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Neil Gaimen and Clive Barker have young adult titles.
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Neil Gaimen, Stephen Kings IT.I was reading adult horror when I was younger than that.
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Coraline - not really horror, but pretty creepy, and aimed at a younger audience.I vaguely remember James Herbert stuck the occasional sex scene into his novels about getting your face eaten by rats,...
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Fluke by James Herbert. I'm not sure how to classify it but it's not a horror story!
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Charlie Higson's series of books. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enemy_(Higson_novel)Read a couple myself, very well written.
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Try 'odd Thomas' by Dean Koontz Cracking supernatural spooky thriller ☺
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Search 'Darren Shan' - books that my son read on the recommendation of his English teacher. He enjoyed them, and there's a good number of them, which is handy!
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MR James. Read them all at that age, never did me any harm. Still sleep with the light on at 48, but that's normal, innit?
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+1 Darren ShanMainly vampire and zombie based, but well written, snappy and fun.
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I was reading Dennis Wheatley at that age, but I guess he's really old-fashioned now.
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I too was devouring anything by M R James and Dennis Wheatley. In the case of James, the tales and style may be tame/old-fashioned but they are utter classics.How about:'The Willows' (Algernon...
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Alan Garner, Algernon Blackwood, HP Lovecraft. Classics, all three writers. Pan Books used to do a whole series of paperback collections of horror and ghost stories that I read when I was at school,...
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My daugther has asked if she can read some of my horror books, but the ones I have in the house aren't really suitable (a bit too gruesome or sexual)Dunno, but at that age I think I was reading the...
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Thanks all - plenty to have a go at.
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The story (when he finally tells it) of how Stoner lost his finger tip?
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Matter_(Paver_novel)
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^ Dark Matter was fun I read it last month. Wife is avid horror/ghost story fan yet thought it 'meh'. Can't please everyone...
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Not so much horror, but they can be fairly dark, and that's the Matthew Swift series of books by Kate Griffin, starting with A Madness Of Angels as Claire North she's also written three excellent...
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Used to love James Herbert about that age.
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James Herbert is good easy reading horror. Neil Gaiman is probably my favourite author but not necessarily horror. Clive Barker has written a couple for a younger audience and they are a gateway into...
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