What is the scariest book you've ever read?

[sniper7]

Dreams of My Father....

[Marlin]

I was begining to think nobody caught that one...

[M2MG]

"One Second After"

M2MG

[mikedubs]

prob. The Exorcist

[roberth]

I like Peter Straub's "Ghost Story". I really like horror around Christmastime.

[Irving]

I like Peter Straub's "Ghost Story". I really like horror around Christmastime.

I have tried to read this book a few times. I have a difficult time reading some Peter Straub and have to push through it. It took me three times of starting and stopping before I finally finished Julia. I read Floating Dragon, Mr X, and Shadowland straight through though.

[roberth]

I have tried to read this book a few times. I have a difficult time reading some Peter Straub and have to push through it. It took me three times of starting and stopping before I finally finished Julia. I read Floating Dragon, Mr X, and Shadowland straight through though.

I've read Floating Dragon which I thought was ok. Haven't read the other 3 you mentioned. Might be time for a trip to the used book store.

I've read all kinds of old Stephen King, Clive Barker, Dean Koontz and others.

[robsterclaw]

It by Stephen King. I read it the year it came out, so yep I was young. Scared the hell out of me for weeks because it was a freakin thousand pages.

[Irving]

prob. The Exorcist

I read Legion by the same author. It has some of the same characters, and references stuff that happens in the Exorcist. I've only seen the movie of the Exorcist, I may have to read the book of that as well.

Legion is a pretty cool book and has what I would consider a pretty high level of interesting religious perspective in it, without coming across preachy at all.

[Jambi]

American Psycho. Movie sucked, book was VERY twisted.