What's worse than a scary movie? A scary book! An active imagination can be spookier than special effects! Join us to discuss this topic in the Coffee Break Moments Hour, tonight 9-11 PM ET.
Tonight we'll discuss scary books:
- What is your favorite scary book?
- Who is your favorite author of scary books?
- Is there a type of character that is scary than another? (e.g. monsters, psychopaths, ghosts, etc)
- What is the most memorable scene from a scary book?
- Which has the potential to scare you more - a book, or a movie?
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We'll continue the topic of scary books in a second Coffee Break Moments hour later this month.
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Comments: 186
I like John Saul books. Stephen King is great too.
I'm going to participate just because I appreciate the better day even though I have to get up early again tomorrow morning. I have to take my car to the shop at 8 a.m., meaning I have to get up by 6 a.m., although 5:30 will be better. I have to do so many things before I leave the house.
I tried to take the car there this afternoon, but they had appointments already.
In case that does happen and I can't participate in the chat, I'll comment now.
When I tried to think of scary books I've read, I could only think of horror, and I don't read horror. Twenty-some years ago I did read Steven King's The Stand, and that was definitely horrible. It was also a good book.
Then i thought more and realized that The Road by Cormac McCarthy was pretty scarey. But it was also an aggravating book because you spent the entire time you read it trying to figure out what had happened.
I'll think more. There are probably others I've read.
* Who is your favorite author of scary books?- Stephen King, Ted Dekker
* Is there a type of character that is scary than another? (e.g. monsters, psychopaths, ghosts, etc)- Not to me.
* What is the most memorable scene from a scary book?- Mother Abigail from The Stand
* Which has the potential to scare you more - a book, or a movie?- Actually, neither of them scare me very much and never did even as a kid.
I am most scared by the people and entities who are seemingly normal- like our government.
I don't think any book or movie has the potential to scare me as much as my own imagination does. I am more scared by that than any other movie/book.
Jennifer, I agree. Some of the scariest stuff is not horror.
My favorite scary boook is "IT", by Stephen King. I love it! I actually had to replace my copy a few years ago, when mine fell apart.
Stephen King is about the only author I read of actual horror books. I read dramatic, suspenseful books as well, but I love Stephen King.
I think there's a lot to be said for mentally unstable bad guys. Monsters are all well and good, but in our heads, we know they are not real. But you put some psychopath in the helm, and you can see where it might happen.
In "IT", there's a boy from the bad gang who smothers his baby brother. At some point, that same boy is in the junk yard, and messing around with a refridgerator. He opens it, and describes what looks like macaroni noodles covering the inside walls of the fridge. Then he notices that they are pulsating, before they start flying out and attacking him. The image has always stuck in my mind.
For me, a movie represents a much faster adrenaline rush. I can get freaked out during a movie. However, a book represents a much longer build up, and can keep me creeped out for days.
That started me. I think I was in the 8th grade when I first picked up a Stephen King novel.
* Who is your favorite author of scary books? No favorite but my daughter loved Betty Ren Wright childrens author
* Is there a type of character that is scary than another? (e.g. monsters, psychopaths, ghosts, etc) a spooky house
* What is the most memorable scene from a scary book? the scary attic
* Which has the potential to scare you more - a book, or a movie? Actually an old black and white movie will scare me the most.
I've met Lois before, at a family bbq on my husband's side of the family, and she really had little good to say about the movie, and hated how it was so different from her book.
One review of it say it is one of the most remarkable survival stories ever written. Jan Baalsrud was the only survivor of a Norwegian commando team ambushed by the Nazis during World War II. Wounded and with the Germans in pursuit, Baalsrud escaped and miraculously fought his way through the Norwegian tundra to a distant village, where he was saved by locals who helped spirit him to Sweden. Baalsrud suffered frostbite and snowblindness, came through an avalanche, and lived to tell the tale.
That doesn't describe it adequately, though. It's a real nail biter.
I loved the road, too. Another great post-apocalyptic book that's scary in the sense of what might have happened is Pat Frank's "Alas, Babylon."
I read Demon in the Freezer when I had pneumonia, and what a mistake that was! Scared the bejesus out of me!
its always when a character has a reality check like wendy realizing jack has lost his mind in "the shining" or in "gerald's game" when jessie realizes shes not alone.