What is Steven Kings scariest story?

Answer 1

Cujo-that dog freaks me out!

Answer 2

I'd have to say Christine.

Christine was said to be a 1958 Plymouth Fury, which had similar panels and trim to the 1957 model. When the Fury name was introduced, it was essentially a sport and trim package on the Belvedere - notably two doors, gold anodized trim, gold grille, and dual four-barrel carburetors. Christine, as shown in the movie, could have been any two door Belvedere with a 318 or 350 engine. Although over 5300 Furys - and far more Belvederes - were built in 1958, they have since become very rare and are now collector's items. There were 13 or 16 (depending on source) Belvederes/Furys smashed in the making of the movie (out of the roughly 25 used during filming), but it is unknown whether they were 1957 or 1958 models, or a combination. In any event, Plymouth enthusiasts were infuriated, though the movie popularized the car and probably saved many of them - just like what Back to the Future (1985) did for the DeLorean. In the original Stephen King book, the car had 4 doors, but this was changed to a 2-door model when it was realized that there never was a 4-door 1958 Plymouth Fury. Although all 1958 Plymouth Furys had Buckskin Beige exterior paint and gold anodized aluminum side trim & grille, the book mentions that this particular car was custom ordered in Ford red.

Answer 3

Okay, you said SCARIEST so I'll have to answer that part, too. I just want to tell you that Steven King's BEST story is definitely the Dark Tower series. Stick with it... I tried The Gunslinger about five times before I could actually finish it (I kept wondering what all the fuss was about??) but then when I started the second book, I was like HOLY COW!! I'd say the scariest for me was probably Pet Semetary. I thought it was way creepy. Take it easy!

Answer 4

I really love Jerusalem's Lot. It is a short story by Steven King that was so realistic and scarey I had to sleep with the lights on! I believe it was a prelude to Salems Lot but I'm not sure. Wow, what a spooky story! I'm not sure but I think it's in his short story book of "Half Past Midnight". That has got to be the scariest story I've ever read. I enjoyed the shining but it was so depressing! E-mail me back...we could talk.

Answer 5

Stephen King's scariest story is It. The story of evil and how it can literally eat children (innocence) without too much adult intervention. Missing children although sad is acceptable in Stephen King's world. If evil does directly affect me would I stand against it. The essence of this story is to stand against something to believe that good must prevail at all cost.

Answer 6

Most of Stephen King's books were pretty damn scary, but one thing that stands out to me is the part in "The Tommyknockers" when the chick's sister came to visit and there were these tentacle things where her vagina was supposed to be...gross and scary. I don't think that was in the movie as the movie aired on network television but as I was reading it, I got chills.

And if you are saying scariest story, not necessarily book, I'd also say the screenplay for "Storm of the Century" since it wasn't based on a book or short story. That is one of the creepiest, scariest stories, I mean come on, the demon Legion of Bible legend comes to this isolated island town and after terrorizing them, demands one of their children and they have to pick. This was one of the creepiest movies of King's I have seen to date! That movie bothered me for a long time. "It" was pretty creepy, too. Anytime, there are kids involved, that makes it all the more scary.

Answer 7

for me the scariest King novel was Salems Lot. At the time i read it we lived in an up/down duplex. The downstairs apt was empty and my husband was working night turn. I was all alone in this big empty building and as I was reading I started to believe the things that were happening in the book were possible. Scared the ca-ca out of me!

Answer 8

I found some of his short stories pretty creepy. The Sun Dog one is very creepy, and the the one where the guy wakes up on a plane to find that everyone has disappeared is a great story.

Pet Cemetary was upsetting for me, rather than scary. I think most of his books are not scary, but just great stories. I find his books impossible to put down.

Answer 9

Sorry, this is mere opinon, but I hate Steve King. You know he gets paid about $3 a word (and that;s probably low balling it), and after I found that out, I figured out why all his books seem to drag far more then they should. There was one book that he almost dedicated an ENTIRE chapter to the description of a chair, which I later found out, had NOTHING to do with the rest of the story.

Answer 10

I can't even remember the name of it-it was in one of his short story collections- about a astronaut who just gets back from space. He gets home and develops a really bad rash on his hand. He bandages it up not thinking much about it. The next day his hand is itching and burning and hurting really badly. He takes the bandage off of his hand and looks at it and sees- his own face!!! He's got all these eyeballs growing on his hand. Turns out the eyeballs are some kind of alien lifeform. I cannot begin to tell you how badly this story freaked me out-LOL-it took me years to get it out of my system!! Everytime my hand itches I think of this story!! I think the name of it is "I Am The Doorway". What a wild imagination Stephen King has-he brought new meaning to being afraid of the dark!!!

Answer 11

Stephen King: The Stand

Read it will scare your pants off....it makes you wonder what if?

After a plague is accidentally released upon the world the few survivors are divided between the forces of good and evil to determine who will rebuild the world. The plague starts off with flu like symptoms (sounds a lot like avian flu).....

Every time I read this I seem to get sick....coincidence I wonder?