Can i have some recommendations for really creepy books. Like no sleep causing books
Can i have some recommendations for really creepy books. Like no sleep causing books
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Can i have some recommendations for really creepy books. Like no sleep causing books
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Ania Ahlborn’s Brother is one of my favorites. Just the right amount of disturbing for me ?
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The House on Cold Hill by Peter James.
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@Natalie who’s the author?
Yes, so many books called Following.
Oh, Okay!!!!
I don’t like horror but Dark Matter by Michelle Paver kept my flatmate up all night.
@Charlotte I loved this.
The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
This is my recommendation as well!
I’m hard to freak out but I had to take a break from listening to that one for a couple days at a certain point.
The Highway by CJ Box.
Amityville horror by Jay Anson… so freaking scary! And supposedly a true story
Most of Blake Crouch’s books will keep you up at night
Except dark matter, good book but a lot of scientific words used lol
@Martina oh I liked that too
Anything by Stephen King especially Pet Cemetery
The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule was nightmarish. It’s a true crime book about Ted Bundy. Scary guy!
I love true crime, now I have to find this!
@Jennie I love Ann Rule. True crime is my favorite. I can’t imagine working with someone you find out later was such a savage person. The most twisted true crime I’ve read are about Ed Gein. Really sick stuff.
@Julie, Ann Rule is my favorite true crime writer. The Stranger Beside Me actually gave me nightmare! That dude was twisted! You have any other authors you like that writes true crime?
@Jennie I have not found another author like Ann Rule. I will look for books about a specific killer and read those. I have every book Ann Rule has written and have read them at least twice. The 3 killers I have studies are (my 1st choice) Charles Manson, Ed Gein and Wayne Gacy. I spent 13 years in WI. Some of the most evil killers grew up in or spent time inWI (Gacy, Dahmer, Capone and Gein). I blamed the cheese.
@Julie, have you read this?
@Jennie yes. I’ve read almost everything about Manson. Society needs to figure out the warning signs of deviant people or there will be more Mansons, Dahmers Bundys. I wanted to work for the BAU from jr high. We need to figure these people out.
I CANNOT stress this enough: Clive Barker.
The Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
@Ellie I was going to say this too ?
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@Stefanie can you tell me the author’s name?
No I mean I’m following this post lmao
@Stefanie I’m an airhead. It’s not even the first time I was told that ???????
The Troop by Nick Cutter
@Lee I was going to say the same. ??
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The Fog by James Herbert
IT by Stephen King
Don’t wake up by liz lawyer creepy af
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
STILL scary as hell!
I’ll be gone in the dark by Michelle macnamera. I love true crime, but I could only read a few chapters at a time because I was convinced some random nightstalker would break in ?
@Leslie I just started this based on your comment & holy hell it’s way better than I thought it was gonna be. Creepy is right!
The End of Alice by A. M. Homes.
Not horror scary but super creepy and disturbing.
Curfew by Phil RIckman. I stayed up with this one, plus Stephen King recommends it.
Oh yeah, that one was creepy.
The lost by Natasha Preston
Haha! I thought you said crappy not creepy
@AJ lmao
‘The Stand’ and ‘It’.
Haunted by James Herbert
The fog by James Herbert
Magic cottage by James Herbert
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Mothman prophecies
Pale Immortal – Anne Frasier
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Stephen King? I got nothing else I tend to avoid them. Though if I do I go for old folktales ect. Those things are freaky.
Robert McCammon’s Mathew Corbett series. The first book is called Speaks the Nightbird. He eases the reader in…it just gets creepier and creepier as the series progresses.
@Sandy hi.great writer. Stinger. Swansong. And Boys life . classics
@Brian I’ve read Swan Song and loved it.
I thought that was his best book. Have listened to it so many times.
Hands down, best “creepy” book!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/343
This was also a good movie!
I don’t think it would keep you up at night, aside from you wanting to keep reading though. One of my all time favorites.
Sharp Object, its seriously weird and creepy!
‘Full dark no stars’ Stephen King
@Sarah Yes! I was just thinking about this. I think Big Driver is one of the scariest stories I’ve ever read. It totally creeped me out.
@Laura I couldn’t sleep after reading it ?
@Laura and the one with the rats… ??
The Winter People
Geralds game
Silence of the lambs and the exorcist
Salems Lot by Stephen King
Tampa lol
I just The Farm by Amy Cross. Super super creepy!
The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay, I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Ian Reid, The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
How about ghost books?
Oh my LOL. I am not that brave
The devils of d-day graham masterton
@Brian GREAT book. I love Masterton.
TR Regan writes some creepy books
The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell, gave me the heebie-jeebies!
@Gillian and the corset is fantastic by her too. Not super scary but the concept is.
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Stoker’s Manuscript by Royce Prouty
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The writer Chris carter
@Helen do u recommend one to start with by chance?
He is a good writer. I enjoyed The Crucifix Killer.
@Laura My 1st was The Caller.It was so good i am investing in all of the others.
@Cathy thanks!
Helter Skelter!
Not sure I’ve come across any and horror is my favourite genre. But I guess the paranormal can be quite scary. But Graham Masterton can be quite creepy. Prey was good. Charnal House. The Manitou series.
My Absolute Darling-Gabriel Tallent
@Charlotte this is on my list – is it good?
Oh yes it is. However, it is important to know that it includes a father abusing his daughter before you begin as otherwise it comes as an extremely sickening surprise. Having said that, both my husband and I couldn’t put it down. Its one of those unusual thrillers that is composed by someone who can actually write.
@Charlotte thank you for the warning – I think I was aware when I put it on my list, but it’s v kind of you to warn regardless. And good to know it’s worth reading too. I’m not a big thriller reader but will move this up the list on your rec. thanks again.
Anything Stephen King. ‘Salems Lot gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Me too. Tried to read it a few times but never get very far
@Jane vampires….I do NOT like vampires!!
Me neither!
The Troop by Nick Cutter
@Jason is this a slow burn or is it fast paced?
@Laura faced paced, quick, creepy read
He has on called The Deep too, equally disturbing
@Jason thanks ?
I thought this was terrible! Just my opinion, though. Not scary!
Iain Rob Wright has pretty many good ones.
Oh wow I don’t think I would read those
I don’t read a lot of creepy books but I child theif and krampus by Brom are really good. He even draws his own graphics in the books of the characters. He is awesome.
I love Jonathan Maberry’s Pine Deep series. Start with Ghost Road Blues. I have also enjoyed Bentley Little. Stephen King is the master.
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Fever Dream,The Cabin at the End of the World.
The Ed and Lorraine Warren books are good
Anyone they will all terrify you
Def not for me those books but Karen Rose ‘Scream for me’
The Troop by Nick Cutter. This one really freaked me out because it could happen in real life.
@Kirsty a good book!
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‘Let the right one in’
Loved it!!!
The exorcist
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Chris Carter’s Detective Robert Hunter series. Very gory.
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Rats by James Herbert I’ve tried a few times but can’t read it gives me the jitters
@Loui so good
Gone But Not Forgotten, by Phillip Margolin
It
U will never go wrong with Stephen King
Thinner by Stephen King
Stephen kings older books i reccommend the stand or the shinning
Ask my sister Marianne! The more creepy the better! Not me!! I would never sleep!
An anonymous girl
The Merciless by Danielle Rollins
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Sharp Objects, Room
I am currently reading The Troop and I feel like I have done something horribly wrong
@Sarah Good book!
I need this too!!!
The Ritual by Adam Neville
Cujo by Stephen King
After the Change by Michael J Moore or Joyland by Stephen King
Read birdbox!! Holy cow
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The Chalk Man by C J Tudor
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Alchemist by Peter James
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I couldn’t sleep whilst reading The Thirst by Jo Nesbo.
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Intensity by Dean Koontz