geekygirl
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Post by geekygirl on Oct 7, 2008 16:48:22 GMT -5
I was thinking today about reading something scary this month for Halloween. Then I started thinking about the scariest books I've ever read.
I couldn't read The Shining at night because I'd get too scared. One night I had to sleep with the light on cause I was terrified and couldn't stop thinking about it!
The Haunting of Hill House was also pretty scary, Shirley Jackson sets up the scene perfectly and then with one sentence scares the crap out of you.
What are some of the scariest books you've read?
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lindsay
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Post by lindsay on Oct 7, 2008 20:09:05 GMT -5
Obviously Stephen King is the master of horror! When I was a kid I read insomnia and have never slept the same again . Lol.
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sylviaplath
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Post by sylviaplath on Oct 13, 2008 17:30:08 GMT -5
Not the most sophisticated of the horror genre, but Coraline by Neil Gaiman was scarier than I'd expected, being a children's book. The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright (also a children's book, and yes, it sounds lame, but considering its intended audience, is wonderful) is one I checked out at least 10 times from the library over the years (I finally broke down and bought it a couple years ago out of nostalgia).
And of course Stephen King. The Shining was absolutely brilliant, but I considered it to be more haunting that scary, which I find to be much more interesting and enjoyable. I really want to read The Green Mile and Salem's Lot soon (which I've heard is one of, if not the, scariest he's written).
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sylviaplath
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Post by sylviaplath on Oct 29, 2008 18:46:21 GMT -5
Stephen King always does it for me in horror reads. And when I was younger I read this book which was Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz. Has anyone read it or heard of it? When I was a kid those tales scared the crap out of me. I love Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark! I must have checked that out from the library at least seventeen times when I was a kid. A couple years ago I was ecstatic to find a compilation of all three in the series for only $10 at Barnes and Noble. I still read them fairly often.
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Nov 5, 2008 9:57:58 GMT -5
OK, I need to add Ira Levin's "Rosemary's Baby" to that list - I read another 50 pages or so last night and couldn't fall asleep until Syl came home because I was too freaked out!!
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Ansku
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Post by Ansku on Nov 5, 2008 11:58:47 GMT -5
OK, I need to add Ira Levin's "Rosemary's Baby" to that list - I read another 50 pages or so last night and couldn't fall asleep until Syl came home because I was too freaked out!! I know what you meant. I was freaked out too when I read it.
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Post by Hazy on Nov 23, 2008 14:10:50 GMT -5
I read the Dollhouse Murders when I was younger too! That's a great book, I'd completely forgotten about it.
I like older Stephen King books (The Shining, 'Salem's Lot, etc.) but I find his newer ones are kind of weak - I suspect he doesn't actually write all of his novels anymore.
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bookishgirl
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Post by bookishgirl on Mar 10, 2009 19:41:07 GMT -5
i love Lois Duncan's books soo much! i think her freakiest one is Summer of Fear. it was really good so if you havent read some of her books you should really get to that!!
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