Either Roddy Doyle or Irvine Welsh. Favourite book is Doyle's A Star Called Henry, but I think Welsh is more consistently good.
At 11/5/09 12:52 PM, Mechabloby wrote:
H.P. Lovecraft might just be my favourite author at the moment - his brand of horror is rather intense and celestial; any other reader of Lovecraft will know that he has an amazing way with his words. Although his earlier works do contain subtle racist remarks, it all contributes to the amazing atmosphere the man can set.
Really? I find his stuff very samey. Read one, read them all.
My favourite novella by the guy might be Dagon, although I have yet to read the rest of his works (I've read The Cats Of Ulthar, The Statement Of Randolph Carter and The Doom That Came To Sarnath: currently reading Call Of Cthulhu - halfway through it).
How can you be halfway through Call of Cthulhu? It's like, 20 pages long.
A lot of his stories actually sound genuinely intriquing just from their titles, and trust me, when you start reading them you won't stop.
Some of them are a chore, particularly the longer ones. Like in At The Mountains of Madness, nothing happens for like the first 2/3s of it. Literally nothing, they don't even know they're in danger until then, it's just stuff about drilling in the Arctic.
His stuff is still pretty good though.
