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Yeah, The Hot Zone was pretty frightening. Early Stephen King (Salem's Lot, The Shining, Pet Semetary, Cujo) are great for a thrill. I'm a huge Lovecraft fan and like savoytruffle says, his stuff isn't really scream in the dark scary but he was so original it still stands on it's own.
The Exorcist is the only movie I had to leave and I still can't watch it. My girlfriend at the time said the book is even more disturbing so it's a guarantee I'll never read it. Lol.
I also choose The Shining. I've read it several times and it still scared me as an adult. I could only read it in the daytime.
A non-fiction choice would be books I've read about profiling and serial killers.
For me, definitely The Shining. The part where Danny is underground? Is that right? Or he seems to go down a hole in the grounds and there's something else with him? I think it's something like that. The way it's written...shudders....and of course the whole bathtub scene! But that book was also poignant and sad. I cried at the end. I know, I'm a dork.
A book called 207 is also very scary to me. It was a self published true story of a pregnant woman and her husband who move into an apartment. It's very terrifying in terms of what happens to her and especially her husband. She barely escapes with her life.
Helter Skelter also must be mentioned for me. That book was terrifying - I'm now afraid and more conscious than ever that anyone can just walk into my house (or break in somehow) if they really wanted too.
For me it was The Red Dragon. I was house-sitting alone in a big house the country and I honestly thought I might have a heart attack I was so terrified. It wasn't just the book, but the circumstances as well. Oh, and the lights went out and I had to go outside with a flashlight and flip the breaker.
The Boston Strangler by Gerald Frank. I was about 12 or 13, way too young for that book. The murders were horrible and the cover illustration increased the horror. I had to turn the book face down to keep from looking at those sinister eyes. Writing this now is bringing back those same disturbing feelings from so long ago.
Well, King's "IT" has some scary parts! And I think "House" by Peretti might have had some parts. But Cherie Currie's "Neon Angel: Memoir of a Runaway" comes to mind because it's actually what Cherie (former frontwoman of The Runaways) went through and that's what's wild.
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction.
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