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Originally Posted by BlueJean
The scariest book I read last year was "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. I don't know if it'll qualify as scariest book ever, because I remember a collection of really obscure ghost stories (allegedly selected by Alfred Hitchcock, I bet he just gave his name for it...) from when I was ten and they too scared me to death at that time...but "The Road" really made me want to put it away at times because I couldn't bear the suspension (in a negative way) and the nighmarish horror the characters were in.
Such a dark, horrifying setting and the characters almost always on the verge of losing what little life they had left, barbarity and death surrounding them...
I'm not that easy to scare and I read the book in broad daylight (I think it was even spring), but just thinking about some scenes....shudder. I'd recommend it, though.  |
Watched the DVD last year and bought the book yesterday (cheaply).