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16 Books That Will Give You Nightmares
This Halloween, skip the haunted houses and scare yourself silly with a book. We asked on Facebook and Twitter: What frightening read could give a reader nightmares? If you dare, try out one of the top answers. We suggest finding a dark, dank place and lighting a single candle (or turning on a single book light). Those menacing bumps and whines and scrapes you hear as you crack open your book? Probably nothing. Definitely not a clown crawling toward you or a ghost trapped in the walls. Be careful out there, readers. Something spine-tingling this way comes….
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What book has sent the biggest chill down your spine? Is It really Stephen King's creepiest read? Talk scary books with us in the comments!
(Image credit: Book cover for The Silence of the Lambs.)
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The Shinning.It did scare me at the beginning. But in the last 1/4 of the book it just lost it
The Exorcist scared the living shit out me when I was a kid. I thought for sure I was being possessed. I gave the book away because I couldn't even keep it in my house. Also freaky: Salem's Lot by Stephen King. And: Edgar Allen Poe. I know he's not contemporary, but he's scary as shit.
I'm reading The Apartment by S.L. Grey and it's pretty spooky! But one of the scariest books, for me, was Salem's Lot by Stephen King. Also, King's book of short stories -Night Shift. Oh boy... booooo...
Gabrielle Nykol's Breathtaking Blue will keep you awake at night looking for things that go bump in the dark. I'm looking for a second book on this one....
Alyssa wrote: "I thought Dark Places was much more nightmare-ish than Sharp Objects, but that's just me"I couldn't agree more.
Goodreads, I hate you for putting a picture of an evil clown on my home page. I hope you only get the Halloween candy that you don't like. :-P
Farrah wrote: "Amityville! Reading it as a teen it scared the crap out of me and I will forever avoid houses that look like that Dutch one!"Truth! Same here! LOL!
IT didn't really scare me at all! Loved the book though!
The book that scared me the most was Helter Skelter, because it is non fiction. Only thing I ever read that kept me up at night.
☯ DαякєηRнαℓ ❛ ᴼʳᶤᵍᶤᶰᵃˡ ᴿᵉᵇᵉˡ ❜ wrote: "I haven't read the book but I watched the movie of Coraline and despite it being a kids movie with stop animation style filming it did creep me the hell out!"Saw NG at a librarian thing. He talked about it. It wasn't made as a live action because it would've been way to scary for children. Can you imagine? The buttons and the needle and thread as live action? No freakin' way!
Yes, I second these. Thanks, Laura.