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Post by occupant on Jun 23, 2019 14:45:46 GMT -5
Which book(s) kept you up at night and left you with a major case of the creeps - you can select two from the list. If your favorite is not on the list, feel free to share your choice here.
Note, this is based solely on the book, not a movie based on the book.
You can also rate the books you've read from the above list in order of scariest (#1) to least scary (#10) in your reply below.
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Post by endo on Jun 23, 2019 15:57:12 GMT -5
Ok, kind of ashamed to say I haven't read some of the ones on the list. I've read most, but neither The Silence of the Lambs or Red Dragon. Also never read Ghost Story and I'm a big Peter Straub fan. But, of any horror based book I've ever read, The Exorcist is the scariest one to me, hands down. I'm having a hard time picking a second. Of the King books on the list I would pick The Shining, but then there's Hell House and The Haunting of Hill House which are both scary too. As is Rosemary's Baby. So, for me, The Exorcist is the scariest book I've read. Also, The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby are two of the best ever movies made from novels. Great choices occupant , good poll! |
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Post by occupant on Jun 23, 2019 16:07:55 GMT -5
Once again we're on the same page endo, no pun intended. There are so many great horror stories on the list, but the Exorcist would head my top ten list too. |
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Post by livingdeadgirl on Jun 23, 2019 16:57:56 GMT -5
I voted!
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Post by NDX on Jun 23, 2019 20:53:05 GMT -5
I haven't read any of those.
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Post by endo on Jun 24, 2019 14:10:54 GMT -5
You should man, at least a few of them. The ones I've read from the list are fast reads because they're hard to put down.
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Post by NDX on Jun 24, 2019 19:38:24 GMT -5
Everything is a slow read for me.
I'd throw Junji Ito's Uzumaki on the list of scary books I've read. Messer up comic. Like 99% of the work he does.
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Post by endo on Jun 24, 2019 22:43:29 GMT -5
Well, I get you there. I haven't read anything other than my new grill instructions in the past two years, and haven't used the grill in the past year.
Guess they didn't stick. Really, it's just a pain in the ass.
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Post by NDX on Jun 24, 2019 23:09:50 GMT -5
I miss grilling. Can't in my apartment complex. Not even in the quads.
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Post by Alice on Aug 10, 2019 7:38:18 GMT -5
This is a tough choice for me. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson and Hell House by Richard Matheson, I've read both of those and they're both great reads. Pet Sematary by Stephen King, I'm in the process of reading that one on my Kindle. Ghost Story by Peter Straub, that book is currently sitting on my book shelves right now but I haven't gotten around to reading it yet (too many books to read and not enough time). The other books I haven't read but I've heard of them.
Based on what I've read so far, not counting the books I'm in the process of reading because I haven't finished them yet, I went with the Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. I also picked "other" because there are some things that I've read that aren't on that list. For that, I'm going to throw in NOS4A2 by Joe Hill.
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Post by occupant on Aug 10, 2019 12:57:19 GMT -5
^ Good choices Alice. I know I read Hell House many years ago, but I don't remember if I read Hill House. I think that will be my next summer read. |
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Post by Alice on Aug 10, 2019 22:20:24 GMT -5
Thank you, occupant. I read Hell House by Richard Matheson last year on my Kindle. I think I read The Haunting of Hill House before that. They were both good reads. |
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Post by MacReadyOrNot on Feb 1, 2020 10:46:02 GMT -5
Not exactly a horror book, per se, after all it is a Divine Comedy, and I actually have never really read the book itself, only looked at the pictures, but the engravings Gustave Dore did for Dante's Inferno always stuck with me and has always frightened me to death. I never ever want to go Hell. I imagine no one does.
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