In the spirit of the season, what is the scariest book you ever read?
In the spirit of the season, what is the scariest book you ever read?
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In the spirit of the season, what is the scariest book you ever read?
Exorcist.
I just read the most hilarious thing about the exorcist book earlier today, I wish I could find it. I’ll do my best to recreate it. :
“So my mom said the exorcist was the scariest book she had ever read. She didn’t even finish it, before she took it out to the ocean and threw it in to get rid of it.
I went and bought a new copy, ran it under the faucet, and placed it on her bedside table.
My dad told me that night she shrieked and passed out. I’m going to hell for this I know, but I couldn’t help it!”
@Tyra
@Julie ?? thank you ??
Apartment 16
The broken girls
The Entity & The Exorcist
The shining
It.
IT
Intensity by Dean Koontz and the Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill. Just finished the HSB today.
@Julie Intensity is good!
What to expect when you’re expecting
The Cat in the Hat.
The Exorcist. Hands down. Still disturbs me to this day, especially with the audiobook.
The Mist
House
Silence of the Lambs
The Demonologist by Ed and Lorraine Warren. And it’s non-fiction. I didn’t think I would make it through.
I love watching shows about them! I didn’t know they had a book!
@Kelli definitely worth reading. With the lights on. And a Bible. ?
@Vicki Oh my goodness! I will have to look it up!
Curfew by Phil Rickman. Kept me awake.
Also Ghost Story by Peter Straub.
@Dugan I second this!!
@Samantha I re-read it recently—still scary as hell!
Any cookbook
Pet Cemetery was pretty creepy.
Pet cemetery
Red dragon
@The
It — I read it when I was too young.
any of Junji Ito’s work is really really unsettling
The Passage.
Best best best best trilogy ever
The Girl In the Box.
So scary!!!! I haven’t come across anyone else that s read this !
@Maxine took me a month before I could sleep again.
Who is the author?
@Samantha I don’t remember. Did you try typing it in?
It’s Perfect Victim by Christine McGuire and Carla Morton
Heart shaped box by Joe hill
I didn’t know Joe hill was Stephen Kings son till recently lol
tried this , cannot get into it 🙁
@Teresa mee too! But loved loved LOVED nos4a2. And also fireman.
@Charla horns is a good one also
i won 2 copies of fireman…me and spouse will do “bookclub”…we did that with ready player one, he and i both loved it
own…not won hahahah
James Herbert – The Rats
Scary Stories to tell in the dark
The Shining, but it was more the context than anything – alone in a very old large French town house, over the weekend with all other residents away, and freezing cold so reading huddled up in my quilt around the tiniest bit of heat coming from the radiator. Scared myself silly!
Yes! I read it under similar circumstances and it scared the crap out of me. Only mr king could make landscaping terrifying
Thank you everyone for your suggestions. ♥️
The Keep
The little stranger @Suzy
Sslems lot
What the night knows by dean (koons)
IT
books of blood, clive barker
‘Suffer the Children’ by John Saul
Salems lot
Salems Lot
Helter Skelter
MISERY” Steven King I know not scary as much as others he wrote but I have difficulty reading gore & cruelty!
Horror books don’t really scare me. I find a well written book about people hiding from the Nazi’s in world 2 scares me. If the author really makes you care about the characters you feel the tension.
Tommyknockers
Dracula.
Needful things. Because the lengths people will go to get what they want is frightening.
The Amityville Horror – true story! ?
The Stand. The Other
The girl next door. True and horrific
“Gymnasium” L A Wheelon.
Handmaids Tale
The Exorcist
Salem’s Lot or The Stand
Salem’s Lot is very scary. So is The Cabin at the End of the World.
The shining
Suffer the Children by John Saul Still creeps me out