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Old 01-19-2011, 06:04 AM   #121
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The Ignored by Bentley Little. Most of his books are downright creepy but that one sticks with me.


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Old 01-19-2011, 06:13 AM   #122
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The Ignored by Bentley Little. Most of his books are downright creepy but that one sticks with me.
I've read two of his books, The Association, and The Academy. Both were creepy has all getout. The Association makes me glad I don't live in a place with a Home Owners Association LOL.
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Old 01-19-2011, 01:41 PM   #123
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To me, the scariest books are the ones that can actually happen (no, I don't believe in evil clowns hiding in the sewers). That is why Whispers was so scary - it could easily happen.
In that case, Crawlspace should freak you right out. I read it as a teenager and I have no idea who wrote it, but it's about some guy who takes up residence under a house and terrorizes the couple who live there.
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Old 01-19-2011, 02:00 PM   #124
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Stephen King get his own list:
1. Pet Sematary
2. It
3. The Shining
4. The Lawnmower Man (from Different Seasons, I think)
5. Cujo
6. Gerald's Game

Others worth mentioning:

Silence of the Lambs
Dreams from My Father
The Audacity of Hope
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Old 01-19-2011, 02:18 PM   #125
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I don't know about the scariest, since I don't really scare while reading. but it is my favorite genre.

but the one book where I felt the most transplanted into the scenes and it's environment was Ghost Story by Peter Straub. I read it during the summer a couple of years ago, but i would have sworn it was middle of winter and I was in a small upstate New York town.

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Old 01-19-2011, 04:12 PM   #126
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In that case, Crawlspace should freak you right out. I read it as a teenager and I have no idea who wrote it, but it's about some guy who takes up residence under a house and terrorizes the couple who live there.

Just bought this from the big river on your recomendation alone.

Hopefully this the book you speak of.
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Old 01-19-2011, 04:55 PM   #127
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One of my favorites is Swan Song by Robert McCammon. It's the one post apocalyptic story I'll pick over King's The Stand.
I've been wanting to read Swan Song for a while now, but the Kindle edition is $13.99 while the paperback is $4.99 new. I'm not paying a $9 premium for the Kindle version.
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Old 01-19-2011, 05:29 PM   #128
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In that case, Crawlspace should freak you right out. I read it as a teenager and I have no idea who wrote it, but it's about some guy who takes up residence under a house and terrorizes the couple who live there.
I'm on it. My husband will soon be complaining when I make him check out all the sounds in our house!
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Old 01-20-2011, 02:21 PM   #129
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I'm so excited! When I was a kid, I read in the living room, and there was a wall of floor to ceiling windows across from me. We lived in the country, so we never bothered to close the drapes. But when you are reading a scary book at 2 am, and everyone else went to bed at 10, you better not look up on your way to bed! I was sure I would see someone peering in the window.

Anyway, I ordered the book from the library. It should be here tomorrow. My husband is out of town, so I will read it tomorrow night. We don't have a crawlspace, but we have a basement. I think I will read it down there.
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....at least you don't have to read it in your crawl space.
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Old 01-21-2011, 10:00 AM   #131
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No love for Dan Simmons? I think Song of Kali is one of the most harrowing novels I've ever read. You don't need supernatural monsters when humans are sufficiently evil.
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Old 01-21-2011, 10:07 AM   #132
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For me it was a scene in The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. The scene in the bedroom where the two women share a bed because some unkown thing was in the room.
Yes! That's the book that jumped to mind for me, as well. AND that scene is the very scene that made it so impressionable. I remember it clearly although I read it in high school, over 40 years ago. I also remembering the movie - looking so forward to seeing it, and when that bedroom scene was played, it just did not do for me what the written passage did. But I do own a copy of the film on DVD, but my copy of the book is lost...
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Old 01-21-2011, 11:48 PM   #133
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reading this while thinking 'this lunatic could become president one day' is more frightening than anything I can think of.

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Old 01-22-2011, 12:56 AM   #134
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The scariest book I ever read would be It by Stephen King; I think it had something to do with the clown. I don't like clowns - I think they're creepy
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The scariest book I ever read would be It by Stephen King; I think it had something to do with the clown. I don't like clowns - I think they're creepy
You know - I really think that clowns are creepy, whether they're being used as a device for horror or not.

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