Book Suggestions

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 6/30/07 at 10:23pm

I am looking for a VERY good, scary book. Any suggestions?

Posted: 6/30/07 at 10:29pm

Well, I'm pretty damn scared of Veloceraptors, so Jurassic Park scares me s***less!

[cheezedoodle]

Posted: 6/30/07 at 10:40pm

The last really scary book I read was Hannibal by Thomas Harris (Sequel to Silence of the Lambs). It was so scary that I got through chapter 4, and had to put it down. I picked it up five months later. Very different from the film version - so you would not be wasting time if you have seen it.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 6/30/07 at 10:41pm

I'm halfway through Jim McGreevy's THE CONFESSION. I like it very much. I don't know whether to credit McGreevy or his co-author with a smooth and literate style. He's capturing the angst of being a gay Catholic.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 6/30/07 at 10:42pm

DGG--I have read Jurassic Park (Great book).

Doodle--Really? I may have to keep that in mind.

Posted: 6/30/07 at 10:47pm

Well, I still say this is SCARY!

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 6/30/07 at 10:48pm

^^^

Posted: 6/30/07 at 10:49pm

*shudders*


I still have nightmares...

[wexy]

Posted: 6/30/07 at 10:51pm

I liked "The Talisman" by King and Straub.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 6/30/07 at 10:54pm

Wexy--That is one of my favorite books of ALL TIME. I still haven't read the sequel though. Have you? If so, is it good?

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 6/30/07 at 10:54pm

Eating The Cheshire Cat by Helen Ellis, or either books by Joshilyn Jackson: Gods In Alabama and Between, Georgia.

None of those are traditional "horror" stories. They are more in the "Southern Gothic" vein, but in the realm of spine-tingling goosebumps those are my big three.

[Weez]

Posted: 6/30/07 at 11:04pm

I don't find books that scary (and I usually scare very easily!), but I was rather unsettled by Koji Suzuki's 'Ring'.

[kjklo]

Posted: 6/30/07 at 11:28pm

Two good scary books: The Green Man by Kingsley Amis and The Black House by Paul Theroux.

Also recommended: The Burning Court by John Dickson Carr and The Deadly Percheron by John Franklin Bardin.

The thing is, you have to be capable of putting yourself back in time to the period in which these books were written. I don't find it difficult at all, but, I must say, it's really necessary in order to enjoy them.

[worrell4077]

Posted: 7/1/07 at 12:09pm

It wasn't scary, but it was still a good read, Hannibal Rising. It was also very different from the movie.

If you haven't read it, and again I didn't find it scary but Dracula was a good read, and I liked it a whole lot more than Frankenstein.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 7/1/07 at 12:32pm

The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood......for a different kind of scary

[jasonf]

Posted: 7/1/07 at 1:19pm

I tried reading The Talisman a couple of summers ago and just couldn't get into it. The concept was awesome, but it just felt so dragged out by about page 150 that I stopped.

Probably the scariest things I've read:
Apt Pupil by Stephen King (it's a short story, but totally freaked me out - if you saw the movie, forget what you saw and read the story!)
Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson - again, much scarier than the movie.
I Am Legend by RM -- read it before the movie ruins this one too...

Updated On: 7/1/07 at 01:19 PM

[Lavieboheme3090]

Posted: 7/1/07 at 3:32pm

Spider, I read "The Black House" this summer and it is amazing.

[Weez]

Posted: 7/1/07 at 3:43pm

Actually, 'Heart Shaped Box' by Joe Hill is a bloody good read. If you can imagine that Stephen King cheated on his wife with Neil Gaiman, and it strikes you as a pretty great idea, then give it a bash.

[another_reprise]

Posted: 7/1/07 at 5:29pm

Haunted by Chuck Palhuniuk, (sp?) the author of Fight Club, was particularly disturbing. I just walked into B&N one day pulled it off the shelf and bought it w/o knowing anything about it and was pleasantly surprised.
Hanted isn't so much scary as it is creepy/disturbing. It's about these people that signed up for a reality show where they're isolated for 3 months in order to write their "masterpiece" but become more concerned with becoming famous. The characters end up mutilating themselves among other things so they can say that the producers tortured them when their writing failed to meet expectations.
It's an interesting satire on reality tv and a quick read.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 7/1/07 at 6:00pm

Be scared by the Master:

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 7/1/07 at 6:36pm

I'm actually terrifed of both:
"It" by Stephen King (Granted, terribly scared of both spiders AND clowns)
"The Amityville Horror" - not so scary at 2pm...just wait till you need to pee at 3am...

[tazber]

Posted: 7/1/07 at 6:39pm

Cell was pretty scary. I love those end of the world type of stories!

Also - Ghost Story by Peter Straub
The Relic - Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston

[Elphaba]

Posted: 7/1/07 at 7:20pm

I read 'Cell" by Stephen King....I could not put it down

[Perfectly Marvelous]

Posted: 7/1/07 at 10:53pm

The Tommyknockers by Stephen King is also pretty scary. I made the mistake of reading it at night.

[peach]

Posted: 7/2/07 at 4:15pm

I'm reading "From the Corner of His Eye" by Dean Koontz right now. It's not scary in the haunted supernatural sense, but it's got a creepy sociopath, and a good portion of the story is told through that sociopath's eyes, which to me, is very scary.

It's a good book.

Next in my queue is The Talisman - I have a brand spanking new copy in paperback!