Willow ,'Storyteller'
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."
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.
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!
Scary books like Silence of the Lambs tend to freak me out more than scary books with a supernatural element.
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.
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.
With a blurb on the cover from Morgenstern, right?
That was the original cover; I prefer the Criterion Collection cover.
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.
Every time it's really foggy and I'm driving, I half expect to see a giant foot appear and smash things.
sj brought up Silence of the Lambs before I could. I'm not a horror reader so those aren't my scary. But Silence of the Lambs freaked me out. As did the memoir Wasted by Mayra Hornbacher.