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Depends on what you actually class as horror - many writers seem to get pigeon-holed as horror authors when the majority of their books are anything but, when you actually read them (Stephen King being a prime example).

 

I've never yet really found a horror novel that really gives me the wiggins, but the ones that are definitely horror-genre that Ilove include:

 

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Carmilla by J. Sheridan Lefanu

Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

The Omen by David Seltzer

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Hi Renius!

 

I have to second It and Salem's Lot!! Nothing has ever come close to Stephen King for me. His son, Joe Hill, has a couple of books out. I tried Heart Shaped Box, and it was similar to King, though not as creepifying for me.

 

I've actually seen King's house in Bangor, Maine, and it is just exactly what you would expect his house to look like. Old and slightly creepy, but in a very funky way, deep red, with a gorgeous cast iron fence with bats. So cool.

 

:hide:Steffie

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By horror you probably mean monsters, ghosts and ghoulies - in which case I'd say Frankenstein would be up there with the best.

What scares me most are the dystopias such as Brave New World, 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale.

Lord of the Flies and A Clockwork Orange are also horrific.

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I feel that the horror genre is like an old tree. It started as one tree and began to shoot off branches of new ideas for the genre. There are so many different 'horror' topics out there that it is hard to keep track.

 

You have:

Ghouls, ghosts and other supernatural spooks

Unnatural & disturbing

Real life disturbing

Slasher horror

 

And many others.

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Hi Renius!

 

Welcome to the gang...:readingtwo:

 

As mentioned there is different types of horror, I meant to say, its how you perceive it yourself, if that makes sense? Anyway, let's begin..

 

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, I still worry about that book, a classic and no mistake but a worrying one.

 

Cujo by Stephen King

 

Thinner by Stephen King

 

Misery by Stephen King, more psychological horror for me, the idea of being at someone's mercy.

 

The Thief of Always by Clive Barker, Mr Hood was creepy.

 

Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally

 

Meeting Evil by Thomas Berger

 

Auschwitz : The Nazis & The 'Final Solution' by Laurence Rees, very powerful book but terrifying at the same time because it happened.

 

:readingtwo:

 

 

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It always has been and always will be The Shining by Stephen King. Frightened the pants off me when I was 12 and is still scary to this day.

 

I love it!!

The book, while being quite scary, was not the one that frightened me most. But the film certainly is the scariest that I have ever seen. Here's Johnny!!
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I read IT by Stephen King for the first time when I was twelve. It has taken me three years before I dared to go near a sewer again.

I have never found another book that scared me as much as that one.

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The Stand Stephen King would have to be quite near the top of my list, Dark Rivers of the Heart by Dean Koontz I really enjoyed too but might be a thriller more than a horror. I loved Dean Koontz's Hideaway which was the first of his books I ever read. And Dracula was fantastic :lol:

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It always has been and always will be The Shining by Stephen King. Frightened the pants off me when I was 12 and is still scary to this day.

 

:lol: Hedge animals. That move. ;) I know there are worse things in it, but to me it's the more subtle things that are the most scary, and one of those things is inanimate objects that move - whether it's hedge animals, dolls, pictures or statues, it really freaks me out!

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The Amityville Horror - I think its accepted as fiction now? I read this when it first came out and I was in my teens at the time - it scared the hell out of me!:lol:
Yes, I admit that it unnnerved me too back in the 70s when i first read it. The bit about "Jodie the Pig" was particularly scary.
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salem's lot by stephen king was scaring me as i was reading it in broad daylight- another good one was the exorcist- much scarier than the movie- carm

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