King novels tend to be so overblown and everything-but-the-kitchen-sink that I don't find them scary. I think From a Buick 8 was the last long-form work of his that made me feel creeped out, and only in brief stretches. His short stories are a lot more powerful, though. "1408," "The Man in the Black Suit," and "The Monkey" all made my skin crawl.
Damn you, Bridget! Damn you to Hades! You broke my heart in a million pieces! You made me love you, and then you-- I SHAVED MY BEARD FOR YOU, DEVIL WOMAN!
Monty ,'Trash'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 08, 2013 11:50:05 am PDT #20609 of 28368
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
meara - Apr 08, 2013 11:51:59 am PDT #20610 of 28368
I don't usually read super scary novels, but sometimes like the Bones type stuff...but the first time I read a book in that particular series (many many years ago) was in Montreal, alone, in a creepy hotel room. Serial killer stalking the city I was in? Not a good plan. Much easier when he's stalking more fictional-seeming places!!
Atropa - Apr 08, 2013 11:52:57 am PDT #20611 of 28368
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
What's everyone's "worst(best?) book to read alone in the house late at night?"
"The Haunting of Hill House". It will creep me out even if I read it in bright daylight.
Silk by Caitlin R. Kiernan used to be that way for me, but I haven't reread it in forever, so I don't know if it would still creep me out as badly. Well, okay, I don't know if the non-spider parts would creep me out as badly; I'm certain that my phobia would keep me jittering for a huge part of the book.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 08, 2013 11:55:45 am PDT #20612 of 28368
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I've mentioned that The Night Flyer was the first story in a book I bought from an airport newsstand before discovering that I'd be flying a 12-seater into Peoria through what turned out to be a tornado cell, right? Who cares about vampires, it has a small plane crashing during a storm!
sj - Apr 08, 2013 12:20:25 pm PDT #20613 of 28368
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Scary books like Silence of the Lambs tend to freak me out more than scary books with a supernatural element.
DebetEsse - Apr 08, 2013 1:26:34 pm PDT #20614 of 28368
Woe to the fucking wicked.
You know, I would say that someone should make this move, exactly as described, in order to really fuck with reality, but I don't know that anyone would trust the creeptasticness of books falling off a shelf.
Polter-Cow - Apr 08, 2013 1:34:22 pm PDT #20615 of 28368
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
What do you mean someone? The Navidson Record is available on Netflix. It was on Instant for a while, but they took it down last month.
DebetEsse - Apr 08, 2013 1:39:04 pm PDT #20616 of 28368
Woe to the fucking wicked.
With a blurb on the cover from Morgenstern, right?
Polter-Cow - Apr 08, 2013 1:42:48 pm PDT #20617 of 28368
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
That was the original cover; I prefer the Criterion Collection cover.
§ ita § - Apr 08, 2013 2:14:38 pm PDT #20618 of 28368
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I was scrolling to the message box in order to relate Talisman freaking me out about seagulls, but that's reasonably easy to avoid. The TV movie of Langoliers has made fog convince me that the rest of the world has disappeared, and that seems to be retroactive to the book. However, The Mist plays into that too.
I guess I'm a child of Stephen King, because it was most often him freaking me out, and I stopped reading him more than ten years ago.