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The Amityville Horror scared me pretty good too. I was also pretty young when I read that - when it came out. Stephen King's first book came out around the same time, and that scared me too. |
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Amityville was great, I read that a couple years ago. Im going to have to read the Exorcist.
One thing I find fascinating, is that we all remember reading, watching, etc. these things as kids. And its never really left us. You never really foeget your first time I guess. .....being scared people, get your mind out of the gutter lol. |
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"What to Expect When You're Expecting" easily wins in my book. We learned what an episiotomy was. The thought still gives me chills. We read that some kids don't sleep the entire night for up to 6 years. And the "entire night" only means 5 consecutive hours! And when we got to the part telling us my wife was likely to poop during the middle of child birth... scary stuff I tell you.
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Lol. I remember that book!
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Anne Rice's "The Witching Hour". There were some scenes in there that just totally creeped me out, and made me ask myself WTF I was doing reading that story alone in the house at 2AM.
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The Dark Side by Jane Mayer
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What makes this book one of the most scariest books out there is not that it is a horror novel. What makes it so scary is that it's true. It's one of the worst times in American history that has ended up screwing up the world. George W. Bush has done more harm to the world then the terrorists he went after. |
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I've never read, or even watched, anything that scared me. I don't think I'm capable of being scared by anything that is not happening in my real life. I keep reading/watching horror and true crime, and although things disgust me, nothing scares me.
I absolutely can't stand Stephen King because he has a thing for making kids and animals the victims. Weirdo. Obviously, most people don't share my opinion judging by how rich and famous he is. Anything involving aliens, zombies, monsters, or any other made up creatures just makes me say, "Oh, puulleeesse." Don't get me wrong, I want to be scared by something. I just haven't found it yet. |
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I agree with you here, but I will add that sometimes the kids are the heroes as well. The first time he tragically kills off a child it's shocking, when it's in every single book it's just lazy. I read his books in real time, as they came out, and I stopped at Pet Semitary.
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I can see lots of titles in these posts of good scary stories I have read - love a good creepy horror story! But I think the book that really gave me bad dreams was George Orwell's "1984". I think it was the fact that the scary people were real; I know deep down that there are no real vampires or ghosts, unfortunately there are real secret police and ruthless governments.
One thing that puts me off some horror stories is the amount of physical violence, I prefer the unseen horrors of H P Lovecraft to graphic descriptions of people being decapitated by crazed zombies or whatever. |
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Hill House
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So, it's not Hill House, but at nine years old The Hound of the Baskervilles was the scariest, up until a few weeks later when I read Lovecraft's The Rats in the Walls, which still holds up as the more scary, but is only a short story. |
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Gerald's Game by Stephen King. No kids or animals in that one. I was reading certain disturbing scenes while in a near-deserted small airport in the middle of the night. The plane could not get there fast enough for me.
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