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Originally Posted by Hitch
LOL, Salem's Lot. The only book I ever read that actually left me scared at night, like a kid. I was serving in Germany, at the time, in Ludwigsburg, before I ended up in Berlin, and anyway, I read it. At night, I had to leave the lights on, because my landlady (I was living on the economy) had this damned tree, in the backyard, that constantly tapped/scraped against the window, right? I'd wake up terrified, with the book causing vampire dreams, and that tree would tap-tap/scrape/scrape me into woken terror. Gosh, that was a looooooong time ago. (early 70's!).
I remember it so clearly because typically, movies don't scare me, books don't...but that one, helped along by my lovely landlady's tree, definitely spooked me. :-)
Hitch
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I don't scare easily, either. I found it creepy, but not scary. The only book that scared me was Shirley Jackson's
The Haunting of Hill House, the scene with Theo and Eleanor in bed when something tries (and succeeds?) to enter the room. Stephen King quotes this book at the start of
'Salem's Lot. So it looks like I'll have to reread it soon.
There are very few films that scare me. Except Asian horror films. I think because of the language barrier, but also their settings seems more realistic than those of American and British films.
The Blair Witch Project also scared me, at least the first time I saw it. Which was due to the abrupt ending; you're full of adrenaline about what you see and the possibilities what will happen next and then it ends, without a real ending and you're still all amped up.
I can also remember seeing a bit of a horror film when I was 7, it was black and which and the scene I saw was set in a long hallway and there was a mirror involved. I've no idea which film it was, but that little clip I saw scared me terribly. But not so much that it scared my love of horror away.