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Dot in the Sky ([personal profile] dotinthesky) wrote2004-07-01 02:13 pm
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What's the scariest novel or story you've read?
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[identity profile] cops-n-queers.livejournal.com 2004-07-01 08:32 am (UTC)(link)
1971! Gah, I think that still scares me.

[identity profile] malaniat.livejournal.com 2004-07-01 10:42 am (UTC)(link)
"the colour out of space" by H.P. Lovecraft that story is very frightening.

[identity profile] kurwa.livejournal.com 2004-07-01 11:19 am (UTC)(link)
The "Goosebumps" series... Haha...
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[identity profile] ahladita.livejournal.com 2004-07-01 11:47 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] crushedoutgirl.livejournal.com 2004-07-01 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] dusttodust.livejournal.com 2004-07-01 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
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.)

[identity profile] thebeatnick.livejournal.com 2004-07-01 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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