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.
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Date: 2009-10-23 04:18 am (UTC)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.
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