I'm not interested in outright gory books, just books that you found scary.
2007-03-02 04:47:47 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The Bad Place by Dean Koontz was really good. All of his books are good actually! Not too gory, but really scary! They are sleep-with-the-light-on scary!
2007-03-02 04:53:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd just have to go by author. There's no way I could pick a favorite from the list.
Jay Anson's "The Amityville Horror" is probably the scariest book I've ever read.
Stephen King has so many, but I'd have to put "Pet Semetary" and "'Salem's Lot" near the top of the list.
Dean Koontz's "Phantoms." Also, the Odd Thomas books are really good; not heavy in the scary department, but awesome reads, and one of the best fictional characters to emerge in recent years.
Some other good horror stories are:
Ray Garton "Lot Lizards"
Clive Barker "Books of Blood" and "The Damnation Game"
F. Paul Wilson "The Keep," "The Tomb," and "Midnight Mass"
Peter Straub "Ghost Story" and "Floating Dragon"
John Saul "Suffer the Children" and "Creature"
Robert McCammon "Swan Song" - anyone that liked Stephen King's "The Stand" would probably like this one
Ramsey Campbell "The Hungry Moon"
2007-03-02 06:09:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well If you like ghost story related books John Saul's "Nathaniel" is a really good book and here are a few others that are worth the read
Hideaway by Dean R Koontz
the bad place by Dean R koontz
The House by Bentley Little
The Wild by Whitley Strieber
The girl next door by Jack Ketchum
Neverland by Douglas Clegg
Just some suggestions I am a big horror fan as well I enjoy a book with a good scary element to it not the gore.
2007-03-02 05:11:13 · answer #3 · answered by greeneyedredhead 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Chill By Sandra Brown, From A Buick Eight by Stephen King
2007-03-02 04:50:57 · answer #4 · answered by valgal115 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love horror books! my favorite authors are, King, Koontz, McCammon and Bentley Little, I dont think i have a fav., no book has ever scared me, well maybe The Exorcist. Another Good author is Michael McDowell(deceased). There are 2 McDowell authors,both named Michael. The one i like is a horror writer. He wrote The Black water Series, and The Elementals. Tabitha King, Stephen King's wife finished a book that M.M. started , called Candles Burning, very good!
2007-03-02 06:57:25 · answer #5 · answered by macybluedawn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not quite what you were looking for as non-gory, but BOOKS OF BLOOD by Clive Barker were the first books to truly make me want to look over my shoulder. It's a collection of his short stories. Some of the best horror stories were psychological in nature. But there was the a lot of the gross too.
Check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_of_Blood
2007-03-02 04:54:33 · answer #6 · answered by pensacola_sand 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The book "IT" by Stephen King. Long before I watched the movie, I read this. It was the scariest book I have ever read. Stephen King has a way with words that make it where you are there. The clown in my head was way scarier than in the movie. There was also alot in the book that got left out of the movie.
Freaky, but Awesome!
2007-03-02 04:57:59 · answer #7 · answered by Shairty M 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Stand, by Stephen King.
In the 1st half of the book, some unknown virus plagues the earth and kills off, like, 85% of the global population, while nature "selected" the 15% that would start up a new society of good and evil.
It gave me nightmares with a Captial N.
I dreamt my own mother died in my arms from the virus. I woke up crying. I didnt know a person could cry in his/her sleep.....
2007-03-02 04:51:54 · answer #8 · answered by JusticeManEsq 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Witching Hour By Ann Rice
2007-03-02 07:18:19 · answer #9 · answered by bubbas_bookworm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Andromeda Strain
2007-03-02 04:54:52 · answer #10 · answered by eagleperch 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋