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Postby rocklobster » Tue Oct 10, 2006 6:52 pm

To tie into Halloween, I thought I'd ask what the scariest book you've ever read was. You can also post the scariest short story too.
For me it would be It by Stephen King. As for short story, anything by Edgar Allen Poe.
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Postby Tenshi no Ai » Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:00 pm

Honestly, I've never read a book that actually scared me (nor can really see how a book can really scare someone unless they have a SUPER good imagination^^) Well, there was this one "Scary Stories" book my friends and I read in Elementary... more gross than scary, really^^ Either way we made it scary by hyping up our storytelling.
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Postby Animus Seed » Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:35 pm

The only book to ever scare me was Lord of the Flies.
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Postby Warrior 4 Jesus » Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:46 pm

I scare easily.

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Postby Tenshi no Ai » Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:46 pm

Animus Seed wrote:The only book to ever scare me was Lord of the Flies.


I guess I would've been too... but I saw part of the movie (which happen to be the most violent parts >_<) and that was a shock... so probably since I saw that already reading the book after wasn't too bad :/
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Postby bigsleepj » Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:07 pm

The cosmology of the HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu stories scare me, or distress me. I'm referring to The Call of Cthulhu, At the Mountains of Madness and Dreams in the Witch-House. His stories are scary, which is a fictional extension of his nihilstic mindset. Still his stories are good in themselves.
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Postby Warrior 4 Jesus » Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:25 am

Yeah, I've heard those are quite scary. There's a game from many years ago called Alone in the Dark and that was based on his writings (very chilling).
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Postby JasonPratt » Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:38 am

I used to read King for the fantasy--if I want to be scared I'll watch a movie, though for the most part I think in terms of the _fantasy_ there, too. Several of his books are tense, but it's hard to write 'scary' because timing is so critical. (In a book you have to go with concept, which is why horror and even terror is easier than fright.)

I guess the book that scared me worst, was a book on Bigfoot I read as a child. All the books I read on such things were serious books by anthropologists, or at least were on topics that serious anthropologists were looking into, and that made it a lot more unnerving to me. I was in the middle of reading perhaps the largest such book I ever found at the library, when this hideous inhuman _SCREEECH_ erupted behind me. I just about died right then and there before it got me.

It was Dad, cleaning the window outside with a squeegee. :)


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Postby Warrior 4 Jesus » Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:43 am

Wowsers! Squeegees definetly make horrifying screeches don't they? (lol)
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Postby Althaia » Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:04 am

i have to say the scariest book i have read would eitherbe misery by stephen king or in my hands a holocaust story
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Postby soul alive » Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:37 am

I don't get scared by books so much, it's movies that get me, since I'm incredibly jumpy.

But when I was little, I checked out this series of three scary story books from the library. While the stories were not too scary, the drawings were horrific. Gave me nightmares. I think the books were titled 'Scary Stories' 'More Scary Stories' and 'Even More Scary Stories' or something like that. *shudder*
And I recently found out that the books are on the banned book list in places solely because of those drawings. o_O
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Postby Kokhiri Sojourn » Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:39 pm

Bram Stoker's Dracula.

I get scared pretty easily if the setting is right. I was unable to sleep after some chapters in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy until some parts had concluded. I was a bit younger, of course, but still...
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Postby Animus Seed » Wed Oct 11, 2006 4:23 pm

Kokhiri Sojourn wrote:Bram Stoker's Dracula.


Parts of Dracula--namely, scenes with Renfield--scare me. The minimalist creation sequence in Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus scared me, too. But Golding's the only one where the book as a whole "scared" me.
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:04 pm

I never got scared of books o.o

Someone recommend me a scary book
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Postby mitsuki lover » Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:42 pm

The Sherlock Holmes stories can get quite scary at times.
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Postby Animus Seed » Thu Oct 12, 2006 10:21 pm

Mr. SmartyPants wrote:I never got scared of books o.o

Someone recommend me a scary book


Have you ever read and been not-scared by any of the ones we've mentioned so far?
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Postby Kokhiri Sojourn » Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:58 am

mitsuki lover wrote:The Sherlock Holmes stories can get quite scary at times.


I agree. I loved The Hound of the Baskervilles when I was early in High School, and much of it was pretty tense. I always got an adrenaline rush from reading it.
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Postby Puritan » Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:42 pm

Hmmm. Bigsleepj is right that Lovecraft is quite scary (in more ways than one). However, book don't usually scare me (unless I worry about the people who believe the things in the books, like followers of the violent and murderous racism in "The Turner Diaries"), though much of that is because I'm not into horror.
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Postby Shao Feng-Li » Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:46 pm

Bram Stoker's Dracula and The hound of the Baskervilles- still they really didn't scare me but they're the scariest I've read.
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Postby memmer66 » Fri Nov 17, 2006 10:57 pm

Pet Sematary by Stephen King. Scared the hibidabijeebies out of me! So did the movie!
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Postby Htom Sirveaux » Sat Nov 18, 2006 12:47 pm

As far as Stephen King goes, I prefer his short stories. "1408" out of Everything's Eventual was one of my favorites. Most of his full-length novels though, take too long to get to the real substance - although to his credit, The Stand was one of the best books I've ever read and I'm enjoying the Dark Tower series.
I've recently discovered H.P. Lovecraft and it really is good stuff. "The Hound" just about scared the crap out of me.
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Postby HisaishiFan » Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:01 pm

Lord of the Flies.
Pet Sematary (couldn't sleep with the light off!)
Johnny Got His Gun (very disturbing, gruesome even).
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Postby wingedfox » Thu Nov 30, 2006 7:41 am

the haunting of hill house really scary
:waah!: ( then again i have a very hyper imageination(spelt it wrong))
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