Have you ever started reading a horror book and had to stop cause it got too scary?
Have you ever started reading a horror book and had to stop cause it got too scary?
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Have you ever started reading a horror book and had to stop cause it got too scary?
When I read Stephen King’s Misery in HS I had to read a certain scene aloud to my dad to make it through
@Amittyville! i was reading it and just got this feeling that something bad was going to happen if I didn’t stop reading it.
Oh my God. Misery made me feel so much dread. If anyone would have been watching me read it they would have laughed so hard. At one point I got startled and threw the book across the room. lol
Not so much because they were too scary but I have put a few down for getting too morbid. ?
Lol, Yes! I can only read Stephen King’s It when I know my boyfriend is going to spend the night ?
Yeah, the Poe’s ones. The fact that they can happen in real life scares me lol
Aiden James Cove series. Scared me to death haha
Yes. Think it was called The Reaper. I had to stop reading it and wait for my husband to come off nights ?
No but these are the books I want to read. I want to be scared
No, I simultaneously love being scared and am incredibly difficult to scare. So when I actually find something that scares me I get really excited.
@Anna Me too!
I stopped with pet cemetary a few pages in.
It happend to me with the shinning. Por Dios!! That was really scary
The first time I read ‘IT’ by Stephen King x
Due to the traumatic experience of Wattpad, I adamantly refuse to read anything related to the horror genre unless it is a classic ghost story.
@Tiffany was that the name of the book? Now I’m curious. ?
@Shelley I don’t remember any titles specifically, but the horror genre on wattpad is awful. When I was writing on Wattpad a few years ago, there were these purists in the horror community that would claim that anything that didn’t have zombies and vampires in it didn’t classify as horror. It was almost as ridiculous as the historical fiction community at odds with one another about what was considered historical fiction and what didn’t belong in the genre. So many authors left that site because of these idiots drama, myself included.
That is my goal! I have been searching for a book that is actually really scary but I am yet to find one.
I won’t touch it ever. I am not a fan of feeling afraid on purpose, so that’s a big nope for me
If a book has been seriously gruesome I might put it down to gather myself…but then I can’t wait to get going again! Nothing is too scary ?
If any Bookaholics can recommend something very scary I’d love it.
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I had to set down ‘a child called it’. The abuse heaped on this child was hurrendous and disgusting! I finished reading it but sometimes needed a break to recover.
I already knew I wouldn’t be able to read that. I also didn’t want to read that poor Jaycee Dugard’s book. Or, there is one now called Room. No thank you.
@Colleen that is precisely it. “Heaped”. Every time you thought it couldn’t get worse it did.
The Girl Next Door was brutal… I put it down, then picked it back up, then i put it down again and then finished it cause Im not a QUITTER!
I haven’t read it Staci, I read the story, the book is based on, the poor soul, to suffer so much ?
@Paula right! disturbing. I dont think i want to see the movie.
@Staci me neither, the story was enough, I still think the people involved weren’t punished enough x
Pet Cemetery scared me so bad. I will never read that book again. The movie was so stupid and even though it was really stupid it scared me and I had to quit watching it. And this, from someone who has read horror since she was 10.
When I was a kid, I had to have any scary book closed before I went to bed because I had this weird idea that the characters in the book would get out. I guess I read too many books. lol
No. I’ve put books down because there has been no horror or supernatural element and it has bored the cr**out of me. What book has scared you?
When I read “IT”….it literally scared me to the point that I had to walk away from it for a while. ??
i hid the book under my bed!??
@Linda honestly it was terrifying. I read it when I was in about 7th or 8th grade and I couldn’t sleep alone for a month ?
Anything by Stephen King.
The Mephisto Waltz and Tell Tale Heart
no but i hit one against a wall when i was a child it was a book of short stories one of them was called the Feather Pillow by a SouthAmerican author
Yes. Needful Things grossed me out and I had to stop. I was actually nauseated.
@Shelley , really? I’m not demeaning your comment by no means but I wonder what parts you found so horrid?
@Debbie no spoilers!
I loved the book!
@Debbie. I’m wondering as well
All I can think of is maybe the part with the two women knifing eachother. ? That was pretty grim……but tolerable.
What’s tolerable to one person could be sickening to another. It wasn’t my thing.
@Shelley, I totally agree with you. ?
Nope. I always read horror stories in daylight.
Yes Anne Rice❗️
Not yet. I have never found anything really frightening.
YES…..Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
Definitely
Absolutely.
Nope.
No so please share the book if u did 🙂
The last Stephen King book I read was Pet Cemetery. Too scarey for me.
Not really a book but a movie ” The Stand” by Stephen King. People were dying in dozens, it was creepy, I had to stop watching.
Never
I don’t read horror for that reason.
No but I’ve barely dabbled in the genre. If anyone wants to reply with suggestions that’d be cool because I love horror movies and makeup and short stories. Actual novels would be a great addition xx
YES ?
Not scary… Just horrible.
Sometimes I have to stop and take a breather!
not scary but if it is to much sorrow, I have to take a break :'(
never
Pet sematary . I stopped it once nd then was not sure whether I should finish it or not. But then I gathered courage and finished it.
Yes. A recent book that hit 2 close to home about a spouse abusing his wife
The exorcist,the book scared me,and I had to walk out of the movie,couldn’t watch it,too scary. I used to read horror,Stephen King mainly,but can’t anymore.
Nope! I wish this would/could happen to me
Same here
Stephen King has been mentioned quite often in this comment thread. ..go figure ?
Yes, A Stephen King book, it was weekend, was in house by myself, hid it under couch cushions, locked sitting room door, until my housemates came back, they still wind me up over it.
I had to stop reading The Exorcist, it was too creepy.
Yep – Stephen King – Pet Cemetery – scared the crap out of me
Don’t read horror books, Life is scary enough
Never. Wish I would though! Any recommendations?
When I was younger. So I rarely read horror now.
For all of you asking about scary books, we have a Spooky Reads Halloween thread with tons of suggestions. .Pop ‘Spooky Reads’ into the search and it comes right up
However, The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum (I believe) was very disturbing. I had to get it out of my house right after I finished it.
Mr Murderer by Dean Koontz. I could only read it during the day and then only if other people were around. I did finish it, but it took me a long time.
Yes…. I even threw one away because I couldn’t stand to keep it in my house.
Once I even. …. shredded…. a book because there was such a horrific torture scene and I didn’t want anybody else to read it ever.
I am categorically against destroying books and knowledge, so I still feel guilty about it, but I also still agree with my choice
I couldn’t keep ‘Land of Milk and Honey’ in my house. It’s not a horror in the usual sense if the word. It was about the rape camps used in the Bosnian war. I read it…but still wish I hadn’t.
I completely understand. I used to be so ocd that I couldn’t leave a book unfinished, I had to read everything I started. Fortunately, the last few years I’ve been able to just stop reading and let go.
Each person is sensitive to specific things and what you read can definitely haunt you.
Hannibal, I could not get more than a few chapters in before I threw it at my ex and said take it away. LOL
The shining. I couldn’t stand it under my bed.
I read The Shining when I was 11. There were many times I had to put that book down.
Not book related, but does anyone who watched Friends remember when Joey put The Shining in the freezer when it got too scary? ?
@Jennifer I love that episode x
Helfer Skelter when I was 11. Scared the shit out of me!
Nope! What book were you reading?
No
The written word never scares me, only human nature.