AIBU to ask you for your favourite spooky books as a teen?

[user1491572121]

I loved The Owl Service by Alan Garner...there were others but I've forgotten them all!

Anyone?

[milliemolliemou]

OP Garner also wrote the Weirdstone of Brinsingamen, Moon of Gomrath, the ultrra spooky Elidor (made into a good tv series way back) and Red Shift. I also liked John Wyndham - Midwich Cuckoos, Day of the Triffids, the Chrysalids etc. But for sheer goosebumps, the collected ghost stories of M R James.

[zukiecat]

Also I read Rosemary's Baby as a teen and loved it!

[Coffeethrowtrampbitch]

I loved Point Horror and Christopher Pike too, my favourite of his was Remember Me.

Then I read Stephen King and Richard Laymon but I don't read as much horror as an adult as I did as a teen.

Thanks to a knowledgeable mumsnetter translating my ravings and identifying the forgotten title, I re-read The Ghost Drum by Susan Price recently and it is still far too disturbing to be a kid's story!

[ClarkWGriswold]

Also to mention I was also a massive fan of Point Horror as a tween/young teen. I wish you could still buy them, I'm sure that they would stand the test of time.

[Ginkypig]

I also liked some of Stephen king books but didn't always like his writing style, but loved misery and it.

[ClarkWGriswold]

Stephen King, Richard Laymont and Dean Koontz for me. Richard Laymont's offerings were beyond weird!

[Jackiebrambles]

Oooh glad to see someone mentioned Christopher Pike! I loved his books as a teen.

[Ginkypig]

When I was very young it was goosebumps books and point horrors

Then from about 10/11 I got into anything by james Herbert and Shaun Hudson. I also discovered Dracula as an early teen.

I also absolutely loved the old pan book of horrors or the 60's/70's horror short story books which included the monkey paw or the heart under the floor etc. fucking creepy!

[TheCountessofFitzdotterel]

Someone gave dd Stranger With My Face and she loved it (unlike the books I give her which she refuses to read).

[SlipperyJack]

Two anthologies of short stories, compiled by Alfred Hitchcock - "Spellbinders In Suspense" and "Monster Museum". The first volume began with Daphne Du Maurier's "The Birds". It gave me the proper willies then and it still does now.

Going to see if those books are still available now!

[QueenofallIsee]

Oh I loved that 'Stranger with my face' by Lois Duncan - she wrote the book 'I know what you did last Summer' as well I think

[Magicpaintbrush]

I used to love the 'Choose your own Adventure' books as a teenager and there were some quite spooky, creepy ones, like The Mystery of Chimney Rock and The Horror at High Ridge etc. Classic!!

[Pinklady301]

I also loved Point Horror and read most of them but in the end I started to find them really predictable (usually the best friend or boyfriend being the culprit).Still loved them though!

Also loved Pet Sematary (Stephen King) and Flowers in the Attic.

[MyBonnieLiesOverTheOcean]

I was coming on here to say I loved "The Eyes of Karen Connors" but didn't know who wrote it. Turns out it was that Lois Duncan you're all talking about. Spooky.....

[MumBod]

The Haunting of Cassie Palmer by Vivien Alcock freaked me out.

I also used to like the Readers Digest books of true horror stories. One featured a photo of the aftermath of spontaneous combustion - a pair of old lady's legs, still wearing fluffy slippers

Charlotte Sometimes was quite weird, too.

[cafenoirbiscuit]

Doris Stokes too - also had entirely forgiven then Come Back Lucy which I loooved.
I had a teen obsession with Borley Rectory and was too scared to sleep fairly often.
The Unexplained magazine.
Always loved a good woo read in those days

[zukiecat]

Stephen King was a favourite

There was an Armada book of ghost stories that I always got out of the library

There was one story about a medieval girl who had a pet monkey in her castle

Her cruel father killed the monkey so she threw herself from the top of the tower so they could be reunited

Always on the lookout in charity shops for that book

[TheCountessofFitzdotterel]

Pattern of Roses by K.M. Peyton

[TheCountessofFitzdotterel]

Ghost In The Water by Edward Chitham. I reread it recently and it is just as good as I remembered.

[thebadhiccups]

The Changeover by Margaret Mahy

[MaryTheCanary]

Someone really needs to do a new TV series/film of Come Back Lucy. It was a chilling little book that still gave me the creeps when I read it again recently.

[Dawndonnaagain]

User Have you read The Mabinogian? It's where Garner got the story from initially. It's a book of Welsh Mythology and is fabulous, it explains why she wants to be flowers!
His other books are superb too.

[wrapsuperstar]

I read Plague 99 by Jean Ure (which may be the first in a trilogy/series?) as an early teen and it always stuck with me

A little later on it had to be Stephen King. The Stand was my favourite back then.

[HelenaWay]

Also love Point Horror. I particularly enjoyed The Babysitter collection.

[FanaticalFox]

Another vote for robert westall! And goosebumps haha