Scariest scenes in SK works

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CordialJim

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Just finished Dreamcatcher, so this one is fresh in my mind. The whole scene with McCarthy on the can at the Hole-in-the-Wall was absolutely terrifying for me. You knew it was coming, and when it finally did you still couldn't believe it! :suspect:

And I'll throw in another vote for Desperation, particularly the opening and the early parts of the book. Deliciously horrific!
 

The Nameless

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Every second page in IT.
Yep, pretty much this. King certainly let his imagination run wild with this one.

I don't get scared of anything in books, I can say "if that happened to me..." otherwise, I would say discomfort/distressing/disturbing might be more acurate descriptions. Anyway, for scary I would say:
Patrick Hockstetter's death. Pennywise as the hobo in the house on Neibolt St.
Dandelo trying to make Roland laugh himself to death, that was freaky. Mordred eating Flagg and Dandelo's horse, and pretty much every mention or mental image of Mordred eating in his spider form
Lloyd's slow realisation that he will have to eat a dead rat, and a dead man.(very much a psychological scare, that has been one of, if not the most impacting scenes on me from any King book I have read so far)
 

Kurben

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Pet Semetary..... I shiver just thinking about it. But i gotta thank all of you here on the board because when i read it the first time i was so scared i couldn't reread it. I had nightmares about it for over 20 years. Then i came here and somehow got brave enough to reread it. Lots of stuff i didn't remember but just as scary. The only book ever to affect me like that. King really hit a nerve with that one.