Halloween is coming up, and if you missed out on your chance to win our spine-tingling thrillers last Monday, don’t fret: This week, you can win all four books in our Halloween feature, which includes stories that run the gamut of horror.
TO ENTER: Tell us what your favorite scary story is in the comments.
CONTEST DETAILS: One winner will be chosen by random.org from among entries received by 5 pm CST on Friday, October 26, to receive copies of the four (4) books pictured in this post. Prize must be shipped to a North American address, and Rhode Island residents are not eligible. (Full contest rules here.) Good luck!
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ETA: Congrats to our winner, Sheila! Her favorite scary story was Dressed to Kill!
Thanks to all who entered! Contest is now closed.
My entire family has had experiences with the paranormal and we all have some really good stories to tell. Those are my favorites. However, Richard Laymon has written some scary stuff I’ve enjoyed. THE BEAST HOUSE was fun. And if you want a really disgusting, horror filled adventure, read THE FREAKSHOW by Bryan Smith. I love Halloween and I’ve been spending my nights watching movies on the FEARnet channel. Gory is the new black! HAPPY HALLOWEEN, EVERYONE!
Cujo by Stephen King.
Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs
Recently I have lost sleep thanks to Dark Places by Gillian Flynn and Broken Harbor by Tana French.
Scary! The Silence of the Lambs
‘The Exorcist’ is the #1 horror story I have ever read!
Stephen King of course – It.
Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories and tales are gripping.
Relentless by Dean Koontz.
The Exorcist
I love Stephen King’s Misery!
I am Legend by Richard Matheson
Ted Dekker’s Thr3e
Definitely Apt Pupil, a novella by Stephen King which is also a movie. I was terrified reading it and it is so evil and twisted that I started to think it was wrong of ME to even be reading it! And the last sentence…wow…it packs a punch. GO READ IT!
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson always spooked me.
The Ruins by Scott Smith. Really scary!!!!
I like the Shining by Stephen King
Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin. I’m reading The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaimon as my All Hallow’s Read.
Rats in the Wall by Lovecraft
I’ll always remember MISERY by Steven King.
After all these years, Edgar Allan Poe’s writing’s still give me the chills…
Mine would have to be the Mothman Prophecy. I have been on the new silver bridge and live very close to where everything ‘happened’
The Tell-Tale Heart by Poe, and anything, anything by H.P. Lovecraft.
My favorite scary story is The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. The 1962 movie with Julie Harris is a must-see every Halloween!
The Shining really scared me…….. and Salem’s Lot was a close second!!
Let the Right One In… great vampire tale.
Short story “The Lottery,” and Poe’s stories. Contemporary “scary” fiction I really enjoyed was Lis Wiehl’s “The Waking Hours.”
My favorite scary story would have to be Stephen King’s the Shining or Ten Little Indians by Agatha Christie. Read it for the first time in 6th grade and it still gives me the creeps.
THE EXORCIST still gives me the creeps.
Stephen King’s “Salem’s Lot.” I read that in fifth grade and slept with a crucifix hanging on my bedpost for months afterward!
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar A. Poe. So Scary!
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe. It definitely creeped me out when I read it in middle school. Also, the Doll House Murders by Betty Ren Wright was another childhood favorite of mine.
I still can’t re-read “It.” I truly believe that may be one of the scariest books I ever read. I loved some of the other classic Stephen King, but that one took the cake for sure. The other one that scared the you know what out of me was “Intensity” by Dean Koontz.
As a teen ager: Edgar Allen Poe, The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, if I’m remembering correctly and The Stepford Wives ( I was afraid to get married!). As an adult I have not been able to get The Road out of my mind. Scares me every single day.
Anything by Edgar Allen Poe especially…The Raven and The Cask of Amontillado.
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Well the only MOVIE I ever screamed in was Dressed to Kill. So I guess that would have to be the scariest story. Second MOVIE, sorry, would have to be The Shining. Straight out horror literature is not my usual forte, but I’m up for it!
The Shining. Ruined topiary animals for me forever!
Pet Semetary by Stephen King. The book scared the daylights out of me.
Salem’s Lot by Stephen King was one of the first books to really get under my skin!
All Stephen King books. My favorite, could not put it down and look away read, was Cujo.
There are a few, but what comes to mind is anything written by Stephen King.
Stephen King’s “The Shining” or his short story “1408″… “1408″ is probably the most terrifying thing I’ve ever read, all told.
The Shining with Jack Nicholson,but have to see it every so often
The Husband by Dean Koontz
House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski. Based on the synopsis, you wouldn’t think it would be especially scary, but it’s terrifying.
OMG these books look awesome!!!!!!!!!!!! My favorite scarry book, which everyone should see, but is sadly very hard to find is the Hauted Dollhouse. The photographs are alluring and other worldly. As a child, I was mystified. It is by Terry and David Berger. V.C. Andrews wrote the intro. “On her thirteenth birthday, Sarah wakes up inside the mysterious Victorian dollhouse she has wished for, and spends the day there alone in an atmosphere of doom.”
Amityville Horror
I still love Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart, but I was also thoroughly spooked by Danielewski’s House of Leaves.
Cujo by Stephen King and Where Are the Children by Mary Higgins Clark.
Misery was scary,because he didn’t suspect she was a psycho,and Kathy Bates was very good in her evil part.
I found Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe quite scary: The Shining by Stephen King, takes a very close second place as scary for me!
I’ve always loved The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. Also, any story by Edgar Allan Poe.
Hands down “Psycho”
The scariest fiction I’ve ever read is by Stephen King, especially Pet Semetary. The scariest non-fiction is Helter Skelter, probably because it’s true.
The Ruins by Scott Smith really freaked me out!!!
Christine by Stephen King
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft is a favorite, and so many others!
DRACULA
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty.
“Oooohhh, scary, kids!” as Count Floyd would say.
Fifty Shades of Gray kept me on edge!!!