What's the scariest thing you've ever read? (I'd prefer it to be a piece of genre work, i.e. not an article on the Holocaust...unless it's got some unique angle that really is creepy or terrifying.)
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booknutdc said, (57 days ago)
A Journal of the Plague Year
by Daniel Defoe
and The Plague by Albert Camus
pretty much anything about the plague or Cholera is scary to me!
The Menda Agenda said, (57 days ago)
Worst/creepiest/nastiest short I've ever, ever read from Chuck Palahniuk.
http://chuckpalahniuk.net/features/shorts/guts
You really do become a whole new person after reading that.
The Menda Agenda said, (57 days ago)
This isn't really "scary" I guess, unless it happens to you. Really it's just shock value. But that's Chuck. :/
Garak said, (57 days ago)
Menda - is this one of the ones from Haunted? one of the ones that supposedly made people puke/pass out in the readings he did around the country?
Sharon said, (57 days ago)
@Menda - the thing is - I think the news special on it - was WAY worse when I was growing up. Then I was completely scared to go swimming anywhere near pool filters.
le_sacre said, (57 days ago)
1984. the idea that the state could make anyone decide to betray anyone else, even the person who matters most to them.
this is also why i find zombies scary.
Garak said, (57 days ago)
i've been meaning to check out House of Leaves for years. sounded cool/creepy/original/inventive.
guy at work bought a copy to have around the office, and has never cracked the spine once, i need to snag it from him.
i ask because i was thinking about this today in conversation w/a friend who asked me what the scariest thing i've ever read is.
i'd have to say...probably PET SEMETARY. i love the concept/idea of "The Monkey's Paw" and i felt PS was a great fleshing out of that conceit. (the movie's effective, but loses most of the book's layers)
also, "The Tell Tale Heart" has a certain spooky, kinetic push to it.
tough, though, to find literature that is truly terrifying