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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I'm rummaging through my Stephen King collection (to my shame, I haven't spent much time with my babies for five or six months) and the books which have truly haunted me since I was a teenager are Pet Sematary & Salem's Lot - the latter, even though I've read it at least a dozen times still creeps me out, and my first floor flat curtains are always firmly shut before nightfall. 
Which novels creep you out? |
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"One fell off the shelf before with no warning. Scared the hell out of me  "
'kin hell. My horrors are in an enclosed bookcase, so if they fell out of my bookcase I'd be ringing the bloody Ghostbusters  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I've never really been scared by books and I started reading them early doors. My teachers actually had a word with my parents to encourage me to read books other than horror.
Some have made me think. I Am Legend being one of those. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"One fell off the shelf before with no warning. Scared the hell out of me
'kin hell. My horrors are in an enclosed bookcase, so if they fell out of my bookcase I'd be ringing the bloody Ghostbusters "
That would be funny though! I'd freak right out, but probably have a good chuckle too  |
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By *eliWoman
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My first was Roald Dahl - The Witches. I was convinced that the mice in the local pet shop were boys and actually smuggled two in my coat pockets out the shop.
The Collector - not a traditional horror but it really got to me. I was fourteen at the time and became very suspicious of certain types of men.
Oh and Dracula when I first read it. Started a slightly weird obsession but still terrified me. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"My first was Roald Dahl - The Witches. I was convinced that the mice in the local pet shop were boys and actually smuggled two in my coat pockets out the shop.
The Collector - not a traditional horror but it really got to me. I was fourteen at the time and became very suspicious of certain types of men.
Oh and Dracula when I first read it. Started a slightly weird obsession but still terrified me."
Oh, The Witches is still my favourite Roald Dahl novel, I blame him for my appetite for horror.
Talking of Dracula, have you read The Historian? |
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By *eliWoman
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"My first was Roald Dahl - The Witches. I was convinced that the mice in the local pet shop were boys and actually smuggled two in my coat pockets out the shop.
The Collector - not a traditional horror but it really got to me. I was fourteen at the time and became very suspicious of certain types of men.
Oh and Dracula when I first read it. Started a slightly weird obsession but still terrified me.
Oh, The Witches is still my favourite Roald Dahl novel, I blame him for my appetite for horror.
Talking of Dracula, have you read The Historian?"
Yep, I loved it! I didn't really enjoy The Swan Thieves; I think she should just embrace that horror/history crossover. It made me regret not going to a college where I could hide in the library and stumble across archaic texts. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"My first was Roald Dahl - The Witches. I was convinced that the mice in the local pet shop were boys and actually smuggled two in my coat pockets out the shop.
The Collector - not a traditional horror but it really got to me. I was fourteen at the time and became very suspicious of certain types of men.
Oh and Dracula when I first read it. Started a slightly weird obsession but still terrified me.
Oh, The Witches is still my favourite Roald Dahl novel, I blame him for my appetite for horror.
Talking of Dracula, have you read The Historian?
Yep, I loved it! I didn't really enjoy The Swan Thieves; I think she should just embrace that horror/history crossover. It made me regret not going to a college where I could hide in the library and stumble across archaic texts."
Ooooh, I've not heard of The Swan Thieves. I did really enjoy The Historian and how, although it was about vampires it wasn't straight up horror which was refreshing. I did feel that as it's so long it did drag on sometimes  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'm rummaging through my Stephen King collection (to my shame, I haven't spent much time with my babies for five or six months) and the books which have truly haunted me since I was a teenager are Pet Sematary & Salem's Lot - the latter, even though I've read it at least a dozen times still creeps me out, and my first floor flat curtains are always firmly shut before nightfall.
Which novels creep you out?"
I adore Stephen King! No book has ever really creepedo me out to be fair. I think I find too much peace in reading.
Eve. X |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Stephen King is one of my favourite authors, but I have never been scared by a book, bored yes, scared no.
My favourite of his books is It."
Love IT. Will be interesting to see the new adaptation of it |
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By (user no longer on site)
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three books I remember scaring the crap out of me in my teenage years were
Something wicked this way comes by Ray Bradbury
Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon
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Rosemarys baby by Ira levin |
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"I'm rummaging through my Stephen King collection (to my shame, I haven't spent much time with my babies for five or six months) and the books which have truly haunted me since I was a teenager are Pet Sematary & Salem's Lot - the latter, even though I've read it at least a dozen times still creeps me out, and my first floor flat curtains are always firmly shut before nightfall.
Which novels creep you out?"
Loved Stephen King in my teens.
One day I will read them again. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Jaws ! The book is even better than the film !
I used to go fishing out on the rocks in the sea . It was a calm warm summers morning . The sea like a mill pond , all of a sudden all the gulls took flight . In my head I could hear the music derrrrr Dum derrrr Dum lol . I scrambled back to shore lol  |
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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago
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two for me both apocalyptic in thier view
peak oil about the disintergation of society in the event of terrorist actions knocking out two key oil refinerys and the effect the lack of fuel would have distribution of food and other goods and how quickly law and order disintergrates scarey stuff to read
second book was thirst in which a tanker full of a toxic substance is accidently spiled in to the west midlands water supply sending the occupants there of crazy ( like they arent already )and intent on mass murder again scarey scenario |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I loved The Historian, I lent it to a friend and never got it back 
I can't recall being scared reading a book, that's why I like reading horror instead of watching it as my imagination only tends to go so far, so the image in my head is toned down. |
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"The rats by James Herbert, shit the life out of when I was younger...daren't read it now just in case 
The rats, lair and domain are the nuts....and all set around london and the southeast."
Totally agree, great books but as you say set in an area where I live so made go a bit |
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"The works of The
Marquis de Sade?
Very scary!!!"
I havent been scared by any books I have read I liked Marquis de Sade when i was younger loved Dennis Wheatley too. I Scare more easily with Tv stuff when I am alone, I am a woose about being alone in house and lock all my interior doors and close curtains before watching anything scary. |
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It wasn't a novel, it was an entire set of books..
The encyclopedia brittanica..
Putting on of the 21 volumes back, the whole bookshelf collapsed.. I honestly almost shat myself..
Thank heavens for Google, no more looking something up in an encyclopedia... |
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The one where the couple went on a romantic weekend in the middle of nowhere and he died before undoing her handcuffs that shackled her to the bed.
It describes how the bloke was slowly eaten by wild animals and how she degloved her hands to get out of the cuffs. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The one where the couple went on a romantic weekend in the middle of nowhere and he died before undoing her handcuffs that shackled her to the bed.
It describes how the bloke was slowly eaten by wild animals and how she degloved her hands to get out of the cuffs. "
Gerards game?
Love James Herbert, Stephen king, Dean koontz.
The first book ever to give me nightmares was the shining. Topiary animals still give me the creeps! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"The one where the couple went on a romantic weekend in the middle of nowhere and he died before undoing her handcuffs that shackled her to the bed.
It describes how the bloke was slowly eaten by wild animals and how she degloved her hands to get out of the cuffs.
Gerards game?
Love James Herbert, Stephen king, Dean koontz.
The first book ever to give me nightmares was the shining. Topiary animals still give me the creeps!"
I enjoyed Gerald's Game, the female lead in that is the only other female lead of King's who I don't actively dislike, the other female character being Beverly Marsh in It. Though G'sG put me off handcuffs for life!
I love James Herbert but I prefer his more fantasy ghost stories to his gore, but I prefer Koontz's early gore stuff to his thrillers |
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all i can remember is it is by Phil Rickman...one of his early books think it may have been december...I read it while staying in an ancient pub in matlock...everywhere creaked and the building was spooky enough before reading it...could not put it down...felt like something would happen if i did not finish it...scared the hell out of me!!
loved stephen king books and james herbert...nothing as scary as this one though!! |
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Being a precocious child and an 'advanced' reader I read a load of stuff that looking back, was pretty unsuitable one way or another. This included spending my pocket money when I was about 9 or 10 on a full on and very explicit witchcraft encyclopedia which scared me so much I made my mum lock it in her wardrobe (so the witches/demons etc couldn't get me  ) until I was 16.
Not overtly horrific but there's something about Susan Hill's Woman in Black which gets me every time .... the book, TV adaptation, the film or the stage play ... whenever I have anything to do with it, I'm guaranteed to get very bad nightmares afterwards ... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Mo Hayder novels, especially The Treatment, scared me. I also enjoyed Pet Semetary
Did you know The Treatment is made into a movie?"
Oo no I didn't, thank you, I will check it out |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I read american psycho a couple of years ago and it didnt really scare me just made me think what the hell is going on in the authors mind, like have they checked his basement for corpses lol |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Stephen King - The Fog / Rats. Both books scared the crap out of me when I was younger.
They're both James Herbert  "
To be fair, King did write a short story called The Fog.  |
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"I read american psycho a couple of years ago and it didnt really scare me just made me think what the hell is going on in the authors mind, like have they checked his basement for corpses lol"
I agree, it didn't scare me but it did disturb the heck out of me |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I read american psycho a couple of years ago and it didnt really scare me just made me think what the hell is going on in the authors mind, like have they checked his basement for corpses lol
I agree, it didn't scare me but it did disturb the heck out of me "
The bit with the dog properly disturbed me, i think its because ive got 2 of my own |
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"One fell off the shelf before with no warning. Scared the hell out of me "
Was at a mate's house, sat in the lounge waiting for him to finish getting ready for a night out. Nobody else in the lounge except me, and Stephen King's book Christine just falls off his bookshelf...slightly eerie, as I'd just finished reading my own copy of the book. Life is sometimes stranger than fiction. |
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"I read american psycho a couple of years ago and it didnt really scare me just made me think what the hell is going on in the authors mind, like have they checked his basement for corpses lol
I agree, it didn't scare me but it did disturb the heck out of me "
Have you read Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House? It's very good. And if we're talking disturbing, try her short story "The Lottery" - it is unforgettable. It really is. That's all I'll say.
Only one mention of Ramsey Campbell so far? He's brilliant - more short stories than novels, but many are creepy as hell. Try "Again", one of my faves and really disturbing - just thinking about it makes me shudder. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'm rummaging through my Stephen King collection (to my shame, I haven't spent much time with my babies for five or six months) and the books which have truly haunted me since I was a teenager are Pet Sematary & Salem's Lot - the latter, even though I've read it at least a dozen times still creeps me out, and my first floor flat curtains are always firmly shut before nightfall.
Which novels creep you out?"
James Herbert's The Rats scared me, but I was 13.. And a book for adults. That lead me onto Stephen King.. Who I've not found that scary, as I prefer his Sci fi to his horror. But The Dome and The Stand both scare me a little. I'm reading The Stand now.. I think I find what people can do to each other more scary than traditional horrors.
The Descent scared me, or had my hackles up for sure. I'd like to think Jaws scares me when I read it, but doubt it will. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Its not exactly classed as a horror but Follow You Home by Mark Edwards is good. Also if you love horror the Nosleep podcast is amazing some really good stories xx |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The Bible. All that stuff about voices from God telling a father to kill his son. "
Yeah, the bible scared me as a child, too. My really religious aunt would read us bits from Revelation around the campfire in the dark
The Gulag Archipelago was also quite frightening and sad. |
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"Richard Laymon's Endless Night, it didn't scare me exactly, but it did make me a bit jumpy! "
Laymon wrote some fucked up shit. I loved his books when I was a teen and it's all sex, blood, violence and graphic gore. |
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By *s_macWoman
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"Richard Laymon's Endless Night, it didn't scare me exactly, but it did make me a bit jumpy!
Laymon wrote some fucked up shit. I loved his books when I was a teen and it's all sex, blood, violence and graphic gore. "
A friend passed it on and I have to say I was gripped. Oddly on another thread I was saying how I'm totally unable to watch anything violent at all, but to read it is fine. It's like my brain presents it to me in a way I can handle, whereas watching somone else's interpretation of a scene, I find it almost impossible. |
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