Scary book recommendations?

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  • EIEIElenaO
    EIEIElenaO Posts: 101 Member
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    Gone Girl was creepy in a quiet, disturbing way. (and Gillian Flynn's 2 prior novels too)
  • EIEIElenaO
    EIEIElenaO Posts: 101 Member
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    Pontypool Changes Everything; very strange, weird and creepy.

    Thanks. It's on my to-read list now!
  • anels449
    anels449 Posts: 3,187 Member
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    You could check out H.P. Lovecraft.
    One of the real classics and more creepy than scary imho.

    Agreed on Lovecraft; he's a classic and has influenced so many other writers after him!

    Also, I just finished "Haunted" in my Chuck Palahniuk class. It's more gore than scary, honestly, but it's about a group of people locked in a sealed building and to pass the time they tell each other stories. But seeing the lengths people will go toward themselves and others to make a better story is pretty creepy.

    Apparently "House of Leaves" by Mark Danielewski is classified as a horror novel. I'm not sure I totally see that, but it does have my pretty good psychological elements that could freak you out. It's about a manuscript that was written to prove a fictional move exists and as the reader reads the manuscript the more drawn in he becomes and starts going mad trying to prove the fictional movie exists. But I *always* recommend "House of Leaves," so maybe I'm just biased. :p
  • hellokathy
    hellokathy Posts: 540 Member
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    Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill