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It's not quite a horror, but Peter Straub's Koko tops my list of scares. It's the only book that's made me think someone was outside my bedroom window - even though I was two stories up and there was no balcony.
I also thought very highly of Straub's Ghost Story. From a horror (rather than scare) point of view, The Long Walk by Stephen King had me disturbed for a couple of weeks.
It's pretty hard to scare me in a book though. In a movie, I'm an easy mark. The right atmospheric music and drawn out scene culminating in a sudden shock will do it every time - even though I know it's coming.
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