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[vivien]

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Whenever you talk about scary things, Stephen King inevitably comes up. He does write some frightening prose, after all!

I think of all his books, the only one that gives me chills (yes, I am a freak - none of his books really scare me) is Pet Sematary. The scene in which Louis Creed is taken to the real burial ground? Eeeeheee, yeah, even I can't read that too easily at night.

So let's do a poll, since I know I have fellow King fans out there! Keep in mind that this is not your favorite King work, necessarily. Choose the one that gives you the most shivers.

[Poll #1475115]

Comments

[jezrana.livejournal.com]

Of the novels of his I've read, It would probably win, but I usually get pleasantly-creeped-out-but-not-really-scared by King's stuff. 1408 is the only thing of his I've read that really got inside my head and freaked me out.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

I could not pick one, and here is why:

IT didn't scare me at all in novel form... because I had already had the holy bejeebus scared out of me by the movie. I actually love the novel a lot. But the movie? kaljdakljdjadlkajdljadjaljdalsjdjadkas. So it gets a mention.

Salem's Lot, for some reason, I couldn't actually read. There was a bit that scared me badly enough that I put it down and never picked it back up. I can't remember what it was, though.

Ditto Needful Things: I was fucking terrified of the evil dude in it. I have tried to watch the movie to get over my terror of the book, but I never could get all the way through it.

There are others I would never reread because of gross (Hi, From a Buick 8 and Dreamcatcher!) and some of the short story collections have individual stories that freak the hell out of me (there was one that referenced some Lovecraftian horror before I knew who Lovecraft even was, and it STILL scared me senseless).

Pet Sematary, strangely, scarred me most with the passages about the wife's sister or whoever it was - she had the disease that made her all twisted, and there were terrifying flashbacks. Scariest part of the movie, too.

/tl;dr

[flyakate]

I find that if I think about them too much, they all start to freak me out a bit... but I have a distinct memory of reading The Stand until late into the night at boarding school and then struggling to fall asleep (and it'd been in a 'Nandine's history with Randall Flagg' section) and knowing that I needed to be asleep but eek, so creepy! The movie was cheesy, though (despite the fact that it has Gary Sinise *points at icon*).

I also love IT to pieces. Gosh, I need to dig up some classic King, because The Shining is a fantastic book too... and sheesh, Needful Things is a scary one too!

Ok, clearly, I should have picked all of them :o)

[sdelmonte]

Gonna chat and say that the only King work to give me nightmares is The Storm of the Century, not a novel but one of my favorite King works as well as a total creepfest.

[aevalin.livejournal.com]

It scares me because of Pennywise. That might even be the root of my clown "problem" because I read it when I was young and impressionable.

Insomnia really creeped me out too, mostly because I suffer from it and it was a bit too close to home.

The Mist is also scary as is the short story the Raft. Really a lot of Skeleton Crew was creepy. Argh and let's not forget The Monkey.