Has any book actually managed to scare anyone or creep them out? If so what book?
Has any book actually managed to scare anyone or creep them out? If so what book?
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Has any book actually managed to scare anyone or creep them out? If so what book?
The Exorcist.
Reading it again when I’m done with ‘Salem’s Lot.
@Brian you are a brave man. I will never ever read it again! No joke, lost sleep for 2 weeks
Burn This Book, by Clive Barker. One of the darker books on my book shelf, definitely creepy.
We need to talk about Kevin.
Didn’t read this but the movie disturbed me deeply.
First book that really freaked me out in the end, actually, I threw the book.
This book almost ensured I didn’t have kids. I was that freaked out.
I started reading a book about school shootings, this is where it ends I think it was called, I couldn’t finish. It was just too realistic
I literally JUST saw the movie. The mother and son were great in it. I have the book but haven’t read it yet
lol is better, but worse!
Omg. Nathaniel by John Saul. Threw my book across the room
I read 1 john saul book scared me so bad i refuse to read anymore
I loved him. Until i had kids. Can’t read them anymore
23 Minutes in Hell…I was never the same after reading it.
It by Stephen King. I couldn’t go to the toilet at night for years without turning on the lights and checking every drain…..
My sister rosa. About a child psychopath
Weaveworld by Clive Barker.
Gerald’s games…Stephen King.
That’s my vote-Gerald’s Game
The first time I read it….the hair stood up on my arms. Creepy!
@Kristi , I’ve never had a book scare me like that. Ever.
The Tommyknockers by Stephen King.
Come Closer, by Sara Gran. Creepy factor was seriously high for me.
Yeah this one was definitely creepy. I read it in one sitting.
Me too, and have been flogging it to others when they ask about horror stories ever since.
Pet Semetary by Stephen King…..years on I wish I’d never read it !
This is the only book that made me physically ill when I read it.
Gone – A tale from one of the DragonLance Novels.. Creepy..
Pet cemetery. But I was also 12.
Stephen King. It’s great while I’m reading. Then there’s dreamtime and dark nights home alone…
House of Leaves
The Girl Next Door
Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill.
Dreamcatcher by Stephen King
It’s always there in the back on my mind and I legitimately still have dreams about it.
Bird Box
Birdman by Mo Hayder.
Geralds Game gave me nightmares for years. And I read It when I was pregnant and had horrible dreams that my baby would be born with big, awful teeth ?
I was pregnant and taking some seriously strong cough medicine while I had pneumonia when I read Duma key. It TERRIFIED ME.
I love how many Stephen King books are in this thread ?
The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
Dracula as I’m scared of vampires ?
314 by A. R. Wise… very scary! Gave me nightmares
Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Esp when you are young.
Loved that book
Still Life with Crows and Relic (both by Lincoln and Child) 🙂
Where the Wild Things Are. That and Peter Rabbit. Used to have terrible nightmares about Mr McGregor….
Intensity by Dean Koonz
Omg this one is terrifying.
@Jenny wasn’t it.
The Handmaid’s Tale
Is this like the tv show?
Flowers in the Attic, It. Never read any thing else from either of them.
Geralds Game by Stephen king
The Shining and some of John Saul’s
For some reason The Handmaids Tale freaked me out..
The Caller by Chris Carter
Anything by Darcy Coates. Bird Box by Josh Malerman gave me weird dreams.
It by Stephen King ?
Read it when I was younger and still gives me the creeps from time to time. It was the first book that scared the hell out of me.
The Exorcist…..read it one day….. I also loved The Amityville Horror back in the day….
The Exorcist is my favorite movie and an excellent book
Thanks everyone! You guys gave me more books to add to my “to read” list 🙂
Pet Cementary
Birdman by Mo Hayder
Yes , I had to take breaks from reading. But it was good
Misery, but the movie was just stupid.
Piercing the darkness by Frank Perretti
The Last Days of Jack Sparks, Hell House.
Any math book ever
Me too!
@Book @Debby that’s cause it’s mental abuse to humans
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
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The Rats read it when I was 12. I’ll never pick it up again ?
Yes!!!!!! I totally forgot about that one!
House of Leaves is a bit unsettling
I’ve been waiting to read that.
Room by Emma Donoghue gave me nightmares.
The Rape of Nanking and Machete season. Both nonfiction.
Books don’t scare me. I’m kind of unscareable lol. One of my favorite books that many find disturbing is “American Psycho”
The ink run
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Wolfen
The house of darkness/house of light. Actually had to stop reading it.
The Omen.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy and Mr Was by Pete Hautman and The Gingerbread Girl (short story) by Stephen King.
Adotion..can’t remember writer but its about adopting a kid..turns out the kid was created in a lab and has very weird powers
Dracula when I was a teenager at school.
The Amityville Horror
Years ago when I got obsessed with horror literature I got The hunter of darkness, Nathaniel Hothorn (if I am spelling it right). It’s not even a book, it’s a small group of stories… I got so scared I closed the window and went to sleep…
People say my stories are creepy. London’s Crawling in the Dark Minds anthology gained the most shudders, with readers saying they couldn’t cross the Millennium Bridge without looking over their shoulder.
Unfortunately, not yet. I’m still trying to find that one that scares me, or makes the hairs stand up.
Salems Lot,Flowers In The Attic.
Not too scary but did give me a horrible nightmare… behind closed doors
Michelle knight’s finding me (memoir) true story, super creepy! Specially since it really happened
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith.
Pet Cemetery
Yup you Damn r8 … after read that,I didn’t ground my be loving death dog when it die but cremation it.
Heart shaped box by Joe Hill (S. King’s son)
Following
Let’s go play at the Adams’….. horrible book that always stayed with me.
Oooo the silent companions laura purcell. Spooooky stuff that book
The Shining by Stephen King
@Katy
The stand by Stephen King
Same here… Not the typical scare scenes, though… Glen Bateman’s speech about society… One of the truest, scariest statements ever…
The Bad Place by Dean Koontz.
I’m Thinking of Ending Things~Iain Reid
Was it good? It’s been on my list for a while.
@Jenny , really quick to read, creepy, thriller! I read it twice in 2 days. Want to read it again. It is going to be a Netflix movie soon.
@Mena so I bought on Amazon to be delivered on Saturday. I read the sample that downloaded to my phone….just a few short pages and I went back to Amazon, cancelled my order and reordered as a kindle book (even though more expensive, which is weird) just so I can read it RIGHT NOW. Omg the sense of dread and doom and I’m only 15 pages in….just what my rainy day off from work called for! Thanks for the recommendation.
@Mena just finished the book. I loved and was so creeped out by 3/4 of the book. Not a fan of the ending. Sort of fell flat for me. The original premise of the book and seeing that through would have been much creepier to me. But I was edge of my seat reading the entire time.
most of stephen king books creep me out big time! Misery, The Stand, It, Desperation, Apt pupil, Gerald’s game, to name a few.. i plan to read more stephen king books this year.
Salems’ Lot.
Yes it’s the book the historian
This book is actually YA and I have never been scared by a book before and I have read a lot of creepy books but nothing that scared me. Now that I have read a book that was actually scary I am looking for more that are scary.
The Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich
Horns by Joe Hill
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Pet semetary
A Wolf At The Table by Augusten Burroughs.
The ending of Misery creeped me out as well.
Omg yes !!!!!
Me to
The Association by Bentley Little
Never read any of his book’s yet. But how’s his writing? To be my first, which one should I read?
I only read that one. I liked it until the end. It became to creepy for me.
Ok thank you
1984..
Voices by Trula Lacalle!
It wasn’t scary by any means but it creeped me out. True story about a psychiatrist and a man with DID disorder. It’s one of those books I think about almost everyday even a year after reading it.
Ghost Story by Peter Strain creeped me out a little.
Oh that’s on my tbr list! Yay!
Really good book
Straub not Strain!
Yeah, a couple of textbooks from school, ah specially the price. ?
For real!
Dont close your eyes by Robert Ross
The Woman in Black was pretty scary.
Rosemary’s Baby
The red dragon and silence of the lambs.
Naomi’s Room gave me goosebumps multiple times.
I had to stop reading Salem’s Lot. I tried again with Night Shift. Sorry, Mr. King, I just got too creeped out. Very creeped out. Very, very creeped out. (I think you’ve got the point!)
Some people have reported goosebumps from reading “House of Leaves” by Mark Danielewski. I, personally, never have, but then again “out of sight; out of mind” has never scared me, either.
I read that. I didn’t think it was that creepy but when I think about it now, it really kind of is!
HOUSE of Leaves, creeped me out… So far that’s the only book???
‘The Long Walk’ Stephen King.
The Mist by Stephen King!
Shining by Mr King
The ending of King’s “Revival” chilled me to the bone.
That was a weird ending…
Whitley Streibers books of UFOs
Zodiac by Robert Graysmith
Cuthulu , Lovecraft ?
Really, nope I loved that book
I love them too , but this creeped me out.?
The Dark Half by Stephen King, I stopped reading and have never finished, but then I am a wimp ??
Was it the description of what was in his brain? I recently tried to read it and had to stop. I was traumatized!
Yeah that was certainly part of it, it was so horrible to think about, that combined with the psychological stuff was too much for me ??
Stephen King’s The Stand. Too close to reality these days!!
The Amityville Horror. At the time I read it, I believed the story to be true.
Helter Skelter
Salem’s Lot……had to sleep with lights on!!!!!!!!!!1
Haven’t read that one yet
Currently rereading. It’s one of my favorites.
The Apartment by S.L. Grey ?
I just finished that!!
That’s awesome! I’ve read it over 6 times since buying it 2 years ago. Chills me every time, then I cool off and learn to not freak out at shadows under the bed, and then I read it again ?
Gone Girl
Swan Song
Good book
Intensity by Dean Koontz
Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
And Whispers by Dean Koontz
On my tbr list
The quran……
The Exoricst and The Entity.
The exorcist, Ted Bundy the stranger beside me
House of Leaves
Some of James Herberts books are pretty heavy
it was a long time ago, and I don’t remember the title, but I purchased a book which I mistakenly assumed was a biography on the Marquis De Sade, and it turned out to be a book written by him…I got into about 25-30 pages before I stopped, I didn’t know what to do with this book, it was horrifying, I didn’t want it around, so i took scissors and i ripped the pages out and chopped each page in pieces as tiny as I possibly could while my daughter watched horrified and confused that mommy would actually destroy a book. sometimes I still have a flash of memory and I am horrified all over again.
The 120 Days of Sodom? Just a guess…
Most of Stephen King books scare the crap out of me
The Shining lo these many years ago.
A Head Full of Ghosts-Paul Tremblay
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The Dark by James Herbert – I read it when I was a teenager but I still remember how freaked out I was after I finished it.
The Demon on Brownsville Road and Amittyville Horror. I wouldn’t even attempt to read The Excorcist.
“Rosemary’s Baby” was it for me … reading it alone added to the fright.
I also found Stepford wives by Ira Levin terrifying.
Naomi’s Room by Jonathan Aycliffe. I don’t scare easily with books but this one scared the hell out of me.