What are the scariest books you’ve ever read?

[=Joel=]

wanting to read a good one

 

[Scottish Joy]

As in ghost stories? Horror?

Personally, "When Heaven Weeps" by Ted Dekker is the freakiest one I've read in awhile... but I'm not big on horror or anything... It's a good story!

 

[silentpoet]

HP Lovecraft had some freaky ideas.

 

[Lycana]

Dean Koontz scares me and grosses me out! I can't read them anymore.

 

[texmex]

Books about the concentration camps during WWII.

 

[Cordelia]

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood scared me half to death! The Silence of the Lambs - I forget the author's name - was very creepy, too.

 

[Sors]

The Shining - Stephen King

 

[Macewindu77815]

The Oath by Frank Peretti is pretty freaky...

 

[glo]

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
-Roald Dahl

(those were some freaky Oompa Loompas.)

 

[Lycana]

LOL! Yeah the Oompas scared me too! I think the scariest book I've ever read was "Gerald's Game" by Stephen King- I read that in brightest daylight and it about near scared the pants off me!

 

[I_are_sceptical]

Another vote for Lovecraft. He is the creepiest.

Also, the novel "The Manitou" by Graham Masterson and (if you can find it) the short story "Graveyard Rats" by Henry Kuttner.

 

[loribee59]

"Flowers in the Attic" ~let's just say I had nightmares after that. I read the sequel, and couldn't deal with the sickness in it.

"Sybil" ~not really a scary book, but it's creepy to read about a woman's 16 personalities and the abuse/horror she suffered as a child. (Sally Field did an excellent job as "Sybil" in that movie!)

 

[warispeace]

Definately Stephen Kings The Shining. Also, reading Whitley Streiber's Communion kept me awake at nights as a kid.

 

[Dust and Ashes]

Mustn't forget the importance of atmosphere. When I was about 14, my mom was out of town for the weekend and I was home alone. So, I sat down on the sofa Friday evening with all the lights off except the one lamp I was using to read and opened Pet Semetary by Stephen King. I finished it about 3:30am and sat there watching the shadows, afraid to move until dawn.

All it would have taken was for someone to have let a cat into the house and I would have probably had a serious breakdown.

 

[Organist]

I cannot remember the name of the book, and it was several years ago I read it, but it contained true stories of some very weird and scary things...and I guess the fact they were true made nightmares for me! I think I hid the book so it couldn't be read again.

 

[Diane_Windsor]

Dean Koontz is good. Stephen King is overrated IMO.

 

[Dust and Ashes]

Dean Koontz is good. Stephen King is overrated IMO.

Yeah, Dean Koontz seems to always have a logical, scientific explanation for the things in his books which makes them at least plausable and so more creepy. Of course, I've only read about 6 or 8 of his books so I can't speak for them all.

Lightning is my all time favorite DK book. I wish they would make a movie out of that book. I'd go see it 10 times at the theatre then buy it as soon as it hit DVD.

 

[wgjones3]

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson ranks as the all-time scariest book I've read, followed in a distant second by The Shining.

 

[Leonhard]

Misery - Stephen King (Tis should be scary indeed... )

 

[Eagle's Wind]

The scaryest Christian Book I've ever read - AND IT WAS A TRUE STORY - was The Beautiful Side of Evil
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