Books that have scared you to death

Posted By: liv

Books that have scared you to death - 08/18/05 08:29 PM

Please list some - I'm looking for a good one.

The Shining was pretty scary!
Posted By: Anonymous

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/18/05 08:30 PM

I read Carrie in one night. i thought it was awesome!
Posted By: J2C

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/18/05 08:31 PM

The Exorcist. Far more scary than the movie, but I couldn't put it down. I read it when I was about 16- if my Mom ever knew, she would've killed me. She had it on her bookshelf in the basement and it kept calling my name....
Posted By: Hrothgar Geiger

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/18/05 08:32 PM

"Salem's Lot" was genuinely scary.

"It" was scary only in the sense that I was afraid I wouldn't finish it
Posted By: Bank Angler

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/18/05 08:32 PM

Floating Dragon by Peter Straub.
Posted By: Kansayaku

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/18/05 08:34 PM

Only the Bible. And then only because I was initially so very young and the person teaching me made it seem very frightening. (The old scare them into submission thing.)
Posted By: Rainbow Girl

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/18/05 08:41 PM

I have not read a book that scared me. I have read some about serial killers that was pretty gross, but not scary.
Posted By: XODUS

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/18/05 08:42 PM

The Shining.
Posted By: E.E.G.B

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/18/05 08:42 PM

The last David Baldacci - Hour's Game, was it called?? REALLY REALLY SCARY.
Posted By: XODUS

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/18/05 08:43 PM

oops, I didn't see that you had already listed that.
Posted By: XODUS

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/18/05 08:44 PM

I went on a summer of terror one time and read about ten King books, The Shining was the scariest, then Cujo, and Salem's Lot.
Posted By: Snowqueen

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/18/05 08:46 PM

I thought Cujo was scary. It was enough Stephen King for me.

My sister, an avid Stephen King reader, said the Pet Cemetary took her 3 tries to get through because it was so scary.
Posted By: Carly Girl

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/18/05 08:48 PM

Dont have much time to read, but when I did, Stephen King's Pet Semetary! Spooky.
Posted By: Anonymous

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/18/05 08:51 PM

1984, to me that is a terrifying consept, being "broken" It's not actually the idea of torture that is scary to me, it's the idea of being broken, the way he was with the mice.
Posted By: RR Sarah

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/18/05 08:53 PM

It was a James Patterson book with the character Alex Cross. I don't remember the name of it but the first chapter or two dealt with a bank robbery...

I looked it up, the book was Roses are Red...
Posted By: Anonymous

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/18/05 08:56 PM

The Martha Stewert Story
Posted By: QCL

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/18/05 08:57 PM

The Amityville Horror - but I was only in 5th grade when I read it.
Posted By: Anonymous

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/18/05 09:02 PM

Farenheit 451
Posted By: RR Sarah

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/18/05 09:02 PM

Oh yeah, I read Helter Skelter when I was in 6th or 7th grade and thought for sure that Charles Manson was going to get out of prison and come right for me!!
Posted By: Anonymous

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/18/05 09:03 PM

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Posted By: Anonymous

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/18/05 09:04 PM

Quote:

Farenheit 451



That book was awesome!
Posted By: Anonymous

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/18/05 09:09 PM

The Quran!
Posted By: RVFlyboy

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/18/05 09:22 PM

Quote:

Only the Bible. And then only because I was initially so very young and the person teaching me made it seem very frightening. (The old scare them into submission thing.)


Interesting. The Bible is not a book that scared me to death. Instead, it scared me to life.
Posted By: Lestie G

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/18/05 09:30 PM

"Haunted Mesa" by Louis Lamour - very spooky!
Posted By: VioletRose

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/18/05 09:34 PM

The Stand gave me the willies
Posted By: Cowboys Fan

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/18/05 10:02 PM

The Shining was very good. A Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule scared the cr!@ out of me the first time I read it (first time living alone/same profile as the victims-slept with a light on for days).
Posted By: DEL

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/19/05 12:31 PM

I found "The Stand" really scary, too. Not so much while I was actually reading it, but ever since, I have moments when I suddenly think what it would be like, post-world-changing event.

Salem's Lot was also very scary, in the more traditional "I don't want to turn the light off and go to bed" way.
Posted By: Cat Woman

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/19/05 12:34 PM

Quote:

"Salem's Lot" was genuinely scary.

"It" was scary only in the sense that I was afraid I wouldn't finish it



Good call on Salem's Lot. That was a freaky book.

Everything's Eventual was good too. It's a book of all short stories by Stephen King.
Posted By: MichelleDawn

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/19/05 12:47 PM

I have read every book Stephen King has ever written and none of them actually scared me, but my favorite "The Stand" creeped me out because it was very possible.

You might also try Dean Koontz, he's pretty creepy. Start with "Intensity."
Posted By: Cat Woman

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/19/05 12:52 PM

Quote:

I have read every book Stephen King has ever written and none of them actually scared me, but my favorite "The Stand" creeped me out because it was very possible.

You might also try Dean Koontz, he's pretty creepy. Start with "Intensity."



I've read a lot by Stephen King, but definitely not all of them! Maybe someday...

I LOVE Dean Koontz. My favorite by him was The "Watchers". "Intensity" was really good too, as was "False Memory" and "The Face".

I've also been reading John Saul. I just finished "Creature".
Posted By: Retired DQ

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/19/05 01:09 PM

Coma was a really scary book.
Posted By: pjs

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/19/05 01:39 PM

The one by Robin Cook- where people contract that E-cola virus- I read it a long time ago - am I thinking right on this? Shoved it off on my mom and told her she just had to read it - it was scary.
Posted By: MichelleDawn

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/19/05 01:40 PM

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I LOVE Dean Koontz. My favorite by him was The "Watchers". "Intensity" was really good too, as was "False Memory" and "The Face".



Did you read the Koontz book about the people who had the repressed memories and they get together in the motel to see what it was about? I can't remember the name, but I loved that book.

I also read everything Michael Connelly and Jonathan Kellerman write. Not scary, but good crime thrillers.
Posted By: HRH Okie Banker

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/19/05 01:49 PM

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The Shining.



Dang - 25 years later and I still get goosebumps. I recommend the book and the movie right after. I doesn't get any scarier than Jack in this movie!
Posted By: Skunk Boy

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/19/05 02:04 PM

When I was 8 my older sister read to me "The Boogeyman", a short story by Stephen King. I beleive it is in "Night Shift". That story will still creep the crap out of me, and make me close my closet doors before I go to sleep.
Posted By: Pale Writer

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/19/05 02:34 PM

Jaws, the book was way more better than the movie. And like Jennyfromthebloc said the Exorcist also. Was told from the perspective of the detective (hey that rhymes). Way more scarry. -- PW
Posted By: Nanwa

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/19/05 03:04 PM

Communion. It was a story about alien abduction and it was so real and well written, I was sleeping with the lights on!
Posted By: Kathleen O. Blanchard

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/19/05 03:40 PM

'Salem's Lot scared me to death. That along with Harvest Home (Tom Tryon) made me afraid to go to New England or any farming areas! (I eventually got over that. )

When I read the Exorcist I slept at my parent's house for a few nights!

Now I just don't read scary stuff. I do read mysteries (love the Kellermans) but try to stay away from anything that will disturb my sleep!
Posted By: BigAC

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/19/05 03:56 PM

Phantoms by Dean Koontz. He's a great writer.
Posted By: Busy Bee, CRCM

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/19/05 04:00 PM

Anything that is a "true crime" (like Ann Rule) scares me and anything by Dean Koontz is scary.

I try not to read anything scary anymore. I can't sleep when I do!
Posted By: Cat Woman

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/19/05 04:04 PM

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Phantoms by Dean Koontz. He's a great writer.



I forgot about that one!! That one was really good - it scared the crap out of me!
Posted By: Cat Woman

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/19/05 04:07 PM

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Did you read the Koontz book about the people who had the repressed memories and they get together in the motel to see what it was about? I can't remember the name, but I loved that book.



I didn't read that one, but it sounds good. I'll have to try to find the name of it!
Posted By: MichelleDawn

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/19/05 05:30 PM

I want to say the name of the Dean Koontz one in the motel is "Strangers" but I'm not sure.
Posted By: Anonymous

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/19/05 05:35 PM

Two words: HELTER SKELTER

Truth always scares me more than fiction for obvious reasons.
Posted By: Cat Woman

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/19/05 05:41 PM

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I want to say the name of the Dean Koontz one in the motel is "Strangers" but I'm not sure.



I'll check it out. Thanks!!
Posted By: Kansayaku

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/19/05 05:41 PM

Quote:

Two words: HELTER SKELTER

Truth always scares me more than fiction for obvious reasons.



Didn't read the book but did see the interview of old Charlie with Geraldo several years ago and found that a bit creepy.
Posted By: deppfan

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/19/05 05:43 PM

Books don't scare me. Now movies....I have to be careful what I watch. I live in a creaky old house, and more than once my dogs have laughed at me as I leap onto the bed so something won't reach out and grab me!
Posted By: doodle

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/19/05 05:44 PM

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Posted By: Anonymous

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/19/05 05:49 PM

The only books I remember scaring me were:

Algebra
Geometry
Algebra II
Pre-Calculus
Calculus
Posted By: Retired DQ

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/19/05 05:55 PM

Quote:

The only books I remember scaring me were:

Algebra
Geometry
Algebra II
Pre-Calculus
Calculus



LOL, U of D alumna!
Posted By: jason

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/19/05 08:28 PM

any book over 25 pages long, and without pictures.

never been scared by a book
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Posted By: Blade Scrapper

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/20/05 12:23 AM

I used to like Dean Koontz. But I discovered after a few of them that if you just switched the villain, the sappy love story and the sexual predator sub-plot, that they were all pretty much interchangeable stories.
Posted By: IUalum

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/22/05 06:55 PM

In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote. Didn't really scare me but it sure as heck "haunted" me.
Posted By: SteelBallsPat

Re: Books that have scared you to death - 08/22/05 07:12 PM

Anne Rice books are pretty good. I liked "Interview with the Vampire."