Has any book ever literally given you chills?

[CheerfulYank]

For me it's Stephen King's Dead Zone, about a man, Johnny, who wakes up from a coma with psychic powers.

(SPOILERS)

He's working as a tutor for a high school boy later on and he tells his student not to go to the graduation party as the restaurant will burn down. No one believes him, but the boy and about half the class come to an alternate party at the boy's house because they're scared. The rest of the class goes to the restaurant.

Johnny and the boy's father are playing cards while chaperoning the alternative party and a radio announcement interrupts to say that the worst fire in the state's history has broken out at the restaurant, and almost everyone there is dead.

I haven't explained it that well, but for some reason ( and I've read it a few times) I literally get goosebumps at that bit. Every time!

Anyone else have this or just me? :o

I second 'we need to talk about kevin' i was pregnant at the time with ds (didn't know he was a boy) and i couldnt get past the description of baby kevin. It's the only time I've ever thrown a book away.
I love Delores claiborne, but geralds game gave me the shivers, especially the way she describes how she got out of the handcuffs. And the links the two books had, both were very well written, but I've only read geralds game once, but i love delores!

A horrible, horrible book about a baby sitter being murdered by children. I couldn't finish it because it really, really freaked me out (and I am usually as tough as old boots re fiction).

AF I read a review of that and decided I couldn't read it. I often read things recommended on here but just couldn't stretch to that book.

I haven't really got one. We need to talk about Kevin comes close though.
I did read a book when I was about 15 about what would happen in a nuclear war, that freaked me right out.

Sarah's Key. What happens to the little brother is worse than any horror story I've ever read .

Flowers in the Attic and the ones that came after, still haunts me that

Remus, I think I've read that one. Did they garrotte her in the end and dispose of the body?

Remus did they torture her in a bedroom using a red hot poker? If so, that was one horrible book.

Pet Semetary. The bit when the boy runs towards the road. I never finished that book.

Ooooooh stayed up til 3am reading The Wonan in White by Wilkie Collins and I actually screeched out loud at one point when I realised IWAS NOT THE ONLY ONE READING. Anyone who has read it will know what I mean....

Second The Survivor.

Lady In Black I found incredibly dull, kept waiting for the scary bit and then the book was finished!

Marking my place, want to read something scary!

I read that one too Remus about the babysitter - someone from work lent it to me, it was horrible, can't remember what it was called.

Two Stephen King books, Black House, and Dr Sleep. Both involving child abuse - couldn't read them, and had to throw them away.

Noddy by Enid Blyton.

Creepy little fucker he is.

American Psycho here too - and i didn't even read it, i had to put it down.

Still remember the bit with the rat, the rubber tubing and the record playing though. Ugh.

Remember reading Naomi's Room and there is a bit halfway through when the photos are developed that really freaked me out.

Melmoth The Wanderer - the part set in the Spanish monastery. So claustrophobic.

The girl on the landing.
Beyond terrifying at the end. Maybe because that sense of waiting for someone to get in and get you , brrrr

The babysitter one sounds really awful... What was the title?

Yes to American Psycho & The Road. Wish I hadn't read AP.

The bit where Winston and Julia hear the voice behind the picture (I may have that slightly wrong, been so many years since I've read and will NEVER read again!)

Just typing this has given me a knot in my stomach.

MaryBennett I just read that - great story - but I don't get your post. Do you mean the last entry of the diary? I did gasp at that bit.

Green Tea by Sheridan LeFanu. Some Poe stories too... Masque of the Red Death and stuff.

Remus I read that, it was fucking awful. Horrific and really badly written too, compulsive combination. I'm still not quite over the poker.

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters lives with me still, though. The dog and the child. Shudder.

the bit in Jude the Obscure - 'because we are too many'
I cannot read past it

Connie Willets - Passage gave me the weirdest nightmares: its a sci fi book, not the best writing about the experience of the mind as it is dying, and theres just something horrible compelling about the idea of the last gasp of consciousness trying to hold on

After finishing the road it left me feeling so despondent I doubt I could ever read it again.

Misery by Stephen King gives me the chills, not so much the violence more the mind fuckery in it.

American Psycho left me sleeping with a knife under my pillow for weeks. Went to see the musical version in Jan and they made it very very funny.

Jude is just devastating.

The 2 Pierre Lemaitre books that have been translated into English - Irene and Alex - brilliant but chilling.