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The Ender and Bean Series by Orson Scott Card are great although some people dislike it because of the author's social/political views.

For a simple and quick read, A Series of Unfortunate Events is entertaining with its quirky noir style.

Edit: Also for something more relevant to the times, there is Brave New World and 1984, granted most people read one or both of those in high school.

Edit: One last mention, /lit/ has a wiki filled with recommended reading: http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading/Non-fiction

Edit: I am a fucking idiot. OP wanted horror stories.
 
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Sword Fighter Super said:
Have you ever read Loki?

For real though, Stephen King's exceptional cousing Dean Koontz is pretty good.

Especially the "Frankenstein" series.
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Koontz's mid 80s-early 90s stuff is really good. Phantoms and the Door to December are excellent. Not to mention, it's pretty likely you can find them at a local library or used bookstore for cheap.

Ironically, that's the era when King needed an editor and an intervention the worst.
 
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House of Leaves.

Really good, I'm a horror fan and I highly fucking recommend it.

Upon returning from a trip to Seattle, the Navidson family discovers a change in their home. A closet-like space shut behind an undecorated door appears inexplicably where previously there was only a blank wall. A second door appears at the end of the closet, leading to the children's room. As Navidson investigates this phenomenon, he finds that the internal measurements of the house are somehow larger than external measurements. Initially there is less than an inch of difference, but as time passes the interior of the house seems to expand while maintaining the same exterior proportions. A third and more extreme change asserts itself: a dark, cold hallway opens in an exterior living room wall that should project outside into their yard, but does not. Navidson films the outside of the house to show where the hallway should be but clearly is not. The filming of this anomaly comes to be referred to as "The Five and a Half Minute Hallway". This hallway leads to a maze-like complex, starting with a large room (the "Anteroom"), which in turn leads to a truly enormous space (the "Great Hall"), a room primarily distinguished by an enormous spiral staircase which appears, when viewed from the landing, to spiral down without end. There is also a multitude of corridors and rooms leading off from each passage. All of these rooms and hallways are completely unlit and featureless, consisting of smooth ash-gray walls, floors, and ceilings. The only sound disturbing the perfect silence of the hallways is a periodic low growl, the source of which is never fully explained, although an academic source "quoted" in the book hypothesizes that the growl is created by the frequent re-shaping of the house.
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I highly recommend the works of Thomas Ligotti if you haven't heard of him. There's a Penguin Classics collection of his short stories that's a really good introduction.
 
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Anne Rice's Memnoch The Devil because the scariest part is
Lestat drinking a woman's menstrual blood because he doesn't want to kill her by drinking from her.

Any of Edgar Allan Poe's stories.
Lord of the Flies.
 
If you are into Lovecraft I would strongly suggest the Laundry Files series.
 
Some of Bret Easton Ellis' work can be intense, if not horrifying. He's known, of course, for American Psycho (which is not only hilarious at parts, but frightening in others), but some of his other works, like Glamorama, or Lunar Park, can be disturbing, and fucked up, too.

And then, of course, you could always give Junji Ito a try.
 
The House That Jack Built by Graham Masterton. It's weird but kinda good.
 
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