Ok the thing is that I have to make a book report and I don’t want to show the class a book that I have already ready and I just wanted to see which scary books you guys liked and why. also can you send me a webpage where I can read a book report about it? Thanks!
2007-09-16 16:22:35 · 13 answers · asked by DaYrØn™ 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I've read many a scary story, but two that really gave me the creeps are both by Stephen King, The Shining and Pet Sematary
2007-09-17 03:07:30 · answer #1 · answered by Granny in KS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson. I usually like short stories more than novels for scariness, but this was a good one. I think it came out around 1960 or so, so it may be a bit hard to find. It's about a haunted house and a young woman who's very much alone and has difficulty relating to other people. She moves into the house as part of an experiment to prove whether it's really haunted, and she gradually loses herself to the house's sinister power.
It's not a bloody, gory kind of book, just really creepy; and the central character is sympathetic even though you gradually realize she's emotionally disturbed.
As for the book report, you're on your own there. I've already written my share. But you can look it up on amazon.com for a short synopsis if you think that will help.
2007-09-16 16:53:04 · answer #2 · answered by jcdevildog 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
All great choices. But I think the two scariest books ever were 1) The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty (I read it while spending the weekend alone in a house out in the middle of nowhere babysitting for a friend's two kids. I didnt sleep all weekend.)
2) Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Oldies but still goldies. Third choice - The Amityville Horror. I uesed to live around the corner from that house. Scary just to drive past it.
Pax - C
2007-09-16 17:28:36 · answer #3 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hello,
From the Book Of The Werewolf, the short story called. The Kill by Peter Flemming:
You can find it in the Book Of The Werewolf:
http://www.trashfiction.co.uk/horror05.html
Cheers,
Michael Kelly
2007-09-16 17:21:52 · answer #4 · answered by Michael Kelly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Phantoms by Dean Koontz
Trench by Alten--about a carcaradon megladon that's found alive in the Marianas Trench and finds a way to surface.
2007-09-16 16:30:18 · answer #5 · answered by Kissa M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the female In Black by using Susan Hill. it extremely is a ghost tale so i do no longer understand in case you will possibly choose to envision it even though it extremely is excellently written. an exceptionally aggravating e book that I additionally got here upon particularly frightening yet that's thoroughly non-supernatural is 'Complicity' by using Iain Banks.
2016-10-09 07:58:55 · answer #6 · answered by uhlman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Salem's Lot by Stephen King. Vampires always get the best of me.
2007-09-17 00:48:08 · answer #7 · answered by Oz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pet Cemetary by Stephen King. I was all right until the little kid got killed and mom took him off to the .... well, that place. That REALLY creeped me out.
2007-09-16 17:53:09 · answer #8 · answered by iwasnotanazipolka 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ira Levin's "Rosemary's Baby" - very creepy!
2007-09-16 22:52:53 · answer #9 · answered by Zin 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The shining. Indian burial grounds always get me :\
2007-09-16 16:25:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋