Minnie - Love your epiphanies on horror books - too funny! I haven't listened to or read very much horror, but your post made me think what in a book really scares me. I can read gruesome mysteries and be completely disgusted. I am reading Roberto Bolano's epic, 2666 - the book is filled with horrendous crimes against women and young girls. I am outraged, but it doesn't give me nightmares. Even vampire books don't scare me that much - just another type of bad guy (or good guy, if you are following some of the new vampire series!). I guess what I've learned from horror is:

1 - it is ALWAYS scarier in audio than in print (because you can't peek ahead to see what happens at the end...)
2 - What is scary is not bad things happening, but not knowing if something bad is going to happen. Or maybe "we have nothing to fear but fear itself." Darn - I think someone already said that one...

Fun topic, Minnie!

This question came to mind when I saw that Julie had just listened to "The Shining" and had recommended that you listen with the light on and then I thought about what I had learnt from Horror and SciFi books. From Izac Azimov I have learnt that if you pull the blanket over your head, the monsters disappear and from Stephen King, don't worry, the worst is NOT over. This is just some fun so let's see where it takes us:-)