Any one know of any scary books???

Question

I want to start reading a scary book do to the fact other books have began to bore me.... got any good recomendations????

Answer 1

anything by Dean Kootz

Answer 2

“BONUS OF VIRTUE”
by
Aaron Westley Powell

One day in a small Ohio town, in the blink of an eye, young Lionel Jeffers unwittingly sells his Soul to the dark forces of rape, robbery, and murder while out having teen-age fun at the mysterious crossroads of fate. Lionel enters into a plea bargain and narrowly escapes going to jail. Unfortunately, he isn’t so lucky when he has a second run in with the law and is charged with first-degree assault. Except, this time Lionel is innocent—guilty only of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

To make matters worse, Lenore Grandstein, the tough woman District Attorney who’s prosecuting the case, is pressured into overlooking the possibility of Lionel being the wrong suspect in the heinous crime, because the town's mayor is far more focused on his re-election campaign politics and has dictated that the crime be swiftly solved at any cost.

Subsequently, Lionel is convicted and sentenced to a fifteen-year prison term for a crime he did not commit. After ten long years in prison and what seems like a lifetime of trying to regain his inner-self, Lionel is released following the FBI’s capture of the true assailant. But to his surprise, his troubles have only just begun. Lionel inadvertently stumbles upon a shocking secret in an age old unsolved mystery that involves his ten years of incarceration.

Ironically, it is a secret he soon discovers is too frightful to reveal to anyone except Clarice Henderson, his high school girlfriend who understands him better than anyone else. But he has drifted apart from Clarice for nearly a decade. However, when the mysterious secret haunts him until he becomes frightened of his own shadow, he commences a desperate search for Clarice, the only person whom he believes can now save him from paying the terrible price of losing his mind over what he found…

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Answer 3

Steven King's "Cell" didn't necessarily scare me, but it was creepy and by far the best "scary" book I've ever read. The plot was wonderfully complex.... I'd definitely recommend it to anyone wanting an example. However, make sure you have your plot before you read anything or your story and writing style will get sucked up into whoever you read's. Just a warning. Good luck!

Answer 4

There are many great collections of short stories by H. P. Lovecraft. Old author that wrote from the 20s into the 40s I believe. Very Gothic and dark, full of twisted monsters, demons, and old Gods. His most well known short story is call of Cthulu. Giant Octopus head monster that lies a he bottom of the ocean and a secret cult that worships him. His most SCARY story IMO is Pickman's Model. I think that's the title at least, not going to describe it, just read it.

One very strong warning. Lovecraft was by modern standards a jerk. His stories are full of subtle bigoted comments against anything non White Anglo Saxon Protestant. Not that it should spoil your reading, just want to give you a heads up so you don't gasp when he mentions (paraphrasing) "mongrel races".

Answer 5

Well, check out Blood Memory by Greg Ilse or The Last Cato by Matilde Asensi. You may want to try any of Dan Brown's books as well as Tom Clancy or Steven King. Although, it has been a while since I've read anything worthwhile of Steven King's.

Answer 6

The most moving ghost story that I have ever read is "Playmates," by A.M. Burrage. It's included in "Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories," a paperback from Noonday. You may be able to get it cheap on the Internet. It's about an orphan girl taken 150 years ago to live in a big old house with a past. She meets the ghosts of other children who lived there 200 years earlier than that. The strange man who is her guardian knows enough to get her out of that house to a normal life, but he himself stays to try to befriend the ghost children.

Answer 7

The scariest e book i've got ever study replaced into "night of the Twisters". It does not sound that frightening, yet attempt examining it at night whilst its truly dark exterior and all of us else on your house is asleep. you will choose nightmares for weeks! as far because of fact the scariest e book ever written, i might guess my money that its written with the help of Stephen King.

Answer 8

I loved The Witching Hour by Anne Rice, it was scary for me. Sadly the other two books of the trilogy (Lasher and Taltos) were not good.

Answer 9

Try in Death books by J. D. Robb, or John Grisham novels

Answer 10

Most any Stephen King - "The Shining", "Carrie", "Christine", so many other great ones!