It’s the first day of October. As we turn closer to Halloween, its time for a horror thought experiment.
What is the scariest book you’ve ever read?
After you read ours, drop yours in the comments. Hopefully, we’ll all find some new recommendations to help guide our Halloween reading!
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DAVID RIKE— it’s hard to feel true, visceral fear while reading. About as close as I’ve ever come as an adult was reading Dan Simmon’s “Carrion Comfort”.
STEPHEN PATRICK – I’ve loved horror for a long time, but for scary, the one that gets me, hit all the right notes and had a creepy silver cover. Kubrick’s movie aside, “The Shining” is atmospheric, isolating and squeezes so much terror from the nature of men. Also one of my prettiest books, the printing on top of the silver seemed to wear off at regular intervals, slowly replacing the tiny picture of Danny with another image (the reflection of the reader on the cover)
