Five Horror Novels I'd Love to See as Movies

I love movies. And I love books. So it's only natural that I'd love movies based on books, right?

Right.

So, without too much ado, here are five horror novels I'd love to see as a movie:

1. "Bag of Bones" (Stephen King)- Widow Mike Noonan returns to his summer house after his wife passed away. Soon, he is drawn into a ghostly mystery of what the local millionaire, Max Devore wants with three year old Kyra... and how it's connected to an old curse that was put upon the town by blues singer Sara Tidwell...

2. "The Servants of Twilight" (Dean Koontz)- After Christine Scavello and her son, Joey are accosted in a mall parking lot by a crazed lady they find themselves being stalked by a mysterious cult. Hiring detective Charlie Harrison, they hope to discover what the cult wants with her son, and stop them. What they discover leads them down a rabbit hole of religious fervor as they learn the cultist are willing to die... and kill in order to have her son.

3. "Haunted" (Heather Graham)- People keep telling Matt Stone that his house is haunted, much to his annoyance. To end the speculation, once and for all, he hires Harrison Investigations to get to the bottom of the claims. The lead investigator, Darcy Tremayne is a gifted psychic who is intent on solving the mystery behind the ghostly apparition that's been reported. Her questions stir up more than ghosts as haunting memories from the past shadows on the present.

4. "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" (H.P. Lovecraft)- After his patient, Charles Dexter Ward, escapes from the mental institution, Dr. Marinus Willett tries to track him down, and find out the cause of his madness. He soon discovers a tale of necromancy, eldritch beings, and plans for murder on a grand scale... and it's up to him to end it.

5. "The Premature Burial" (Edgar Allan Poe)- A person is sleeping, and thinking about how they suffers from a disorder wherein they fall into a death-like trance at random times. As they ponder their fear of being buried alive, they recount other occasions where people have been.

And so, there we have it. What five horror stories would YOU like to see turned into movies?

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