What’s the scariest thing you ever read? What made it so scary?
What’s the scariest thing you ever read? What made it so scary?
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What’s the scariest thing you ever read? What made it so scary?
The haunted by Bentley Little…something in the basement and that’s where my laundry room was?
Fear nothing by Dean Koontz…the monkeys looking in the window, my bed was by the window?
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. ,, – Lovecraft
This line doesn’t need any explanation
“And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and listen, all we hear is a whispering. And we cannot understand the whispering, because our minds have been invaded by a war. A war that we have both won and lost. The very worst sort of war. A war that captures dreams and re-dreams them. A war that has made us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.”
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter… It was about a killer on the loose kidnapping and mutilating women. I like who done its but not this kind of stuff however I didn’t know what it was about and read it bc my husband had bought it. He went out of town and I picked it up being home alone bored… I was so freaked out but I had to find out what happened! I slept with the lights on and heard every noise outside all weekend! ?
House of Leaves. Utter darkness and isolation and there are noises surrounding the main character.
White shark by Peter Benchley cause you weren’t safe on land.
The Amityville Horror I see the movie a bunch of times. But when I read the book it was super creepy and gave me nightmares. Everything about it was scary
Yikes :/
Not read the book…will have to!
My divorce papers
Really! Mine were the best read I’d had in ages…and they arrived on my birthday! Best gift ever!!! Lol
Lol!
@Terri…mine are better then a Stephen king book, way more scary and real life
My bank account every month ???
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The Stand. Didn’t finish it.
Heart Shaped Box or NOS4A2, both by Joe Hill. Though Heart Shaped Box was so frightening.
the exorcist
Amityville Horror many, many years ago.
I found “Helter Skelter” especially horrific–It’s about true-life madman Charles Manson.
My obituary is the scariest thing I ever read
This is an awesome opener for a story!
The man in the black suit. A short story by Stephen King
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
My divorce decree
1984
I can’t recall the author, but it was a long biogrpahy (over 1,500 pages!) of Adolph Hitler. What made it so scary is how the people followed him seemingly without any thought about the ultimate goals he professed.
The Amityville Horror because at the time I thought it was true.
It’s not true???
@Munnu nope.
Lol! I feel silly now…
Don’t feel silly…it’s truthfulness is up for debate and it depends on which side of the “ghosts exist” fence you graze on I guess. I think it was based on a truth and given some padding!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amityville_Horror_(1979_film)
Stalking Jack the Ripper, because I’m a bloody chicken
‘Salem’s Lot ??? It just creeped me out, to the point that I hung a crucifix on my bed when I went to bed ?
oooh first horror novel I ever read – was nearly 30 years ago now and I havent read it again since but I still remember the bit where the priest vampire comes drifting towards them! nightmares for weeks!
@Terri, right? Sooo scary ?
Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon. It’s an older book. Every time I moved I checked out the neighborhood. Made into a movie with a great cast including Betty Davis.
The Shining, the snowy animal bushes.
Those were totally creepy!!!
Stephen king it i hate clowns
Intensity by Stephen King ?
Intensity was by Koonst?
@Karen I stand corrected ? you are quite right. Senior moment ?
1984 by Orwell and Lovecraft’s body of work on Cthulhu
The Ghost of Flight 401. I was reading it when I was home alone one day and someone called 3 times, and no one was there!! I went over to my Dad’s house for the rest of the day!
‘The Long Walk’ by Stephen King. reading is once was enough, the story says with you though.
Pet Sematery by Stephen King. Sooo Dark!! Next: The Shining & Salem’s Lot are tied. Stephen King grand slam!
The Association
35 years ago it was The Entity and decades ago I read all the Stephen King books, Robin Cook and still the scariest was The Entity
I remember reading The Entity as a teenager and then again about 10 years later and coming away with 2 completely different conclusions at the end. Love how it is written so you never really know!
Lisa Gardner… Good Bye.
Koko. I don’t even know why, I just had chills happen while reading it.
In Cold Blood all of the blood and the way it was done
Brilliant book! Trueman Capote at his best.
I agree.
Where are the Children? By Mary Higgins Clark
The reason is hard to talk about.
Promise series by page weaver.
Scared me to death because it’s something that could really happen.
The newspaper! Lol
The wolfen i felt like i was being watched
Pet Semetary by Stephen King… it’s content, the ressurection of something dead, coupled with my horror of burial (cremation for me!)….& In the hands of this author, the idea that maybe this could happen….I read it once, it disturbed me deeply….never again!
There was actually two books. I wont name one of them because it was so serverly messed up. I really wish I hadn’t read it.
First one was by a romance author and he books aren’t intended to be scary but there was a scene where the heroine was buried alive and she was choking and it is a fear of mine and it got very graphic
The Exorcist….
Mine I think was Needful Things by Stephen King, sure that was the title it was many ears ago I read it
oops years not ears
The perfect Husband by Lisa Gardner… I’ve just finished reading it when my roommate confided to me that her ex-bf was stalking her, and sometimes waits outside our dorm. That made my heart palpitated.
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie.
Several Dean Koontz books
The Exorcist – it was so detailed and well-written. pPus, William Peter Blatty had definitely researched it! I have read a lot of horror books and really, that one remains the scariest book of all time for me!
Into The Out Of by Alan Dean Foster.
a message from a girl… ” i think am pregnant” Lol
Sepulchre by James Herbert. Very atmospheric ?
The house of darkness by Andrea Perron(the story of the house in the conjuring), I actually had to stop reading it.
Aghora if you want to read i have pdf
Stephen King’s The Stand (also my bank balance!!)