Scariest book you've ever read...
 

I did a search for a thread like this. Hopefully I haven't missed it.
What is the scariest most piss-your-pants book you've ever read? "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" doesn't count, but if that's what you were gonna say I see where you're coming from.

The Girl Next Door - Jack Ketchum

It is absolutely horrifying, partly because it's based on a true story.

High School Musical (The novel)

Hahahaha hahahahah ahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha aha ahahahahahahah hhhahahahahah ahahahahahahahah. No.

Anything by Nicholaus Pacione. i dare you to get through a paragraph without your head splitting and eyes bleeding.

Scary. ;)

This compilation of Lovecraft stories.

Honestly? Coraline.

I don't read horror very often (if at all) But that book was fucking freaky.

Capain Quad. by Sean Costello

I allmost couldn't finish it.

Yes, i actually threw it across the room at one point because I didn't think i could read it anymore.

PIKACHU! I CHOOSE YOOOOOOU!

Honestly, I thought "Fear Nothing" by Dean Koontz was pretty scary.

"Bag of Bones"- Stephen King
I have no idea why I was so freaked out by it, but alas I was.

Hm...

Possibly the book "The Sitter" by R.L. Stine. It was pretty damned creepy, if I do say so myself.

I've read a lot of horror fiction, but nothing has succeeded to scare me. Maybe I should take some of the books off here.

Honestly, the only thing that ever genuinely creeped me out, and still does is the artwork in those "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark". The art is by Alvin something, but it always irked me. :x

Really? It was freaky, especially for a children's novel but it wasn't heart pounding.

I think I'll have to go with World War Z.

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The most frightening thing was that it was real, and scary to know that a society can suffer from mass paranoia and at the same time apathy to what is happening so that the society tosses about individuals as if they were disposable, just to meet quotas. :shudders:

I have read horror fiction but nothing ever too scary. After all I still have a somewhat innocent mind and then I will never sleep. I already don't but still. If anything was scary for me it was the book that iroti mentioned. It was more the art that creeped me out than the stories.

Apart from some books that go rather in the "mindfuck" cathegory (and whose titles I honestly can´t remember), I was dead scared by Pennywise in Stephen King´s "It". I still feel rather sceptic when approached by clowns with balloons.

Did it make a loud bang when it hit the wall?

Some people might find me absolutely looney, but the one book that makes me crap my pants just thinking about it too much to even read it is Orwell's 1984. I don't think anything could terrify me more than being subjected to such a dictatorship.

Read World War Z. Thought it was brilliant.

"The Historian" was scary, especially when they got to meet Dracula.

I don't read books from the horror genre but the scariest book I've read when I was a kid; Mrs. Spider's Wedding. Only because that moon shaped head spider was creepy as fuck. Seriously, he was scary I'll never forget his face.

Abarat by Clive Barker is pretty creepy especially the beginning bit when Candy was being chased by some creature. The illustrations are the scariest though.

I didn't know there was such thing as a scary book. o.0

I didn't find world war Z frightening. Awesome yes. Not scary in the least though.

I didn't think I was scared either. I read it and thought it was interesting and sweet but I didn't feel scared. Then I heard this weird shuffly noise behind my door and the cat was staring at something through the cat flap and I realized I actually thought a zombie was behind my bedroom door.


I have never read a book that scared me just reading it. I'm beginning to believe they don't exist.