Books that scare you

[Booze Raccoon]

I just saw the Ultimate Book Challenge thread.  I noticed "books that scare you"

I can't think of any.  

Can you list suggestions?

Thanks!

[charlatti]

Stephen King?

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters was creepy-scary. Jennifer McMahon has some that are kind of scary -- Don't Breathe a Word was another creepy-scary one I read.

[moreace01]

Gillian Flynn creeps me out. All of her books.

We Need to Talk About Kevin terrified me.

The Road is scary.

I can't think of a traditional "horror" story that really scared me though.

[zizibet]

It by Stephen King

The Constant Gardener by John Le Carre

A Delicate Truth by John Le Carre

Fathom by Cherie Priest

Maplecroft by Cherie Priest

Room by Emma Donoghue

[labbie]

Stephen King's It.

For non horror genre, I recently read Still Alice by Lisa Genova and it terrified me.

Ironically these are also two of my favorite books, because of the excellent writing and how they stay with me. I guess I like to be scared, lol.

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[itsme]

The Passage, Justin Cronin

Books don't nmormally scare me but for some reason this one gave me nightmares.

[bluelikejazz]

Night by Elle Wiesel (sp?)

Room sounds terrifying

[Booze Raccoon]

Jan 5, 2015 19:14:17 GMT -5 bluelikejazz said:

Night by Elle Wiesel (sp?)

Room sounds terrifying

Room was very sad but I wasn't scared by it.

[zizibet]

A couple more that I forgot about- Grunt Life by Weston Ochse (it's an SF thriller about an alien invasion)

and anything by Sarah Pinborough.

[Deleted]

We need to talk about Kevin. UGH, I couldn't finish it. I was really bothered by this.

A child called it. This one was just sad. I met the author at a military base one time, and he was just such a compelling man. I just cried as I hugged him.

ETA: A Child Called It wasn't so much scary BOO scary....it was just scary sad, scary horrifying...that a child could go through so much pain and abuse. 

[sparrowsong]

Communion

It's a supposedly true story about alien abduction. Scared the crap out of me.

[ellie]

New here! Several short stories by Steven King and his novels The Long Walk and Lisey's Story have really stuck with me.

The book that truly terrified me while I was reading it was Beloved. I read it as a somewhat sheltered college freshman one night while my roommate was out of town. I was so disturbed that I stay up most of the night to finish it.

That summer I started reading Steven King and never looked back, lol.

[secretlyevil]

War and Peace. I have never finished it.

[Pippin]

I have a collection of short stories by Laurel K Hamilton that has some pretty creepy stories in it.