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Scariest single moment or "scene" out of all SK stories?
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Aug 27, 2017 02:27PM
I think the Apt Pupil is a little unsettling.
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mrbooks wrote: "I think the Apt Pupil is a little unsettling."It's disgusting! But disgusting in a way that only King can make you keep turning pages. I think if I were reading that subject matter written by almost any other author, I would set the book aside.
Yes you are right Kandice, like the long walk if any other author rote it, it wouldn't have the same impact.
mrbooks wrote: "Yes you are right Kandice, like the long walk if any other author rote it, it wouldn't have the same impact."He has such a huge fan base for a reason. :) I keep meaning to mention that I love the fact that you began reading The Gunslinger for your daughter. It's incredibly sweet.
It was her last reading request, I had to honor it. She told me I wouldn't believe how the story twists and turns and she was right, She was another SK fan and we always had discussions about his books, sometimes heated she can get very hard headed I have no clue where she got it from.
mrbooks wrote: "sometimes heated she can get very hard headed I have no clue where she got it from. ..." <------ LIE! :-)
OK so you found me out I am hard headed
If I had to rank them:1. The walk to and from the Pet Sematary when Louis goes to bury Gage.
2. Beverly being chased by her 'father' in It
3. The tunnel scene in The Stand
honourable mentions:
- basically everything in Pet Sematary
- the spread of the plague in The Stand
- the mother/daughter scenes in Carrie
- Beverly bathroom scene in IT
I still find the first trip to the black house by the Furious Five is absolutely terrifying. I've read Black House three times and it gets me every time.
The end scenes of Finders Keepers in the basement... Still haunts me.
Gerald's Game when she realises she is going to have to cut herself to get free of the handcuffs. There is something about having to do it to yourself that freaks me out.
See that part in the movie and it creeped me out.
Linda wrote: "See that part in the movie and it creeped me out."Still to watch it. May save it fro closer to Halloween.
The section in Doctor Sleep where Danny and Wendy realized that the ghost from room 217 followed them and Wendy was so scared that she had to pee in the kitchen sink rather than use the bathroom.
Pretty much the whole of You Know They Got a Hell of a Band, but when it dawns on them what's going on and that they need to leave town I remember feeling genuine panic for them.
Fire Starter when Charlie realizes John isn't her friend and she releases her power when John kills her father.
mrbooks wrote: "Fire Starter when Charlie realizes John isn't her friend and she releases her power when John kills her father."Oh Yes. Forgot that one.
Yes I know a lot of people forget fire starter don't know why ?
It's one I have reread several times. The most memorable occasion was when I was backpacking around Australia. I was in Brisbane and for several days I would buy a falfel Kebab every lunch time and read it under the same tree.
And how many times did you wish you had Charlie available to warm up your falfel
LOL - Never thought of that - where was my imagination!
Caught up in the book, it is only afterwards we think of these things.
Let’s be honest it’s really hard to just pick 10.I also enjoy so many but I had to keep the list to my favorites. I did enjoy fires-starter but it just couldn’t make it above my others..:: that’s the name of that tune
We all have our own favorites and that's all there is to it. Many are the same but there will always be differences. I for one appreciate the differences. And would not try to change anyone's mind. I love the discussions that the differences bring about.
When I read Misery I had been spoiled about the ‘hobbling’ scene, so any time Paul did something against the rules I would think, “she’s gonna find out. She’s gonna do it to him.”
Printed words don't usually freak me out and it's not even one of my favorite books, but the refrigerator letters in Bag of Bones made something so ordinary so unsettling. That is the one thing that comes to mind when I think of scary Mr.King
The handcuff scene in Gerald's Game. If you've read it, you know what I'm talking about.
For me, there was a scene in Black House (not one of my favorite books) where they walk by a BBQ grill. I won't spoil anything, but it skeeved me out so badly! It really shouldn't have because the same situation had been covered in the DT books, but for some reason it scared the crap out of me.
The scariest moment for me was in the shinning when little Danny went into the room... Redrum scared the shit out of me...
In The Shining when Halloran is travelling to the Overlook in the snowmobile and the voices start in his head, trying to deter him :o
For me, there is a scene in Black House when Jack walks by a BBQ grill. I won't say more, but it terrified me. Even more than The Dixie Pig in DT did.
I read it quite a few years ago at this point....but I remember when I read IT, there was a quick scene with a parade in town and Pennywise was on the one float, waving at the Loser's Club. It just irked me, more than anything else in the book for some reason.
Dreamcatcher: the scene with Beaver in the bathroom trying to keep the toilet lid shut. I read this when I was 10 or 11 and it freaked me out pretty bad.
I agree with Amelia about the early scene in Dreamcatcher as being right up there. The scene I keep coming back to and shivering was the return of Gage in Pet Sematary. I couldn't go to sleep after reading that!
Funny, I remember scenes when I read these comments and it immediately gives me goosebumps. I'll keep an eye out for scary moments while reading King. Currently reading Revival, let's see what pops up in there :)
Eva wrote: "Funny, I remember scenes when I read these comments and it immediately gives me goosebumps. I'll keep an eye out for scary moments while reading King. Currently reading Revival, let's see what pops..."Revival doesn't really get scary until the very end.
Revival sucked in my opinion, it was all about that ending; it should have been a short story. My scariest scene would have to be from The Shining, when Halloran is making his way up to the Overlook and the voices starting his head.
Ow wow, I have to wait for that long?Luckily, King isn't all about being scary. I love the way he builds up a story (or a chapter) and forms is characters, so either way, it'll be good ( I hope :p).
Eva wrote: "Ow wow, I have to wait for that long?Luckily, King isn't all about being scary. I love the way he builds up a story (or a chapter) and forms is characters, so either way, it'll be good ( I hope :p)."
Indeed, that’s what I like about his books!
Michael wrote: "Revival sucked in my opinion, it was all about that ending; it should have been a short story. My scariest scene would have to be from The Shining, when Halloran is making his way up to the Overl..."
I'm right at that very part! There's a hedge lion in the road (yikes!). Glad you didn't go into detail.
Well, I'd love to stay here and chat, but I'm right at the end, and I gotta find out what happens.
"Scariest moment or scene."To make a long story short, I'm condensing his first two graphs into my first :
"Once upon a time, not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine." He killed six women there from 1970-1975, one of whom was only a grade-schooler. "He was not a werewolf, vampire, ghoul, or unnamable creature from the enchanted forest or from the snowy wastes; he was only a cop named Frank Dodd with mental and sexual problems." Before he could be captured, he killed himself.
"There was some shock, of course, but mostly there was rejoicing in that small town, rejoicing because the monster which had haunted so many dreams was dead, dead at last. A town's nightmares were buried in Frank Dodd's grave.
Yet, even in this enlightened age, when so many parents are aware of the psychological damage they may do to their children, surely there was one parent somewhere in Castle Rock - or perhaps one grandmother - who quieted the kids by telling them that Frank Dodd would get them if they didn't watch out, if they weren't good. And surely a hush fell as children looked toward their dark windows and thought of Frank Dodd in his shiny black vinyl raincoat, Frank Dodd who had choked... and choked... and choked.
He's out there, I can hear the grandmother whispering as the wind whistles down the chimney pipe and snuffles around the old pot lid crammed in the stove hole. He's out there, and if you're not good, it may be his face you see looking in your bedroom window after everyone in the house is asleep except you; it may be his smiling face you see peeking at you from the closet in the middle of the night, the STOP sign he held up when he crossed the little children in one hand, the razor he used to kill himself in the other... so shhh, children... shhh... shhhh."
Cujo
Michael wrote: "Revival sucked in my opinion, it was all about that ending; it should have been a short story. My scariest scene would have to be from The Shining, when Halloran is making his way up to the Overl..."
Turns out, I am not the biggest Revival-fan either ;)
Marisa wrote: "I'd have to vote for Misery. ..."Oh yes!! Quite literally TOOK my breath AWAY!!
Vheissu wrote: "Being claustrophobic and just a bit scared of the dark, I was particularly unsettled by the "tunnel" scenes in The Stand and The Gunslinger. Very reminiscent of [author:J..."For me it was feeling smothered by insects in The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. The nothing "supernatural" aspect, and having had a similar experience hiking in the woods...
Next was everything Cujo.... I drove a Pinto with a sticky butterfly valve in the carburetor....and I owned a 165# saint Bernard at the time.
That literal one page in The Shining where Danny is wondering through the halls and sees a man on all fours covered in blood in a dog suit. That was the thing that unsettled me most out of the whole book, ironically.
In the second Dark Tower book I think, Drawing of the Three, where Eddie (?) looks into his eyes in the mirror and sees eyes NOT his own looking back at him! I was scared to look into my mirror for awhile, esp. at my eyes. (It's been many years since I read DT, so I can't recall who looked in the mirror...)In The Langoliers (a novella), there was a line about how they are coming and they are hungry......
There's a touching moment in Misery that flat took my breath away.
Jaye wrote: "Pet Sematary when the tiny child was running to the road."Indeed, it is. I remember closing my book and crying, knowing what was next.
Glennis wrote: "Jaye wrote: "Pet Sematary when the tiny child was running to the road."Indeed, it is. I remember closing my book and crying, knowing what was next."
I understand! I threw the book against the wall.
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