i love reading scary books and ive read loads that my friends have recomended to me but so far nothings scared me yet. plz help
2006-10-12 02:13:06 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The scariest book I have ever read (just because of the implications behind it, and not really the SCARINESS of the story at all) is Pet Sematary by Stephen King.
The book is probably as old as you are, but the IDEA behind it still gives me the willies today. Blood and gore are incidental. This book screws with your MIND!
2006-10-12 02:18:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
IT - by Stephen King is probably one of the scariest books ever written - I had to stop reading it because I got so freaked out!!!!!
Ghost Story - by Peter Straub
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
The Exorcist - by Peter Blatty
The Shining - by Stephen King
Turn of the Screw - by Henry James
Burnt Offerings - by Robert Marasco
The Other - Thomas Tyron
Try reading H. P. Lovecraft - he inspired many of our modern day horror fiction writers.
Hopefully there were some books on here that you haven't read that will give you a good spine tingling scare!!!!:)
2006-10-12 10:21:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some that scared me were:
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Stinger by Robert McCammon
The Other by Thomas Tryon
The Search for Joseph Tully by William Hallorhan
Moon Music by Faye Kellerman
The Manitou by Graham Masterton
Hell House by Richard Matheson
2006-10-12 11:32:13 · answer #3 · answered by M. Romeo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The scariest book I ever read was In the Dark by Richard Laymon. It literally kept me up all night. I had to keep reading to a not so scary part before turning out the light and then I had to carry on reading to see what happened next!!!
2006-10-12 15:09:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clive Barkers Books of Blood Vol 1.
Creed by James Herbert
Or try reading some real stuff like the biography of
Andrei Chikatilo a russian serial killer or Helter Skelter about the Manson Family is the real stuff of nightmares.
2006-10-12 09:27:58 · answer #5 · answered by draytondon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Early Stephen King
2006-10-12 09:25:25 · answer #6 · answered by Simon D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The Regulators" by Richard Bachman (Stephen kings alter ego) is a really creepy book, i'd highly recommend it, i've read it a few times and it has me hooked from start to finish, sounds like you are hard to scare though so I doubt you will be peeing in your pants or anything like that but it is still worth a read if you haven't read it already, i'm sure that you've already read the majority of Stephen Kings novels but you may have missed this one. Hope that helps.
2006-10-12 10:34:05 · answer #7 · answered by Rainbowz 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The works of H.P Lovecraft, he is the father of modern horror. Also the works of Edgar Allen Poe. The book "Onyx and Crake" by Marget Atwood, truly horrifying. The true crime novel "Helter Skelter" about the Manson family murders. "The best Democracy money can buy" by Greg Palast.
Scary stuff enjoy
2006-10-12 10:31:16 · answer #8 · answered by Kmk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try The Shining by Stephen King, The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty, Intensity by Dean Koontz, IT by Stephen King
2006-10-12 09:23:43 · answer #9 · answered by groomingdiva_pgh 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Salem's Lot, Stephen King
2006-10-12 09:20:23 · answer #10 · answered by Michael E 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋