Which book scared you the most?

[Micheal]

The only book that has ever gave me the creeps is the Shining. Although I will admit that some parts of the Dark Half made my skin crawl.

[Janie]

I actually have 2 that scared me. The first one would of course be The Shining! The second one is a book called Edgewise, by Graham Masterton. He is another amazing author.

[Kathryn]

Alondra wrote: "Kathryn wrote: "Where is "N" featured?"

Just after Sunset... *shudders*"

Oooooo....Might have to bump it up on my list....;) Thanks, Alondra!!

[Dustin]

None of them have scared me, actually... though there are certainly a fair amount of creepy scenes..

[Holly]

There have been a couple that have scared me a bit. It, The Stand, and The Shining. Oh, and The Dark Half and Secret Window, Secret Garden were pretty scary too.

[Edith]

I remember reading "IT" for the first time, when I was about 13 or 14. I read it in bed, and when I put the book away, I was too scared to turn off the lights :-)
The Shining was also quite creepy ...

[Holly]

Edith wrote: "I remember reading "IT" for the first time, when I was about 13 or 14. I read it in bed, and when I put the book away, I was too scared to turn off the lights :-)
The Shining was also quite creepy..."

It scared me so bad.....I mostly read it at night which probably wasn't a good idea. I thought that I kept hearing noises and things. I was almost terrified right up until the end of the book. Lol

[Tom]

Pet Semetary got me pretty good, especially Gage after his resurrection. Already knowing him as pure innocence . . . shudder.
AFA short Stories, I think I'd have to go with the Raft. The ending was a total shock.
Lots of scenes in his other work scared the crapola out of me, but for overall works, I'll go with these two.

[Heather]

"It" scared me on the first reading when I was teen. I also, remember being scared after reading "Salem's Lot".

[Janie]

For Pet Sematary the book did not really scare me, but it was sooo sad. I just watched the movie and they did real well with it, of course the screenplay was by King, so that helps. The movie did scare me a bit more than the book though.

[Felina]

I haven't been scared by one of his books until Bag of Bones but that has a lot to do with the fact that I recently started living by myself.

I didn't think The Shining was remotely scary just extremely interesting. And I agree that the tunnel scene in The Stand scared me. The part with the wolves in the Colorado pass scared me as well.

There have been a couple of moments in the DT books that had me a little concerned though I don't recall what they were.

I am much more effected by movies. I'm extremely visual and I usually have a hard time with horror flicks.

[Christopher]

http://www.cracked.com/article_19360_...

At the bottom of that page (#4 on the list) is a supposed equation for what makes the perfect horror story. What do you guys think?

[Tom]

Christopher, go ahead and do the math on oh, say a half dozen random horror tales and let us know the results. we'll then tell you if it seems right.

[Gryph]

Angie wrote: "Which book of King's scared you the most? "

Definitely Cujo!!! I, unwisely, decided to try reading it at a time when I was ~petrified~ of dogs to begin with. Add that to the fact that a rabid dog going completely off the rails isn't that out of the ordinary, and I was completely terrified. Couldn't even finish it -- haven't tried again to this day.

[Jennifer]

Pet Sematary was definitely the scariest for me, but I thought the movie was terrible. The book was so frightening... I felt like I was there with him walking up those fallen trees (or whatever they were.. it was so long ago when I read it), but he couldn't look... just had to know how to step... guided by something unseen... something evil... and I remember very well one image... he thought he was seeing things while he was walking (and couldn't look down) and saw the face of a monster or a spirit, and it stuck out it's tounge and from one of the tastebuds crawled a worm... very vivid in my mind... couldn't shake that image for a long time!

[Gatorman]

Pet Sematary. Hands down.

[Dan]

Gotta be Pet Semetary. It was the one that he shelved because he thought he went too far. Wikipedia: King wrote the novel based on their experiences, but feeling he had gone too far with the subject matter of the book it became the first novel he "put away" on the advice of his wife Tabitha and friend, author Peter Straub. King reluctantly submitted it for publication only after Doubleday insisted on receiving a final book due on his contract. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Seme...

But man I thought some of the stories in Full Dark No Stars were amazingly scary and realistic. "Big Driver" sucked me in. Also "N" is definitely one of his scariest stories.

[Bob]

Pet Sematary and Salem's Lot. I had to keep looking over my shoulder as I read those two books and if I heard a strange noise I was hoping it wasn't the dead coming back to life and visiting me. :)

[Bob]

Kathryn wrote: "Where is "N" featured?"

It's in his collection Just after Sunset and also there is a graphic novel of it with some fantastic artwork in it.

[Angie, Constant Reader]

Gatorman wrote: "Pet Sematary. Hands down."

oh really? interesting! It didn't scare me .. but I loved this book!

[Angie, Constant Reader]

Bob wrote: "Kathryn wrote: "Where is "N" featured?"

It's in his collection Just after Sunset and also there is a graphic novel of it with some fantastic artwork in it."

I just loved N. Now that was scary!

[Bob]

Angie wrote: "Bob wrote: "Kathryn wrote: "Where is "N" featured?"

It's in his collection Just after Sunset and also there is a graphic novel of it with some fantastic artwork in it."

I just loved N. Now that ..."

Yes it was rather spooky as King made it seem so realistic it seemed plausible that it could happen. It was so vivid in my mind as I was reading it. King is such a good story teller. His words just suck you in out of your world into his.

[KansasOVGirly]

I have to say this for me was the scariest b/c she was so batsh*t crazy from page one. Some of his others are spooky but since the events in them can't happen I don't find them as scary.

[Anubhav]

I think the novel "IT" is preety creepy...the scene where Ben Hanscom first confronts Pennywise freaked me out because I have this fear of strangers and that scene for some reason trigerred my Xenophobia..Ben Hanscom is walking alone one cold winter night and he sees a phantom shape in front of him and the very next he finds pennywise just below him grabbing at his foot....totally creepy

[John]

The Shining.

[Veronica]

Pet Semetary and the Shining really freaked me out. I grew in a luxury high rised building with a hallway that resembled the description from the Shining. For weeks I was afraid to wait for the elevators thinking I may see the twins. LOL

[Jackie]

the only one that really scared me was the shining. that was only because I was 16 and staying in a hotel by myself for a basketball tournament. my parents weren't there and I had the room to my self. I slept with the bathroom light on!

[Matthew]

I think Gerald's Game is pretty creepy. Imagine being tied up and then realize there's a serial killer standing in the corner leering at you. That freaked me out for a while whenever it was time to turn the lights out.

[Joe]

Either Gerald's Game or Duma Key, both definitely had creepy moments

[Stepheny]

IT was super creepy. I would stay up late reading it and not wanting to go to bed because that would involve moving from the safety of the couch. I just felt like IT was going to show up on the other side of the door, or come crawling out of the sink or from underneath my bed....That book just creeped me out! LOL I totally loved it though! haha. ALso, Pet Semetary was incredibly scary! The parts where he was going up to the cemetery itself, the reality of the father losing his mind over Gage's death....all of it was scary. Salem's Lot had me creeped out for weeks- I was only 13 or so when I read it and haven't yet reread it so....LOL BUT any scene with Junior in Under the Dome was scary as hell.... that guy remains to be the most terifying character to me....he just wigs me out bad! LOL

[Gaby]

Salem's lot!
I read it when I was 18 and I was really scared to watch outside my window..

[Tee]

Pet Semetary, It, and Misery are awesome AND scary all at the same time. I slept with the lights on for all of these books.

[Bondama]

By far, the most frightening book Stephen King ever wrote is "Gerald's Game." And there is a very good reason for this. "Gerald's Game" is based firmly in reality (other than her "hallucinations.")

To people who ask me "why do you read so many scary books?" My standard answer has become -"Whereas I don't truly expect a Vampire or a Werewolf to move next door, there IS the very real possibility to "run into" a serial killer or, far worse, a pedophile.

[Stepheny]

Bondama wrote: "By far, the most frightening book Stephen King ever wrote is "Gerald's Game." And there is a very good reason for this. "Gerald's Game" is based firmly in reality (other than her "hallucinations...."

The reality in a lot of King's work is often more terrifying than the "monsters" he creates. The most terrifying scene to me in IT was when Henry Bowers and his gang are getting ready to probably rape and or kill Bev and have a knife pulled on her and the old man sitting on his porch sees it and turns away and goes inside....that never left me. The reality is though that so many people DO turn away in those cases instead of intervening and that terrified me!

[JC]

The book that scared me the most was Gerald's Game. (view spoiler)[ To be in her situation, completely in her own mind; to helplessly watch the dog eat her husband, then wake up to see that thing! (hide spoiler)]

[Holly]

It is in my top 5.....

[Squire]

The Shining. Read it when I was 14 and I didn't sleep without nightmares for a long time. Pet Semetary is a distant second.

[Tash]

Squire wrote: "The Shining. Read it when I was 14 and I didn't sleep without nightmares for a long time. Pet Semetary is a distant second."

I think I was about 14 when I first read it too. For me the fear was superseded by my obssession with abandoned and deserted buildings. That's my dream!

[Vashti]

I would have to say "It" by Stephen King traumatized me when I read it. I still don't like clowns!

[Holly]

It was seriously scary.

[[deleted user]]

Gerald's Game by far. N. was scary too. (It's in Just After Sunset)

[[deleted user]]

IT and Gerald's Game scared me the most, with Pet Sematary coming in a close third.

[Squire]

The Shining and Ghost Story scared the crap out of me and still freaked me out 30 years later when I reread them.

I'm about to embark on a reread of Pet Sematary, so we'll see how that one goes.

[Carol]

Salem's Lot

[Scott]

I actually put down Pet Semetary (Gage under the bed) and Gerald's Game (in the corner with the basket) Uggh!!!! I still can't believe that as an adult, I had to stop reading because I was scuurred! Yea, the big man got scared...what? What!?!

[Malina]

IT by far!

[DJ]

I would have to agree the Malina. IT kept me up at night on many occasions, as well as, lose my love for clowns. I will never look at them the same way again. Lol =-)

[Tim]

Scott wrote: "I actually put down Pet Semetary (Gage under the bed) and Gerald's Game (in the corner with the basket) Uggh!!!! I still can't believe that as an adult, I had to stop reading because I was scuurr..."

Mine was Gerald's Game as she was peeling her hand to attempt to escape the habdcuffs...

[Bondama]

"Gerald's Game" without a doubt. This is something that could REALLY HAPPEN -- at the same time, I don't expect Mr. Barlow to bump into me at the mall!