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The Scariest Books Ever

Started by agnostic, January 04, 2015, 03:50:59 AM

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agnostic

I've read swan song and thought it was pretty scary and also a very good book. Also lol at the last one :)

http://viroola.com/2014/12/04/the-10-scariest-books-of-all-time/

SGOS

I read the original Exorcist in my late 20s.  I was fast getting over being scared by this kind of stuff, but that book and also the movie that followed terrified me beyond anything I'd ever experienced.  It disrupted my sleep patterns for months.  As I was getting over that, the movie came out and disrupted my sleep for several more months.  Now, I don't think it's scary.

Mr.Obvious

#2
I've never actually read a scary book. I don't know it that's because I haven't been reading the right stories or if that medium doesn't scare me at all. I've read some horror books in my teens, but I think there's something about being able to shut a book at any time you want  that makes it less scary. Most scary movies don't scary me anymore either, but they did and sometimes still do. And I tend to sit those out in one go.

Actually the book that scared me the most was the Bible. And that was more disgust at myself than it actually being a scary book. And I'm not just saying that because this is 'atheistforums' but that is the only book that haunted me for a few nights and made me restless because it confronted me with my own past blindness to bulshit and that was scary; not the book itself.

Edit: Lol, didn't see what the number one was before posting this. :D
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agnostic

Quote from: SGOS on January 04, 2015, 04:39:35 AM
I read the original Exorcist in my late 20s.  I was fast getting over being scared by this kind of stuff, but that book and also the movie that followed terrified me beyond anything I'd ever experienced.  It disrupted my sleep patterns for months.  As I was getting over that, the movie came out and disrupted my sleep for several more months.  Now, I don't think it's scary.

Haven't read the book but yeah the movie was scary for sure.

Mike Cl

Quote from: agnostic on January 04, 2015, 03:50:59 AM
I've read swan song and thought it was pretty scary and also a very good book. Also lol at the last one :)

http://viroola.com/2014/12/04/the-10-scariest-books-of-all-time/
I read this book so long ago that I had forgotten I read it--until your post.  I really liked it, but I don't remember why.  I'll have to dig it up again and read it again. 
And yes, that #1 scariest book of all time is right on the button!  Religion and fear--can't have one without the other.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?<br />Then he is not omnipotent,<br />Is he able but not willing?<br />Then whence cometh evil?<br />Is he neither able or willing?<br />Then why call him god?

gussy

Of the two that I have read, The Bible is much scarier than It.  It has more likable characters though.

Draconic Aiur

Books by Preston and child will make you scared as shit.

Mermaid

The Shining. It was such a great book because it was all in Jack's mind, or so it seemed. I was mad when they made it supernatural in the movie.
A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life’s realities â€" all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. -TR

Gawdzilla Sama

Quote from: Mermaid on January 07, 2015, 07:52:03 PM
The Shining. It was such a great book because it was all in Jack's mind, or so it seemed. I was mad when they made it supernatural in the movie.
I always thought the evil in the place messed with his mind. It couldn't manifest as a physical phenomenon so it worked on humans as a surrogate.
We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake  we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the  young for a long long time."
PZ Myers

SGOS

Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on January 08, 2015, 07:27:14 AM
I always thought the evil in the place messed with his mind. It couldn't manifest as a physical phenomenon so it worked on humans as a surrogate.
I read the book and saw the movie.  It was a long time ago, but I can't remember the movie being more supernatural and less psychological than the book.

I don't think Stephen King's books are scary, except for "Carrie".  The rest of his books might utilize interesting scenarios, but I don't find them scary.  Carrie was an exception, I thought.  Disturbing might be a better description, in my case.

Gawdzilla Sama

You could be right. I will dig into it tonight.
We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake  we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the  young for a long long time."
PZ Myers

Munch

Quote from: agnostic on January 04, 2015, 10:42:41 AM
Haven't read the book but yeah the movie was scary for sure.

Same with me, didn't read the book but the movie left images of Reagan's face itched into my subconscious for weeks after first watching it.
Maybe it's because of watching movies like this in my teens and early 20s that horror movies now don't tend to scare me, desensitized to it.
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Solitary

The Old Testament about going to hell for eternity when you die is the only book that ever scared me reading it. Next would be reading that the sun will engulf the world in a fireball some day, and wondering where I will be before that.  :eek: Neither brings much comfort.  :fU: :kidra:
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Mr.Obvious

I don't think I even got that far into the old testament before I threw away the book in disgust. I always thought hell was added in the new testament.
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"If we have to go down, we go down together!"
- Your mum, last night, requesting 69.

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Savior2006

Swan Song was a very good book by Robert McCammon, a man I honestly should be reading more of. He quite underrated, in spite of publishing books that get very good reviews on both. I intend to read both Boy's Life and Gone South hopefully soon.

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