FINAL: Most Frightening Published Work Award

[Jean]

As nominated by our membership in the nomination round and then the semi-final, please vote now for the work you feel should win the award for Most Frightening Published Work.

The 2009 finalists:

1408
Desperation
Gerald's Game
It
'Salem's Lot
The Boogeyman
The Mist
The Shining
The Stand

2009 winner: Pet Sematary

[Tito_Villa]

Got to be Pet Sematary!!!

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

Agreed.

[Jean]

I think it will.

[Melike]

Pet Sematary.

[mae]

Got to be Pet Sematary!!!

This is probably the only no-brainer award. 'Salem's Lot a close second.

[Dagavidiab]

It should be in first two.

PS: i think this is the third post in a row about IT that i made... In differents thread of course...

[Jean]

if not for Pet Sematary, I would have voted for Desperation

[Heather19]

It should be in first two.

PS: i think this is the third post in a row about IT that i made... In differents thread of course...

This is the only book that has ever really truly scared me.

[JRM]

Pet Sematary
Then I'll have IT
. . . And surprisingly Bag of Bones.

[candy]

got to be the shining, for me anyways. It may be that i was younger when i first read it but i found it to be the scariest book, ever.

[Dagavidiab]

It should be in first two.

PS: i think this is the third post in a row about IT that i made... In differents thread of course...

This is the only book that has ever really truly scared me.

Same here!

But.., read The Sleepless from Graham Masterton, it gets really close in the "scare the %& out of me" area

[pathoftheturtle]

1. Pet Sematary
2. "The Boogeyman"
3. "1408"
4. It
5. Cujo
6. Black House
7. The Shining
8. Bag of Bones
etc. , etc.

[divemaster]

if not for Pet Sematary, I would have voted for Desperation

Yeah, that's my conundrum. Pet Semetary is horrifying. Perhaps the most gut-wrenching horrifying thing King has ever written. But frightening? I'll throw my vote toward Desperation, knowing all the while that Pet Semetary will win and that's all right with me.

[Heather19]

It should be in first two.

PS: i think this is the third post in a row about IT that i made... In differents thread of course...

This is the only book that has ever really truly scared me.

Same here!

But.., read The Sleepless from Graham Masterton, it gets really close in the "scare the %& out of me" area

Thanks! I'm going to have to try to track down a copy

[Ricky]

Voted for Pet Sematary.

[Jean]

It was scary as hell, and so were quite a few of others, but Pet Sematary was, for me at least, differently scary... Like, in all other scary stories you plunge into the story and live the scary stuff together with its characters, and Pet Sematary does just the opposite - it reaches out to you, with some invisible tentacle into your own life and the part of the multiverse where you, the reader, felt more or less safe prior to that - and changes it forever. The only other book I know that possesses the same quality is Desperation, but, while Desperation is both deeper and more complex, Pet Sematary is scarier. Ever scarier, I mean.

[Ben Mears]

I found Pet Semetary gruesome but not scary. For me no other story sped me through on adreneline like 'Salem's Lot did the first time I read it back in 1976. King's slow build up added so much atmosphere and credibility to the concept that I was able to believe what I was reading. As SK says in his recent intro to the book "Most of all I like the moment where it takes off like a big-ass bird". And once it took off the thrills began!

[stone, rose, unfound door]

Pet sematary.
The second one would have been The Long Walk for me if that's considered a King book.

[Girlystevedave]

The Shining scared the shit out of me. And that's not easy to do.