I've never felt scared at a book.
What is actually scary book?
Can be genre fiction or anything
I've never felt scared at a book. What is actually scary book? Can be genre fiction or anything
I've never felt scared at a book.
What is actually scary book?
Can be genre fiction or anything
i don’t have a rec but you should keep in mind setting matters a lot in being spooked. a book in your stinky bedroom is never gonna scare you like it will out in the woods at night or in an abandoned building where your nerves are on edge.
I've felt unnerved by a book before. The Exorcist had some moments that got under my skin a little, so I think the potential is there, it just wasn't that great of a book so it didn't stick.
I read House on the Borderland for the first time last October while on a trip. Our room was in the woods, and the unit had a really tall ceiling and a patio door that faced out towards the trees.
It was awesome.
To be scary, a book has to instill dread or fear in the reader, which isn't something that can be done easily or, generally, well over the course of hundreds of pages. This is why scary short stories are superior to scary novels in every way. You're better off reading creepypastas online than dumping time into novels, even if for no reason other than potential return on investment. The absolute best you'll get with regards to literature are Shirley Jackson and H.P. Lovecraft; Stephen King and Joe Hill are schlock, House of Leaves is masturbatory garbage.
>H.P. Lovecraft
I've been a HPL fan for most of my life. But nothing he wrote is scary. Hard to understand how people can make claims like this.
Not 'scared' but the rat scene in American Psycho made me physically sick to my stomach
Nick Cutter's books are pretty unsettling. They aren't masterclasses in fiction but they are fun to read and pretty gross. I'd recommend The Troop.
The scariest thing I ever read wasn’t in a horror book so it came out of nowhere and took me by surprise- This Side of Paradise
What was scary about it?
I’ve found two types of books genuinely scary
>abstract unexplained horrors with seemingly supernatural elements beyond human control
>stories set 100% in a real world environment. Where just plain fricked up things happen
Second is easier to find.
I have found that Jack Ketchum is very very good at provoking fear from realistic scenarios.
For example, his book The Girl Next Door is pretty much based on a true story, the torture and murder of Sylvia Likens. There is no sense or logic behind it. Just human cruelty and a sense of helplessness and dread.
Most of Ketchums stories are pure fiction but this one was especially scary to me because… it all actually happened.
I find Nietzsche very scary to read, especially the gay science, that book creeps me out
I feel like I'm going to catch shit for this, but I unironically think Adam Neville is an outstanding horror writer when he gives a frick... which is sadly rarer than it should be.
"No One Gets Out Alive" might be the scariest book I've ever read. The story is good leaning mediocre, but the moment to moment thrills are white knuckle as frick.
I feel like "Last Days" was the overall better book, with a stronger overarching narrative, but NOGOA was hands down scarier.
Stay away from the movie. It wasn't made by the same guy that did the adaptation of "Ritual" and it feels like yet another crappy cash-in netflix joint. I remember years ago Andy Serkis mentioned it was a passion project of his but I'm betting the Netflix execs just wanted some cheap shit. He ended up directing the second Venom movie instead and I imagine it's one of those "Frick it, if the only thing I can get off the ground is garbage, I may as well do that one that pays better" situations.
Read true crime about home invasions.
This. No ghost, monster, or mythical creature scares me more than actual humans
You sound like a boomer
Animal attack stories are the true non-fiction horror chad choice.
Well that's not going to scare me at my house. That would be really good for camping.
recommendations?
>be kid
>watching some animal show
>recreating scenes of animal attack victims
>girl rollerblading
>takes off her rollerblade to adjust her sock or some shit
>few minutes drops to ground
>starts convulsing
>blood starts seeping out of her eyes
>she hemorrhages and dies
>turns out she stepped on the world's most venomous caterpillar
I still think about this. Bears and wolves you can at least shoot. Shit is fricked up.
I would say a book cant scare you beside planting a seed in your mind, or you're apt at projecting yourself into the scenario. But I have read books that have filled me with dread. I think that's a circumstance of your experiences though
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I've only been spooked by a book once in my entire lifetime, and it was when I read Terminal Freeze by Lincoln Child in middle school. I can recall my heart pounding through my chest as I followed this batshit insane film producer to his grisly end. Never had such an experience since.
recommend reading some evil shit out loud to yourself in the dark of night, that shit scares me at least
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