Terrifying Books
what are some of the most scariest books you've read?
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[i]House of Leaves[/i] started off fairly scary for me, but after so many days of exhibitions and searching it just begam more of a bland oddesy rather than a horrifying search.
[i]Stir of Echoes[/i] hasta be the scariest book i've read. the parts with the ghost watching of Tom for the frame of his door, with Tom not daring to move. in hopes of giving off a sleeping state of mind was just awesome for me. sent chills down my back
[i]Hell House[/i] was great too, some parts were tremendously frightenning, the most frightenning being the attempt to contact Red Cloud; the native spirit and he tells of a savage man, looking as if he were na nimal hhiding in the corner
i wanna get [i]I Am Legend[/i], Matheson's said it was almost Night of The Living Dead, cept with vampires.
IT
Read it when I was about 12, and it scared the living shit out of me.
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[B]American Psycho was terrifying just because this shit does happen. At the time I didn't know Ellis based the violence on FBI files of killers, but the possibilities of what some maniac could do to someone almost made me faint.[/B][/QUOTE]
i didn't know Ellis based the murders off of FBI files. that is scary.
IT scared me, i was also 12, or 13 when i tried to read it. the whole bridge witht he clown under it at the beginning was too much for me because my window faced out to a bridghe that was not too far away
american psycho was the only book i felt like i couldn't handle, at certain parts.
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The whole "L.A. Quartet" series, by James Ellroy. Especially part 2, "The Big Nowhere".
i decided to put off [i]Invisble Monsters[/i] for [i]I Am Legend[/i].so far there have been soem real awesome scenes. glad i did so
The Stand.... the biological hazard thing freaked me out....
then I'd hear someone cough and jump....
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If you liked that one you should read the Immortals its about a virus that is killing all the people and its in the year 2010
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HoL, totally.
The Great and Secret Show, by Clive Barker. his best and scariest.
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Lullaby was the scariest, i know what you guys are thinking, how could that book be scary. Try reading it a week after your daughter has just been born. That SIDS got me jumpng out of befd and checking on her constantly. My Wife refuses to read the book still.
I mean, a male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women
I was reading Lullaby while my wife was pregnant. [b]That[/b] was fucked-up.
Stir of Echoes was an awesome book for all the cultists with kids out there as well. even i can appreciate the freakiness of having your own child being contacted by ghosts, and you not being ale to do anything about it
maldoror?
I liked the Books of Blood and Thief of Always...I never wanted to read anything else of his.
I think the last book that scared me was when I was 10 and I was reading one of those books like The Babysitter. I was sitting in bed with my booklight in the middle of the night, and it was mostly just my surroundings that scared me more than the book.
It isn't fair. Books just don't scare me. But I like to be scared.
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[B]american psycho was the only book i felt like i couldn't handle, at certain parts. [/B][/QUOTE]
The parts I couldn't handle were those endless whitneyhoustonphilcollinshuweylewis chapters, those were truily frightening, and in fact I skipped over them.
has anyone read the autobiography of german actor Klaus Kinski? Its not exactly terrifying but its damn shocking... I know its not completly true and lots was made up but once you read it, it makes you realise how easy it is to love the nut case.
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Ghost Mutt [/i]
[B]has anyone read the autobiography of german actor Klaus Kinski? Its not exactly terrifying but its damn shocking... I know its not completly true and lots was made up but once you read it, it makes you realise how easy it is to love the nut case. [/B][/QUOTE]
Shit yes, and it was great. I read it quite awhile ago, but his description of being so hungry he bit into the ass of a live cow lives on crystal clear in my head.
The most terrifying book I've ever read was a Pulitzer Prize novel by Jose Saramengo called "Blindness". Basically it's about an epidemic of blindness where people don't see darkness but rather, white/brightness. The protagonist in the story attempts to rationalize this strange phenominon while the rest of the world treats these people as outcasts. Highly recommended.
IT sucked. I read it as a freshman in high school. I felt that the end was especially horrible. I just don't like how IT evolved into some weird looking creature. Just plain stupid to me. The Shining was way better.
And Davros, I've never read Blindness, but my gf has. She gets scared when my hand darts in front of her face, and she wasn't scared when she read that book. I find it interesting that you think it is scary/horrifying.
I don't think I've ever read a horrifying book. Unless "Say Cheese and Die!" by R.L. Stein counts...
I thought House of Leaves was pretty un-nerving.
Also, here's one you may have read as a child, The Forbidden Game by LJ Smith. I don't usually like fantasy but this was really creepy with the fairground and stuff...as if gypoes weren't scary enough.
Many of Stephen Kings books were creepy, but not overly horrifying, except of course for IT
The movie is even worse, couldn't sleep for 3 days
Human kind cannot bear too much reality...
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The end of IT (the movie) sucked so much ass. What the fuck? The clown ends up being an Alien, and his true form in a fucking huge spider? BAH!
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The Shining was really freaky. The part where Danny was in the cement tube on the playground with the child ghost still makes my skin crawl.
American Psycho was terrifying just because this shit does happen. At the time I didn't know Ellis based the violence on FBI files of killers, but the possibilities of what some maniac could do to someone almost made me faint.
I Am Legend is really good.
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