With Halloween month soon upon us, I'm looking into finding some good creepy horror reads :D
What is a horror themed book that actually gave you a twinge of fear? (not study books ;) )
With Halloween month soon upon us, I'm looking into finding some good creepy horror reads :D
What is a horror themed book that actually gave you a twinge of fear? (not study books ;) )
House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski. The prime example of surreal horror in literature. It's strange and definitly leaves a mark. I love it.
Fun fact, years after reading it, as I was falling asleep, a line of the book randomly popped into my head and suddenly I was wide awake again. Yeah, I can confirm what many readers say. That book will affect you and you'll have no idea why.
House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski. The prime example of surreal horror in literature. It's strange and definitly leaves a mark. I love it.
Fun fact, years after reading it, as I was falling asleep, a line of the book randomly popped into my head and suddenly I was wide awake again. Yeah, I can confirm what many readers say. That book will affect you and you'll have no idea why.
Cinnamon Shops by Bruno Schulz.
It was like a fever dream and also very unsettling being complete gibberish of a story.
(I know that it has a deeper meaning, and I feel like people who understand hard books like that one possess some humongous brain)
Cinnamon Shops by Bruno Schulz.
It was like a fever dream and also very unsettling being complete gibberish of a story.
(I know that it has a deeper meaning, and I feel like people who understand hard books like that one possess some humongous brain)
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Dark Side of Nowhere (technically sci-fi, not horror). Our teacher read it to us in 5th grade and it messed with my head. Haven't read it since though so no idea if it's actually scary or if 11-year-old me just thought it was! I remember liking it regardless.
The Dark Side of Nowhere (technically sci-fi, not horror). Our teacher read it to us in 5th grade and it messed with my head. Haven't read it since though so no idea if it's actually scary or if 11-year-old me just thought it was! I remember liking it regardless.
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House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski. The prime example of surreal horror in literature. It's strange and definitly leaves a mark. I love it.
Fun fact, years after reading it, as I was falling asleep, a line of the book randomly popped into my head and suddenly I was wide awake again. Yeah, I can confirm what many readers say. That book will affect you and you'll have no idea why.
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i second this
also the shining by steven king was preddy good
Xionahri wrote on 2021-09-22 14:12:10:
House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski. The prime example of surreal horror in literature. It's strange and definitly leaves a mark. I love it.
Fun fact, years after reading it, as I was falling asleep, a line of the book randomly popped into my head and suddenly I was wide awake again. Yeah, I can confirm what many readers say. That book will affect you and you'll have no idea why.
i second this
also the shining by steven king was preddy good
Well, I don't remember reading anything that unnerved me recently. There is one kids book I read when I was little that traumatized me though- the flat man. Basically a flat guy who can fit under literally anything, who goes around at night smothering kids to death. The idea of some creepy guy who can easily reach and m u r d e r you while you're asleep, plus the unsettling illustrations made little me scared of the dark for years.
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Read the comic Spotlight: Megatron and ig it was pretty close to unnerving me; won't spoiler much but Megatron mentally and physically abusing a depressed Starscream was, uH, unsettling for sure.
Well, I don't remember reading anything that unnerved me recently. There is one kids book I read when I was little that traumatized me though- the flat man. Basically a flat guy who can fit under literally anything, who goes around at night smothering kids to death. The idea of some creepy guy who can easily reach and m u r d e r you while you're asleep, plus the unsettling illustrations made little me scared of the dark for years.
[Bonus]
Read the comic Spotlight: Megatron and ig it was pretty close to unnerving me; won't spoiler much but Megatron mentally and physically abusing a depressed Starscream was, uH, unsettling for sure.
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The only books that I'd say genuinely kind of got under my skin are The Obscene Bird of Night by Jose Donoso and Child of God by Cormac McCarthy. Blood Meridian didn't really make me uncomfortable despite all of it's violence, but something about Child of God's pure, simple, dry bleakness kind of got to me. The Obscene Bird of Night is just confusing, self-contradictory, and grotesque all in one. Oh, and I suppose the "reincarnation check" in Victor Pelevin's Omon Ra got to me a bit too, just because I was expecting it to be a lot more humorous and absurd than it actually ended up being.
The only books that I'd say genuinely kind of got under my skin are The Obscene Bird of Night by Jose Donoso and Child of God by Cormac McCarthy. Blood Meridian didn't really make me uncomfortable despite all of it's violence, but something about Child of God's pure, simple, dry bleakness kind of got to me. The Obscene Bird of Night is just confusing, self-contradictory, and grotesque all in one. Oh, and I suppose the "reincarnation check" in Victor Pelevin's Omon Ra got to me a bit too, just because I was expecting it to be a lot more humorous and absurd than it actually ended up being.
"Darkness still fell upon the cliff and the horn of the new moon vanished in the end behind the window of the wall as into a long-feared shelter in the Earth rich with the frames humility of God's memory and reflections. The stars in the sky shivered as they crawled once more up the fantastic ladder and into the void of themselves. They wondered whose turn would be next to fall from the sky as the last ghost of the crew had died and they alone were left to frame Christ's tree and home."
the short story "there will come soft rains" by ray bradbury (it's named after a poem but whatever) is a pretty good one. definitely got to me, mainly the ending which is the EPITOME of sensory overload, i'd say. not sure if it's even classed as horror but eh, whatever.
the short story "there will come soft rains" by ray bradbury (it's named after a poem but whatever) is a pretty good one. definitely got to me, mainly the ending which is the EPITOME of sensory overload, i'd say. not sure if it's even classed as horror but eh, whatever.
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Unravel books. I dont remember the author.
Basically its about if like... i guess abortions you could say it, could be a thing after the child is born. Its a older series, and i think they're based around this timeline. Basically once you'd hit 13, you could be aborted between the ages of 13 and 18, and the point is to be a good kid. But since murder is illegal, and in the series abortion was considered murder, the patient would be alive through the whole procedure, even until all their body parts were removed and they were picking on their brain.... there was a whole perspective of it happening in the eyes of a kid getting it done in the book. theres more than one book.
it rattled my bones too much. I read it in 7th grade since it was a school reading book the whole class had to read. I was 12.
Unravel books. I dont remember the author.
Basically its about if like... i guess abortions you could say it, could be a thing after the child is born. Its a older series, and i think they're based around this timeline. Basically once you'd hit 13, you could be aborted between the ages of 13 and 18, and the point is to be a good kid. But since murder is illegal, and in the series abortion was considered murder, the patient would be alive through the whole procedure, even until all their body parts were removed and they were picking on their brain.... there was a whole perspective of it happening in the eyes of a kid getting it done in the book. theres more than one book.
it rattled my bones too much. I read it in 7th grade since it was a school reading book the whole class had to read. I was 12.