Somehow I don’t get scared reading scary books. I’m reading IT right now and everyone says it’s one of the scariest. It’s good, but it doesn’t scare me. Also read The Shining, Dr Sleep, Head Full of Ghosts, The Loney, Intensity, Hannibal books, none of them scary to me. Anyone else feel this way? What’s the scariest book you’ve ever read cuz i may want to read it!
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Johnny Got His Gun. It’s psychological horror so not sure if it’s your thing but it’s terrifying.
IT isn’t scary. I love it but I was never scared while reading it.
I’ve always heard Pet Cemetery is King’s scariest.
Just finished the Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. SO GOOD!
So I’m a little bit in the same boat. I don’t really get scared by books, though I haven’t tried jumping into the deep end of horror reading. It’s just not my thing, though sometimes I do wish I could find something chilling every now and then.
For me, Stephen King’s “scariest” book that I’ve read was probably ‘Salem’s Lot, but it didn’t give me nightmares or anything. If nothing else by SK scares you, you might not get much out of it.
Honestly, one of the more nail-biting ones I’ve read lately was “Home Before Dark” by Riley Sager. More a thriller than horror, but it has ghost story elements. It’s literally the only one of his I’ll recommend. I’ve found most of the rest to be really lacking.
For reasons that aren’t horror, We Need to Talk About Kevin is probably the scariest book I’ve read. The Omen was a scary book.
The Troop by Nick Cutter
Read “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” by Michelle McNamara”. It’s non-fiction, but it gave me the willies going out to my car at 4am the next morning, even though the murders were decades old and thousands of miles away.
Summer of Night by Dan Simmons still gives me creeps
Salems Lot by Stephen King is one of the creepiest books I’ve ever read!
{{Dark Matter by Michelle Paver}} is the book that got me to explore more horror in the first place and so far nothing has lived up to it!
{{Off Season by Jack Ketchum}} was a book I found scary, but more for its “shock value”. Maybe worth checking out.