What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

Hush, Hush--gets weird near the end
Anything by Stephen King, as far as I can tell.

Necrophilia variations by Subpervert

I'll give you a few of my favorite books that creeped me out.

The House Next Door
byAnne Rivers Siddons

Glamorama

Red Dragon

Geek Love, didn't read it, but ist sounds pretty creepy/disturbing.

The Damnation Game
Mind of Winter
Indigo

Disembodied Bones by Caren Bevill was one of the creepiest books I've ever read and I loved every minute of it. It's part of her Lake People series but reads well as a stand alone

This is an older one Harvest Homeby Thomas Tyron -not so much blood and gore but quite creepy in atmosphere. Very well done.

Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn's first book (she wrote the popular book "Gone Girl")

The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum

Night Film, The Dead Path, and The Devil All the Time

Much depends on how you define "creepy." Are you looking for atmosphere, suspense, edge-of-your-seat? Or are you looking for monsters and savageness and blood?

Personally the creepiest thing I have ever read in my entire life is the short story by Joyce Carol Oates, Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (I think this links to a collection of her short stories, but it's the title one that I'm talking about). It's seriously brilliant and seriously disturbing.

FYI - the OP deleted his or her original post. So if you are recommending things they are going into the ether.

I see no reason why people can't continue to recommend to the general population, though.

These brothers write short stories and almost everyone of them is creepy and/or disturbing, Evans Light and Adam Light.

Brenda wrote: "This is an older one Harvest Homeby Thomas Tyron -not so much blood and gore but quite creepy in atmosphere. Very well done."

This still scares me. Another old book is The Sentinel. It's extremely creepy.

Good choice with Thomas Tyron's books--they're creepy in atmosphere and don't rely on blood to do it, which makes them my kind of creepy.

This should date me, but if you remember the movie "The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane", there is book (and screenplay) of the same name by Laird Koenig. This one gets high scores for creepiness.

Marcy Heidish's fiction books such as "The Torching" and "Deadline" are also creepy in the suspense/atmosphere category, with some gore but much of it is handled well--she builds up to it, then with a few, well-chosen words and descriptive paragraphs, lets your imagination do the rest, which makes it my kind of creepy.

Threats by Amelia Gray is an awesome, different kind of creepy. Pay no attention to the blurb on the back, which is misleading. This is not a suspense book, but rather, essentially, a book of disturbing poetry at its finest.

The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein is the creepiest science fiction book I ever read.

The Haunting of Hill House Brrrrrrr! The first movie does it justice, the second does not.

Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged

(Very similar to Mein Kampf, but subtly dressed up to fool children).


Mike

House of Leaves

The creepiest story I ever read was called The Pin found in this collection of shorts Blue World (some of the book descriptions make this sound like a novel, but there are actually 13 short stories).

As for a novel, the creepiest for me was The Revenant Mind you, what I found creepy at 18 may not be what I find creepy 20+ years later. I didn't sleep for a week after reading this one.

Anything by Bizzarro author Carlton Mellick III

Unwind has one of the creepiest scenes I've ever read.

The Bad Place by Dean Koontz! I started that book years ago and still to this day cannot finish it! Too creepy for me by far! Really good read though

Depends on your perspective. The book that brought me to this site (I had been looking for years) was a fairly easy read but very detailed. It's true crime and happened not too far from me. What creeped me out so badly is the descriptive way the author described the victim and how she had no clue what was about to happen to her, and also how he described how they chose her as their victim, and then what happened to her. Not gory. Not sensationalistic. Just generally very creepy. Last month, I found myself in the town that she was taken from (I didn't know I would pass through on the way to another place). I passed the parking lot where she was watched, and the place she worked and left from before she was taken and I got creeped out all over again because it just made it that much more real.

Missing Person : The True Story of a Police Case Resolved by the Clairvoyant Powers of Dorothy Allison

Abiyoyo scared me when I was in kindergarten... Oh god that book gave me nightmares

Whispers in the Dark
The Devil in the Corner

The Collector. I'm reading it now and I pretty much just want it to end. Because of creepiness, not bad writing.

Lobstergirl wrote: "The Collector. I'm reading it now and I pretty much just want it to end. Because of creepiness, not bad writing."

Isn't that the one that's banned in a lot of libraries because so many serial killers love it?

I hadn't heard that. It's an older book, from the 1960s. I wonder if you are thinking of American Psycho.

Oh, perhaps you are right. I see a section on the book's wiki page about serial killers. But I haven't read it yet because spoilers.

Lobstergirl wrote: "Oh, perhaps you are right. I see a section on the book's wiki page about serial killers. But I haven't read it yet because spoilers."

Hard to avoid those wiki spoilers.
But yeah, I think I heard some librarians talking about this one.

I wonder how they foundout that serial killers love that book. Was there a survey done? :O

Kagama-the Literaturevixen wrote: "I wonder how they foundout that serial killers love that book. Was there a survey done? :O"

It came to light after their crimes were revealed. One killer was obsessed with the book; another was obsessed with the movie based on the book; and a third had the book in his possession when he committed suicide.

I agree that Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn is dark and creepy. Also, Josie and Jack by Kelly Braffet.

"The Screaming Staircase".