Thread: What was the scariest book you've read and why??
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Old 01-15-2011, 11:45 PM   #79
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"The Shining"
That book altered me and my outlook on life, it could be read on so many levels. The Topiary Animals, alone, gave me nightmares enough for a week.

I think it's Steven King's best book, period, and I could not stand the movie version because Kubrick just didn't get it...so wound up very nearly ruining it, for me. I haven't seen a Kubrick movie since.

As for scary movies -- it's a toss-up between "The Innocents" (based on Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw") and "The Vanishing", the French/Dutch version, not that hideous American remake. The former is the perfect ghost story while the latter is such realistic psychological horror, it still freaks me out just thinking about it.
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