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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2015 19:31:23 GMT
Duma Key by Stephen King. Salem's Lot a close second.
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Post by slicksister on Jul 28, 2015 1:42:19 GMT
This one of my all time favorite books. Top 5 I think. Scary as hell. I had the same reaction to it. I do every time I read it. Was that the movie with Richard Gere and Ed Norton? GREAT MOVIE! I can imagine how good the book was! Yes it was. I thought Ed Norton was amazing but of course I thought the book was better. Read the book! ha ha
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Post by Zee on Jul 28, 2015 1:46:35 GMT
Only one book has ever freaked me out and that was the Amityville Horror. I was reading it when my DD was about two years old. If you've read the book, you remember that the little girl had an "imaginary friend" named Jody. Jody was a pig.
Playing outside with DD one day and she looked up at her bedroom window and mentioned The Pig she could see up there in the window. I could see nothing, no shadow, no reflection, nothing. OMFG I actually threw that book away in the garbage in the alley. LOL I'm sure it was a coincidence but it freaked me out so bad I couldn't keep the stupid book. DH laughed so hard at me.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2015 4:45:38 GMT
It.
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Post by kryssy on Jul 28, 2015 5:19:27 GMT
I've read a TON of scary books (Dean Koontz is my favorite), but I was just coming here to post about the scariest short story I've ever read... and I found it online! It's called The Companion, and it's by Ramsey Campbell. The CompanionNow I have to go back and re-read it, and see if it's as scary as I thought it was in the 90s. And if YOU read it, you need to read it alone. At night. With the lights off. Promise me...
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Post by grate on Jul 28, 2015 13:18:27 GMT
I actually came across a book that was written in the late 90s or early 00s.. do not remember, called Grimm Memorials. I picked it up for one of those drop/leave places and was excited because I love things based on the Brothers Grimm. WELL this was disgusting and unnerving. I tried to read it, I never not finish a book, even if it bores me but this was so disturbing that I ended it putting it in the trash so no one else will come across it ![:|](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/plain.png)
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Post by anxiousmom on Jul 28, 2015 13:47:05 GMT
The other story that creeped me out was The Lottery. I think it was a short story. We read it in middle school. That one messed with my head in a big way. When all the teen dystopian books started coming out (where people have to fight to 'win' or live) I had them read The Lottery to show them that these types of ideas have been around for a while. The older boy thought it was stupid and the younger thought it wasn't very exciting. It made me realize how much more...graphic? (not in a gross way, but as in more details) writing is now. We had to really use our imagination to fill in the blanks with The Lottery, and modern literature tends to fill in a lot of those blanks for us.
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Post by Peace Sign on Jul 28, 2015 14:31:18 GMT
I used to like reading scary books in high school and remember Pet Sematary scared the crap out of me! I've read a lot of Stephen King books and they were all pretty creepy but that one really stands out. Christine about the car was pretty scary too. These days I've realized that real life is scary enough as it is so I don't read scary books or watch scary movies anymore. My 11year old son is reading Christine. I remember the amityville horror being a very scary book!
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Post by ~Susan~ on Jul 28, 2015 14:51:31 GMT
I remember reading The Lottery in college and thought it was horrible. I had read lots of Stephen King, but that story just blew my mind.
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Post by SweetieBsMom on Jul 28, 2015 15:19:37 GMT
Probably anything by Stephen King.....Pet Cemetery, Salem's Lot, Misery, It, The Stand. I'm surprised I was able to sleep in high school.
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Post by Regina Phalange on Jul 28, 2015 16:10:35 GMT
Was that the movie with Richard Gere and Ed Norton? GREAT MOVIE! I can imagine how good the book was! Yes it was. I thought Ed Norton was amazing but of course I thought the book was better. Read the book! ha ha I'm definitely going to have to do that now!!! Ed WAS amazing!! That movie just flipped me out!!
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