Leading up to Halloween What is the scariest book you have read or your favourite horror book?
Leading up to Halloween What is the scariest book you have read
or your favourite horror book?
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IT by Stephen King.
I don’t think that I have ever been scared by a book. I really like Meat from the Leeds author, Michael Bray.
As a child A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
I’m currently reading ‘The Haunting of Hill House’ & it’s the best Halloween read ever ?
Is that a TV show too?
Yes, which is apparently brilliant, will watch it after I’ve finished the book to compare x
@A.j. I thought it sounded familiar. Horror is not my thing ??
Got to be The Shining
@Judith omg the woman in the bathtub ….
The book terrified me. Even scarier than the film if that’s at all possible!
@Judith yes because portraying those things on the screen can make them look ridiculous but the mind works it’s own tricks
Absolutely!
Is this by Steven king?
It is. Scary scary book…
@Judith I have his new book arriving from Amazon today. Hope it’s up to standard. I loved Mr Mercedes. His latest is called Elevation.
I have had this sitting in my bookshelf for years but never got around to it. Now I’m keen.
@Danial you definitely should read IT
I love Steven king, have read a fair few of his books. Same as Dean Koontz.
@Danial I’ve read most of theirs. Particularly enjoyed Intensity and Lightning by Dean Koontz, 2 of his earlier ones
@Lynda , I love odd Thomas, have read all but the last 2.
@Danial me too!
@Danial Both excellent authors
@Danial omg…Odd Thomas…forgot about them!
Christine by Stephen king freaked me out for years! I think I read it when I was 8 and it scared the pants off me. The only book in adulthood I can recall is the craftsmen by Sharon Bolton. I was reading it in the dark in an empty house and had to stop a couple of times cos it was CREEPY
Red Dragon. Sooo atmospheric. And IT gave me a few sleepless nights
Silence of the lambs.
I put my hands up! I have never read a horror book, but, some books I’ve read could be categorised as horror
Snap, @Susan I haven’t either but need to try reading one x
@Audrey I’ve promised myself I will read Misery by Stephen King this year, yet I keep finding something else to read ??
That’s so true @Susan x
The Magic Cottage by James Hebert
So long ago a Dean R Koontz THE FOG
This is great. Seeing books I’ve read many years ago brings back so many memories. And to think they stir such feelings. All hail the power of books ???
Dark Matter by Michele Paver. It’s a strange clever book because it just seems to feed into your own fears and subconscious, the tension and atmosphere…..wow!
@Lisa your description of the book is scaring me! ??
Anything by Stephen King or Dean Koontz
I don’t read or watch horror, I’m too much of a baby! ?
@Dee I don’t either, yet we’ve read some books that have horrific events and murders!
I know, it’s daft really! It’s being made to jump out of my skin I can’t handle!
Pet Cemetery . xx
Love Pet Cemetery
Think I may actually dig out my copy and re read it for this week ! xx
Desperation by Stephen King
Rosemary’s Baby. Got so I couldn’t actually turn the page to see what happened next …
The Exorcist and the movie was fairly true to the book…
Gerry O’Donnell I’ve not read the book but I did go to see the film when I was a teenager. I remember waiting in the queue to enter the cinema and staff passed out letters to us warning those of a nervous disposition . Terrified me!
From memory there were two ‘jump’ moments, the homeless man in the subway when the train comes and the phone ringing when the priest is trying to decipher the recording. Both Sound innocuous, but you had to be there…and be a teenager ?
@Gerry the head turning and vomiting certainly made me jump!
That was normal teenage behaviour Susan ?
Scariest book is Carrie by Stephen King, because it touched on some of my phobias.
Dracula, the first horror book I read and still in top place. ?
Defo this one in my teens. Dracula second.
You might like this – scariest books as chosen by horror authors. http://www.lounge-books.com/award-winners-we-lov/horror-lounge-blog-most-terrifying
The Shining is the scariest . No favourites ?
Nothing has scared me. Dracula is by far my all time favourite.
Pet Sematary by Stephen King – gives me shivers just thinking about it!
Years ago I read a lot of Stephen King and Dean Koontz and they both had some scary books.
Needful Things by Stephen King x
Salems lot, the shining and pet cemetery.
Stephen King seems to be the master of terror judging by these comments.
@Beth his new book is out today – Elevation
Gerald’s Game by Stephen King. There’s a section in there that left me unable to breathe.
The secret of crickley hall by James Herbert couldn’t finish it too scared lol
@Karen you really should finish the book.
The Shining, stayed up until 2a.m to finish reading it becasue I was too scared to leave it!
I don’t read horror really
@Pauline Me neither
@Susan x
My Tax Demand by Inland Revenue, really creepy and scary ?
James Herbert’s Portent.. It didn’t scare me but l did keep looking up at the sky for a long time after.
All Stephen King books that I have read are horrific..apart from his most recent. The one that stands out the most for me is Misery…and the film was gruesome… loved it
@Diane I’ve never read a book by Stephen King so I have bought Misery as I’ve seen the film and loved it too
I do hope you enjoy it Susan. The old Stephen King books are the best for me and really terrifying…all great films too… Christine and Cujo are to name just a couple more (put your feet on the sofa) ???
@Diane I’ve watched very few films based on his books.
Salem’s Lot
@Mike just re-reading this and it still gives me the same chills after several years
Same here
The Secret of Crickley Hall by James Herbert
A lot of Stephen King’s short fiction is really scary! Here There Be Tygers in the Skeleton Crew volume has always stayed with me.
I find many of his novels a tad long winded.
I like crime. but I am really, really bad with scary books and movies….
@Debbie Me too!
An awful lot of Crime writers also have a foot in the horror camp. @Paul for example, and of course Peter James started out writing horror fiction.
Read a book called “Let’s go play at the Adam’s House” Absolutely horrible… evil. The only book I’ve EVER burnt… Didn’t want it in the house and wouldn’t give it away. ???
Beneath the watery moon – pretty horrific moments – actually take pretty out of that
@Alexina yes I’ve read that. Bit depressing
Rosemarys baby
Inferno Park by JL Bryan. I had to keep remembering to breathe.
British insects ….The Stag beetle it terrifies me and has done since one got stuch on my finger when I was 3
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.
Oh I want to read this one
Rats by James Herbert,can’t read it at night.
King – Firestarter
Cabal by Clive Barker – a serial killer psychatrist with A mask with button eyes and a zip mouth. Ruined Zippy on Rainbow and Coraline for me…
The Unblemished by Conrad Williams…
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Also you must read Bird Box by Josh Malerman… terrifying.
IT by steven king
Insomnia by Stephen King
My Soul To Keep by Tananarive Due.
I get chills whenever I read ‘The Judges House’ by Bram Stoker