You reminded me. I keep meaning to read The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule.
Scariest book ever??
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You reminded me. I keep meaning to read The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule.
Same here. I can't even stop to watch a minute of it when it's on TV and I'm channels surfing. Even the early scenes when nothing has happened yet are eerie. I've seen the movie beginning to end about 5 or so times, but that was when I was younger. Just the memory of it scares me these days!
at the beginning, Regan is hearing scratching which they thought was rats in the attic.
I was hearing scratching. All night....every night. I threw the book into the corner and was terrified to go near it. Turned out, my brothers bed was on the other side of the wall from mine, and he always rocked himself to sleep.
When I saw the movie (snuck in under age) I was working as a live-in babysitter. My room was in the attic. it was a dark and stormy night....the wind was blowing the branches of tree....against the roof but of course...it took me a week of no sleep before I realized what the noise was.
Other than that $&/@'n dog book, this is the only book that terrified me. And I think the dog book might just be my own fear of dogs, so maybe isn't as terrifying to others.
I'm gonna try reading it. I think I'll have my friend prepare the guestroom at her house.......just in case.
Eeeeeooooowwwww!!!Make a nice pea soup for yourself when you read it.......
The Exorcist spawned one of the best Saturday Night Live bits ever!!
Who remembers......"Your Mother Sews Socks That Smell"......?
Who remembers......"Your Mother Sews Socks That Smell"......?
What makes The Exorcist so scary for me is knowing that it is based on a true story that surfaced while Blatty was a student at Georgetown University. A young Maryland boy was said to have been possessed and an exorcism was performed.
Well...being raised Catholic.....
It is my understanding that in every Catholic archdiocese there is a specific priest selected to do exorcisms.
Scariest book? Dracula, those sisters freaked me out. Also 'Salem's Lot, Danny scratching on the 2nd story window!!
Salems Lot was my first King and that part with Danny was creepy.Scariest book? Dracula, those sisters freaked me out. Also 'Salem's Lot, Danny scratching on the 2nd story window!!
Summer of Night by Dan Simmons still resonates with me. As skimom mentioned, Ghost Story. Straub also has a collection called The Juniper Tree and Other Stories. It really made me squirm.
I don't know what I would say the scariest is...probably IT, although the scariest scene I've ever read was in the Stand. The Shinning was also creepy. I am reading Summer of Night now and it is getting creepy, for sure. I watched The Exorcist yesterday, for the first time ever...it had been a thing for me for years...I was scared to watch it. So, I swallowed my fear and watched it. It had its creepy moments, but it wasn't what I had built it up to be in my mind. It has stuck with me a bit, though, much like Revival stuck with me for a while. I haven't read The Exorcist book, but I plan to.
Chuggs did the one you watched have the "spider" scene added in? It was edited out when the movie originally played in the theatre. And that scene...freaky.
No, I don't remember any spider scene. Which is fine with me.
Ragan travels down the stairs flipped over on her back. I saw it in the 'extra's' section on the dvd. It looked creepy, but was rather hokie (even for its time period) so I figured maybe that's why it was taken out of the film.No, I don't remember any spider scene. Which is fine with me.
Actually Shirely Jacksons entire catalogue is full of spine tinglers. The original film of that book scared the bejesus out of me.
The vomiting was hokey. The spider scene was freaky.
I should add....in my opinion. YMMV