How about scariest book?

[jfh]

Or creepiest. I think mine would have to be It.

[The Foozzler]

Silence of the Lambs or Carrie. The books are much better than the movies.

[thedahliharpa]

Jan 5, 2013 10:43:55 GMT -5 jfh said:

Or creepiest. I think mine would have to be It.

That book was in the backseat of my mom's car when I was a kid and just the cover freaked me out.

[vthokie]

I would have to say IT as well. I read it when I was 12. Scared the bejeezus out of me.

[Deleted]

I never read really scary books. but as a kid we had a series of short scary stories and some of those scared me.

[vthokie]

And some of those Christopher Pike books were pretty traumatizing as a kid.

[spaghetticat]

I'm not big into scary, but We Need to Talk About Kevin creeped me out big time.

[kdrake8]

Jan 5, 2013 12:05:25 GMT -5 spaghetticat said:

I'm not big into scary, but We Need to Talk About Kevin creeped me out big time.

Yes. Super terrifying.

Also - the Scorch Trials (second book in Maze Runner series) really scared me.

[jenbelle]

Still Life With Crows by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. As a kid, Bunnicula scared the crap out of me!

[The Foozzler]

Jan 5, 2013 11:52:50 GMT -5 vthokie said:

And some of those Christopher Pike books were pretty traumatizing as a kid.

I loved these and was terrified by them all at the same time.

[Deleted]

I read all the R.L. Stein books (not Goosebumps) and loved them. I don't remember being scared of them.

[raynes]

Christopher Pike >>> RL Stein.

I'd say my scariest was Tommyknockers, and yet I still read it twice.

[helicase]

Helter Skelter. A novel about the Manson Family murders. True crime -- terrifying.

[creamsiclechica]

It is by far the scariest fiction book I've ever read. I read it when I was 11, and although I was completely terrified, I couldn't put it down. Good choice, ladies!

Scariest non fiction book is called "Into That Darkness" by Gitta Sereny. It's a series of interviews with Franz Stangl, who ran the Treblinka Nazi death camp during the Holocaust. That book took me a long time to read, because the absolute horror of it is astounding, and more so because the man is so grossly removed from reality he feels no personal responsibility or remorse. It's a sickening and outrageous book, but I felt it was worth reading because it illustrates how absolutely terrible the Holocaust actually was, and I feel that people fail to realize that.

[monkeybabe]

Being a kid that went hiking a lot, "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" freaked me the fuck out, since I read it when I was like, 11.

[dojo]

Coraline *shivers*

[kdrake8]

Jan 5, 2013 14:17:45 GMT -5 helicase said:

Helter Skelter. A novel about the Manson Family murders. True crime -- terrifying.

I forgot about this book. Also terrifying.

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Jan 5, 2013 14:25:38 GMT -5 pinksapphires said:

Jan 5, 2013 12:47:39 GMT -5 hoodyhoo said:

I read all the R.L. Stein books (not Goosebumps) and loved them. I don't remember being scared of them.

Was it, "Fear Street?" I read all of those as a kid. Loved them! I never found them scary either... except for one scene where one of the characters gets mysteriously locked in a school shower and then the water changes to super hot on her and she got scalded to death. Uh, that's stuck with me for 20 years...

Fear Street! Yes! I remember that book!! Wasn't it the one with twin red head sisters?