fire – you’d probably like The Wasp Factory.
I don’t think his style is boring, but not much “happens” in his books (the ones I’ve read, anyway) – he sets a nice mood though.
I can’t believe no one has mentioned anything by Poe yet! Just thinking of “The Raven” or “Fall of the House of Usher” gives me the heebie-jeebies!
Once Upon a Midnight Dreary…
Patty
I’m contemplating buying The Wasp Factory some time. Actually I was contemplating back when I was on the Guess The Book thread. It sounded good to me…You guys think it is?
“The Hot Zone” Richard Preston
“In Cold Blood” Truman Capote
“Into Thin Air” Jon Krakauer
“In The Heart Of The Sea” Nathaniel Something-Or-Other
Obviously, fiction really doesn’t do it for me when it comes to getting scared. I mean…it’s made up! How is that scary at all?
Oh well…
Oh God, I was reading IN COLD BLOOD at my fiance’s (now husband’s) parents house and just as I was reading the part where they describe the murders in detail… where they cut the phone lines and went in to murder the family…the lights went out! It was three in the morning and I went and woke up my fiance. “Save me! We’re going to be MURDERED!”
That sounds Very Vaguely Creepy to me. (Hint: lets resurrect that thread…)
I read it too; it didn’t freak me out though…maybe that’s creepy/scary? I liked it a hell of a lot but it didn’t scare me…
Man, I thought the ending to Hannibal sucked donkey balls. The last hundred pages absolutely blew.
Gotta second the vote for non-fiction here: In Cold Blood and Helter Skelter did the most damage to my sleeping patterns. When Vince Bugliosi described the Manson Family’s practice of “creepy-crawling” people’s houses…many restless nights after that.
Since nobody has mentioned them, Collected Ghost Stories by M R James (various editions).
Naomi’s Room by Jonathan Aycliffe (an Irish writer who also writes religious thrillers under the name Daniel Easterman). It was published in the 1980s or early 90s but for some reason it’s already out of priunt.
Helter Skelter. shiver
Oddly enough, The Lord of the Flies got me. My world view is based on the idea that people are basically good and strive to be better, morally and emotionally. I refused to eat pork for a few months.
Its a Good Life was also pretty wrong/scary.