What's the scariest book you've ever read?

[RepresentingDesire]

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On a shallow perspective a normal genderbender, but if thought is put into it, it's straight up body horror and existential terror

 

[Macha]

The Book of Revelation.

 

[RivCA]

I'm a horror buff, so "scary books" doesn't really set me off. However, everyone needs to start somewhere. When I was a kid, I got utterly terrified by the Ghosts of Fear Street book, The Attack of the Aqua Apes. That was a real page-turner, and it left me on the edge of my seat as I read through it.

That, and I read an abridged version of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein at age 16. Terrifying book, but when I re-read the unabridged version what, five years ago? It really wasn't so bad.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

I'm a horror buff, so "scary books" doesn't really set me off. However, everyone needs to start somewhere. When I was a kid, I got utterly terrified by the Ghosts of Fear Street book, The Attack of the Aqua Apes. That was a real page-turner, and it left me on the edge of my seat as I read through it.

That, and I read an abridged version of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein at age 16. Terrifying book, but when I re-read the unabridged version what, five years ago? It really wasn't so bad.

When you realize "Frankenstein - Or the Modern Prometheus" was written over two years, and published shortly after the author turned 19, it's fairly impressive as a work of literature, but it really only has about four or five genuinely scary moments (unless you can really empathize with The Creature - then it has several).

 

[LeilaniOtter]

Another notch for Stephen King.

"Pet Sematary" (yes, that's how it's spelled) took me completely by surprise as a horror novel beyond anything I'd read before. The transformation of a small-town doctor and his family into madness and destruction, the revolting scenes of violence, the sheer terror of resurrection and the dead. It's one of those novels that will keep you up at night - all night. It delves into dreams and nightmares like none other has, to me. in a list of Top 10 King books, I have to put it near the top. <3

 

[RivCA]

Another notch for Stephen King.

"Pet Sematary" (yes, that's how it's spelled) took me completely by surprise as a horror novel beyond anything I'd read before. The transformation of a small-town doctor and his family into madness and destruction, the revolting scenes of violence, the sheer terror of resurrection and the dead. It's one of those novels that will keep you up at night - all night. It delves into dreams and nightmares like none other has, to me. in a list of Top 10 King books, I have to put it near the top. <3

Dude, that one is a good pick. Gage still in his funeral suit really terrified me as he murdered...
Well, best not to spoil something like this, even if the story was first published in 1979

 

[LeilaniOtter]

Dude, that one is a good pick. Gage still in his funeral suit really terrified me as he murdered...
Well, best not to spoil something like this, even if the story was first published in 1979

I thought the whole Gage adventure was disturbing as hell. *^^*
And the cat, Church. *shudders*

 

[Arachis]

Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber is somewhat of a classic and guaranteed to make you paranoid that those around you (mostly the women) are casting spells against you.

 

[FrankieCheng]

Ring by Koji Suzuki. The implications made me very unsettled.

 

[LilythGeist]

My university handbook of Modern Standard Arabic.

 

[LeilaniOtter]

Reading a lot of love for "Conjure Wife" by Fritz Leiber out there. I'll check my library today for it as I've never heard of it. ?

 

[Danja]

The Exorcist (William Peter Blatty)

 

[Mellohwa]

Undoubtedly, Coraline. Maybe because i read it when I was little, but thinking about how they replace the eyes with a button still brings me goosebumps.

 

[Fox-Trot-9]

'Salem's Lot by Stephen King. I didn't sleep much during the reading of that book.

 

[SternenklarenRitter]

I don't remember the title or author, but it was an account of the holocaust written by a survivor of Auschwitz. We read it in 6th grade. I'm pretty easy to scare with gory visuals, jump scares, and suspenseful soundtracks, but letters on a page don't usually bother me. This one however was about a historic event that actually happened, and connecting all that fire and starvation to reality gave me nightmares for a long time.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

I don't remember the title or author, but it was an account of the holocaust written by a survivor of Auschwitz. We read it in 6th grade. I'm pretty easy to scare with gory visuals, jump scares, and suspenseful soundtracks, but letters on a page don't usually bother me. This one however was about a historic event that actually happened, and connecting all that fire and starvation to reality gave me nightmares for a long time.

Possibly Night by Eli Weisel (sp.?)?

 

[Deleted member 166465]

Security analisis by benjamin graham.
The moment you realize that the whole world economy is a zomby that should not be moving at all and the bible of economics study is toilet paper becouse is what? 1000 pages of useless theory.
Now that is scary.

 

[Max02]

1984 by George Orwell.

 

[rainchip]

Green Eggs and Ham. Imagine a twisted psychopath who stalks you, who is everywhere you go, demanding you try their weird green eggs. You can't escape. It shatters you. Finally, you give in. You pretend to like it so the psychopath leaves you alone. You are utterly broken.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Green Eggs and Ham. Imagine a twisted psychopath who stalks you, who is everywhere you go, demanding you try their weird green eggs. You can't escape. It shatters you. Finally, you give in. You pretend to like it so the psychopath leaves you alone. You are utterly broken.

The kid's version of Big Brother?