What is the scariest book you've ever read?

[Irving]

So, I just finished reading a book that my wife said was scary. There was absolutely nothing scary about this book, so I'm having her read The Shining by Stephen King. I guess King wrote a sequel to The Shining called Doctor Sleep in 2013. Looks like there was also another Dark Tower book as well. I hadn't heard of either one, so thought I'd post up here in case anyone was interested.

[RMAC757]

If it hasn't been mentioned yet "The Passage" by Justin Cronin

[Portsider86]

Goosebumps series

[BPTactical]

My wedding registry.

[RMAC757]

My wedding registry.

Thats awesome

[Griff79]

My wedding registry.

Lol, mad man!

[JohnnyEgo]

I am another one who benefited from a liberal reading philosophy by my parents, who let us read way age-inappropriate books and novels. I was pretty young when I discovered Stephen King, probably about fourth grade, but a lot of his novels scared the crap out of me. I remember both "Salem's Lot" and "The Stand" as giving me nightmares.

"One Second After" did nothing for me, as it felt incredibly derivative of "Lucifer's Hammer", by Larry Niven, from the 80s. Right down to the semi-cannibalistic army driven by street gangs. "The Passage" also felt a little bit like a pastiche of better written books the further I got into it.

I don't read a lot of zombie-fiction, but I picked up a copy of "The Girl With All The Gifts" at an airport book shop a few months back, and felt it was well written, and the ending gave me some pause. These days, that is about as close to a scare as fiction gives me.

[Griff79]

Night Shift by Steven King,

I was reading it on a hot summer night in Illinois at about 2:00 am. Sitting in the kitchen with the sliding glass door open. The line in the book read, "and out of nowhere came a giant crack of lighting".

At that very moment I got a weird feeling, kind of like the hair on the back of my neck stood up. I looked up from my reading and KABOOM, a giant crack of lighting struck right outside.

I'm getting goose bumps writing this. True story and that's the scariest book I ever read.

Griff

[sniper7]

Haven't read anything that really scared me, but I'd say my most emotional book I remember reading was as a kid was where the red fern grows or old yeller. I recently just watched both movies again.

[Irving]

Haven't read anything that really scared me, but I'd say my most emotional book I remember reading was as a kid was where the red fern grows or old yeller. I recently just watched both movies again.

Picked up both to read to the kid. She watched Old Yeller the other day.