Best Horror book Ever
 

:bmage: my vote for entertaining is Dracula (Bram Stoker Version)
my vote for outright freaky (made me throw up) is Frankenstien.

movies dont count. books only. and keep in mind. the only decent dracula was by Bram Stoker. dont hand me any of those rewrites... they all sucked. hmm. who would win
in a fight? Dracula or Frankenstien's monster? if they were both armed
with febreeze? :bmage:

Dracula would easily be able to defeat any of the monsters ever written about in other horror books. He is horribly underestimated. In world of darkness, belief augments reality, and creates power. Dracula, used his own story to give him massive amounts of power. Sure, he wasn't the first vampire. According to world of darkness, Caine was the first vampire. But according to Bram Stoker's Dracula: Dracula is the most powerful vampire. At first, vampire's were pissed off that Dracula had a book written about him, which 'lifted the veil' and taught mortals about vampires, but it really perpetrated the lie, by making it a fantastic fictional story. However, all people that read the book, BELIEVED in Dracula as being the most powerful vampire, thus, Dracula became many many times more powerful than he had previously been.

So, the moral of the story is, Dracula pwns, because he used his own story to accumulate more power than you could possibly imagine, or could possibly be written about in a story, without other vampires getting pissed about him revealing too much information.

So there ya go.

Oh, and a better 'vampire' story than dracula, is either Interview with the Vampire (the book) or the book I, Strahd. The autobiography of Strahd Von Zarovich, a powerful vampire from the AD&D campaign setting Ravenloft.

But the best horror story of all time is Little Red Riding Hood. That shit's fucked up man.

-Zoma

this goes more in the general section than 8bit section

Frankenstein would win. Dracula has the power of darkness, but his looooong ass fingernails would stop him from being able to implement his febreeze properly.
Bookwise, Frakenstein was better. It made me think (about how I should destroy my creator for giving me this face...). Dracula was too long-winded and I never got the pragmatic meaning. All I saw was 'dumbass vampire who takes too long getting to the point'.
And I think I saw the film of Interview with the Vampire. Well, I saw a film in which a guy is interviewing a vampire, and how many of *them* can there be? It was good, if a little sad...

Frankenstein made you throw up? Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love that book. I took a class on it during my senior year of high school and I'm taking another class on it right now in college (where we read the book and then watch a bunch of the movies that are based on or share themes with the book and write comparison papers and such) but I never found it that scary.

Still if you consider that in the horror genre, then it's definitely right up there.

Modern horror books-wise... I'm very partial to "House of Leaves". I highly suggest checking this out. Freaky book.

It seems rather silly to take a bunch of revisionist B.S. and apply it to what was already a perfectly terrifying novel for the time and still is today. If you're going to talk about Dracula's power then at least keep it within the confines of Bram Stoker's book, not what the guys at Wizards of the Coast and Anne Rice think about him. :p

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty > all

"It seems rather silly to take a bunch of revisionist B.S. and apply it to what was already a perfectly terrifying novel for the time and still is today. If you're going to talk about Dracula's power then at least keep it within the confines of Bram Stoker's book, not what the guys at Wizards of the Coast and Anne Rice think about him. "

Look buddy. Wizards of the coast didn't even OWN TSR when I, Strahd was written, and that has nothing to do with Dracula, only VAMPIRES. Mind you also, Dracula, didn't begin the entire vampire mythology, it only PROGRESSED it towards its current incarnation. Also, everything I mentioned about Dracula wasn't WOTC oriented, it was WHITE WOLF oriented, which, ESSENTIALLY: is a superior gaming company, even beyond its World of Darkness storylines. Don't believe me? Just take a look at Exaulted. Now there is an INTENSE campaign setting.

Besides, I loathe Wizards of the Coast, not because they make an amazing card game, or because they bought and henceforth kept alive my favorite gaming company, Tactical Studies Rules, but because they completely ruined the star wars RPG. Noone wants that crap in a d20 system. West End Games had it right when they created the BEST ROLE PLAYING SYSTEM KNOWN TO MAN IN ALL OUR SPLENDID YEARS UPON THIS EARTH. Behold! The D6 System! Bow your heads in respect, and honor the finest work of creation known to geeks everywhere. 6 attributes. 18 attribute dice. skills set to a minimum of the attribute they're in, character points to raise them, and difficulty numbers. It's so simple, so concise, so workable and malleable in creating invariably unique and different characters, totall customizable to any setting beyond just the sci-fi star wars universe, and so EASY to control and manipulate as a GM, so the game doesnt' get bogged down in game mechanics, but can instead focus on fast pace high action and plot oriented greatness! Who wants to worry about whether a 15th level mage has enough skill slots to give them that one extra boost, so their point modifiers etc. etc. Instead, make a dodge roll: Bam, problem solved, cause I'm the GM and I say so. Trust me, it works.

--zoma

It, by Steven King is a very scary book. Many of Stephen King's books are less than frightening, but he has a few gems.

I agree with Ih8stupidppl. It was just a freaky-ass book.