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Old 01-14-2011, 07:31 PM   #57
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Hill House

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Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer View Post
For me it was a scene in The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. The scene in the bedroom where the two women share a bed because some unkown thing was in the room.
Yeah, I agree that that was the scariest part of the book (movie, too). Overall, I thought the movie was actually scarier than the book, because it didn't spell out the alternate explanations for events, like steam pipes banging (which do indeed sound just like that one scene).

So, it's not Hill House, but at nine years old The Hound of the Baskervilles was the scariest, up until a few weeks later when I read Lovecraft's The Rats in the Walls, which still holds up as the more scary, but is only a short story.
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