Icecream Posted January 13, 2008 Posted January 13, 2008 Yeah but you'll give me nightmares posting things like that:cry2: Quote
Michelle Posted January 13, 2008 Author Posted January 13, 2008 I agree - fireball, can you please just post a link, so that people can take a look if they wish. Thanks. Quote
Michelle Posted January 13, 2008 Author Posted January 13, 2008 I've changed it to a link, fireball - if it's going to give someone nightmares, it's not really appropriate, is it? Quote
Icecream Posted January 13, 2008 Posted January 13, 2008 Sorry Fireball. I guess a person so sensitive as me with my imagination should not be let out in public! Quote
kateleopald Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah. True story from Sierra Leone. Horrific for illustrating just what humans are capable of doing to eachother (with the added twist that these are children committing attrocities). Quote
~Andrea~ Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 Oh I saw that in the shops when it came out and meant to get it. I might add it to the wish list. Quote
amthysteyes2 Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 Cinderella and other assorted fairy tales. Quote
michael Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 I actually stopped reading one of his (on-line) because I knew (thought I knew?) what was going to happen next. Google him to be scared... Quote
kitty_kitty Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 A few (well, very many, actually) years ago I read a few Dennis Wheatley books including 'The Devil Rides Out' and 'The Haunting of Toby Jugg' and I recall being too terrified to move from my chair! I love his books!!! Quote
happyanddandy Posted January 15, 2008 Posted January 15, 2008 Anything by Danielle Steele. Ha ha - but... have you really read any? Quote
Michelle Posted January 16, 2008 Author Posted January 16, 2008 Although I enjoyed The Woman In Black, I didn't find it particularly scary. Quote
Laramie Posted January 16, 2008 Posted January 16, 2008 The Ragwitch by Garth Nix totally freaked me out, can't remember if I was actually scared but it was VERY creepy. This is more being disgusted, but most of the Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl (and the others) make me go EEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!! Quote
kitty_kitty Posted January 16, 2008 Posted January 16, 2008 Although I enjoyed The Woman In Black, I didn't find it particularly scary. Neither did I, I did not even find it chilling Quote
wiccibat Posted January 16, 2008 Posted January 16, 2008 I just read my son's copy of 'I am legend' while a great book, don't read it on your own at night, then try to get the cat back in from outside. I should've left her to the vampires! Quote
Oblomov Posted January 21, 2008 Posted January 21, 2008 If we accept that a book does not have to be that good in order to scare one, then The Amityville Horror takes the top spot for me. I do not rate it highly in terms of quality, but it is easy to imagine oneself going through the experiences of the family in the book. Jodie the Pig still gives me the heebie-jeebies. Quote
Spooncat Posted January 21, 2008 Posted January 21, 2008 If we accept that a book does not have to be that good in order to scare one, then The Amityville Horror takes the top spot for me. I do not rate it highly in terms of quality, but it is easy to imagine oneself going through the experiences of the family in the book. Jodie the Pig still gives me the heebie-jeebies. Got to agree with that one - I was so scared that I wouldn't even have the book on my bookcase in my bedroom at night! ( I was 19 at the time!) Quote
Oblomov Posted January 21, 2008 Posted January 21, 2008 Got to agree with that one - I was so scared that I wouldn't even have the book on my bookcase in my bedroom at night! ( I was 19 at the time!) Remember the sequence towards the end where the invisible pig's hoofed feet can be felt scuttling across the bed? Brrrr! Quote
Spooncat Posted January 21, 2008 Posted January 21, 2008 Remember the sequence towards the end where the invisible pig's hoofed feet can be felt scuttling across the bed? Brrrr! Eek yes - and the beedy red eyes at the window! Quote
kitty_kitty Posted January 21, 2008 Posted January 21, 2008 If we accept that a book does not have to be that good in order to scare one, then The Amityville Horror takes the top spot for me. I do not rate it highly in terms of quality, but it is easy to imagine oneself going through the experiences of the family in the book. Jodie the Pig still gives me the heebie-jeebies. I found Jodie the Pig disturbing and nothing really affects me Quote
Oblomov Posted January 21, 2008 Posted January 21, 2008 Eek yes - and the beedy red eyes at the window! That sequence was far more effective in the book than in the film. In the book, it is the dad, standing in the garden near the car, that sees the apparition of the pig behind his daughter at the upstairs bedroom window. In the movie, it is the mother, as she goes to close the bedroom window from the inside. Quote
Kylie Posted January 21, 2008 Posted January 21, 2008 In the book, it is the dad, standing in the garden near the car, that sees the apparition of the pig behind his daughter at the upstairs bedroom window. He can see a pig through an upstairs window when he's downstairs? It must either be a very large pig or it can fly! Either way, sounds scary Quote
Oblomov Posted January 22, 2008 Posted January 22, 2008 He can see a pig through an upstairs window when he's downstairs? It must either be a very large pig! I cannot recall the exact sequence of events, but on the night in question, the dad would have gone downstairs to the car parked in the drive from where he can see his little daughter's bedroom window upstairs. As he looks up, he sees his daughter quietly standing at the window staring at him but behind her, he sees the apparition of a huge pig also staring at him. Quote
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