Horror and Sci-Fi

[Romeo]

I am a great fan of horror and sc-fi. My fave authors are HP Lovecraft and Michael Moorcock. Any other fans out there? Who are your favourites? What are your favourite works?

[Romeo]

Yes, I heard about the return of Hammer, Zacs. Good news for us fans of shlock. But who could replace the likes of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing?

[jake-the-peg]

I don't read much Si Fi these days but I was quite a Moorcock fan. I Particularly liked "The warhound and the world's pain".

I think the Elric film is still planned but Universal are apparently being a touch nervous about costs:

http://www.multiverse.org/fora/showthread.php? s=9e9a3b9dc17a3e13dad9fba28248778a&t=2492

[LeMarchand]

Love HPL and wish Guillermo del Toro would get on with his planned adaptation of "At the Mountains of Madness". Used to be a big Moorcock fan in my teens, but lost my faith when he became a "proper" novelist. Wish I had kept some of my collection, though!

My favourite authors at the moment are George R. R. Martin (now huge, but his early stuff is well worth seeking out), Michael Marshall Smith (wish he'd go back to SF, though I have a suspicion that his "crime" novels may turn out to be SF), Graham Masterton (who should be a lot better-known) and Peter F Hamilton. There's more, but I need to eat as well as type during my break!

[marwel7]

Alistair Reynolds is a favourite of mine,huge complicated space epics,and some cracking short stories.

[Romeo]

Looking forward to the mrelease (if ever) of Mountains of Madness, definitely Lovecraft's miesterverk.

[mycats]

Oh I adore sci-fi and fantasy

Arthur c Clarke is amazing
I LOVE the Amber series by Roger Zelazny, has anyone else read them?

[mydogsandme]

Romeo- Lovecraft is one of my favourite horror writers- which are your favourites by him? I particularly enjoyed Pickman's model and The Thing on the doorstep.

[Romeo]

mydogsandme - so many to choose from! But The Horror at Red Hook is my personal fave, clearly showing Lovecraft's distaste for life in New York. Closely followed by At the Mountains of Madness, which was my own introduction to HP and sets the scene for the Shoggoths and the Elder Things. Another favourite is The Shadow Over Innsmouth, with the town's creepy inhabitants following the Order of Dagon. The Call of Cthulhu I would recommend to any beginner as it introduces good old Cthulhu himself - what better way to initiate the newcomer to the mythos?