Books That Scared You.

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Postby Azier the Swordsman » Thu Dec 16, 2004 7:22 pm

The Shining was hands down the freakiest book I ever read, so freaky I started pulling the shower curtain on my bathtub completely back every time I had to use the restroom.
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Postby Kokhiri Sojourn » Thu Dec 16, 2004 9:29 pm

I was scared of "Death Comes As the End" by Agatha Christie, because it seemed so real to me - like it could have been me. Read it.

also....

Poe can be horrifying.... Anabel Lee I always thought of as horrifying. What a traumatic image.
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Postby Maledicte » Fri Dec 17, 2004 10:22 am

Books don't really scare me all that much, but JAmes Byron Huggin's "Cain" got me pretty close. I still don't think it's all that scary, but it seemed so...creepy and...I don't know, brooding and stuff. I guess that's how "scary" books affect me. No nightmares for me, though.
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Postby Hitokiri » Fri Dec 17, 2004 12:35 pm

I thought there was a Rhino underneath my bed after reading James and the Giant Peach when I was a lad.
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Postby Noodles » Wed Jan 12, 2005 8:05 pm

The only book that really got to me is.... well actually I can't remember the name. I read it in fourth grade and it had some part where someone looks outside and sees a "dark creature of the underworld" looking back at them. After that I couldn't look outside my window until 6 months. I read the Oath it had its moments but I wouldn't really deem it scary (well to me) but Stephen Kings 'Saloms Lot was a great book. I read that a few months ago and I got the chills reading it.
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Postby Arnobius » Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:44 pm

I think the most disturbing book I read was the original novel of "Battle Royale." It was much better than either the movie or the manga in expressing how a group of junior high students can be pushed by events into killing their own friends. The overall theme seems to ask if you can dare trust in a situation where trust is a disadvantage.
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Postby haru_bay_nay » Tue Jan 25, 2005 6:31 pm

The only ones I can think of right now are like those scary stories books I read when I was younger. I remember an urban legend book I read with a story about a little girl who was in her house alone in a storm or something was frightened of some sort of weird demon thing...Anyway, she woke up in the morning and her pet dog was hanging in the shower and I think something was written on the wall in its blood... O.o Much too graphic for me when I was little. I was always afraid of ghosts and stuff, too. Gave me nightmares... ^_^* I guess I was kind-of a scaredy-cat... :eyeroll:
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Postby VioletEyedCat » Fri Jan 28, 2005 7:26 pm

The books that freak me out are all the conspiracy theory ones. Like this one book called After about a post-Columbine high school that goes Big Brother on everybody. Another one is The Bar Code Tattoo by Suzanne Weyn. It's pretty interesting, especially since it's done from a secular perspective.


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Postby Indigo_Eyes » Sat Jan 29, 2005 3:17 pm

Talame wrote:Frank Peretti - The Oath. That really got me scared :P The other books though, like This Present Darkness, didn't. They were just SO COOL! GO TAL!!! GO GUILO!! :D


I didn't think that This Present Darkness and Piercing the Darkness were scary either; I just think that they're awesome. I started The Oath when I was younger but my mom didn't want me to read it until I was older (I was probably about 5th grade at the time) and I haven't really gotten around it finishing it ever.
Um, scary books I've read...I read two stories in this one scar story book (I forgot the name) and then I stopped it after that. I don't really like Stephen King type books or any other scary book.
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Postby Shipuh » Sun Feb 13, 2005 7:59 pm

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Postby shadowblade » Mon Feb 14, 2005 4:15 pm

Hmm... I know I got really scared when I read a Stephen King book, but I can't remember which one it was. Other than that, I don't think I've been scared from a book. Maybe a bit freaked once or twice, but not like really scared. Lol.

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Postby indyrocker » Mon Feb 14, 2005 4:25 pm

Well i dont get scared really I get creeped out and then say thats cool and read it again but the last one that did that for me was "Touching Evile"
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Postby That Dude » Sat Mar 12, 2005 7:18 pm

Yeah I'm like you Agentsmith. I'm rereading "Blood Ties" its a very creepy book. especially the "watchers" life.
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