I want to read something really scary. I mean REALLY scary. I want a disturbing book, something really frightening. Do your worst!
2007-07-24 10:14:23 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Dolores Claibourne....XTREMELY disturbing....TRUST ME!!!
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2007-07-24 10:18:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pretty much anything by Stephen King is disturbing. Try reading The Shining, It, Carrie, Pet Semetary, Misery, The Stand. The man has very, very dark thoughts! =)
I have also read some true crime novels that are very creepy and horribly disturbing, especially when you read it knowing that what you are reading truly happened. Go to the true crime section of Barnes and Noble or Borders and look it over, those books are truly disturbing.
2007-07-24 17:28:10 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As an English major I have read some really disturbing books in my time. However, the MOST disturbing book i have read is also one of the shortest. I mean this one really packs a punch that will remain with you. The Painted Bird by Jersey kozinski (I may have spelled his name wrong as it has been many years since I read it).
2007-07-24 17:20:55 · answer #3 · answered by Tibbar 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hmm. I'm not old enough to have read a lot of REALLY scary stories. I guess if you mean, like, nightmares for weeks type of thing, Harry Potter is too tame. But it has scary parts. If you want a nightmares-for-weeks book, and you want it to be realistic, I'd say the best way to find one is to ask your local librarian.
2007-07-24 17:26:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Beast Within by Edward Levi is one of the most disturbing and psychologically demented books I have read. I have never came across anything with the same gut punching style.
2007-07-24 17:23:51 · answer #5 · answered by Ralph 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gerald's Game by Stephen King. THE most disturbing book I have ever read. Still gives me the heebie jeebies just thinking about it.
2007-07-24 17:33:53 · answer #6 · answered by *Cara* 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There's a disturbing short story (don't know the name) where a man finds a severed head after a car crash and takes it home thinking of it as a friend.
2007-07-24 17:21:07 · answer #7 · answered by - Tudor Gothic Serpent - 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I second The Painted Bird.
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris, who is better known as the author of Silence of the Lambs, is mucho creepy.
2007-07-24 17:25:44 · answer #8 · answered by Adoptive Father 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
It's a psychological thriller, it get into your mind and eats our brain, very disturbing and very dark tale of a mutilating serial killer.
2007-07-24 17:18:54 · answer #9 · answered by lilykdesign 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
House by Dekker and Perretti. Yikes!
2007-07-24 17:16:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋