What book has given you nightmares?

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Am currently reading 13 Steps Down by Ruth Rendell. Bit creepy but not really scary, have read far worse. But twice in past week have had a nightmare, definitely relating to the book, not something else. Woke up in a cold sweat last night .
So any books caused you genuine nightmares?

Really regretted reading American Pyscho. Gave me nasty day dreams rather than nightmares.

The taking of Pelham 123

Sleepers-found it so much more graphical than the film. Not the most pleasant subject matter.

darkness comes by dean koontz (sp?)

I love Dean Koontz, my favourite so far is.....

From The Corner Of His Eye

The taking of Pelham 123

A cold-blooded quartet hijack a New York subway train, then hold the city to ransom. Based on the novel by John Godey.

The outcome of this book was the only thing that made me use tubes when I first came to London.

And in light of recent events it is even more true.

Crime And Punishment - the donkey sequence. Awful.

A book i read years ago called 'bloodline'. It was something to do with Alistair Crowley and had his pic on the front with blood drippin down his face. I used to turn it over and put it under bed before sleeping and usually a few minutes later ended up covering the book with something 'to be on the safe side'

Flowers in the Attic, Petals on the Wind, If There Be Thorns etc by Virginia Andrews.

Stephen King's The Stand gave me nightmares when I was a teenager. I used to read lots of horror at that time, but that one really freaked me out for some reason.

Pet Semetary - Stephen King. I won't read it at all now, I have a toddler boy, and the story makes me feel physically sick now.

Isn't that daft!

Michael Marshall Smith's The Straw Men. His first book was a very touching fantasy, this shows he certainly can't be stereotyped! One of those books you want to flush out of your brain after reading.

An awful one I can't remember the name of about some kind of bogeyman on an estate in Glasgow. Truly vile.

The Shining. Ghost Story. Pet Cemetary.

EIS, isn't Pet Sematery awful!!?

Gawd, colditz, I read the book and I swear the part where the wee boy is struck by the lorry still gives me nightmares.

Birdsong by sebastian faulks.
Fantastic book but such vivid imagery, nearly made me turn vegetarian!

Pet Semetary definitely and Black House by Stephen King. So graphic and nasty and couldn't even finish reading it. Didn't even make it half way through and i've read alot of horrors.

I wish I could remember what the book was called but it was about a journalist finding a family murdered in their house and it went into a very stomach-churning discription of what had happened to the victims. There were three men, initially there to rob the place but they had taken drugs and gone violent.

The one part that really haunts me still was the scene where the daughter (an adult thankfully!) was standing looking out at the dark, nighttime countryside and the men were watching the house and started howling at her like wolves! Scared the s**t out of me that paragraph and still does as I live next to fields and am always imagining it!

Hells teeth I even managed to forget how to spell dEscription!!!!

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That one by ian McEwan where they have to dismember the German man's body - is it The Innocent? it si truly repulsive!

American Pyscho much worse than the film gross and nasty

A Child Called It - really disturbed me

IT by Stephen King.

I have a re-accuring nightmare about that book.

Some of the books below- sleepers was bad for this as was a book about the christian brothers and kids being sent away to australia to live in the orphanages just because their parents were poor or unmarried. can't remember the name of the book.

recently started reding only dad by alan titchmarsh and have ad to put it away as i can't stop crying when i read it. The unlikeliest book to cause bad dreams really but its about a mother dying and leaving her dh and dd. so upsetting