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?

[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

[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!

[TheCountessofFitzdotterel]

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

[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!

[Jackiebrambles]

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

[ClarkWGriswold]

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

[Ginkypig]

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

[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.

[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!

[zukiecat]

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

[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.