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The Scariest Place in Fiction


Karsa Orlong

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I think Castle Rock has to be the scariest town to live in - many of Stephen King's novels take place there or make mention of things that have happened there! :)

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I think it'd have to be the Marston house from Salem's Lot, for me :hide:

 

That, or Regan's bedroom in The Exorcist.  Every scene set in that room filled me with dread, both in the book and the film.

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That, or Regan's bedroom in The Exorcist.  Every scene set in that room filled me with dread, both in the book and the film.

This might be silly, but I didn't know the film was based on a book :blush2:. I have an interesting history with the film. One of my bullies at secondary school kept calling me 'De / The Exorcist' when I walked past. I had not seen the film so I wasn't sure what it meant. At some point the film was on TV so I decided to watch it. I saw it once but never again. I find it hard to think about the film without thinking about the guy who bullied me (it didn't help that he was a big strong tall older guy) and feeling my anger towards him.

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I don't do scary but .. Room 101  :hide: 

 

 

The hospital at the beginning of The Day of the Triffids is pretty creepy. 

 

I remember reading the opening of the book on a dark, quiet winters night a number of years ago and it made the hair stand up on the back of my neck.

 

 

Hear hear for both!  :hide:

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For me, the scariest place in fiction is probably the attic room in the Witch House, from HP Lovecraft's, "Dreams in the With House".

 

The description of the odd angles of the ceiling and walls, the feverish dreams of the protagonist, the nightly visitations - it all adds up to a location that is seared into my brain.

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The creepy places in Stephen King's Talisman. And I mean the Territories places, with the creatures, the worms, just, yuck.

 

Also, anything with huge amounts of flesh eating zombies, the thought of being eaten/torn apart alive is just scary.

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This might be silly, but I didn't know the film was based on a book :blush2:. I have an interesting history with the film. One of my bullies at secondary school kept calling me 'De / The Exorcist' when I walked past. I had not seen the film so I wasn't sure what it meant. At some point the film was on TV so I decided to watch it. I saw it once but never again. I find it hard to think about the film without thinking about the guy who bullied me (it didn't help that he was a big strong tall older guy) and feeling my anger towards him.

Interestingly, the book is based on a true story. It actually happened to a boy. The hospital where the exorcism really took place was the old Alexian Brothers mental hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.

 

By calling you the exorcist, he was actually calling you the priest tasked with expelling the demon. So really, he didn't think up a a very good insult. You were being called the position of the good guy in the whole thing. Apparently, the bully wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. ;)

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I don't remember reading many horror books, so I'll play safe and also mention Room 101 from Nineteen Eighty-Four. It would probably be everyone's scariest place in fiction, [spoilers] given that the government knows everyone's worst nightmares and this room is about facing that same nightmare. Room 101 is different for each person. [spoilers end] But I don't know if this place counts, because it's not the place itself that is scary, but what people are forced to face inside it. Perhaps I'd have a different answer if I read more horror literature.

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I don't remember reading many horror books, so I'll play safe and also mention Room 101 from Nineteen Eighty-Four. It would probably be everyone's scariest place in fiction, [spoilers] [...]

If you want to type a spoiler, there are two options. If you use the graphic move, press the third icon on the top bar of the post, the first icon is the lightswitch (toggle between graphic mode and BBcode mode), the second icon looks like an eraser, the third icon looks like a square with some green and blue. Press this third icon and a drop down box will pop up. Choose spoiler out of the available options and that should give you a way to post the spoiler.

 

A second way of doing it (this is how I do it but most use the graphic mode), is to type without the spaces: [ spoiler ]Post your spoiler here.[ / spoiler ]

 

To make it look like:

 

 

Post your spoiler here.

 

 

I hope this helps :).

 

Interestingly, the book is based on a true story. It actually happened to a boy. The hospital where the exorcism really took place was the old Alexian Brothers mental hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.

 

By calling you the exorcist, he was actually calling you the priest tasked with expelling the demon. So really, he didn't think up a a very good insult. You were being called the position of the good guy in the whole thing. Apparently, the bully wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. ;)

I didn't know it was based on a true story!

 

That's very true. After several years I finally got the courage and watched the film when it was on TV and learned that. Thanks, though, for reminding me. Indeed this bully was older than most classmates because he had to repeat several years of school :giggle2:. Thanks for cheering me up there :).

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