Overall, No One Gets Out Alive by Adam Nevill is hands down the book that scared me the most. I’ve never read anything else that I had to avoid right before bed.
Honorable mention to Night Film by Marisha Pessl and Last Days by Adam Nevill for having two of the scariest scenes I’ve ever read
Organic_Pressure1725 on
For me it was Kafka’s Judgement and Penal Colony. Very unsettling
OkFisherman6475 on
While not strictly a horror story, the monsters and their gradual reveal in Perdido Street Station robbed me of sleep for many nights after reading
Ok-Cheetah-9125 on
As a teen I was traumatized by Sometimes They Come Back. I have never re-read it so I’m not sure if it was that scary or just hit me just right.
Recent reads: *Only Good Indians* was a good slow build up scare.
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Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
BookScrum on
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris is the scariest book I’ve ever read.
Wensleydalel on
In 50 years no book has haunted me more than The Haunting of Hill House. The first and last paragraphs were seared into my brain in elementary school.
Nyuk_Fozzies on
Several of the stories in *Foundations of Fear* by David G Hartwell are absolutely terrifying in their implications.
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Overall, No One Gets Out Alive by Adam Nevill is hands down the book that scared me the most. I’ve never read anything else that I had to avoid right before bed.
Honorable mention to Night Film by Marisha Pessl and Last Days by Adam Nevill for having two of the scariest scenes I’ve ever read
For me it was Kafka’s Judgement and Penal Colony. Very unsettling
While not strictly a horror story, the monsters and their gradual reveal in Perdido Street Station robbed me of sleep for many nights after reading
As a teen I was traumatized by Sometimes They Come Back. I have never re-read it so I’m not sure if it was that scary or just hit me just right.
Recent reads: *Only Good Indians* was a good slow build up scare.
Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris is the scariest book I’ve ever read.
In 50 years no book has haunted me more than The Haunting of Hill House. The first and last paragraphs were seared into my brain in elementary school.
Several of the stories in *Foundations of Fear* by David G Hartwell are absolutely terrifying in their implications.