With Halloween just around the corner, what are some of the scariest or creepiest books you’ve read?
With Halloween just around the corner, what are some of the scariest or creepiest books you’ve read?
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Following. I usually like to read Dracula in October but I’d like to expand my creepy book list for this time of year ??♀️?♀️
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Interview with a vampire Anne Rice had to leave all the lights on ALL NIGHT to sleep when I read this one
Interview with THE Vampire. My brother in law said he forgot to take the trash and remembered when it was dark. He said he “saw vampires in every shadow.
The Mayfair witches series by anne rice is skin crawling scary.
Can’t remember the last book that actually scared me.
So I’ll be keeping an eye on this thread for some ideas. ?
Same. I don’t know if a book HAS scared me. Maybe given me the creeps for a min but…I still love horror tho
John Saul has creepy books
Following! Need to read more creepy books.
I recently read a book called Not Even Bones. Very creepy and super awesome.
Bird box…..creepy
I ordered that one. Can’t wait to read it!!
@Pilon some parts are disturbing
Awesome!!
It is awesomely creeeeepy.
That book was great. It’s funny because if it was a movie and I saw it first, I would have hated it and never picked up the book. I won’t spoil it by saying why, but it was interesting to me that I enjoyed it so much. I stayed up till 2am to finish it though, and loved every moment of it. Very creepy.
Meet your favorite serial killer
Helter Skelter
That’s a different kind of scary too!
I became very paranoid while reading that book. ?
@Dee Me too! I was so creeped out! ?
The Troop by Nick Cutter
@Dee so creepy!!
I’ve had this on my shelf since May. I really need to make time for it cuz everyone says such great things.
@Erica i wanted to read The Troop but heard that there is animal cruelity in it. If an author thinks it’s a good thing to write about torturing animals, he’s definitely off of m6
@Carole are you kidding me, lol it’s fiction. humans are also tortured in The Troop.
well, I still don’t like to read about animal torture. Oh, and yes…I do realize that novels are fiction. Thanks, though.
Following!
The Diary of Ellen Rimbaur, My Life at Rose Red
That’s a good one!
The Church of Dead Girls by Stephen Dobyns
Loved that one…just found another by him…The Burn Palace.
I think Mary Poppins Opens the Door is creepy…a little. It would only take a tiny push to nudge it into horror.
I just read a book called The Haunting of Ashburn House by Darcy Coates on Kindle Unlimited that was pretty creepy!
If you can find it.
@Gauge I simply want to try to find it because Poppy Z Brite wrote the intro. I love Brite, so if she praises it, there’s a good chance I’ll like it
@Gauge I downloaded the entire trilogy on my kindle from Amazon.
Let us know what you think.
@Gauge will do.
Salems/Jerusalem’s lot Stephen king. Amityville horror.
Origin by Jack Kilborn(maybe J.A. Konrath..same guy)
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Intensity by Dean Koontz
Majestic by Whitley Strieber…scary in a different way..novel based on Roswell crash.
Mirror by Graham Masterton
Pet Semetary
Currently reading Baby Teeth and it is spooky ?.
The woman in black. I saw the movie first! So i kept scaring myself trying to get farther in the book never finished lol
Creepy movie for sure, never read the book
I really like the book, it’s not really like the movie, so give it a go! I like the author’s other ghost stories as well. Id recommend The Man in the Picture.
@Lysa I’ll give it another shot then
Both of these are adult scary -Under the Dome by Stephen King, stuck in a small space where the people with the power to make choices are not good people. The Power- it’s discovered that women have the ability to shock (electrocute) others. The book follows the movement of society from patriarchal to matriarchal.
I love Under the Dome. I think it’s one of his best stories. Truly scary because it absolutely would probably happen
When I was reading it, I started looking at our local government and got seriously scared.
I’m reading The Outsider by Stephen King. Maybe not the scariest book ever, but last night I told my husband if I got up to go to the bathroom he’d have to hold my hand while I walked there. It’s right off the bedroom…
Lol. I knew it! I should have ordered that book!
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The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson; Endless Night by Richard Laymon; The Ritual by Adam Neville; Long After Dark by Greg Gifune; Penpal by Dathan Auerbach
I agree with Pet Semetery… very scary!
A Private Disgrace by Victoria Lincoln. This is biography of Lizzie Borden.
When I was a kid the only movie that scared me was The Fog. So I’m sure there’s a book out there that’s pretty scary. ?
Oh yes! The book The fog freaked me out so much i quit right before the end. I wonder if i read it now if I’d still be scared.
Pet Semetary by Stephen King, “The Boy Who Drew Monsters” (dont remember the author), After the People Lights Have Gone Off (short stories) by Stephen Grahame Jones, and its not scary but a fun halloween theme “Too Many Curses” by A. Lee Martinez
The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum.
Bird Box, NOS4A2, Carrie, Salem’s Lot, House of Leaves
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Oh, and The Ruins
The Other thomas tyron. The Sentinel
Salem’s Lot-Stephen King, The Exorcist-William Blatty.
Both of those. ?
Yes-especially the window scene in Salem’s Lot.
@Mary Yes! That window scene! *shivers* ?
Yesssssss
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Anything by Stephen King
Stephen king freaks me out, when I can get into one of his books
@Mackenzie reason why I don’t read him. I love scary movies but scary books, I just refuse to do
I typically don’t read creepy things, but I had heard some really good things about all of his books and tried to give them a whirl
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I am reading Hunted by Darcy Coates and I didn’t love the beginning but it has really grabbed me. Creepy monster read!
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I also loved Kill Creek by Scott Thomas. Oh my goodness. The washer clicked and I nearly peed my pants. But I also want to keep my options open by seeing what else is out there when it comes to horror.
Turn of the screw by Henry James
The Rats ?
All of MR James’ back catalogue.
I guess misery or pet semetary..but no matter how disturbing or scary people say these books are..they aren’t for me..nothing every scares me in books
When I was around ten or eleven years old I read Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” and it terrified me. Not really a scary book but as a kid I thought it was just wonderfully creepy.
I love Poe!
Yes, I was introduced to Poe by my father when I was quite young and loved him!
Baby Teeth
Sometimes I Lie
Frozen: A True Story
I couldn’t sleep the night I finished it. Sooo creepy!!!!
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The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison …literally gave me nightmares
This is on my list and now I’m going to have to buy it because I haven’t had a book legitimately scare me in ages. A few creeped me out a little, but not full on scary. I want keep-you-up-at-night scary!!!
It wasn’t scary, but it was an AMAZING read nonetheless! Completely obsessed with how the author worked the story backwards. Usually I can only follow that in movies because it’s too confusing in books but oh my word, I’m obsessed with that book. Have you read The Roses of May? Its a semi sequel. I haven’t read it but it’s on my list!
Loved it. I need to read books 2.
I forgot the name but it was by Stephen King.
Hints?
@Gauge Insomnia was one.
I meant hints as to what it was about? So others could say the name if they know that book you forgot the name of.
@Gauge I don’t exactly remember what it was about but I think it was Insomnia.
Crawlers by Sam Enthoven
Night Film by Marisha Pessl was pretty creepy. I don’t think I’ve ever read anything that I’d consider scary, though.
Something Wicked this Way Comes is beautiful and eerie together; Misery and It are two of my faves from King; The Troop was gross spooky fun; Poe’s short stories are scary magic ?