What is the scariest book you've ever read?

[TriggerHappy]

When I think of scary in this forum the books; Enemies Foreign and Domestic (and sequels) by Matt Bracken and Unintended Consequences by John Ross come to mind. If anyone in this forum hasn't you should seriously read them. Great gun culture, conspiracy theory, gov't overthrow type suspense and content. Unintended Consequences is quite a read, but well worth it. It is by far the best book I have ever read. If you have what did you think of them? Especially now with our gov't?

[funkfool]

Unintended Consequences is quite a read, but well worth it. It is by far the best book I have ever read. If you have what did you think of them? Especially now with our gov't?

I loved this book... need to read it again... been 10 years..

[SA Friday]

you saw the best of the movies IMO. hannibal was next and then red dragon. Silence of the lambs was a great movie!

Oops, you missed one. Red Dragon was made into a movie initially by Michael Mann long before Silence of the Lambs came out. He changed the title. It's called Manhunter.

[SA Friday]

When I think of scary in this forum the books; Enemies Foreign and Domestic (and sequels) by Matt Bracken and Unintended Consequences by John Ross come to mind. If anyone in this forum hasn't you should seriously read them. Great gun culture, conspiracy theory, gov't overthrow type suspense and content. Unintended Consequences is quite a read, but well worth it. It is by far the best book I have ever read. If you have what did you think of them? Especially now with our gov't?

Unintended Consequences is a good book, but the best you've ever read? Hmmm... Not for me. I found "The Sum of All Fears" a much more realistic book when it comes to what could go bad. As for best book ever, there are quite a few that fall higher on the list than Unintended Consequences.

[TriggerHappy]

Unintended Consequences is a good book, but the best you've ever read? Hmmm... Not for me. I found "The Sum of All Fears" a much more realistic book when it comes to what could go bad. As for best book ever, there are quite a few that fall higher on the list than Unintended Consequences.

Ouch. I have to say I am more of a movie guy. For a book that is a whole lot of pages to hold my interest is impressive. Sounds like other books might be higher on your list, I have no problem with that, but your list isn't my list. Maybe I will give Sum of All Fears a try. First I want to read UC again. Maybe my opinion will change.

[troymez]

In terms of disturbing circumstances I thought Gerald's Game by S. King is one of the most emotionally disturbing that I have read. Think it would be worse if I were a woman.

[Glock Shooter]

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

http://www.richardpreston.net/books/hz.html

I'm not into the fiction horror books, but stuff like this makes the hair on the back of my neck stand on end.

[Ryan_Th3_K1d]

The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs...Definitely the most scary book, EVER!

[GreenScoutII]

Hmmm. Thats hard to say. I've read a fair amount of King's work, but I didn't find any of it particularly frightening. I much prefer Koontz. I've probably read everything he has ever written. None of his work is scary either.

Irv, you obviously read a lot too. Do you think it may be possible that Dean Koontz is just a pen name given to the work of several authors? I suspect this may be the case. His more recent work, say the last 5-10 years, is vastly different than his earlier writing.

What do you think?

[Irving]

Yeah, he wrote as a woman for a while I think. If you go to his page on Wiki, it talks about it. Some of his earlier stuff wasn't really him either. The Funhouse, and one other similar one, was just a movie script for a lame-o '80's thriller and someone asked him to write the script into a book.