Lovecraftian.
...I guess in a way Lovecraft may be considered "fast pased". But it's no thriller by any stretch of the mind.

>>8133724
I can't think of a lot of fast paced novels, but there are plenty of short story writers you might enjoy. Poppy Z. Brite's Wormwood is fantastic, as is Thomas Ligotti's Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe.

And really any of Stephen King's early collections will do. They have all of the gut-level grotesquerie of his books, without any of the boring smalltown America yap that can go on for hundreds of pages.

>>8133724
Hound of the Baskervilles was pretty spooky

I AM LEGEND

Some stories by HP Lovecraft are pretty creepy. Get an HP Lovecraft collection book you will def be satisfied.

>>8133724
Metro 2033 is horror, but it's not really fast paced. And it's super depressing. You might want to kill yourself after you finish it. The last 1/3 of the book left me drained and melancholy after reading

10/10 would recommend.

>>8133724

Stephen King's Nightmares and Dreamscapes collection is pretty spooky. It's just a bunch of short stories and they're pretty varied in their themes, some fast paced some less so. From the ones I can remember:

>crouch end
>popsy
>fifth quarter
>rainy season

Were pretty fast paced.