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[dotinthesky]

What's the scariest novel or story you've read?

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[suede.livejournal.com]

The exorcist!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

That's quite old too, isn't it? From the 50s?

[suede.livejournal.com]

1971
It's the scariest of all. When my mother was young and she rode it, she had to keep it in another room, for being able to sleep!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Heh! I'll look for it then!

[suede.livejournal.com]

haha! you wont sleep for a month! :P

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I genuinely want to find a scary book. I don't know if any are written anymore.

[suede.livejournal.com]

I love scary books and movies, but for both the old ones are the best. New ones arent scary!
I've read the exorcist too and I can promise you'll be more scared than you think :P

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Ok... Now I'm curious.

[suede.livejournal.com]

Hahaha
Yeah it is, even I am not sure about what scares me the most: the book or staring at a wall with a crucifix on it!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

that's what everyone is saying. I must read this book.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

That's my problem too... I'm looking for a masterpiece of horror/terror/suspense that I can study and emulate - but everything seems to fall short. I like "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James, and specially "The Haunt of the Hill House" by Shirley Jackson. But I have no clue about any good scary contemporary novels.

[cops-n-queers.livejournal.com]

1971! Gah, I think that still scares me.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Never heard of that one. Is it a proper horror/suspense novel?

[cops-n-queers.livejournal.com]

No, no, you misunderstood. 1971 version of exorcist. Great novel, scared the living hell outta me, but good book. They don't write 'em like that anymore.

[malaniat.livejournal.com]

"the colour out of space" by H.P. Lovecraft that story is very frightening.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

thanks. I'll look for it.

[kurwa.livejournal.com]

The "Goosebumps" series... Haha...

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Meh!

:P

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Beloved is a ghost story right?

[ahladita.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sorta. You have to read it to understand. Go on, read it! :P

[ahladita.livejournal.com]

I don't find blood and gore that scary; the things that freak me out are overall weirdness, or when things happen that aren't "supposed" to happen, or if a character very convincingly goes insane.

With that in mind, Beloved and The Bluest Eye both by Toni Morrison are pretty damned freaky.

[crushedoutgirl.livejournal.com]

Behold a Pale Horse by William Cooper is by far one of the scariest things i have ever read. however, this book is not fictional. William Cooper is a former member of the US Naval Intelligence Briefing Team, and discloses many disgusting secrets that the US government has been keeping from the world since 1940. this was written in 1991, quite a few things he mentioned in here have already come true. some things mentioned may seem a bit over-the-top, though, but it makes one wonder. Cooper was eventually killed by police in 2001.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Well, I know plenty of those types of scary books! Anything by Chomsky, for example.

But what about fiction?

[dusttodust.livejournal.com]

Larry Niven's "Lucifer's Hammer" about the effects of a comet hitting the Earth. No last-minute heroics like Armageddon or even Deep Impact, to avert disaster, just a trashed world blasted back to the Iron Age, filled with cannibalistic gangs and starving refugees.

Not scary in the Night of the Living dead sense, but it did make for several weeks of comet paranoia. (I got better.)

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I actually love all that kind of post-apocalyptic stuff! Mad max movies, etc. I'll definetly check this novel out. Cheers!

[thebeatnick.livejournal.com]

The Boogeyman by Stephen King freaked me out when I read it. Probably would have less of an effect on me now (I haven't read it since) but the story scared me something awful when I first read it.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Some Stephen King novels and stories were very cool to me years ago... but I kinda grew out of him.

:)