{"id":3687,"date":"2015-01-23T15:43:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T19:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=3687"},"modified":"2015-01-23T15:43:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T19:43:30","slug":"10-horror-books-youve-never-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/10-horror-books-youve-never-read\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Horror Books You&#8217;ve Never Read?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/images\/cached\/ARTICLE_PHOTO\/photo\/000\/000\/030\/30118-v1-212x.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Publisher&#8217;s Weekly\/Kevin Kelly<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nick Cutter, author of <em>The Troop<\/em> (reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/book-review-the-troop-by-nick-cutter\/\">here<\/a>) and, most recently, <em>The Deep<\/em>, compiled a list for Booklist titled \u00a0&#8220;10 Horror Books You&#8217;ve Never Read&#8221;. It&#8217;s kind of a fun list because he left off some of the books that typically appear on &#8220;Best Of&#8221; lists, but it&#8217;s kinda hard for me to believe that the average horror reader isn&#8217;t familiar with the majority of them. \u00a0Cutter notes that his taste in horror is on the &#8220;visceral&#8221; side, and certainly a number of the authors on his list don&#8217;t stint on the gore and violence. Still, it&#8217;s an interesting list, and it&#8217;s easy to see that Cutter definitely is an enthusiastic fan of horror fiction. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/industry-news\/tip-sheet\/article\/65367-the-10-best-horror-books-you-ve-never-read.html?utm_source=Publishers+Weekly&amp;utm_campaign=7fabc0d207-UA-15906914-1&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_0bb2959cbb-7fabc0d207-304448289\"> link <\/a>to the list.<\/p>\n<p>So, what do you think? Is there anything you&#8217;d add?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo credit: Publisher&#8217;s Weekly\/Kevin Kelly &nbsp; Nick Cutter, author of The Troop (reviewed here) and, most recently, The Deep, compiled a list for Booklist titled \u00a0&#8220;10 Horror Books You&#8217;ve Never Read&#8221;. It&#8217;s kind of a fun list because he left off some of the books that typically appear on &#8220;Best Of&#8221; lists, but it&#8217;s kinda<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/10-horror-books-youve-never-read\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1332,8,2320,83,181,2246,11,1346,2369,2245],"class_list":["post-3687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-booklists","tag-collection-development","tag-extreme-horror","tag-horror-fiction","tag-horror-genre","tag-nick-cutter","tag-readers-advisory","tag-splatterpunk","tag-the-deep","tag-the-troop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3689,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions\/3689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}