For me it’s hard to say for sure, because my scariest book wasn’t meant as horror, but Communion by Whitley Streiber is definitely responsible for the most sleepless hours.

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    1 year ago

    It’s tough to say - I tend to consider books that have stayed with me the ones that scared me the most. Off the top of my head:

    • The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Aarnop
    • From A Buick 8 by King (though I’d say I found this one more existentially disturbing and unsettling)
    • Drood by Dan Simmons

    I think, looking at this not-at-all-exhaustive list, that the books I find scariest are the ones where you’re left with more questions than answers.

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    1 year ago

    I just finished The Thing Between US by Gus Moreno. I’ve read a lot of horror and I’ve never jumped or turned my face away or slammed the book shut, but I did all of these things at different points in this book. Something about the way Gus Moreno describes things really freaked me out lol. It was a phenomenal book and I can’t stop thinking about it.

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    Penpal by Dathan Auerbach, was a book that really succeeded at scaring me personally. It managed to make me feel pretty vulnerable and it just filled me with dread the whole time I was reading it.

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    Probably isn’t really horror but I’ve never felt more uncomfortable than when I read House of Leaves. Just being alone in an apartment felt creepy while reading certain parts.