It and The Shining. The latter was set at the Overlook Hotel, where teacher-turned-writer Jack Torrance goes insane. I enjoyed both the 1980 movie version and the 1997 miniseries remake of The Shining. Stephen King had a cameo role in the TV version -- playing an orchestra leader. Take it away, Mr. King...
There is no such thing as a book that can scare me, and I've tried. But then, movies don't scare me either.
It's odd too, cuz I get so into the story that I can smell what they smell, hear what they hear, and feel what they feel... for the most part. I even start talking out loud to the characters in the book, but I've never been scared...
Though the book The Wings of a Falcon made me cry...
One book that's a favorite of mine is the technological horror thriller Fail-Safe by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, published in 1962. Through a mechanical error, a group of six American Vindicator bombers are mistakenly ordered to deliver a nuclear strike on Moscow. If they can't be recalled or stopped, the Soviet Union will retaliate in full. That's the doomsday scenario facing the American president. What will he do? Fail Safe was made into a 1964 movie starring Henry Fonda as the president and also featured a young Larry Hagman as the terrified Russian translator, Peter Buck. George Clooney later made it into a live television drama, broadcast on April 9, 2000. Clooney is a great admirer of the original film -- hence his $5.5 million remake. CAP-411 -- the code that mistakenly launches nuclear horror...
Stephen King's 'It' is a stupid movie, which probably means the book isn't that scary.
For pity's sake, the movie is about a giant spider who takes on the form of a clown to eat children!
I think I'll look into Fail-Safe, though...
OH, has anyone read The White Plague by Frank Herbert? That book damn near freaked me out. Not quite, but pretty close. The book is a science fiction about a man who goes insane after he witnesses his family killed in a politica-related 'accident'. He creates a plague in a rented house, a plague that kills all women. He wanted everyone on the planet to feel the way he felt.
Eventually, he helps them find a cure for his own disease, and then winds up wandering the winlderness of Ireland, where the people take pity on him and leave food on their doorstep at night.
If I remember correctly, there was 1 woman for every 5,000 men at the end of the book. You gotta read it, though. I summed it up, but that's not the same as reading it.
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Yeah, the TV miniseries It wasn't that good, but the book, though flawed,
was much better. I'd say a lot of Stephen King's works don't translate well to the big or small screen, though they keep trying.
I'll have to look into The White Plague by Frank Herbert. It sounds like my kind of read. Thanks, jynkers...Anything else you care to recommend?
Mine would be the amityville horror.Thats what it was like for me when I read that book.I would be looking around at the ceilings and walls afraid to go to sleep when I was that age and reading that book.It has a huge impact on me because there is still debate and controversy over that book today if its a true story or not.thats what frightened me most about the book was that its suppose to be a true story.
Hey, is anyone here from Amityville? I just did some quick checking on 'The Amityville Horror' by Jay Anson (1921-1980). The real tragedy in that infamous house was the murder of the Ronald De Feo family prior to George and Kathy Lutz (and children) moving in. George Lutz, incredibly enough, has his own web site on the subject. The book was made into a 1979 film starring James Brolin and Margot Kidder, which launched a series of sequels. There's a video out titled 'Amityville: Horror or Hoax.' I read 'The Amityville Horror' along with another Jay Anson book -- a horror novel titled '666' in which a haunted house moved from locale to locale. The novel's premise struck me as funny --
a house moving itself -- but when real estate values plummet, what's a haunted house to do?
Unfortuneately, Ajax66, I do not. I don't read very many 'scary novels', per say. However, if you like vampires, Laurall K. Hamilton does a fine job with the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series... Gotta luv that series. Jean-Claude, Asher, Damien... if they were real I'd be in heaven.
A Stephen King forget the name but it was scary.So I don't read any of his books anymore.I am too much of a scary cat!JM
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I read a book when I was wee about the Battle of Culloden. It was a ghost story.
This kid was on the moor where the battle took place and dead highlanders' ghosts started coming out of the ground and walking back to their homes. One of them was a disembowelled 14 year old.
I couldn't get the image of this sad looking ghost, holding his entrails in and traipsing over the field to a home that no longer exists, out of my head for ages. The eeriness was freaky.
Can't remember the name of the book.
__________________ In football, you use your foot to kick the ball, hence the name.
Americans add throwing, pads, alter the length of the game etc, i.e. change it completely yet still call it football.
Then they call the original soccer, and expect the rest of the world to adopt this bastard name. Pish.
From hence forth American football shall be known as "soccer." by me.
Ooh! I just remembered. Merecedes Lackey wrote the Diana Tregarde series. Stephen King reviewed them and called them 'stay up all night' books. Yes, they are fantasy, but they're good too. Diana (Di) is a witch who must help people whenever they ask. In one book she kills a gaki (Japanese Soul Eater) and in the other the Aztec God Tezcatlipoca.
I luv that series! It's really good, and keeps you on your toes. It didn't scare me, but had I not watched horror movies nearly everday of my childhood life, I guarantee it would have.
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Gotta luv that series. Jean-Claude, Asher, Damien... if they were real I'd be in heaven.
