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RiffClown Inner circle Yorktown, Virginia (Previously Germany) 1579 Posts |
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On 2003-06-28 05:24, Skinny Man wrote: I run into a few adults every now and then that are horrified of clowns because of It Their Loss.
Rob "Riff, the Magical Clown" Eubank aka RiffClown
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Reis O'Brien Inner circle Seattle, WA 2467 Posts |
Brave New World was absolute genius! Hear Hear!
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dpe666 Inner circle 2895 Posts |
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On 2003-07-25 19:49, zombieboy wrote: I like fiction too. The book that scared me the most was Ghost Story by Peter Straub. |
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zombieboy Special user Connecticut, USA 889 Posts |
To be honest, I haven't encountered a scary book. However, there is a scary short story that kept me up a nights for months. It was called "Through Channels" by Richard Matheson. Creepy.
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Geoff Weber Inner circle Washington DC 1384 Posts |
Hmm, Trainspotting (the chapter called "Bad Blood") and American Psycho were both very shocking to me and made me lose my breath. I don't think that it's the same as scaring me though. But definitely elicited a strong reaction from me.
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Dr_Stephen_Midnight Inner circle SW Ohio, USA 1555 Posts |
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut.
I think we're almost there. I hope all your children are studying to become software developers, because that may be the only job left before long. Steve
Dr. Lao: "Do you know what wisdom is?"
Mike: "No." Dr. Lao: "Wise answer." |
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Smoke New user 6 Posts |
The Fog by James Herbert (totaly different the one writen by John Carpenter)
There is nothing nice about the story at all, very disturbing, it made me feel depressed when I was reading it |
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salsa_dancer Inner circle 1935 Posts |
Rats by James Herbert, and Salems Lot by Stephen King
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abc Inner circle South African in Taiwan 1081 Posts |
How to win friends and influence people _ Dale Carnegie.
Yawn......Yawn. Just the writing style not the material. It scared me so much I battle to read anything now that isn't really scary. |
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Greg Arce Inner circle 6732 Posts |
I'm old enough to remember when The Exorcist came out. My mom got it and started reading it. She knew I loved horror stories, but she told me this book was perverse and I shouldn't read it... so, of course, I would sneak it out of her room and read parts of it late at night. I still recall feeling my bed move when I was reading that section. Boy, did it spook me.
The next one after that was Amityville Horror... I think both scared me because they were supposedly accounts of real happenings. Now the only thing that would scare me is anything written by Paris Hilton. Greg
One of my favorite quotes: "A critic is a legless man who teaches running."
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ColinB Regular user 129 Posts |
Communion by Whitley Strieber.
Let me say right off that I don't buy the "alien abduction" thing - I believe the continuing studies into hypnopompic hallucination and temporal lobe activity hold the key - but Strieber was already an established "fantasy" writer (having penned "The Hunger" and "Wolfen") when he wrote and published his "experiences". He may well believe them himself (apparently, many who claim such visitations are thought to be sincere). But regardless of whether it's "true" or not, I think it's a fascinating account, and in spite of any scepticism, when you read it and then suddenly awake in the middle of the night and you fancy there's a shadow moving in the corner of the room... |
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Samuel Catoe Inner circle South Carolina 1268 Posts |
Mine was The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King. I think it is because it struck a nerve from when I was very young (3 or 4) and got lost in the woods. I ended up following one of our dogs home. I don't remember the event but have been told of it often and was told that even the media was out here. Don't know how long I was missing but I do know it was nearly dark when I was found, from what I have been told.
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GlenD Inner circle LosAngeles, Ca 1293 Posts |
Hey Samuel, if they had SUV's back then might theyhave found you sooner ??
Just kidding. GlenD
"A miracle is something that seems impossible but happens anyway" - Griffin
"Any future where you succeed, is one where you tell the truth." - Griffin (Griffin rocks!) |
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drhackenbush Special user 686 Posts |
"The Hobbit" - I was like 14 and reading it in bed after midnight and the part when Bilbo is in a mountain cave & the cave walls opened and trolls came out scared the bejeeses out of me - I knew I was in my own bedroom, but kept waiting for the walls to burst.
I lent my nephew "1984" when he was 10 in 1983 - he later told me that he was so scared the book would come true in 1984. Guess it took about 20 years for that to happen |
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Cheshire Cat Special user Wilmslow, UK 941 Posts |
You know, I've just bought (about May) Steven King's "Firestarter" and just cannot get into it even though I usually rate King very highly! Keep putting it down and picking up one of my old Douglas Reeman books. Reeman has an incredible knowledge of WW2 navy battles, and illustrates the absolute horror of naval warfare very well.(Still think medical books the most frightening though!!)
Is "Firestarter" worth persevering with? |
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drhackenbush Special user 686 Posts |
Now that you mention it, I had my Stephen King creeps, too - it was "Christine" - I was afraid of cars for a little while after reading that one.
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Samuel Catoe Inner circle South Carolina 1268 Posts |
It wasn't an SUV, but we did have a pickup truck that was put to use. The area I was found near has always been very overgrown and even choked with briars, weeds, and other assorted vines. Nothing short of a bulldozer has ever been able to penetrate that section. Except for a certain very young and very little Mr. Catoe. Oh, and the dogs.
Author of Illusions of Influence, a treatise on Equivoque.
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GlenD Inner circle LosAngeles, Ca 1293 Posts |
Thanks for the clarification, Samuel!
Aceparties... yes, in my opinion it is. I read it a long time ago and thought it very interesting. Strange but I have been seriously thinking of buying the dvd of the movie which has a young Drew Barrymore in it as the firestarter. I had seen the movie a long time ago too but I just kind of want to watch it again. GlenD
"A miracle is something that seems impossible but happens anyway" - Griffin
"Any future where you succeed, is one where you tell the truth." - Griffin (Griffin rocks!) |
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M. Perk Loyal user Hilton Head Island 292 Posts |
The Skeleton Crew was the first Stephen King book I read. The Short Story, The Mist is one of his best and scariest short stories. Pet Cemetery is the scariest novel. I make it a point to begin reading one of his book on Halloween.
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RFmagicCR 0 Posts |
The Cat in the Hat
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