Horror in the Winter

[Michael]

There's something about winter, especially a snowed in winter's day, that makes me want to read English ghost stories with a cup of coffee. Old school guys like M R James and H R Wakefield.

[Doctor Dugald Eldritch]

Autumn and winter are the perfect times for reading tales of the supernatural. But what to read in summer and spring? Not my problem -- yet. Predominately my Christmas reading consists of an M.R. James ghost story or two -- preferably Count Magnus, Barchester Stalls, Abbot Thomas, The Ash-Tree, and Whistle --, possibly the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come chapter from A Christmas Carol, and my favourite Christmas tale of all time, H.P. Lovecraft's The Festival. And I also concur with Evans' enthusiasm for Sarban's The House of Call, a splendidly atmospheric piece.

Walter de la Mare effectively used wintry settings in a poetic manner to project the uncanny and eerie, such as in The Tree, The Almond Tree and Winter.

Vernon Lee's Amour Dure builds up tension through the Christmas period strongly. Great story. If Mark Samuels was here, I'd inquire if it was an influence on his tale The White Hands.

[njhorror]

THE TERROR by Dan Simmons is a great cold weather novel to pass the winter hours away.

[Druidic]

My favorite cold and shivery snowscapes: At the Mountains of Madness and Who Goes There?
Skule Skerry by Buchan is a subarctic delight. The House of Sounds, too.

[Bleak&Icy]

In my part of the world we are currently suffering through a summer heat wave. For the past four days in a row the temperature has reached a withering forty degrees celsius. I can only dream of those cold and shivery snowscapes!

[R.P.Dwyer]

I was highly impressed with Barbara Roden's story "Endless Night", which can be found in her story collection _Northwest Passages._

Barbara Roden talks about her story here:
Barbara Roden, Author of - By Blood We Live : By Blood We Live

[T.E. Grau]

I recently picked this up and am enjoying it so far.

I don't know if this is a spoiler, but I hope there is more out on the ice than polar bears.

Quote Originally Posted by njhorror

THE TERROR by Dan Simmons is a great cold weather novel to pass the winter hours away.

[T.E. Grau]

Also, "The Crevasse" by Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud is a wonderfully haunting icy tale.

[ChildofOldLeech]

Although they also qualify as 'weird fantasy', I think John Gordon's The Giant Under the Snow and John Bellairs' The Face in the Frost would both very much apply.