The Page Turners discussion

What are some of your favorite scariest books of all time?

I don't read scary books because I have too much of a wild imagination that makes me extremely paranoid. But... I recently read a book and I hadn't realized it was a sci-fi horror. After reading it, I was pretty paranoid for a few days (I'm not a horror kind of girl!), but it was a pretty good book. It was 172 Hours on the Moon.

How 'bout anything Stephen King? I mean, The Shining, Misery, Cujo, It, just to name a few.

I really want to read Stephen King books!!!

Favorite scary book I read was Prey by Michael Crichton. It's mainly a science fiction book, but it's about nanotechnology that does some really CREEPY things...And the fact that it was science fiction just made it more plausible and even more scary....

Stephen King is my all time favourite! Don't be confused though, he is known as the master of horror but that isn't all that he writes. I say this because I've known people to read one of his novels and then complain because it wasn't scary.
Salem's Lot was my first so that would be my first suggestion to anyone looking for a good scare ;)
Dean Koontz' Phantoms was a really creepy one as well and I would also suggest Shadowland by Peter Straub.

I'm a bit of a wimp when it comes to the horror genre, but I found The Unseen series to be a bit haunting.

I've really wanted to pick up a Stephen King book, but at the same time, I'm not sure that I could actually bring myself to read it...

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I read Salem's Lot when I was 13 and I never turned back! I think I might be a King junkie :o

The Demon in the Freezer. It's an older Richard Preston. And so far I think it's the only book on the thread that isn't fiction. Which is why it's so scary. It's about smallpox - what it does to you, how it spreads, how it's been weaponized, how literally tons of the weaponized version have disappeared over the years... Very scary indeed.

I loved "The Shining" by Stephen King. "Suffer the Children" and "Come the Blind Fury" by John Saul were good scares too.

Ok The Maze Runner scared me. The grievers are freaky! Also The Book Of Lost Things scared me.

I liked Amity by Micol Ostow as well as The Gone series by Michael Grant. Don't know if that last one was meant to be horror or sci-fi or both, but I know it did a pretty good job of scaring me.