02-08-2006, 05:16 PM
While I like King, he just doesn't know when to stop. And like many famous authors, now he can refuse to be edited. And what the hell was the point of the longer version of the Stand? I think the short stories are better than the novels. But to me, one of the scariest horror novels is actually a novella, Matheson's I Am Legend. The film (Omega Man) scared the crap out of me as a kid, and reading the book recently tapped right back into the same fear. It eases off at the end, but still a tour de force. And some of the other stories in the books were pretty freaky as well.