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.
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."
A friend and I read a book about Ted Bundy while I was living in Florida, and we were both completely freaked out. I think it was The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule. Well, I know it was by Ann Rule, even if I got the title wrong.
Is that the woman who worked the crisis hotline with Bundy? That's a freaky story.
She went to law school with him is what I remember.
In not-scary book news, Lizzie Skurnick is getting her own imprint to resissue out-of-print and forgotten YA titles.
In not-scary book news, Lizzie Skurnick is getting her own imprint to resissue out-of-print and forgotten YA titles.
Somebody should tell her to do Sinbad and Me!
Yeah, Ann Rule and Bundy worked at a rape crisis hotline together.
I remember Ann's stories of him walking her to her car late at night and telling her to be careful because of the dangerous people out there. And she always felt very safe with him.
The fiction that freaked (and freaks) me out the most is the Ray Bradbury short story "Skeleton," about the man whose bones hurt.
King novels tend to be so overblown and everything-but-the-kitchen-sink that I don't find them scary.
I think one reason Salem's Lot is so frightening is that it dates back to when he was still being edited.
I've been listening to the companion album this evening while I work, and there are a couple songs that...make me uncomfortable. And a couple that make me wonder what's coming...