recommend me a really scary book!

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just read pet sematary, creepy but didn't scare me. can you recommend a book that will?

Pure by Juliana baggot not only scary, disturbing!

Ugh...Pet Sematary was a horrible book, (don't do dead children!) Depends what you want from a scary book. I love some of the HP Lovecraft stuff but it was written 90 years ago. Other Stephen King's are quite good. Salems Lot is my favourite.

I love salems lot! Also liked bag of bones.

American Psycho. Don't bother with the film, I didn't think it was anything at all special. But the book has a bizzare, unsettling style which it takes a while to get used to, but it is well worth persevering with as once you sort of "tune in" to the style of his internal monologue it is the absolute creepiest, scariest thing I think I've ever read.

Hmm, Misery also by Stephen King?

I don't read a lot of scary books now I come to think of it. Since I graduated from the 'point horror' books as a young teen, anyone else read those? I particularly remember one called Death by Chocolate that scared the shit out of me. Probably wouldnt have the same effect now, though.

yy to Salem's Lot.
Cell by Stephen King is scary as well.

Dark Matter by Michelle Paver - it's more of a ghost story than a Stephen King-type horror but I found it extremely creepy.

Also the book of The Woman in Black by Susan Hill - a hundred times more scary than the dreadful film!

What kind of scary works for you?

I'm usually quite happy while reading a book but the scary bits come back to haunt me (sorry) when it's time to turn the lights off. So I like books that have a kind of insidious creepiness to them.

I thought Ritual and Last Days by Adam Neville both worked well for this. Ritual is set in an isolated forest in Sweden and really plays on fears of being lost in the woods and Last Days is about a documentary crew investigating a suicide cult whose surviving members are realising that that ones who died are not actually gone.

FG Cottam writes some very good stories. I liked The Waiting Room but his others are good as well. Perhaps not scary scary though, more with creepy bits.

Mrs McGilvery by Colin Gibson was a kindle book I read that was good. It's like Stephen King's IT (which I also recommend if you haven't read it) but set in London in 1962.

I see FG Cottam has been mentioned. I always suggest House of Lost Souls on scary book threads - it's one of the scariest books I've ever read.

Bag of Bones is my favourite Stephen King book.

I reread The Shining recently because ds bought me the sequel.

I would definitely have put it in the freezer a few times if it hadn't been on my kindle

the Little Stranger by Sarah Waters.

The woman in black - Susan hill

great, thanks! now to choose.

The girl on the landing. Absolutely terrifying towards the end.

The house next door

The Killing Doll by Ruth Rendell, IIRC. It's a few years old now and I read it not that long after it came out. And I'm never going to dare read it again, put it that way. But I certainly remember being turned inside out by it.

Another vote for Dark Matter.

I had to give this book away to my sister after I read it. I couldn't have it in the house any longer I was so creeped out by it.

I was never scared of the dark before but after I read that book I had to sleep with the lights on.

It's really good but it's really, really scary
Only read it if you do want to be properly scared. It is in no way gory or anything but it is psychologically very disturbing.

Naomi's room.

Ugh ugh ugh

Aim other rec for dark matter. Also I remember you by and Icelandic author who's name I can't recall right now.

FG Cottam set part of his book house of lost souls in the house next door to where my mum grew up. She always said her house was haunted, the we both read this book! Terrifying.