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Anonymous Wed Sep 5 02:18:58 2018 No.11736898 [Reply] [Original]

What's the scariest book you've ever read?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 02:29:07 2018 No.11736923 50 Shades of Grey The prose is haunting

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 02:36:40 2018 No.11736938 File: 233 KB, 994x1060, 2Aaw5rj.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] /x here, this thread is being monitored

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 03:29:21 2018 No.11737065 Bump for interest

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 03:46:18 2018 No.11737100 I haven't read anything scary in a long time, but when I was in 7th grade The Mothman Prophecies was unbelievably terrifying.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 05:16:01 2018 No.11737316 >>11736898 Penis snake 3: the reckoning

Anonymous Wed Sep 5 08:17:42 2018 No.11737900

The Trial. The Metamorphosis. Terrifying ideas behind those.
M. R. James and Sheridan Le Fanu are pretty much the closest you will get of scary in book form. They are good writers above all, much better than the crap people read nowadays like Ligotti.
Erckmann-Chatrian is also quite good too. No idea why people don't talk about those authors anymore.

Anonymous Wed Sep 5 11:09:08 2018 No.11738690

Naomi's Room was scary to me, even though it's a fairty traditional ghost story in a lot of ways. I would recommend not reading any reviews about it, because I feel like most of them contain a kind of vague spoiler. I wish I hadn't read any reviews before reading it anyway.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 13:57:03 2018 No.11739326 Blindness by Jose Saramago

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 13:57:50 2018 No.11739329 Beast in the Jungle

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 13:58:09 2018 No.11739332 the turn of the screw

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 15:55:23 2018 No.11739801 >>11736898 Besides conservative ideology? Prolly Lovecraft in general.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 15:57:31 2018 No.11739809 >>11739801 I don't think i've ever seen a more reddit post than this. Great job.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 16:00:18 2018 No.11739823 File: 66 KB, 340x632, galaxy_science_fiction_1952_1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11739801 snap

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 16:07:21 2018 No.11739870 File: 928 KB, 783x767, 1521078269509.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11739801 epci bait morty buuuurp god isn't real

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 16:13:54 2018 No.11739895 >>11737900 I agree that Ligotti is pretty poor, I finished Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe the other week and didn't particularly enjoy it. I don't know why he's so highly rated.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 16:16:54 2018 No.11739904 >>11739870 Extremely cursed image, mostly because of Bergkamp.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 16:19:34 2018 No.11739916 File: 69 KB, 556x628, 1534686754227.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11739801

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 16:20:40 2018 No.11739922 >>11737900 >>11739895 scum. stick with barron or vandermeer,

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 16:27:47 2018 No.11739950 >>11739801 hahahaha pickle rick my dude!!! xd upvoted

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 16:29:14 2018 No.11739958 File: 26 KB, 500x346, 1521082832696.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11739904

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 16:32:02 2018 No.11739971 what are some decent-good Japanese/Asian horror books or authors?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 16:34:59 2018 No.11739984 >>11739916 What the fuck is wrong with the way that image in constructed. It makes me feel uneasy.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 16:36:17 2018 No.11739994 >>11736898 Whisperer in darkness I like it because of the big amount of information you get about the entities compared to other lovecraftian tales.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 16:38:13 2018 No.11740001 >>11739801 yikes

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 16:39:11 2018 No.11740006 File: 59 KB, 634x479, article-2596603-1CCE17A800000578-773_634x479.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11736898 the rats by james herbert well it scared the shit out of me when i read it anyway but then i was only about 11 at the time

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 16:41:36 2018 No.11740019 >>11739971 Well the original Ring movie is pretty good, I suppose the book it's based on can't be bad

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 18:41:38 2018 No.11740618 >>11739971 Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Edogawa Rampo In the Miso Soup and Piercing - Ryu Murakami Parasite Eve - Hideaki Sena

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 18:43:32 2018 No.11740632 >>11740019 the Ring is great in both jpanese and american versions, i actually love that movie. I still occasionally dream about the pale girl with the black hair, the symbol is just so potent for some reason

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 18:45:22 2018 No.11740643 >>11739916 Where is the original text from

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 18:53:01 2018 No.11740674 File: 25 KB, 500x294, 2fc4he.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11739916 left still can't meme

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 18:55:44 2018 No.11740684 File: 38 KB, 600x600, hm.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11739984 It's the "happy merchant". I guess I'm too far gone.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 19:18:23 2018 No.11740792 >>11739801 >he still thinks that tentacle gods are scary You have to be 18 years old to be on 4chan.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 19:19:42 2018 No.11740800 >>11740684 why are you spoonfeeding newfags

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 19:27:21 2018 No.11740832 What's with all the ligotti hate ITT ? I thought he was well-regarded around these parts. What's wrong wid him ?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 19:28:38 2018 No.11740838 File: 273 KB, 1600x1200, 1529526286087.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11736898 M Y D I A R Y D E S U dabs

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 20:05:18 2018 No.11740984 >>11740838 kekked

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 20:09:08 2018 No.11741000 >>11740674 > Post a meme from memecenter > The left can't meme

>>	January !MrMnqxS.bg Wed Sep 5 20:16:03 2018 No.11741033 >>11736898 This cover is kino.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 20:28:01 2018 No.11741090 >>11739895 >I don't know why he's so highly rated. read teatro grottesco instead idiot

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 20:33:24 2018 No.11741116 >>11736898 This image reminds me of Silence - a fable by Poe.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 20:41:57 2018 No.11741148 File: 48 KB, 681x407, 1436044254636.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11739801

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 21:44:34 2018 No.11741423 >>11736898 What’s the sauce on this image? Im not a reader but I just started college and I’m pretty fond of my English class so I figured I’d lurk.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 21:46:33 2018 No.11741434 File: 51 KB, 538x730, 65484641866.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11741423 I fucking hate newfags like you who don't know how to image search

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 21:49:31 2018 No.11741441 >>11741423 Click on the sign to the left, select Image Search>Google. >>11741434 Edgy

Anonymous Wed Sep 5 21:53:55 2018 No.11741460
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>>11741441
>edgy
No edgy would be
>if I could skin every newfag who doesn't known how to image search I'd be getting sucked off by Jodie Foster in my brand new buffalo bill costume

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 21:59:33 2018 No.11741484 >>11741460 No, that is >Too edgy, kid

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 22:00:45 2018 No.11741492 >>11741423 one of the rejected art concepts for Gorilla Munch branding

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 22:01:19 2018 No.11741498 >>11741484 Have some edge music for your readings anon https://youtu.be/Dp3BlFZWJNA https://youtu.be/P1lcZM0MNek https://youtu.be/-iVYu5lyX5M

Anonymous Wed Sep 5 22:05:35 2018 No.11741519

The stalking sections of the Idiot/final reveal and the part where that guys transforms into a demon before killing himself in the Possessed are haunting. A lot of Russian stuff is horrific. There's a story by Andreyev, the Bishop. Fucking terrifying and beautiful. The portrait by Gogol.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 22:06:32 2018 No.11741523 >>11741498 Thanks anon, you have good taste.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 22:08:37 2018 No.11741529 >>11739801 Based

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 22:14:08 2018 No.11741548 the road

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 22:16:41 2018 No.11741555 my diary desu

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 22:31:54 2018 No.11741620 Can't believe no one has said the Bible. The implications are quite scary if it is true (as I or any Christian believe it to be). God itself is a scary idea nonetheless.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 23:23:16 2018 No.11741849 >>11740674 That's very obviously a meme from the right though look closer

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 5 23:33:41 2018 No.11741897 >>11741492 kek

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