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Originally Posted by Nyssa
It -by Stephen King kept me up at night in high school. I couldn't close my eyes without seeing certain images from the book.
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I never got past the opening pages in that one - played in the street around sewer grates too much as a kid for that not to make me feel sick. I sooo did not want to know what was going to happen.
Though I think that Kids-In-Jep is a really easy way to creep people out, speaking as a woman and knowing the way I'm hard-wired to respond to that type of thing. It almost seems a cheat, and I find that when authors open up their stories with that type of a beginning, unless there's something else happening that intrigues me, I most times than not, won't continue to read the book. I just avoid reading Stephen King, and only know the storylines of The Stand and The Shawshank Redemption because I saw the movies.
I think "The Haunting", the movie version of the Jackson book, is one of the scariest I've ever seen, mainly because it allowed my imagination to fill in the blanks, rather than trying to out-gross me with blood and gore. I actually bought the tape of it but have never watched it. I start it up, and then Julie Harris' character starts to make me too anxious and I stop - lol. I originally saw the movie as a kid, watching it on TV with my sister. It scared the s**t out of both of us; I don't think that my sister has ever watched it again. I don't think that I could make myself read the actual novel.