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What’s the creepiest book you have ever read? Fiction or nonfiction

What’s the creepiest book you have ever read? Fiction or nonfiction

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Tara

Cold calling!

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MeganQuestion author

What is it about?

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Tara

You will be sorry you asked haha. A guy who is super bored with his life so he decides to steal, kill and eat babies. I received a free copy in exchange for a review…. :-/

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MeganQuestion author

Woooww ?

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Tara

yep! Lol.

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Karri

Following

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Christine

Bird Box by Josh Malerman. So scary.

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Cathy

Loved it.

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Badi

I second that

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MeganQuestion author

It’s on my to buy list lol

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Cassandra

I was disappointed. Sorry ?

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Christi

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Cathy

Origin by Jack Kilborn

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Ashley

Following

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Amrin

Naomi’s Room

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Kylie

Geralds game Stephen King and sublime Christina Lauren.

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Bruce

It

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Christian

Let Me In, by John Ajvide Lindqvist

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Jacquelynn

Dani by angelique Jordonna

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Traci

Helter Skelter

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Patricia

I haven’t read a creepy book for years but i do remember being creeped out by The Rats by James Herbert when I was a teenager.

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Kristen

I don’t read a lot of creepy books so the weirdest one for me would have to be The Uninvited by Tim Wynne-Jones. I read it for a book report in highschool.

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Kismet

I read IT by Stephen King years ago and it scared the bejeebers out of me… The movie just does not compare

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Estherjane

Helter Skelter

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Rose

Pet Cemetery…When I read Pet Cemetery, I quit reading Stephen King for many years…I’m more an old school King fan…Cujo, Dead Zone, The Shining, Firestarter, The Stand, etc…

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Abhinav

The Voice of the Night, by Dean Koontz.

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Ashley

Helter Skelter, I’ll Be Gone on the Dark

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Ann

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

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Shereen

I read in cold blood when I was a15yr old babysitting big mistake…when parents came home I was sitting in chair with a bat in my hand…lol

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Ann

Yeah, I was about 16 and we lived way back in the woods with no nearby neighbors. I’d lay awake at night trying to figure out how I’d get out of the house if I heard something; only problem there was I was terrified of going outside after dark even before I read the book…

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Gecko

The witches by Roald Dahl that book scared the sh*t out of me when I was 9.

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Stephanie

Helter Skelter

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Amy

So far the creepiest book I’m reading right now is called In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods, by Matt Bell. I think it’s one of those acquired taste books. You’ll either be mesmerized by it, or you’ll think it’s a random clusterf*** of terrible writing. Lots of mixed reviews on goodreads, by I’m personally fascinated by it.

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Gregory

Helter Skelter. When I read this as a kid it freaked me out so much that at least night I slept with a knife under my pillow in fear that the Manson family might bust into the house.

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Amy

That’s also in my TBR. I’ve always been fascinated with stuff like that

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Gregory

@Amy It begins compelling but it drags towards the end. I used to read a lot of true crime books but it got depressing to see how a man (and the majority of these lunatics are male) can so little regard for another human so they can satisfy their own psychopathic needs.

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MeganQuestion author

I want to read Helter skelter. But it’s been hard to find

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Brenda

The shoemaker

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Brenna

Daughters Unto Devils by Amy Lukavics. Some of the imagery in this is still with me and it has been 3 years since I have read it.

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Andrea

Pet Cemetery

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Sheryl

Helter Skelter and The Exorcist, but more than any other book, I was terrified by We Need to Talk About Kevin.

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MeganQuestion author

I tried We Need to Talk About Kevin but I couldn’t get thru the 1st chapter. I might give it another go

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Carolyn

Books of Blood but Clive Barker

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Roxie

Yes he can be a creepie writer

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Roxie

Ruins by Scott Smith

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Liz

Me too. I would have run down that hill and let them shoot me.

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Roxie

@Liz right??

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Jolene

Devil in the white city
Erik Larson

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Laura

I agree!

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Liz

Loved Devil in the White City. But… if you have Netflix, there is a short documentary-type thing showing what Holmes did to make some of those women ‘disappear’. I think the title is something like, “The First Serial Killer in America”. It IS creepy.

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Niffer

The Serial Killer Encyclopedia. I didn’t even make it half way through. I had to return it, it was creeping me out so bad.

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Sissy

For me it was Jack the Ripper’s Confessions it was so weird and too much details that i didn’t finished it.

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Amanda

The Bad Place – Dean Koontz was full of real creep factor for me.

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Jessy

Sleeping beauties van King

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Teresa

Helter skelter definitely, probably because it was true.

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MeganQuestion author

I felt the same thing when I read The House of Evil

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Teresa

@Megan , I’ll check that one out thanks. Maybe it will out creep Helter Skelter

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Shari

I read this a long time ago and I don’t remember a lot of it but I remember it was really creepy!

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Linda

The creepiest book I ever read was “The Caller” by Chris Carter.

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Melissa

The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon. I couldn’t read it right before bed!

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Julie

Phantom’s by Dean R. Kootz

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Julie

Had to sleep with my light on, scared the bejes’us out of me.

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Kathy

Lolita. The under age girl aspect made me very cringy.

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