which book is the most scariest ever written?

Question

im looking for a scary book. and i dont want something that is cheesy or stupid. i want something that will keep me reading, and i want it to make me not want to sleep at night...(a little funny, but i like to be scared!) anyway...please help

could you tell me why you like the book? or a brief summary? i just dont want to pick up a book.

Answer 1

Stephen King's Bag of Bones.

There were times in that book when I stayed up almost all night because I couldn't put it down. I've actually read it about 5 times. It's a good book because it is literary AND scary AND interesting AND fun to read... My favorite by far, and I read all Koontz, King books.

Amazon.com
Bag of Bones is partly inspired by Daphne du Maurier's classic Rebecca, but there's more than homage in this novel of horror and romance. Like du Maurier's Manderley, King's scary old place (on the shore of Maine's remote Dark Score Lake) is haunted by the late lady of the manor. There are many gory ghosts afoot, though: men, women, and wailing kids. The hero, a thriller novelist, stirs up hell's plenty of angry shades while investigating his wife's death. It turns out she either had a dark secret herself or was onto some dread scandal lurking in Dark Score Lake. As in King's previous book, Wizard and Glass, the fabric of reality is thin, and nosy narrators are in peril of plunging right out of this world and into a rather hostile otherworld.
Bag of Bones is a writer-haunted book, too. The spirits of Herman Melville and Ray Bradbury are deeply felt, and so are the tale's two romances (the hero muses on his marriage and falls for a young single mom with a marvelous, psychic daughter). There is also good-humored satire of the real bestseller book world--the hero complains that "the publicity process is like going to a sushi bar where you're the sushi." In its deep concerns with love, sprawling families, the writer's life, endangered children, and good old-fashioned storytelling, the book resembles a John Irving novel. It is also absolutely classic Stephen King, packed with nifty turns of phrase, irreverent wit, and lurid ghouls who grab you from beneath the bed while you cower under the covers. --Tim Appelo

Answer 2

Recent books that frighten me (aside from political non-fiction) are:

World War Z - An Oral history of the Zombie War by Max Brooks. Reading it was like reading the transcript of a PBS documentary. It could happen? It sures seems like it as you read this book! A real page turner!

The Road by Cormac McCarthy - Very dark "post-apocalyptic masterpiece". The ulitmate fright, the end of the world. Really the end of the world! Don't read it if you tend toward depression.

Older favorites:

Amityville Horror - I don't know how I'd feel about this book if I read it today but when it first came out I read it in one night, I couldn't put it down. It was around 3 in the morning when I finished. I was sitting up on the back of the sofa so nothing would grab my feet and had to call for my Dad to walk me down the hall to my bedroom. I was young and I don't think a book has ever scared me so badly.

'Salem's Lot - My second favorite Stephen King book (The stand is my favorite). King writes in such a way that no matter how far fetched an idea (vampires, etc.) it seems as if it could actually be true. In fact it seems as if it is PROBABLY true!

Hope this helps

Answer 3

Someone said The Shining and that is DEFINITELY a very creepy book!
I'm also pretty scared of some of the things by Edgar Allan Poe.
Also, the book Ten Little Indians by Agatha Christie kind of distrubed me. It's more of a thriller than blood and gore scary.

Answer 4

The scariest book I have ever read is Bram Stoker's "Dracula". The way in which it is written created very vivid mental images in my mind of vampiric activity that I still haven't forgotten. Reading this book was disturbing and enthralling at the same time.

The links below will take you to an online text of "Dracula", and an explanation of it. I hope you find what you are looking for!

Answer 5

One of the Scary Stories to tell in the Dark books or Southern Ghosts.

Answer 6

Try Dean Koontz, Mary Higgins Clark, or the ever popular Stephen King! Dean Koontz always keeps me from sleeping!

Answer 7

Read It by Stephen King. Not only won't you sleep at night, you will never look at a clown the same again.
It is very scary.
Black House and Bag of Bones are also very good.

Answer 8

the following will make your hair stand straight on end!

1. my life in politics by Bill Clinton
2. I am not a crook by Richard Milhous Nixon
3. My hardcore life in the Military by John Kerry
4. Big Ears and Big ambition by Ross Perot
5. American Politics and everything i know about it by
George Walker Bush Jr. (get the condensed version, it
gets to the point alot quicker)

Answer 9

Heltor Skeltor

Answer 10

Hostage to The Devil by Malachi Martin...it contains the true story of the demonic possession case that was used as the basis for the movie "The Exorcist"