Which author wrote a novel containing a horror icon known as Pennywise the Dancing Clown?
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Horror icon A horror icon is a person or fictional character that is considered to be significant to one or more genres of horror such as film, literature, or video games. Examples of people considered to be horror icons include directors Stephen King, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Roger Corman, and Wes Craven, and actors Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, Lon Chaney and Lon Chaney, Jr., Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Robert Englund, Tony Todd, Tim Curry, Brad Dourif, and Christopher Lee. Fictional horror icon characters include such as Dracula, Gill-man, Frankenstein's monster, Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Chucky, Candyman, Leatherface, Pennywise the Dancing Clown, Pinhead, and The Mummy.
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It (character) It, also known as Pennywise the Dancing Clown or Bob Gray, is the title character of Stephen King's 1986 horror novel "It". The character is a creature that preys upon the local children of Derry, Maine, roughly every twenty-seven years, using a variety of powers that include the ability to shapeshift, manipulate, and go unnoticed by adults.
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William Scott Home William Scott Home (born January 2, 1940) is the pen name (and, later, legal name) of an American author, poet and biologist principally known for writing horror and dark fantasy. Best known for a short story that appeared in 1978 in "The Year’s Best Horror Stories" (along with Stephen King’s “Children of the Corn”, which also made the cut that year), Home was most prolific during the 1970s and 80s when his poetry and fiction was published in a wide range of media. Part of a circle of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror writers that paid homage to M. P. Shiel and H. P. Lovecraft, Home is considered by many to be a unique talent in his own right. His range of styles and control of language and suspense is well-demonstrated in his published collection: "Hollow Faces, Merciless Moons". While he has not published much since the 1980s, Home is still writing and currently lives in the Dyea Valley, west of Skagway, Alaska.
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The Night Land The Night Land is a classic horror novel by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912. As a work of fantasy it belongs to the Dying Earth subgenre. Hodgson also published a much shorter version of the novel, entitled "The Dream of X" (1912).
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Mira Jacob Mira Jacob is an Indian American author known for her novel "The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing", a book about a patriarch who starts talking to ghosts, and how his seeing spirits affects his family.
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Mark Morris (author) Mark Morris (born 1 January 1963) is an English author known for his series of horror novels, although he has also written several novels based on the BBC Television series "Doctor Who". He used the pseudonym J. M. Morris for his 2001 novel "Fiddleback". For more information: www.markmorrisfiction.com
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The Face in the Abyss The Face in the Abyss is a fantasy novel by American writer A. Merritt. It is composed of a novelette with the same title and its sequel, "The Snake Mother". It was first published in its complete form in 1931 by Horace Liveright. The novelette "The Face in the Abyss" originally appeared in the magazine "Argosy All-Story Weekly" in the September 8, 1923 issue. "The Snake Mother" was originally serialized in seven parts in "Argosy" beginning with the October 25, 1930 issue.
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Who Made Stevie Crye? Who Made Stevie Crye?, subtitled "A Novel of the American South", is a horror novel by author Michael Bishop. It was released in 1984 by Arkham House in an edition of 3,591 copies, and later in paperback
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Ghoul (novel) Ghoul is a horror novel by Brian Keene, first published in 2007
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Vanity Fair (novel) Vanity Fair is an English novel by William Makepeace Thackeray which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. It was first published as a 19-volume monthly serial from 1847 to 1848, carrying the subtitle PenandPencilSketches of EnglishSociety, reflecting both its satirisation of early 19th-century British society and the many illustrations drawn by Thackeray to accompany the text. It was published as a single volume in 1848 with the subtitle ANovelwithoutaHero, reflecting Thackeray's interest in deconstructing his era's conventions regarding literary heroism. It is sometimes considered the "principal founder" of the Victorian domestic novel.
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Pennywise (band) Pennywise is an American punk rock band from Hermosa Beach, California, formed in 1988. The band took its name from the evil clown monster from the Stephen King horror novel "It".
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The Lair of the White Worm The Lair of the White Worm is a horror novel by the Irish writer Bram Stoker. It was first published by Rider and Son of London in 1911 – the year before Stoker's death – with colour illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith. The story is based on the legend of the Lambton Worm. It has also been issued as The Garden of Evil.
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Norman Partridge Norman Partridge (born May 28, 1958) is an American author of horror and mystery fiction. He has written two detective novels about retired boxer Jack Baddalach, "Saguaro Riptide" and "The Ten Ounce Siesta". He is also the author of a Crow novel, "", which was adapted in 2005 into the fourth Crow movie, bearing the same name.
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No One Gets Out Alive No One Gets Out Alive is a 2014 horror novel and the sixth horror novel by British author Adam Nevill. It was published in the United Kingdom in 2014 by Pan MacMillan and United States in 2015 by St. Martin's Press and focuses on a young woman who moves into a cheap apartment, only to find that she has put herself in danger by doing so.
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Berenice (short story) "Berenice" is a short horror story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the "Southern Literary Messenger" in 1835. The story follows a man named Egaeus who is preparing to marry his cousin Berenice. He has a tendency to fall into periods of intense focus during which he seems to separate himself from the outside world. Berenice begins to deteriorate from an unnamed disease until the only part of her remaining healthy is her teeth, which become the object of Egaeus' obsession. Berenice is buried, and Egaeus continues to contemplate her teeth. One day Egaeus wakes up from a period of focus with an uneasy feeling, and the sound of screams in his ears. A servant startles him by telling him Berenice's grave has been disturbed, and she is still alive; but beside Egaeus is a shovel, a poem about "visiting the grave of my beloved" and a box containing 32 blood-stained teeth.
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Penpal (novel) Penpal is a 2012 self-published horror/thriller novel and the debut novel of the American author Dathan Auerbach. The work was first published in paperback on July 11, 2012 through 1000Vultures and is based on a series of popular creepypasta stories that Auerbach posted to Reddit. The book follows an unnamed protagonist that finds himself the focus of an obsessed stalker who tracks him throughout his childhood.
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A Fate Totally Worse than Death A Fate Totally Worse than Death is a spoof horror novel for young adults by Paul Fleischman, published in 1995, in which a badly behaved clique of high school girls get their comeuppance.
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Goosebumps (original series) Goosebumps is a series of children's horror fiction novellas created and authored by R. L. Stine. Sixty-two books were published under the "Goosebumps" umbrella title from 1992 to 1997, the first being "Welcome to Dead House", and the last being "Monster Blood IV". Twenty-two of the books were reprinted under the "Classic Goosebumps" title with brand new cover designs and special bonus material, including interviews with the author. Nine were also made into comic books under the "Goosebumps Graphix" title. These were released in three groups: "Creepy Creatures", "Terror Trips", and "Scary Summer". There were also two hardcover reprint collections: "Goosebumps Collection" and "Monster Edition". Nine books were released under the "Goosebumps Collection" title and were split into three groups: "Living Dummy Collection", "Campfire Collection", and "Monster Blood Collection". Another twelve books were released under the "Monster Edition" title and were split into four groups, the first three of which were simply numbered while the fourth was called "Fright Light Edition". Some of the books were also adapted for television.
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Midnight's Lair Midnight's Lair is a 1988 horror novel by Richard Laymon, originally written under the pseudonym Richard Kelly. It was first published in Great Britain and was not released in the United States until 1993, where it was distributed by St. Martin's Press.
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Great Jones Street (novel) Published in 1973, Great Jones Street is Don DeLillo's third novel. It centers on rock star Bucky Wunderlick, who also narrates the novel. There is a good deal of surreal imagery. "Running Dog", a parody of "Rolling Stone" introduced in "Great Jones Street", would later play a central role in DeLillo's 1978 novel of the same name.
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Act of Love (novel) Act of Love is a 1981 serial killer horror novel written by American author Joe R. Lansdale. This is Lansdale's first full-length novel.
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William Hope Hodgson William Hope Hodgson (15 November 1877 – April 1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction, and science fiction. Hodgson used his experiences at sea to lend authentic detail to his short horror stories, many of which are set on the ocean, including his series of linked tales forming the "Sargasso Sea Stories". His novels, such as "The House on the Borderland" (1908) and "The Night Land" (1912), feature more cosmic themes, but several of his novels also focus on horrors associated with the sea. Early in his writing career Hodgson dedicated effort to poetry, although few of his poems were published during his lifetime. He also attracted some notice as a photographer and achieved renown as a bodybuilder. He died in World War I at age 40.