A Thousand Monstrous Forms. Their books have been featured in Variety, People magazine, Cosmopolitan, and Glamour, and their writing has appeared in Writer’s Digest, CrimeReads, and more. Originally from Brooklyn, Schaefer now lives upstate with several needy animals and a haunted clown table.
At CrimeReads the author tagged five "horror books that thrill in keeping their characters (and story) isolated." One title on Schaefer's list:
Richard Matheson, I Am LegendRead about the other entries on the list at CrimeReads.
One of the key pieces of literature in the vampire canon, this classic from the 1950s features Robert Neville, the last man on Earth, who hunts plague-infected vampires during the day, hunkering down alone at night. No spoilers, but that ending is…incredible. (And the movie didn’t do it any justice, let’s be real.)
One of the key themes in this story is isolation and how Robert thinks, behaves, and reacts due to his terrible loneliness being the last man alive. The isolation in this one is all-encompassing. Robert suffers from all types of seclusion, and the effect becomes clear the further you read. What’s lonelier than being the last of your kind?
I Am Legend is among Alena Bruzas's seven top literary horror novels, David Koepp's seven essential contagion novels, Jeff Somers's five notable books totally unlike their adaptations, Jonathan Hatfull's ten best vampire novels ever, Jennifer Griffith Delgado's top eleven mind-blowing surprise endings in science fiction and fantasy literature and Kevin Jackson's top ten vampire novels.
--Marshal Zeringue
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