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What are the scariest books you have ever read?
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Mar 11, 2009 09:47AM
Books rarely scare me, but 2 horror novels have: The Shining by Stephen King and the Amityville Horror. What I loved about The Shining is that you are never completely sure if the lead character is really being haunted or if he has just gone insane. Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale scared me too, because I could see it happening in real life.
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I'm going to have to think on this and get back to you. There are few books that truly scare me and I'm having trouble thinking of anything right off the top of my head. I will say that The Shining DID freak me out - one of my favorite Stephen King books... And parts of King's novel It were also pretty creepy. If I reread it now it might not have the same effect, but I was pretty young when I picked it up and there some parts that kept me from going into the bathroom late at night because I didn't want to be near the drains! : )
Laura wrote: "Books rarely scare me, but 2 horror novels have: The Shining by Stephen King and the Amityville Horror. What I loved about The Shining is that you are never completely sure if the lead character i..."
I'm with you on the Handmaid's Tale. Completely freaked me out. They turned off the women's credit cards and moved all their money into the men's bank accounts. The revolution was over in a day. Trippy stuff.
I'm with you on the Handmaid's Tale. Completely freaked me out. They turned off the women's credit cards and moved all their money into the men's bank accounts. The revolution was over in a day. Trippy stuff.
I read Camus' The Plague while I had the flu. Won't say it was the scariest book I ever read, but it certainly made the experience more vivid.
Robert wrote: "I read Camus' The Plague while I had the flu. Won't say it was the scariest book I ever read, but it certainly made the experience more vivid."I had the same experience while reading The Doomsday Books by Connie Willis. Its a scifi/fantasy time travel novel about the Black Plague. I came down with a cold right at the part when people in the book start getting the plague.
Heather wrote: "I'm going to have to think on this and get back to you. There are few books that truly scare me and I'm having trouble thinking of anything right off the top of my head. I will say that The S..."
After reading IT, it was many years before I could go near a street drain.
Scary is a bit relative for me. If I'm talking creepy scary, as in leave-the-lights-on-hide-under-the-covers scary, I'd have to say It by Stephen King. There were scenes in that book where it felt as though King reached into my head and pulled out some of my very own fears. If I'm talking scary as in worried-about-the-fate-of-the-world-or-what-this-world-is-coming-to? The scariest thing I've read is Feed by M.T. Andersen. This YA book is one of those dystopian glimpses into a future that seems entirely too plausible, and with having just recently ventured into the world of social networking, the story has become even more frightening to me.
So, a little off-topic here. . . Whenever I think of books that scare me, I get a flash of a scene from Friends, where Joey is keeping a book in the freezer b/c that's where he puts them when they get too scary. (It was a Stephen King book I think.) Rachel finds the book there and there's this whole sequence about what he's reading and she gets him to read Little Women. She comes in to find him upset and wanting to know if the little sister actually dies or not and she ends up putting THAT book in the freezer for him. Classic.
Ronda wrote: "So, a little off-topic here. . . Whenever I think of books that scare me, I get a flash of a scene from Friends, where Joey is keeping a book in the freezer b/c that's where he puts them ..." I LOVE that episode! lol! It is a Stephen King book, actually - The Shining. :)
On a different note - I finished reading The Handmaid's Tale, and I'm going to hafta agree that it is definitely creepy!
The scariest book I have ever read was this book by Anne Rice but I cant remember the name of it I think it was called Taltos.....but I cant be sure, I just remember it being twisted and sick...
