I have yet to read something that makes me actually scared, makes me want to turn on all the lights and throw the covers over my head. Any suggestions?
House of Leaves is supposed to be good. I haven't read it myself as I don't read horror, but that one's pretty iconic.
I recommend getting those only if you want more of the back story to Johnny Traunt and his mentally ill mother. They aren't necessary, and I honestly can't tell you if they even stand alone. You get most of those letters in House of Leaves anyway.
I too have been looking for a juicy horror story for years. I have read a lot of gothic literature and contemporary horror, but few have had the desired scare factor. The last time a book scared me, I was reading Goosebumps. Though I must say 'The Collector" is quite chilling. I have never heard of House of Leaves - it is now at the top of my list!
Stephen King's The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. Couldn't put it down until I'd finished it. I guess it helps if you have a very vivid imagination, but I thought it was scary
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are you looking for a scary animals that does crazy animal stuff or a scary adult book with lots of detail. lol I prefer the dangerous animals tbh
Keep the suggestions coming, I'm making a wishlist as we speak haha. I have been looking for scary stuff to read for a while, couldn't quite get into some things i downloaded.
it depends what you mean by scary - personally I thought Misery by Stephen King was pretty damn scary - its not supernatural ghosts and such just the tension of someone being taken kidnapped by a nut case
There are a whole lot of differentiations within 'scary'. Personally I like the creeeeepy stories, where you look over your own shoulder because this kind of scare is not extraordinary. It's just part of living Define, what's 'scary' for you?
Depends on what scares you. I have read a fair amount of horror. Some stories that were creepier than others. Gory stories don't scare me, though I guess they do some people.
Yes, exactly that. Im currently reading Follow You Home by Mark Edwards, seems ok so far. Time will tell.
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, by Erik Larson. It's not as scary as it is really, really creepy. It's non-fiction, so mostly a true story that's told in a novelistic style. In other words, it reads like fiction but it is all too real. The serial killer in this story makes Jack the Ripper seem like a schoolboy.
One of the best horror stories I've read is a novella called The Beckoning Fair One, by a guy named Oliver Onions (seriously!). In it, a writer who's going through a bad dry spell takes a flat in an empty house, to exclude the distractions that are keeping him from meeting his publisher's deadline. But he gradually finds out that the place wasn't exactly tenantless . . . I was so creeped out by it that I haven't yet worked up the nerve to read it again.
The scariest book that I have ever read was definitely The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles). It's probably not traditionally what you'd consider a 'bring your covers over your head' book, but it is scary...
