Sorta like the other thread on here, but I was thinking more of a Non-FPW line.
I always liked Needful Things. One moment that will always stand out to me was when I read this the first time during my senior year. Towards the end of the book when all hell breaks loose, there's a scene where Ace sets off some dynamite under the bridge in town. I was reading this part while in study hall one day and at the exact same moment where the bridge goes up, someone had pulled the fire alarm in the school. I think I came a few feet off my chair when that happened.
My favorite short story is definately The Body Politic by Clive Barker. I've never read a story that made me laugh this hard but at the same time think to myself "What if this is really true? Would I ever know?". If you've never read this, it's located in the book The Inhuman Condition.
Overall, the scariest books I've read would have to be Salem's Lot, The Keep, and The Damnation Game.
I always liked Needful Things. One moment that will always stand out to me was when I read this the first time during my senior year. Towards the end of the book when all hell breaks loose, there's a scene where Ace sets off some dynamite under the bridge in town. I was reading this part while in study hall one day and at the exact same moment where the bridge goes up, someone had pulled the fire alarm in the school. I think I came a few feet off my chair when that happened.
My favorite short story is definately The Body Politic by Clive Barker. I've never read a story that made me laugh this hard but at the same time think to myself "What if this is really true? Would I ever know?". If you've never read this, it's located in the book The Inhuman Condition.
Overall, the scariest books I've read would have to be Salem's Lot, The Keep, and The Damnation Game.
SDSwami Wrote:Sorta like the other thread on here, but I was thinking more of a Non-FPW line.
I always liked Needful Things. One moment that will always stand out to me was when I read this the first time during my senior year. Towards the end of the book when all hell breaks loose, there's a scene where Ace sets off some dynamite under the bridge in town. I was reading this part while in study hall one day and at the exact same moment where the bridge goes up, someone had pulled the fire alarm in the school. I think I came a few feet off my chair when that happened.
Needful Things, yes. That was awesome. At the same time, it was funny. I think most scariest King's novel is Dark Half.
Quote:My favorite short story is definately The Body Politic by Clive Barker. I've never read a story that made me laugh this hard but at the same time think to myself "What if this is really true? Would I ever know?". If you've never read this, it's located in the book The Inhuman Condition.
Overall, the scariest books I've read would have to be Salem's Lot, The Keep, and The Damnation Game.
The Damnation Game is horrible. When I first saw this cover illustration, I felt chilly. Nevertheless, I like Clive Barker's Book of Blood. Specially, Jacqueline Ess is my favorite short story.
This is Japanese edition The Damnation Game.
Kenji Asakura Wrote:Needful Things, yes. That was awesome. At the same time, it was funny. I think most scariest King's novel is Dark Half.
The Damnation Game is horrible. When I first saw this cover illustration, I felt chilly. Nevertheless, I like Clive Barker's Book of Blood. Specially, Jacqueline Ess is my favorite short story.
This is Japanese edition The Damnation Game.
I wasn't thinking straight when I wrote the first post. I didn't mean to say The Damnation Game but instead meant to say The Hellbound Heart (which is the basis for the movie Hellraiser).
McCammon's 'They Thirst'. Absolutely no contest. As nightfall approached I felt genuine fear. An awesome book.
Few books have actually scared me. The ones that pop immediately to mind are (all Stephen King, since I have read him most) the topiary animals in The Shining, the werewolf in the basement in IT, and the cellar stairs scene in Bag of Bones. Oh and also the description in The Boogeyman of the silent (but not too silent) encroaching of the boogeyman in the house.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
1984 by George Orwell. Horror novels don't scare me too much. Things that actually could occur frighten me.
Never initiate force against another.That should be the underlying principle of your life. But should someone do violence to you, retaliate without hesitation, without reservation, without quarter, until you are sure that he will never wish to harm-or never be capable of harming-you or yours again.
from THE SECOND BOOK OF KYFHO
(Revised Eastern Sect Edition)
From Enemy of the State
I think scariest book I've read is Fahrenheit 451. Do you know why? Perhaps, If you read this book, you will know that reason.