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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2015 20:21:04 GMT
I don't really like scary books or movies and I've not read many of the ones mentioned except Still Alice and Let's Talk About Kevin. I do like Chevy Stevens, though. Her books are thrillers, not horror, but to me, they are the scariest thrillers ever.
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Post by theshyone on Jul 26, 2015 20:23:15 GMT
Stephen kings son wrote a book about a heart in a box. I read it while I was recuperating from sudden cardiac arrests when my mind was particularly susceptible to suggestions. WHAT WAS I THINKING..... OMG
A very recent read that totally freaked me out because it could actually happen is Held the sequel is Pushed. Creepy
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Post by herewegoga on Jul 26, 2015 20:24:17 GMT
It by Stepeh King scared me so much I couldn't sleep if the book was in my room. The Stand is my favorite King book but it is also super scary. The creepiest book I've ever read was Dean Koontz's Intensity. It scared the crap out of me. There was also a book about a kidnapper/murderer who would go to open houses and hide and then come out during the night when the family was bk home and asleep and kill the family and kidnap the child. That one scared me because it could actually happen.
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Post by jcm28 on Jul 26, 2015 20:24:38 GMT
"A Stranger Is a Watching" by Mary Higgins Clark freaked me out. And "Pet Sematary" is right up there. When the boy gets killed, I closed the book and never picked it up again!
Janet
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Post by giatocj on Jul 26, 2015 20:27:38 GMT
Pet Semetary by Stephen King. I never even finished it, it creeped me out so much!!!
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Post by conchita on Jul 26, 2015 20:31:50 GMT
I read a lot of Edgar Allen Poe when I was younger and his stories are classicly creepy scary good. I eventually started reading Stephen King and "It" tops my list of scariest stories he's written. Someone mentioned Anne Rice's Mayfield Witches series and they're dark and creepy, too. Was really sucked into those stories when they first came out. I'd actually like to read them again.
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Post by cadoodlebug on Jul 26, 2015 20:32:20 GMT
It by Stepeh King scared me so much I couldn't sleep if the book was in my room. The Stand is my favorite King book but it is also super scary. The creepiest book I've ever read was Dean Koontz's Intensity. It scared the crap out of me. There was also a book about a kidnapper/murderer who would go to open houses and hide and then come out during the night when the family was bk home and asleep and kill the family and kidnap the child. That one scared me because it could actually happen. It scared me too! When she was under the bed and could see the killer's boots I almost screamed! I've seen the movie too.
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Post by anxiousmom on Jul 26, 2015 20:35:41 GMT
I used to read a lot of Stephen King and other horror stories, and Pet Sematary really stands out as being the scariest. The Stand was one of my favorite books ever ... I don't classify it as scary so much as adventure with a bunch of supernatural tossed in, though. I've gotten soft and I don't want to read or watch scary stuff anymore. I blame it on Pet Sematary. ETA I think Stephen King said that Pet Sematary even scared the snot out of HIM and he quit working on it for years. The Stand is still one of my favorite books ever. I remember the first time I read it, I read it in a weekend and my then husband had never really experienced me falling into a book before-he couldn't believe that I hardly moved off the couch the entire time. But I am a huge huge huge fan of all thing post-apocalyptic. It is still my favorite genre. I don't care if it is zombies, nuclear war, what ever. Love it all.
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Post by Sue on Jul 26, 2015 20:37:03 GMT
The scariest for me was "The Bell Witch." So scary, in fact, that I couldn't finish the book and wanted it out of my house. (I can't recall the author.) It told the true story of the haunting of the Bell family in Adams, TN in 1818. I swear I could feel evil just pouring out of that book! And I'm not generally a highly suggestible person.
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Post by PLurker on Jul 26, 2015 20:43:48 GMT
Probably because I read it when young (pre or young teen) it stuck with me, Johnny Got His Gun. About a guy who basically lost his arms, legs, face etc but was still alive and mind worked fine. Prisoner in his own body. Don't know why I picked it to read as I don't remember that being my style, but I did and remember it to this day.
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Post by cmhs on Jul 26, 2015 20:44:19 GMT
I used to devour Stephen King books when I was in high school. I really don't remember the scariest but IT really affected me. Funny, scary thing happened to me --I was babysitting one night in high school and I was reading Helter Skelter (Charles Manson, Sharon Tate...) and the lights went out. The entire apartment building lost power. I closed that book and never picked it up again.
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Post by ~Susan~ on Jul 26, 2015 20:54:01 GMT
In recent memory, it would have to be The Ruins and The Bird Box.
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Post by cadoodlebug on Jul 26, 2015 21:06:39 GMT
In recent memory, it would have to be The Ruins and The Bird Box. That one got my vote too! For days after I finished it when a cell phone rang, it brought the book right back too me! ETA: DH read it first and kept saying *I don't think you should read this*. Mainly because we read right before we go to bed. I didn't listen to him.
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Post by 950nancy on Jul 26, 2015 21:10:30 GMT
Oh. That kind of scary. Not my thing. I was going to say I read "What to expect when you're expecting" when my friend was expecting... that was terrifying. LOL One is scary fiction and the other scary nonfiction. The nonfiction stuff came true for me.
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Post by 950nancy on Jul 26, 2015 21:15:03 GMT
Amityville Horror. It has to be the scariest for me because I stopped reading anything scary after that. I don't watch scary movies either. If I see someone shot on television, I dream about it. I like comedies.
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Post by mjmone on Jul 26, 2015 21:22:44 GMT
A collection of short stories by Stephen King. I remember the cover had a hand with eyes on it...I still will not sleep with the closet door open!
Cujo is a very close 2nd.
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Post by Peamac on Jul 26, 2015 21:27:24 GMT
The scariest book I NEVER read was Stephen King's "It" . My boyfriend in college was reading it and he would tell me about at lunch. I had an awful nightmare about it and now I totally get why people are afraid of clowns!
One book I read that really stayed with me was "The Illuminati". I had scary dreams about that one, since most of my reading time was right before bed.
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Post by happymomma on Jul 26, 2015 21:57:33 GMT
Probably because I read it when young (pre or young teen) it stuck with me, Johnny Got His Gun. About a guy who basically lost his arms, legs, face etc but was still alive and mind worked fine. Prisoner in his own body. Don't know why I picked it to read as I don't remember that being my style, but I did and remember it to this day. Metallica wrote a song based on this. It is called One. There is a video.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2015 22:23:01 GMT
I was scared enough by R.L. Stine's Fear Street series in my pre-teens/teens I had no desire to read anything scarier until I was in my 30's. Horror isn't really my thing.
I haven't finished reading Night Shift (short stories) by Stephen King, but the one about rats was terrifying.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2015 22:23:37 GMT
I think a lot of the books by Stephen King were the scariest ones I've read. I've read a few creepy ones by Dean Koontz as well. I think most of his earlier work is far creepier than his later stuff (like from the time his Golden died and on). I read It in 7th grade and the TV mini series came out around that time. I just could not watch it. Pet Semetary took me a few starts before I could finish it. Needful Things and Bag of Bones were the last ones that creeped me out. I haven't read any of his latest stuff (too busy, list of want to read is 100+) so there may be another in there by him. I can count on Stephen King to give me the creeps and double check those corners.
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Post by mirabelleswalker on Jul 26, 2015 22:25:49 GMT
Hannibal
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Post by Amelia Bedelia on Jul 26, 2015 23:06:33 GMT
Pet Semetary, by Stephen King. I read it when I was a young girl (11-12?) and it scared the CRAP out of me. I'll never forget the first lines nor the last ones. Still gives me shivers. This. Scariest book ever. I was a preteen babysitting the neighbor kids, after dark, alone, when I got to the part where the dad digs up the little boy and reburied him. I was a wreck. I was afraid to call my mom to come over and stay with me because I knew I'd never get to babysit again. I'd read a page, get scared and put the book down. Then I'd get even more scared with my imagination going wild so I'd pick the book back up and read a little more. That went on for over an hour. Then a car started circling the block with the bass way up, and it sounded like a heartbeat. I just got goosebumps remembering how scared I was that night.
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Post by gramasue on Jul 26, 2015 23:36:36 GMT
For me it was Salem's Lot. I read until the wee hours of the morning and was so freaked out that I made crosses out of toothpicks, bobby pins, pencils, anything I could find and placed them in front of every single window and door in the house. [to keep the vampires out!] It was a weekend and I slept in after staying up half the night, and my kids got up first and were totally puzzled by all the little crosses everywhere. We laugh about it now but at the time, I was really terrified.
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Post by sunraynnc on Jul 26, 2015 23:59:10 GMT
Heart Shaped Box by Stephen King's son...like father, like son!
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Post by lucyg on Jul 27, 2015 0:03:17 GMT
This thread is making me want to read some of the Stephen King books I missed now. Am bookmarking. Thanks, I think. For me it was Salem's Lot. I read until the wee hours of the morning and was so freaked out that I made crosses out of toothpicks, bobby pins, pencils, anything I could find and placed them in front of every single window and door in the house. [to keep the vampires out!] It was a weekend and I slept in after staying up half the night, and my kids got up first and were totally puzzled by all the little crosses everywhere. We laugh about it now but at the time, I was really terrified. There was a funny bit in some old vampire/comedy movie, maybe the one with Sharon Tate?? not sure ... anyway, a Jewish character used a Star of David to keep the vampires away. I have to say, as a nice Jewish girl, I'm not counting on any lame Star of David to ward off vampires. If it comes down to it, I'm heading straight for the crosses. Everyone knows they work!
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Post by christinec68 on Jul 27, 2015 0:04:16 GMT
Ann Rule's The Stranger Beside Me, about Ted Bundy. It was terrifying. For me it's a toss up between this and Perfect Victim: The True Story of the Girl in the Box by Christine McGuire and Carla Norton. Both gave me nightmares but I wouldn't/couldn't go to sleep for hours after getting to a certain point in the beginning of Perfect Victim...I threw the book on the floor and got up and cleaned for 3-4 hours.
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Post by LeaP on Jul 27, 2015 0:05:47 GMT
The Island of Doctor Moreau. The passages on vivisection made me put the book down and gasp for breath.
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Post by gale w on Jul 27, 2015 0:11:33 GMT
Intensity by Dean Koontz.
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on Jul 27, 2015 0:12:44 GMT
Haunted Heartland, a collection of supposedly true ghost stories from the midwest. Who thought that was a good idea to put in the middle school non-fiction section, I'll never know.
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Post by AussieMeg on Jul 27, 2015 0:29:59 GMT
I used to read tons of horror books when I was a teenager. The one that comes to mind is Primal Fear by William Diehl – I got such a shock at the end, I really wasn’t expecting it. It was the first time I’d read a book and actually had a physical reaction – my heart jumped and so did I, and I even gasped out loud. That had never happened before nor has it happened since.
Another one that comes to mind is a true crime novel called “Someone Else’s Daughter” about Anita Cobby, a woman who was abducted then brutally gang raped and murdered by 5 men. The details of the crime were horrific, and it really made an impact on me.
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