OK everyone, as we approach All Hallow's Eve lets talk scary!
Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice is the only book to give me nightmares since Peter Straub when I was 14. Although not a romance it is part of Lestat's story and I absolutely love Lestat!
I haven't read much in the way of romantic suspense. Well, one or two by Tami Hoag....do those count?
So what's your best scary story, romance or otherwise?
I'm not much for reading scary books as I have a much too vivid imagination which can sometimes be a problem, though I do watch a lot of scary movies. Don't ask me what the difference is.
However, the scariest book I ever read was IT by Stephen King. I was only able to read the first chapter before I had to put it down. In fact, it's still hanging around here some where??? I love the movie but I just can't read the book.
Scariest book? I can't remember the title, but it took place in northern Minnesota during the winter and involved a schoolful of boys, something under the ice and loys of human remains, badly chewed. Selective memory can be a blessing sometimes, can't it?
As for scariest movie; hands down "The Day After", starring Jason Robards, a nuclear holocaust film that was all too chillingly possible at the time of its release. Gave my goose bumps duck bumps, it did!
Well I'm totally with the Webmistress on this one. I like the movies, but the books are just too scary for me. I'm still afraid of the dark... The scariest one I ever started was Red Dragon by Thomas Harris. It hit so close to home though. The killer had broke into a families house & mudered the parents very graphicly in front of their three children. Well I have three young children so, I don't know, it hit me sooo hard. I still haven't gotten up the nerve to watch the movie yet.
Give me vampires anyday. Love em.
Now Anne it's not necessary to bring up scary stories in Minnesota (My place of residence). I live them everyday...
Oh! I loved Red Dragon! I read it years ago before Silence of the Lambs came out as a movie. I actually didn't make the connection until the movie Hannibal came out. Duh!
Has anyone ever read Clive Barker or Peter Straub? Other than Memnoch, it was Peter Straub's Shadowland that totally creeped me out. I first read it when I was 15 and re-reading it at 22 didn't help at all. It seemed to get scarier with age. I still have it on my shelf.....maybe when I'm forty I'll see how scary things can really get! (oh, I think Anne's gonna get me for that one!)
(oh, I think Anne's gonna get me for that one!)
