/lit/ - Literature

>>18535583
House of Leaves

>>18535583
the butchers theater

I never finished And Then There Were None because I kept getting nightmares, only got through the first third of the book

>>18535586
>>18535590
>>18535591
thanks. will check out

>>18535583
Call of the Crocodile by F Gardner.

>>18535591
>It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1939, as Ten Little Niggers,[3] after the children's counting rhyme and minstrel song, which serves as a major element of the plot.
Ummmm based?

>>18535583
Bram stoker dracula is pretty good if you can imagine it right, very imersive really, never felt like that reading another book

>>18535642
only the first few chapters of the book, most of the book is dedicated to Bram's weird gender bending forced blowjob fetish

>>18535583
I've found that audio books are much more effective in that regard, reading just give you too much control over your situation

>>18535583
house of leaves is ur best bet. maybe goosebumps. its a book if ur scared just stop looking at the words dont be a snoozer its words they cant hurt you, you shouldnt be scared O_O

>>18535583
Remains of the Day. If it doesn't scare you, you didn't understand it.

>>18536388
how can a scary book even exist, just closed your eyes nigger lmao

>>18535586
>>18535605


Second House of Leaves, it's unsettling.

>>18535648
I can’t think of many books that drop in quality as quickly or steeply as Dracula

>>18535583
Crash

>>18535583
No, literature is not good for getting scared. The medium isn't right. Go watch Polanski or Lynch.
Literature can be USED in a scary film or play or whatever, but in order to get really scary you need images and music, there's no getting around this fact.

>>18536412
>I can’t think of many books that drop in quality as quickly or steeply
Since we're on the subject of horror novels, pic-related after 50 pages

>>18536393
Care to enlighten me then? I read it and cannot even imagine how someone could think this is scary. Are you trolling?

>>18536446
Not that anon, but he probably means coming to the realization that you made major mistakes and lost out in life because a mindset or career

>>18536467
Pretty sure OP is talking about scariness in the traditional “horror” sense, not superficial existential oh-no-i-wasted-muh-entire-life-playing-vidya horror.

The stand by Stephen King startled me with it's rhythm, I literally jumped up and then put the book down and started laughing and realised I was in my sunny house.

Back in High School I got pretty freaked out by a semi-autobiographical novel called “A Good and Happy Child.” It’s about cyclical child abuse and “demonic possession.” It’s no epic, just a quick read, but it was unsettling at the time.

>>18535616
Fuck off gardner, you sand nigger kike

>>18536422
>t. Imaginationlet

>>18536423
This. It was really good, immersive and scary then it went on some insanely retarded solar system dream vision that went nowhere and then ended.

>>18535583

This book connects the dots like no other for me

Also I've read twice that the book itself gives off a vibe that people don't like

>>18535583
I got actually scared while reading Misery, because it is something that could happen in real life, and I am a person who hates company, so being bed ridden and depending on someone else (let alone a crazy person) is very disturbing for me.