Youth and Horror

**Dave Sartin** · 3 Weeks Ago

Today I bought a book called Killer Pizza. lol! I know. Sounds hilarious and come to find out its a teenager's horror novel. Now today I got the (usual) question, how do authors such as R.L. Stine and David Lubar write such great (and sometimes pretty eerie) things but not be TOO eerie? See, my personal favorite author is Clive Barker and that is DEFINITLEY not for the kiddies. lol! I am thinking of writing a short horror story for teens. I just wanted to see if anyone else here likes this kinda stuff too or if it was just me.

**Haunted** · 3 Weeks Ago

Originally Posted by Dave Sartin

Today I bought a book called Killer Pizza. lol! I know. Sounds hilarious and come to find out its a teenager's horror novel. Now today I got the (usual) question, how do authors such as R.L. Stine and David Lubar write such great (and sometimes pretty eerie) things but not be TOO eerie? See, my personal favorite author is Clive Barker and that is DEFINITLEY not for the kiddies. lol! I am thinking of writing a short horror story for teens. I just wanted to see if anyone else here likes this kinda stuff too or if it was just me.

DUDE!!

'Course we like horror iz why we'z here!

Glad to see you lol-ling!!

**mustangclaire** · 3 Weeks Ago

I LOVE Clive Barker..... his Books of Blood are down right scarey, it'll be a long time till I let my son read those!! But they're excellant stories.

My boy is 9 and loves the Goosebumps books, and gravitates to anything "scarey looking" at the library. As for teens, not sure, but the time I was a teen I was reading Herbert and King. Good luck to you and keep us posted.

**Sepia and Dust** · 3 Weeks Ago

Originally Posted by Dave Sartin

how do authors such as R.L. Stine and David Lubar write such great (and sometimes pretty eerie) things but not be TOO eerie?

Read Stine's Fear Street series sometime. The main series is as you described, but the trilogies are in straight-up horror territory.

**tenngolfer** · 3 Weeks Ago

Having a couple of kids that are now college age and recent teens, I suggest one of the worst horror stories for teens these days would be for their cells phone to disappear or stop working. Perhaps an emp taking out their phones, xbox, playstations, etc.. It would be interesting to watch them to learn how to communicate with each other without texting.

(Just kidding, my kids did go through this phase, but they have "mostly" matured out of it)

**GNTLGNT** · 3 Weeks Ago

...I like it like pizza.....

**Dave Sartin** · 3 Weeks Ago

lol! me and my best friend sometimes pick up a few goosebumps books just to breeze through them later that day.

**Shoesalesman** · 3 Weeks Ago

Originally Posted by mustangclaire

I LOVE Clive Barker..... his Books of Blood are down right scarey, it'll be a long time till I let my son read those!! But they're excellant stories.

Agreed. Clive has a way of being down-right crude, but it makes for great reading.

**Dave Sartin** · 2 Weeks Ago

well recently I have finished Needful Things (which was awesome) and decided to pick up a short and old book (it's also a children's novel) known as a taste of short and shivery. It's really neat and pretty dark for a Kid's book. I like reading these kinda novels. Makes me feel like a Kid again.

anyone here have a favorite "Scary" kid's book? Mine HAS to be Triple dare to be scared. Some real creepy and spooky stuff here for the kiddies!

**Sepia and Dust** · 2 Weeks Ago

Not too many years ago, I re-read some of the Three Investigators series that I loved so much as a kid. None of them are particularly scary, though.

I guess my favorite scary book from when I was a kid would be this one.