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What's the best scary book you ever read?

Posted by prayformojo (aka mayhem) Oct 28 '15, 12:46

For me, it's probably It

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Misery. Because I lived in Colorado, and that shit could actually happen. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 28, 13:54
The Silence of the Lambs. -- nm - Diva Oct 28, 13:41
Books and movies never actually scare me. A few movies have creeped me out some. -- nm - zork Oct 28, 13:39
Peter Pan...he's flying off with the boys, he just let's them drop....for fun, sadistic freak -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 28, 13:24
The Amityville Horror and The Pit and the Pendulum both scared the crap out of me when I read them for the first time. - ReluctantCynic Oct 28, 13:21
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- "Be-hold!!! The ravages of old age!" -- nm - Reagen Oct 28, 13:23 1
  - Sometimes being a bitch is the only thing a woman has to hold on to!! -- nm - Diva Oct 28, 13:41
The Bible -- nm - budice Oct 28, 13:13
Hands down "Helter Skelter" -- nm - jangles Oct 28, 13:10 2
- How did you turn the pages? -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 13:11 1
  - charlie ... moves him. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 28, 13:12
Frankenstein -- nm - con_carne Oct 28, 13:07
The Exorcist ...the movie left things out. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 28, 13:04
I hear Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue" is terrifying -- nm - jangles Oct 28, 13:04
note about Horrorstor for Dark Callisto - prayformojo Oct 28, 12:59 3
- spoilers - Dark Callisto Oct 28, 13:02 2
  - One thing I really, really liked - prayformojo Oct 28, 13:10 1
    - Yes, that totally crept up on me. Very inventive. -- nm - Dark Callisto Oct 28, 13:12
Pet Semetary. -- nm - Reagen Oct 28, 12:57 7
- winner winner chicken dinner -- nm - Jim Oct 28, 13:23
- Never read it, but the trailer for the movie (and for Arachnophobia) scared me enough not to watch -- nm - Beryllium Oct 28, 13:11 5
  - the book puts the movie to shame. - decline Oct 28, 13:12 3
    - Yup. As many of his do. Like, The Tommyknockers was a great read. -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 13:16
    - yep. scary effin' book. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 28, 13:15
    - Yeah. It's a scary book for sure. -- nm - Dark Callisto Oct 28, 13:13
  - Meh. I names my cat after one of the dead people. -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 13:12
It is up there (though it falls apart a little at the end). Turn of the Screw and House of Leaves. -- nm - Dark Callisto Oct 28, 12:53 3
- I never finished house of leaves - it was just too weird. I understand he's got 1 or 2 other books that are similar -- nm - decline Oct 28, 12:58 2
  - The Fifty Year Sword is an easier-to-read scary one from him. - Dark Callisto Oct 28, 13:00 1
    - thanks (adds to queue). I should really dig out HoL and give it another go -- nm - decline Oct 28, 13:04
Nothing comes to mind immediately but I do recall IT being pretty freaking scary - Pippy Zombie Salsa Dancer Oct 28, 12:52 2
- IT was a pretty good one, though reading Dracula one Saturday night while my parents were out and the power goes off - amoxy Oct 28, 12:56 1
  - yikes -- nm - Pippy Zombie Salsa Dancer Oct 28, 12:59
Dracula probably best for creeping dread, Invisible Man best as a thriller, Haunted by Pahlaniuk for . . . ick. -- nm - emoticripple Oct 28, 12:52 1
- at some point I want to read this. - Mel Profit Oct 28, 13:17
The Shining -- nm - David Oct 28, 12:52 15
- same. or Heart Shaped Box -- nm - Beaker Oct 28, 13:14 1
  - I recall Heart Shaped Box scaring me - I'd like Ed Harris to play the big bad in the movie -- nm - Pippy Zombie Salsa Dancer Oct 28, 13:20
- Either that or Salem's Lot. I was way too young for SL when I read it, so that probably added to it. -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 12:53 12
  - I was the same way with The Shining. That's why it freaked me out so much. - David Oct 28, 12:53 11
    - Me either. My dad gave me Night Shift when I was 11, probably. - Dark Callisto Oct 28, 12:57 9
      - My mom would read the Stephen King books first and then give them to me. - Mel Profit Oct 28, 13:06 8
        
        its quite amazing what our parents let us read ain't it? - Pippy Zombie Salsa Dancer Oct 28, 13:07 6
        
        very much so. I was often left to my own devices like this. - Mel Profit Oct 28, 13:14 3
        
        hee to the IM -- nm - Pippy Zombie Salsa Dancer Oct 28, 13:20 2
        
        favorite hiding spot... - Mel Profit Oct 28, 13:26 1
        
        !! -- nm - Pippy Zombie Salsa Dancer Oct 28, 13:28
        
        ... I do not know what is in them. -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 13:09 1
        
        history bodice ripping romance novels except - Pippy Zombie Salsa Dancer Oct 28, 13:19
        
        heh. this was my aunt and me. -- nm - decline Oct 28, 13:07
    - I had just turned 9 when I read Salem's Lot. My big sister read it and it freaked her out, so I did too. -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 12:55
What is it? -- nm - Spawn Oct 28, 12:51
The Supernaturals by Golemon is excellent. I'm currently reading Twisted by Kaufman which is also quite good. -- nm - decline Oct 28, 12:50
The Haunting of Hill House -- nm - mara Oct 28, 12:50 1
- good choice :) -- nm - decline Oct 28, 12:50

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