Books That Scared You.

Postby **That Dude** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:35 pm

What are some books that you guys have read that scared you? The only book to ever really scare me out of the ton's that I've read would have to be Blood Ties by Sigmund Brouwer. It's a christian book also...(Oh yeah...This thread doesn't include the Bible for putting the fear of God in you ^_^)

Postby **Warrior 4 Jesus** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 2:05 am

Frank Peretti's This Present Darkness, Piercing the Darkness, The Visitation and The Oath all scared me. I couldn't read them at night much at all. Oh, and as a preteen the Goosebumps books gave me... um goosebumps.

Postby **c.t.,girl** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 2:07 am

i don't really like things that scare me so i try to stay away from them. ^_^

Postby **That Dude** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 10:34 am

That's cool about staying away from things that scare you. I read all those Frank Peretti books yet none of them scared me.

Postby **oro!** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 4:50 pm

Some of them did scare me. Also, not a book, but The Birds and The Cask of Amontillado. I don't read too much scary stuff, 'cause I wake up in the middle of the night and think about it.

Postby **Nia-chan** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 1:49 pm

when i was younger, edgar allen poe's books scared me. he needed jesus. :(

and also in the first grade there was a book that had me really scared. our teacher read it to us. i don't remember the title or author though... all i remember is that it had pictures, and it would say stuff like "he only saw the doorknob turn" and it would have a picture of a guy looking back at a door. anyway it scared me. D: i couldn't go anywhere by myself after that T_T

Postby **AngelSakura** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 6:54 pm

When I was little, I was scared of everything. ^^;; Seriously. Courage the Cowardly Dog and Invader Zim scared me.
As to books, I read this "scary stories" book that had that story about the girl who wore a red ribbon around her neck...scared the crap out of me. I have no idea why. Also, more recently (but still a while ago) those scary story books that have the spidery-looking ink pictures scared me. For a short time, I was forbidden to read Goosebumps...I think they're kinda stupid and hokey now.
You know that Bunnicula book, "Return to Howliday Inn"? I literally threw it across the room, I was so scared. ^^;;;
*alright, shut up, Angel, you're embarrassing yourself...*

Postby **Hephzibah** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 7:08 pm

Frank Peretti - The Oath. That really got me scared

The other books though, like This Present Darkness, didn't. They were just SO COOL! GO TAL!!! GO GUILO!!

Postby **Gypsy** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 7:02 am

Same here, Talame. I thought the Oath was scary (but a good scary!) and the others were just cool. Tal is such a good name for an angel.

Postby **EvilSporkofDoom** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 9:44 pm

One of the scariest tales I've ever read is "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allen Poe. Very chilling. Edgar Allen Poe is the best horror writer, methinks.
When I was younger (around 8 to 12-ish) Goosenbumps used to scare me quite a bit

didn't keep me from being mad obsessed with them, though. I still think they're really spiffy books, but they don't scare me anymore, hehe.

Postby **PumpkinKoRn52** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 11:31 am

Only one book has ever scared me. House of Leaves, by mark Z. Daneilewski. READ THAT BOOK!!!!!!!! Everyone should. But be advised, it is not a book for children and contains some, unpleasant descriptive aspects, which might not suit other people. I have warned you.

Postby **oro!** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 6:08 pm

[quote="AngelSakura"]When I was little, I was scared of everything. ^^]

When you were small must've been pretty recent for those shows to scare you. :lol:

I know I'm only somewhat older but, come on.......

Postby **Mangafanatic** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 7:28 pm

Hmmm. . Peretti. A throughly original response, I know.

Furthermore, I think that Three by Ted Dekker scared me a bit because of it's psychological nature.

Postby **That Dude** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 7:37 pm

Thr33 was pretty disturbing near the end...Not to scary but it really got me thinking.

Postby **righteous_slave** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 7:07 am

The scariest book I ever read was the Amityville Horror. I don't know how much of it was the events themselves or that it is supposed to be a true story. The second scaries book is 1984, expecially in light of how prophetic it is turning out to be.

Postby **Mr. SmartyPants** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 7:25 pm

hmm, those "Scary Stories to tell in the dark" REALLY scared me becasue of the illustrations. They were so scary

Postby **Mangafanatic** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 8:11 pm

[quote="AngelSakura"]When I was little, I was scared of everything. ^^]

Ack! Me too!!! I was SOOO scared of that story. Oh, the scars of childhood. *shutter*

Postby **Golden_Griff** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 8:43 pm

My AP Calculus textbook. :wow!:

I'm sorry, I know, this isn't goof off :eyeroll:

c.t.,girl wrote:i don't really like things that scare me so i try to stay away from them. ^_^

Same here, in addition to the fact that I don't really like reading. Not that it really scared me, but Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King comes to mind.

...biology books scare me too...creepy looking things in there...

Postby **EireWolf** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 10:03 pm

I remember reading the prologue to Stephen King's "IT" and getting really scared. Must've been a looooong time ago. Poe was creepy but I don't remember getting genuinely scared by his stories... Then again, I was older when I read them. What scares me these days is reading the news... :wow!:

Postby **soul alive** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 12:58 pm

i remember that book about the girl with the ribbon around her neck - isn't it part of a series of three books of horror story collections? the illustrations in those books were incredibly freaky, i remember being more scared of them than of most of the actual stories... probably the story that scared me the most from those books was the one about the two men out camping, and the creature that called one out of the tent and grabbed him, pulling him up into the sky, dragging his feet off... bleh - some things just shouldn't be in books intended for children.

'Mars Chronicles' by ray bradbury wasn't exactally scary, but it was freaky, especially the part where one man creates a bunch of robots/androids who look like other characters he knows, kills off those characters violently, and replaces them with his creations.

i also remember being utterly freaked out by the fairytale 'Bluebeard' in grade school. reading it now, it's not all that bad, and if i had read it all the way through back then, i would have found that out :sweat:

. but anyway, some of the original Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson fairytales are rather disturbing.

Postby **EireWolf** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 1:08 pm

No kidding!! These are the things they expose children to in school these days! Required reading!

And people wonder why I won't have kids... :shady:

Postby **greyscale42** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 1:15 pm

Ive never read a book that really scared me. But I will tell you a book, one of my personal favorites, that really messed with my head. House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski.

Postby **harina** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 8:49 am

The Vision by David Wilkerson is a bit scary. It's a christian book, yes.

The Signal Man by Charles Dickens. It's a horror story, i think the best one of them i've ever read. and scary.

Postby **sunet** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 3:36 pm

i read a book once that, i guess if you were to translate it into english would be 'monster pigeons' or something. it was set in the future, i think & it all animal life had died or something because of some virus, except for pigeons. & most humans were dead also, except for a few that survived. and the pigeons had become flesh-eating. it was really sad also, because one of the main characters in the story got attacked by them & died.

Postby **bigsleepj** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 9:22 pm

Charles Williams' "War in Heaven" (not to be confused with Theodore Beale's "The War in Heaven") is a story about a search for the Holy Grail. The Archdeacon of a small English church discovers, too late, that occultists of a disturbingly nasty persuasion may have stolen a sacred vessel and that it might, indeed, be the Holy Grail. What they want it for is, in its own subtle way, terribly disturbing.

The author was a friend of CS Lewis so the book is written from a pro-Christian perspective. But Charles Williams had strayed into a shortlived unhealthy interest into the occult early in his life so his depiction of satanists are more disturbing than anything usually found in Frank Peretti. His books are not for people who scare easily. And they're very literate books so they're not easy to read as well.

Postby **Needle Noggin** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 5:46 pm

Nia-chan wrote:when i was younger, edgar allen poe's books scared me. he needed jesus.

and also in the first grade there was a book that had me really scared. our teacher read it to us. i don't remember the title or author though... all i remember is that it had pictures, and it would say stuff like "he only saw the doorknob turn" and it would have a picture of a guy looking back at a door. anyway it scared me. D: i couldn't go anywhere by myself after that T_T

Edgar Allen Poe did not write any books...just stort stories. And if you read about his life it is easy to see why he lacked faith in humaninty,life, and the world in general.Someone I respect(which is rare) once said Poe was 1/5 genuis and 4/5 family tragedy.

Postby **mechana2015** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 11:46 pm

peretti's The Oath and various short stories by HP Lovecraft

Postby **Bobtheduck** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 12:13 am

The Oath and Jurassic Park... They are the only books I can think of that scared me... I used to read Goosebumps, but they never scared me...

Now, i got scared while listening to the Harry Potter audio books, but that wasn't so much the content as it was something else... Too easy to explain, but I just don't want to. ^_^

Yeah, those are the only two books that scared me...

Postby **Raptor** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 6:05 am

There wasnt really a book that scared me, but still some of them gave me a thrill : the 2 jurassic park books and the shining by stephen king.

Postby **Kaligraphic** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 1:39 am

DNS and BIND, by Albitz & Liu (from O'Reilly)

Well, I got over it.

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