Dark Matter Michelle Paver

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I started this tonight and I'm just over halfway through. My gosh I'm loving it. The writing is beautiful but...I just went to the toilet and ran up the stairs like something was chasing me 😂.
I've definitely read scarier books but this has got inside my head 😱No way will I be leaving my bedroom again tonight!

I desperately want to finish it tonight but I also want to continue reading it tomorrow night. Its been so long since I read something that grabbed me instantly.

I'm already feeling a bit sad that I'll finish it soon and it'll be over.

I love it. I first listened to it as an audiobook and I still remember where I was when I reached the climax — lovely summer day but it gave me chills, and the setting is wonderfully done. I’m Making my DH read it.

When you’ve finished it she’s written a follow-up ghost story about mountaineers called Thin Air. It’s not quite as chilling - it has more of an MR James feel — but still really worth a read.

Very scary book! I read it and then loaned it to my mum. She phoned me up late one evening to complain about how scary it was, and she's a very level headed, unflappable type

I really love this book, so atmospheric and spooky! It's brilliant as an audiobook too, give it a while & then enjoy it again. The reader is perfect for it.

I loved Thin Air, you have that to look forward to, very similar spookiness!

Funnily enough, what I found to be the scariest moment did not involve any ghosts. It was the bit where he broke his last remaining clock and so now had no way of knowing the time. Amd due to the perpetual night, there was no dawn or dusk to at least let him know that a day has passed. That would disturb me.

Finished this today on the recommendations from the "scariest book" thread on here and devoured it. The isolation was palpable, I was so glad Izaac came back back, but spent the rest of the book waiting for him to vanish again and for Jack to be truly alone. For me the parts describing the bear pole thing by the window were the most unsettling, the way he became obsessed with it, checking it constantly. I was also convinced he was going to eat all their rations and stave to death before his camp mates could return. In one dark moment I did wonder if he was going to have to eat the dog.....

I really liked it but kept wanting to shout put some blankets over the bloody windows then!

I enjoyed Into thin air too but many of the same plot points (as used in Dark Matter) are repeated in it down to the friendly dog.

oh I loved this book! the clock bit got me too. I always recommend this book to people.

I would like to read Thin Air, but reviews suggest it's the same book....

I read this over a couple of days last winter, in the dark afternoons which added to the claustrophobic feel. As soon as I finished, I wanted it out of the house. Which is a shame, because there are some beautiful and atmospheric photos in the book.

I'd hesitate to actually recommend it to anyone though, or rather if I did, it would come with a warning not just about it being scary, but that there are sudden and graphic depictions of violence and cruelty in it. Not constant or many, but I hadn't been expecting them, and they upset me.

Loved the book and audio

Very atmospheric the scariest boot I have read

The bleakness and isolation really sets give atmosphere