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1984 and Brave New World are also pretty scary, but in a different way than a stephen king novel.
Somebody mentioned "1408" as a good King short story. I find that to be one of the most disconcerting things I've ever read. It actually made me uncomfortable the first tme I read it, and reading it right before I slept remains one of the dumbest things I've ever done. It's so... unnatural. In terms of novels, "Rage" is awesome but would be almost impossible to track down now. For my money, though, you can't beat "The Shining". It's scary in every way possible. By the end, you even get the impression that the madness/supernatural influence has seeped into the narrative itself. The last third of that book is amazing. Best of all, for me at least, is the lingering feeling that you've never quite sure exactly what's going on, and you feel like if you just knew a little more you'd have it all figured out...
On the Lovecraft front, "Rats In The Walls" is awesome. If racial insensitivity offends you, give it a miss or get the reading from iTunes. You also have to be willing to put up with some fairly dry historical reference to Roman Britain and it's architecture but hey, it's Lovecraft. Also, Dagon and The Temple are creepy, especially the latter.
Lastly, I don't know know if graphic novels/comics/etc count, but I just finished the first "book" of "30 Days of Night" and thought that was great.
"Call of Cthulhu" really did freak me out. I was not expecting that at all.
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I would encourage everyone to check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticks_%28short_story%29
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I absolutely agree. His writing does a really good job of evoking the feeling of creeping bizzareness, a lot like a bad stretch of an LSD trip.
Speaking of drugs, I heard someone mention that haunted house possession stories can be seen as metaphors for hard drug addiction. Anyone heard of that before?
Oh you fucking fucker I've kept Sticks subdued in my subconscious for like, three fucking years and now its coming back oh fuck fuck fuck goddammit.
It's worse than the movie.
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I dont know about that.
But I DO know you can't ever leave Hotel California. Unless you go to rehab. Or die.
That doesn't actually tell what the story is about.
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Not only that, but they have me all pumped to read it and I don't think there is any way to do so online (legally).
The book was good. Not SCARY really, but it had some suspenseful parts.
As someone said, the movie ending was awful. I feel the movie was awful in general.
Big Edit: There are freaky parts in most of King's books, and whether or not they scare you really depends on what freaks you out. Some people don't get freaked out if something isn't believable to them(like psychotic behavior vs ghosts).
I watched IT when it first came out on TV, and I didn't really have any issues with it. It was scary, but not AAAAAAAH! However, I read the book several years later (at least 4 years ago) and since I read it, I can't shake that damn clown. I have nightmares with him in them to this day. Really puts a damper in a good night's rest.
I was so upset that they pussed out on the leg scene in the movie.
That book was so much creepier than the movie.
Maddie: "I am not!"
Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
And the book It has some damn creepy parts in it, like the bit with the abandoned fridge.
That was so goddamn awesome. I haven't enjoyed a fictional work that much in a long time.
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I dont think I made it past the first chapter or so of Misery. The part where she makes him drink the bucket of cleaning fluid, yeah I could taste it because of the description so I put the book down and never picked it up.
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The book is OOP, but it's like super cheap and hardcover, it has a bunch of other great stories in it.
That's all I can do for you poor bastards.
Seriously.
I'm supposed to be moving tomorrow, and I'm supposed to be packing my shit up, but instead I'm 35 pages in and I have no intention of stopping.
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I remember being creeped out by it a few years ago. I'll read through it again and see if it can still chill me.
Poe's stuff holds up really well. Masque of the Red Death, Fall of the House of Usher, and A Man of the Crowd are awesome.
I don't think anyone has topped Books of Blood for that over-the-top weird and grizzly splatterpunk stuff. So many of those stories stick with me and I haven't read them in like 8 years. The Splatterpunk collections from the 90's have his stuff and some good Joe R. Landsdale and George R.R. Martin in them as well.
I enjoyed the Borderlands collections in this vein as well. It was a series put out by White Wolf (nothing to do with the RPGs) that focused on horror stories that didn't use traditional tropes (no ghosts, vampires, or zombies).
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Also, Secret Window was going SO WELL, then he tacked on the epilogue and killed it.
Part of The Stand freaked me out, not only because of the whole world ending plague thing, but there was a mention of a faceless cloaked figure at one point. That hit home with me just because I had had a dream like that, so it was creepy to me where another it might not be. I will be checking out this House of Leaves.
Has anyone here read American Psycho? I'm debating whether or not to read it. I understand it's not so much scary as just sickening.
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They are the scariest books I have read so far.
And as far as House of Leaves, I want to read it BADLY.
Oh, and The Jaunt, fairly normal Sci-Fi short, but it managed to freak me the hell out at the end.
EDIT: Also, IT is one of King's books I could never get into for some reason.
Oh, sweet Jesus, i'd forgotten about The Jaunt. That's right up there on the freakiest fucking things I've ever read list, along with House of Leaves and JDatE.
Does anyone else remember You Know They Got A Hell Of A Band, from Nightmares and Dreamscapes?
The only person who could do JDATE right would be David Cronenberg, I'd think. He's only one with a practical effects team that has enough experience making disgusting mutated creatures.
Either that, or the guys who worked on Carpenter's The Thing.
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