What are some of the scariest books you have read and what were they about? Trying to find something that is very scary.
What are some of the scariest books you have read and what were they about? Trying to find something that is very scary.
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You might want to try John Saul.
And Poe of course!
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
Amen
Or Salem’s Lot, my favorite King book.
Desperation freaked me out
Yeah Desperation was kind of crazy! LOL
Cujo also good
or his son Joe Hill’s book NOS4R2
@Belinda Cujo is my next read!! I should be starting it sometime this week. Oh, just in time for school to start. Hopefully I sleep peacefully with the dog in the bed next to me. ?
Freaking anything by Junji Ito. Uzumaki being a good unsettling place to start.
Stephen King’s It kept me up, but I may have read it too young.
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
Misery by Stephen King
The Anomaly by Michael Rutger
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
Saw pet semetary didn’t read the book though. I tried some Poe but a little confusing. Gonna try Stephen King. His books are made into movies which I like the movies but never tried the books yet
The books take the story to a whole new level, i.e. the film The Shining was excellent but the book added a psycological element that took it up several notches.
The Shinning by Steven King. Way better than the movie!
That book will always be my favorite
I actually read the shining prior to watching. That book scared the crap out of me!
@Jessica I read the book before watching the movie. I hated the movie.
@Marge me too. And so did mr king
My answer to this question is always the same… Hell House by Richard Matheson. It’s about a haunted house and literally had me sleeping with a light on as a grown woman lol. Close seconds are The Elementals by Michael McDowell and NOS4A2 by Joe Hill. Bentley Little writes some pretty bizarre and creepy stuff as well.
Ooh might have to try some of these ?
Following!
Some if the Dean Koontz books are scary. Got so wound up reading one that I did something I’ve never done before, or since. I read the last page.
I’ve got a couple tbr on my bookshelf. Never tried any of his stuff before.
The Shining
Son of the endless night hy farris
The Talisman – it just kept getting worse and more scary!
Liz Consentine- I see you!!!!
A disturbing storyv
I thought Salems Lot was scary.
Yes!!
First Stephen King book I ever read…got me hooked!
The Caller by Chris Carter.
Stephen King!
Cujo. The thought of being stuck in a sweltering car and a rabid dog ready to attack if you get out, realistic situation!
Try Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill. He is Stephen Kings son. It’s a ghost story that gave me the creeps!!
Exorcist. I thought the book was so frightening could never watch the movie!
I don’t read scary/horror but I heard Jeff Menapace is a good author in that genre
Poppet by Mo Hayder
I recommend pig island then!
@Sean Not read that one. Might need to add it to my TBR pile xxx
It’s worth adding. Got a very good twist to it.
@Sean Ooooh! Like the sound of that x
What is it about
Little Heaven or the Troop by Nick Cutter. Leaves you feeling sick!
I definitely recommend John Saul for scary books. My favourites are Suffer the Children, Comes the Blind Fury, and When the Wind Blows
The Shining.
The Rats James Herbert
Rosemary’s Baby. I read it late one night when I was all on my own in an hotel corridor, listening out for guests’ children crying. (I was working as a camp counselor in the USA at the time and ‘night patrol’ once a week was part of the job.)
Graham Masterdon is the best horror author ever
The exorcist.
Final Girls by Riley Sager
Any of the Roy Grace series by Peter James. They absolutely terrified me!
It and Dreamcatcher.
The rats and the fog
The Exorcist!
Don’t really do scary so woman in black was enough for me
Mo Hayder and Jo Nesbo are great at scary!
Quite a few of Blake Crouch books are very scary – wayward pines, run, snowbound
Dark Matter br Michelle Paver
IT, bag of bones and Misery by stephen king. very chilling!
What’s bag of bones about
@Mary a man goes to write a book at his cabin and strange things happen. it deals with more supernatural elements. scared the crap out of me.
Hot Zone!!!!!
Authur?
@Mary
@Patricia ok. Thanks!
The Exorcist scared the bejeebers out of me.
It scared me too!
I started reading James Herbert way earlier than I should have. It was an 80’s thing. I think The Fog freaked me out the most. After JH I went knot Steven King, and to this day Needful Things will remain the scariest/ creepiest story ?
An older book by Thomas Tryon, called Harvest Home. Although it is a book of pure horror it starts our quite benign and it really drags you in. Then you and the characters begin to realize it isn’t benign but deadly serious. I loved it in the same way I loved The Shining. Although Harvest Home is more subtle and shocking than The Shining. Cause…you don’t see it coming.
The very scariest book I ever read was The Amityville Horror. It is a TRUE story. https://g.co/kgs/TTHvB6
I have just put this too Judi – I hadn’t read the other comments! Definitely scariest I’ve read!x
I think a lot of scariness has to do with when you’re reading the books really. The last book to creep me out was The Regulators by Stephen King when I was, like, 16; but thinking back now it’s probably not that scary and it was just because it was 1am and everyone else was asleep ?
Whispers, by Dean Koontz, The Girl In the Box, based on a true story.
Two have left an imprint of fear with me. Both by the master, Stephen King. The shining and Salem’s lot.
Misery ….Stephen king the film did not even come close to the book!!!
I found Jay Asher’s book on Amityville Haunting quite scary, though I was a lot younger when I read it!x