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Anonymous Sun Mar 14 23:43:45 2010 No.428846 [Reply] [Original]

Sup /lit/?

Book(s) that have scared you the most?

Pic Related: Some of his stories have most certainly scared me out of sleep.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 14 23:45:45 2010 No.428856 File: 238 KB, 339x500, unwind.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] dude, this. even though it's basically a kids' book, the "unwinding" scene still scared me pretty badly.

>>	m'bad !7uNfeaoW26 Sun Mar 14 23:46:45 2010 No.428859 File: 161 KB, 1154x1789, horror of my childhood.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Hm...Well, this is just a classic...See if you recognize it, it's not one of the better known ones...

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 14 23:46:45 2010 No.428864 im a hardy motherfucker, when it comes to creepy shit. i have nightmares like nobody's business and im okay with gory stuff, the rats in the walls fucked my shit up.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 14 23:49:45 2010 No.428880 >>428846 Poe's Masque of the Red Death scared me so much in Fourth Grade that I put the book away in terror. It still creeps me the fuck out.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 14 23:51:45 2010 No.428888 >>428859 Oh, shit, son. Is that from "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark"? That is my childhood right there.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 14 23:51:45 2010 No.428893 >>428859 Scary Stories To Tell In the Dark? The illustrator's style stayed in my head forever....

>>	m'bad !7uNfeaoW26 Sun Mar 14 23:53:45 2010 No.428901 >>428888 Yessir it is. I could not look at that particular picture without seizing up and jumping slightly each time I saw it. It was her fucking eyes, man...I couldn't take em...

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 14 23:53:45 2010 No.428903 >>428888 I still can't bring myself to read some of those stories. It's half nostalgia, half sheer terror.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 14 23:54:45 2010 No.428906 File: 9 KB, 493x402, 1263723363886.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>428893 that might have been what did it for me. i didn't mind the stories but the pictures...oh god the pictures

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 14 23:57:45 2010 No.428921 File: 126 KB, 537x867, sc12eq8.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>428906 Fuckin' A, man. It was this one that always got me.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 14 23:59:45 2010 No.428929 >>428880 The pit and the pendulum is quite good too, OP definately check out poes work.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 14 23:59:45 2010 No.428932 is there anywhere i can read Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark online?

>>	m'bad !7uNfeaoW26 Sun Mar 14 23:59:45 2010 No.428931 >>428921 I hated the one where the chick had spiders coming out of her face.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 14 23:59:45 2010 No.428926 >>428921 oh now why did you have to do that? i was just about to go to bed.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 00:01:45 2010 No.428939 >>428929 I'm already a pretty big fan of Poe. But thanks for the suggestion.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 00:03:45 2010 No.428944 >>428932 Ask /x/ for it. Some one there might have it. I'll check my computer (I hang out on /x/ a lot) but I don't think I have it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 00:07:45 2010 No.428971 Teh Willows by Algernon Blackwood: creepy atmosphere that sucks you in and gives you the creepy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 00:09:45 2010 No.428986 I must also chime in. Holy fucking shit did I get extra freaked out by it. Nothing's come close to the nightmare fuel of that artwork. Stephen Gammell is the greatest artist in the world as far as I'm concerned.

>>	m'bad !7uNfeaoW26 Mon Mar 15 00:12:45 2010 No.428996 >>428986 I swear the guy knows how to distort images to tear into the very soul and leave you hopeless and scarred.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 00:16:45 2010 No.429016 File: 21 KB, 600x452, wastelands_6_choo_choo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>428996 The scary thing is he's a children's book artist. You have to wonder how many Charlie the Choo-Choo images he slips into his work.

>>	m'bad !7uNfeaoW26 Mon Mar 15 00:18:45 2010 No.429024 >>429016 That train awoke everything surpressed and evil in me right now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 00:19:45 2010 No.429034 >>429016 Shit a brick.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 00:20:45 2010 No.429040 >>429024 That picture was the scariest thing ever to be found in a Stephen King book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 00:22:45 2010 No.429049 >>429040 Ned Dameron really delivered.

Anonymous Mon Mar 15 00:27:45 2010 No.429071

>>428931

Spider-face chick was definitely the face that fucked me over. The worst one for me, though, was the desolate landscape with the story about the glass-eyed babysitter with the wooden tail.

Also, the disembodied head which was part of one of the "funnier" stories. It was an older man's head looking right at the reader, mouth half-open in a slackjaw stare. Scared the living fuck out of me, and to this day is the only image that actually deprived me of sleep for three days.

>>	m'bad !7uNfeaoW26 Mon Mar 15 00:30:45 2010 No.429084 >>429071 Howd the one with the babysitter go again? I remember the character, just not the story. Something about a drum? Didn't their mother leave for good or something? Also, three days? Damn dude. Rough.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 00:31:45 2010 No.429085 >>429071 Me Tie Dough-ty Walker. I fucking remember that ONLY because of the picture. I agree, the story itself was not remotely scary.

Anonymous Mon Mar 15 00:37:45 2010 No.429112

>>429085
No, it wasn't Me Tie Dough-ty Walker. I'm looking for a copy online.
>>429084

Yeah basically a son and daughter were misbehaving and their parents told them if they didn't stop misbehaving they would buy a new parent with glass eyes and a wooden tail. They disobey three times and the parents disappear. The kids come home one evening and night falls on the house. Their parents don't come back. The next day they head out looking for their parents and when they come back there's a babysitter with glass eyes and a wooden tail, thumping against the floor.

The pic is the two kids walking through the woods. Freaky fucking shit.

>>	m'bad !7uNfeaoW26 Mon Mar 15 00:38:45 2010 No.429118 >>429112 I remember that now! I was with my family at my cabin in vermont...I didn't talk back to my parents for a week after that one...

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 00:39:45 2010 No.429123 >>429016 While I'm sure many illustrators do children's books because they enjoy working with that kind of innocence, it gives some others an entirely new palate of frightening concepts to work with. I mean, look at Coraline, or The Brothers Grimm!

>>	m'bad !7uNfeaoW26 Mon Mar 15 00:40:45 2010 No.429131 >>429123 Ah, the brother's grimm...Fantastic stuff, that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 00:40:45 2010 No.429130 File: 2 KB, 120x90, default.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>429112 It wasn't this?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 00:42:45 2010 No.429138 >>429130 No, this head was floating in midair. It wasn't from the first book, I don't think.

Anonymous Mon Mar 15 00:48:45 2010 No.429159
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>>429138
>>429112
>>429071

Found it! It's from the story "It's HIM!"

This, gentlemen, is the image that scarred my dreams so much that in fourth grade I stopped sleeping for three days. I got chills just saving it.

>>	m'bad !7uNfeaoW26 Mon Mar 15 00:49:45 2010 No.429168 >>429159 OH MY FUCK

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 00:50:45 2010 No.429174 Also, there's a sick fuck on YouTube who has audio versions of each story in the trilogy, accompanied by the ever-so-delightful illustrations. The read-along gets annoying, but the pictures...oh god. http://www.youtube.com/user/Demon37895

>>	m'bad !7uNfeaoW26 Mon Mar 15 00:53:45 2010 No.429184 >>429174 No...make it go away...Please...

>>	m'bad !7uNfeaoW26 Mon Mar 15 00:54:45 2010 No.429190 >>429174 This is bringing back so many childhood fears...

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 00:58:45 2010 No.429211 >>429174 I didn't sleep last night, so I'm a bit fucked atm. This isn't helping much.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 15 00:59:45 2010 No.429213 THE THING DUDE, THE FUCKING THING. THAT FUCKING PICTURE!

>>	m'bad !7uNfeaoW26 Mon Mar 15 01:00:45 2010 No.429217 >>429213 ...I've gone numb.

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