What is the scariest book you've ever read?

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>>9899256
holy.. epic..

>>9899256
this tbqh

Revelations

The only time I've been genuinely scared was reading "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie.

(I later found out it was first published as "Ten Little Niggers.")

The ending where the last remaining person hangs themself was just too psychologically spooky for me.

I was like, 13, and honestly no book has been even remotely scary since.

I find I do not get scared by books, but rather I get disgusted and a general feeling of unpleasantness

>>9899395
are you me? literally had the same experience, except i was 12.

>>9899237
Deranged by Harold Schechter. It's about Albert Fish.

I've read books that have far more graphic violence, about serial killers with a much higher body count, but this book left me with a deep nausea. Would not recommend. If it traumatizes you, don't say I didn't warn you.

>>9899237
Read 1984 when I was in grade 9. Spooked me out so much I didn't even finish it

>>9899237
Meditations was 2 spoonky 4 moi

I have no mouth and I must scream

>>9899256
You forgot the desu.

>>9900297
Fish was the most crazy sadistic person I have ever heard about. He could have gotten not guilty by insanity but the jurors thought he was so insane that they just killed him anyway.

>>9900297


I brought him to the Riker Ave. dumps. There is a house that stands alone, not far from where I took him ... I took the G boy there. Stripped him naked and tied his hands and feet and gagged him with a piece of dirty rag I picked out of the dump. Then I burned his clothes. Threw his shoes in the dump. Then I walked back and took trolley to 59 St. at 2 A.M. and walked home from there. Next day about 2 P.M., I took tools, a good heavy cat-of-nine tails. Home made. Short handle. Cut one of my belts in half, slit these half in six strips about 8 in. long. I whipped his bare behind till the blood ran from his legs. I cut off his ears – nose – slit his mouth from ear to ear. Gouged out his eyes. He was dead then. I stuck the knife in his belly and held my mouth to his body and drank his blood. I picked up four old potato sacks and gathered a pile of stones. Then I cut him up. I had a grip with me. I put his nose, ears and a few slices of his belly in the grip. Then I cut him thru the middle of his body. Just below his belly button. Then thru his legs about 2 in. below his behind. I put this in my grip with a lot of paper. I cut off the head – feet – arms – hands and the legs below the knee. This I put in sacks weighed with stones, tied the ends and threw them into the pools of slimy water you will see all along the road going to North Beach. Water is 3 to 4 ft. deep. They sank at once. I came home with my meat. I had the front of his body I liked best. His monkey and pee wees and a nice little fat behind to roast in the oven and eat. I made a stew out of his ears – nose – pieces of his face and belly. I put onions, carrots, turnips, celery, salt and pepper. It was good. Then I split the cheeks of his behind open, cut off his monkey and pee wees and washed them first. I put strips of bacon on each cheek of his behind and put in the oven. Then I picked 4 onions and when meat had roasted about 1/4 hr., I poured about a pint of water over it for gravy and put in the onions. At frequent intervals I basted his behind with a wooden spoon. So the meat would be nice and juicy. In about 2 hr., it was nice and brown, cooked thru. I never ate any roast turkey that tasted half as good as his sweet fat little behind did. I ate every bit of the meat in about four days. His little monkey was as sweet as a nut, but his pee-wees I could not chew. Threw them in the toilet.

>>9901205
No, the worst people were those 4 japanese kids. Tortured a girl to death over the most part of a month, and three of them got only 8 years. The last one got off entirely. Never wanted anybody to be tortured before. I want to torture them to death.

Any system that lets those monsters live is faulty.

>>9899237
The Elementary Particles

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>>9901339
This book still haunts me.

>>9900642
This, although I finished the book. I cried like a little baby at the description of the Chocolate Scene

>>9901313
Eh, if this is as good as it gets it's not that bad. Not very pleasant but not traumatising.

>>9899237
The Wasp Factory.

>>9900297
I hear that guy was a real jerk

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

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>>9899237
>Getting scared because of a book

>>9901935
this goy

>>9901339
Should I read this? I picked up Submission the other day, but haven't read that yet either. I was wondering if I should read this one first.

When I was in fifth grade I read the Goosebumps "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". I spent that entire year afraid that my friends and family were replaced by aliens. I refused to sleep or stand in positions where my back was exposed to other because that was how they stole your body. I've never read anything that made me feel that way ever since.

>>9901946
It'll change your life.

>>9899237
Schopenhauer's collected essays
Ligotti's Conspiracy against the human race

>>9901906
Sociopath detected.

>>9901339
Who's it by?

>>9899395
I read the book first in 8th grade. I really enjoyed it and re-read it a year or so back. I had read a little, and decided to finish the last half in a night. I finished around midnight, and fell asleep. My mom shook me awake at 3 because I was having a night terror shouting "The judge, the judge!"

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>>9899237

Goosebumps "I Live In Your Basement" fucked me up hard when I was young.

>>9899237

Honestly?

>The Sickness Unto Death
>The Camp of Saints
>Brave New World
>Lord of the World

>>9902677
>>Brave New World
Why

>>9899237
Some Stephen King books like Pet Sematary, Misery and Gerald's Game can get pretty disturbing. He sure does have a fucked up imagination at times.

>>9904094
Came here to post Pet Sematary. It scared the SHIT outta me when I was sixteen. No book I've read since has come close to scaring me as much.

>>9901339
>>9901352
why do you think it's scary?

>>9899237
hey you non-horror-reading bitches I'm here to tell you to read the first half of The King in Yellow

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Hell House by Richard Matheson

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>>9904204

>>9902316

It's too impersonal to be traumatizing. The guy who dies isn't even allowed to express his anguish in the text. No screams of agony, no pleas for his life.

There's enough text to be put in the clinical mind of the murderer, not enough to empathize with the trauma of the victim.

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>>9899237
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson and The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

>>9899237
I dunno about scary, but The Oath, a Surgeon Under Fire is plenty depressing.

>>9901911
Mein neger

>>9902659
For me it was "The Haunted Mask" and "Fear Street" Goddamn

>>9901993
>fifth grade
>scared by goosebumps

You were a pussy.

Industrial Society and Its Future

>>9901339
How good is the english translation? I wanted to read, but I've seen people saying the brazilian version is worse than reading it in french without knowing the language with a dictionary on the side.

>>9899256
Huh...

>>9902900

The idea of a world where humans are nothing more than intelligent, advanced animals without a semblance of free thought or emotion is terrifying. What makes it worse is that this is where society is headed, more so than Orwell's vision. We are society which exist only to consume and expel at this point--whether it be information, resources, emotions, or thoughts. All we do is consume and 'exist' on a purely survival level.

>>9906885
Humans are the most intelligent animals. I mean, it's not scary to think about, it's just the truth.

>>9899382
underrated. Revelations is fucking terrifying

>>9906901
>>9906885
I don't think we know enough about cetaceans for us to be considered the most intelligent.

>>9906885
I genuinely don't know how to take this. How do you think humans are, if not exactly how you just describe us?

>>9906931
Or Octopi or elephants. Octopi could be very smart if the mother didn't die shortly after giving birth, thus making it impossible to pass on information learned to off spring, essentially starting from scratch each generation.

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>>9902677
Was about to right this off as a meme until I saw this. Now it's ordered.

>>9899237
wide sargasso sea or the bluest eye

>>9904204
It's nice to know I wasn't the only person on here to read this. I tore through it in a single sitting.

I don't have nightmares about it or anything but even as an adult it's a pretty harrowing experience.

>>9902659
>>9905113
for me it was that lad eating turtles alive for some reason

>>9906885
This is what humans are and have always been though.

You're welcome to be a reservationnigger though, enjoy your mescal.

Turn of the Screw, definitely.

>>9901098
Harlan Ellison can actually write some really good horror stories. Check out his collections "Deathbird Stories" and "Strange Wine".

>>9902659
I liked those Fear Streets books better cause Stine would actually kill people off in bloody ways (books were meant for high schoolers).

>>9904094
He actually thought about scrapping Pet Sementary cause he even thought it was too graphic, but then his wife told him he should publish it.


Also, The Shining is King's best book. I think it will be his most remembered one after he dies.

>>9907023
It's interesting, although it got it wrong. The main refugees in that book are Indians, not Muslims.

Indians (at least in America) actually have a lot of high intelligence jobs. It's a stereotype to be Indian Doctor in America.

-Laird Barron (check out his first 3 collections)

-Lovecraft (when first read about Cthulhu it freaked me out)

-Ligotti's short stories

-Stephen King stories like The Jaunt and The Man in the Black Suit

-House of Leaves (the one part where he dreamt about the afterlife freaked me out)

-Wanna read more Lovecraftian authors like Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E Howard, Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, etc.

>>9899237
I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream.

Also, most of Murakami Ryu's shit, I suppose, In The Miso Soup being the highlight.

>>9901339
I read this, and MAN does it hit close to home, it feels like the author drank the same cynicism/depression/aspergers juice that I drank

>>9899900

The she isn't you, unfortunately.

what should I read if I don't want to sleep

>inb4 some tired old meme

"The Road". There was a pervading sense of hopelessness, throughout, that I found extremely unsettling. The few times when something good happened, there was still a sense of dread looming above. I finished the book, then lay awake, all night, mulling over it.

"The Night Land", too, was disturbing. Like Lovecraft, Hodgson was great at creating scenes that weren't "scary", per se, but that gave me a queasy feeling that something wasn't right. Additionally, the world of "The Night Lands" was so bizarre and unlike anything else I'd come across. The environment was described in such vivid detail, but he still managed to cover everything in a shroud of mystery. It's just a shame that 60% of the book involved the main character wandering around, with nothing of note happening, and, every now and then, stopping to "take two of the pills and drink some of the water". It worked to further illustrate how desolate the world was, but it got old. Hodgson had a wonderful imagination and the world that he created has no rival, but he wasn't the best writer.

>>9901911
Get out, Norm!

>>9902480

Michel Houellbecq, the same guy who wrote Submission

Various endings from 'Choose your own Adventure' books.

Goblet of fire.

I was like eight.

I don't get spooked by words.

>>9908913
____________BOO!____________

>>9908913

This honestly

Dr sues

>>9906924
Nightmare fuel for children.

Was supposed to make me have faith in god, all it did was give me crippling anxiety which led to my involvement in homosexual activities.

go figure.

>>9899237
11/22/63 (the first part)

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>>9908146
>The Shining is King's best book. I think it will be his most remembered one after he dies.
Not a chance. The Kubrick movie will be remembered, not the book. As plebeian a writer as King is, he's written many better books than The Shining.

>>9908913
>>9908918
If
>>9900297
doesn't have any effect on you, your brain processes language in a way that is isolated and disconnected from the rest of the human experience.

>>9908170
>-Laird Barron (check out his first 3 collections)

Shame he will never become a good writer. His recent work is atrocious.

>>9899382
>>9906924
It's "Revelation," you mongoloids.

>>9908825
I've also heard The Night Land's prose is pretty atrocious.

>>9909319
King will probably became the Arthur Conan Doyle of our time, mostly genre fiction but still popular enough to be remembered for awhile after he dies.

>>9899237
How do you get scared by books?

>>9909932
>I've also heard The Night Land's prose is pretty atrocious.

It's not great. The world that he created was amazing, but he repeats himself, over and over and over, and I wish that he had given the story to someone else to write. Most of the book could have been removed and replaced with "I walked for a long time and nothing of note happened.".

>>9906931
How can they be smarter when they didn't even invent the internet or guns or karaoke like we did? Exactly; they're way too stupid

Great God Pan. The bit where the girl is dancing in the cornfields (I think that was it) was very unsettling.

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>>9899237

>>9899256
desu

I've tried like 3 times to finish It by Stephen King but I tap out every time

>>9908170
>House of Leaves
The part with the intense paranoia about the 'minotaur' being behind Johnny Truant got to me.

>>9910439
Okay, I've heard the problem before is he tries to write like he's in the 1700's and just makes it unbearable hard to read.

>>9910590
Machen is pretty much the inventor of "British folk horror". You couldn't get stuff like the Wicker Man without him.

>>9912228
Machen and Blackwood are the two best writers of weird/cosmic/lovecraftian horror fiction. Even better then Lovecraft.

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>>9901331
>those torturing people are awful
>so awful I wish to torture them

>>9910590
"The White People" is even better

>>9912223
These are very much connected

>>9912252
This is true, and also what Lovecraft thought

>>9899237
The bible. Because I believed it


t. Gnostic

I don't know why but I get very anxious with El desierto de los tártaros (The Tartar Steppe? IDK).

Twice I've picked it up and a few chapters in I put it down.

>>9912306
REPENT. Seriously

>believe God exists
>still defy him

>>9912306
>>9912543
Fuck off, both off you.

>>9899237
I'll go with The Bible. Because the concept of Hell has haunted my dreams for 28 years

>>9912543
I dunno, I didn't feel like I had much choice. I don't trust God. I can't force myself to trust God. And the Bible didn't seem to portray a God that could be trusted. The ultimate stumbling block for me was the idea that a vst majoirty of humanity would be precondemned for never having access to the gospel. So the only hope I sense is that maybe some other God will redeem all of us in time.

>>9912588
Heaven is far more frightening.

>>9912612
In what sense? Its sheer intangibility?

>>9912588
You have nothing to worry about because it isn't real.

>>9912618
In the sense that you cease to exist as an individual. I'd take an eternity of torment where I can maintain a shred of my being over being reduced to something that exists only to sing the adulations of the Lord forever and ever.

>>9912634
speaking personally I'm already distressed in existing this much. I take solace in the notion of oblivion.

>>9912639
It's not really oblivion, though I guess you could argue that it's not fundamentally different.

>>9912652
Well my point is I think you are already to self-fixated if you seriously just said the above. Its not worth maximal suffering just to preserve some cosmic inertia.

>>9912662
Well, yeah. My pride just doesn't much enjoy the concept of existing as a brainwashed slave for eternity, even though it would erase that pride and any other concept of self.

Revival

>>9899237
the communist manifesto

because its true

>>9906662
bamp for interest

>>9902222
When I finished Conspiracy, I got out of my seat and I guess I had been sitting in the same position for too long, because I had one of those weird moments where you feel all numb and blood rushes to your head and you almost go blind. It was 2sp00ky5me because there was a mirror right in front of me and the vehicular misadventure section at the end as well as the poem were still ringing through my head.

>>9899382
>>9906924
>>9908926
And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.

2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

3 And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.

4 And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.

6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.

8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:

10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;

13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;

16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

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>>9912279
I know what I said. Look up what they did.

>>9901339
this one is scary because of the realness

>>9906885
>more so than Orwell
>le ebin webcomix
Forgot about PRISM already, goy?

>>9899237

Lovecraft horror stories when I was a child. They really spooked me.

Kosinski's "Steps" in my adulthood. Well, it wasn't scary, but it left me with a strange sensation, I felt uneasy.

>>9899237
Spanking The Maid by Robert Coover