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I'm going to! As soon as I get myself to a half priced books!
When you want scary, you want something that isn't supernatural, just an inescapable fact of life. Here, King establishes a completely new category of scary:
"Shall I tell you what sociology teaches us about the human race? I’ll give it to you in a nutshell. Show me a man or woman alone and I’ll show you a saint. Give me two and they’ll fall in love. Give me three and they’ll invent that charming thing we call 'society.' Give me four and they’ll build a pyramid. Give me five and they’ll make one an outcast. Give me six and they’ll re-invent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they’ll re-invent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of his opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."
- The Stand
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Spoiler:...always had a problem with kitchen appliances after reading this. 08-05-2009 07:11 PMCyberGhostfaceI remember being shocked by the violence in both Desperation and Regulators when I first read it--at the time, King had never gone that far.
The 217 scene in The Shining was pretty scary when I first read it. 08-06-2009 01:20 PMLettiYeah, same here. I get scared by book or movies once in a blue moon but when I was reading that short story.. I felt so so.. uncomfortable. And this feeling was scary indeed. I thought: 'maybe I should continue it in the morning' - but of course I couldn't put it down.
Anyway this story is so incredibly good. Simple still it scares the death out of you. 08-06-2009 02:52 PMDarkthoughtsDesperation shocked me too, but the thing I think I found the scariest was the passage in IT whereSpoiler:
I think it was so scary because it relayed how immensely afraid the characters were, so you as the reader knew you were in for a rough ride. 08-06-2009 05:59 PMTheCrisisKingIt "Hiya Georgie" thats all :scared: 08-06-2009 06:22 PMBROWNINGS CHILDEHave to agree with the Lincoln Tunnel scene from the Stand. There are many runners up, but this one for me takes the cake. 08-20-2009 06:49 AMSolarMany scenes in It (including those mentioned above) freak me out. 08-20-2009 07:03 AMGirlGoneNineteenAdding to my previous post:
The Regulators - going deeper and deeper into the mine. My severe claustrophobia doesn't help, either!
The Wastelands - One word: Blaine.
Children of the Corn - the description of the church :shudder: 08-20-2009 05:32 PMcody44The Lincoln Tunnel scene, and the thing under the castle in Dark Tower 7. 08-21-2009 07:34 AMsleeplessdwarfPet Sematary was extremely scary for me. It was my first King book, and I started it only a few months after I experienced the first death of someone I knew. My 8th grade GF was killed in a car wreck when her idiot brother was screwing with the radio. I stayed home a lot after that and that is when I decided to clear my head by reading a book. Looking back, I could have made a better choice of read. Now, as a 30 something, I find King scary in different ways. 1408 did make me feel weird while reading very late a few months ago while everyone slept. Good thing I did not watch the movie first. Finishing up Desperation now, shows more violence than I remember. Most of my early King books were Different Season's(Apt Pupil was chilling),Needful Things, Bag of Bones, Tommyknockers and Dreamcatcher. So, The Dark Tower was just a joy and not as violent to me as it may have been to others. If Regulators gets worse than Desperation, then I guess I am in for a treat. :D 08-21-2009 01:19 PMolaThe lawn jockey scene in Duma Key creeped me out more than anything in other SK books so far. Totally random.
And the first time I read the Wastelands, I think that Blaine might have spooked me too. I don't clearly remember though. 08-21-2009 02:08 PMMerlin1958This one is not King, but Peter Straub and even though I read it over 20 years ago I still recall it as one of the most spine tingling passages I have ever read. I believe the book was Floating Dragon (could be Ghost Story my memory has gone to shit lately) There is a scene where the local football star confronts a werewolf at the top of the stairs and the beast smashes his head against the wall and proceeds to come down the stairs dragging the kids brains along the wall as he descends. Very Creepy
Damn scared myself just typing that!! lol lol
Anyone with a better memory recall that passage? 08-22-2009 05:46 PMMerlin1958Again, this is not King, but I was a read-a-holic as a kid and never even considered anything that wasn't on the NY Times best-seller list. Then I had a teacher who convinced me that classic's are classic's for a reason.
Hence, I read "Bram Stokers Dracula" and man what a creepy & scary story especially in the way it is written. Frankenstien was great as well. Probably got me going on my SK obsession lol lol
Just my 3 beans on the matter 10-05-2009 02:48 AMMyste 10-07-2009 06:57 AMDelahThe death of Eddie Corocan in IT.
You knew that he was dead already, but just the idea that King would kill off this 12 year old boy,have him murdered by It, was so awful. I was 11 when I read it, and its just so creepy. You've read about the other Losers having their experiences with Pennywise, but for some reason or another (quick thinking or just dumb luck) they got away. Eddie didn't. He died in the park on the last day of school, torn apart by something that looked like the creature from the Black Lagoon. 10-07-2009 04:02 PMcody44That part was very creepy, especially when Mike Hanlon rides his bike over to the park, in the fog, the next morning.
Especially -
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The foam broke apart, became meaningless again, and at that moment there was a loud splash on his right. Mike snapped his head around, shrinking back a little, and for a moment he believed he saw something in the shadows of the outflow tunnel where the Canal resurfaced after its course under downtown.
Then it was gone.
10-07-2009 04:57 PMSamThe scariest passage King ever wrote for me was
Spoiler: 10-07-2009 05:09 PMBROWNINGS CHILDEPet Sematary was always one of the scariest books for me. On recent reread, having two new twin daughters (18 mos), the book took on a horrible aspect that hadnt really affected me as strongly in previous reads.Pet Sematary spoiler
These things, though not necessarily scary were truly horrible, especially from a father's aspect. 10-08-2009 01:35 AMJeandon't even mention Pet Sematary to me, or I won't be able to sleep 10-08-2009 04:25 PMrosie real 10-08-2009 05:56 PMBROWNINGS CHILDE 10-09-2009 04:51 AMLily-sai 10-11-2009 06:38 AMBriceThe scariest words Stephen King ever wrote:
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