Recomend a scary/disturbing book?

Ray Bradbury's "The Coffin" is only a short story, but it kept me awake for a few nights, utterly petrified.

 

I am also a fan of Bram Stoker.
Edgar Allen Poe too.

 

I should have thought of Poe. I suppose Edgar Allen Poe's stories and poetry doesn't qualify, but The Fall of the House of Usher, The Cask of Amontillado, and Berenice are all scary, disturbing stories.

 

Ahhh ... I dug this out of the crypt! ... My reading of Edgar Allen Poe, The Black Cat.

A tale of a man jerkoff and his service animal.

https://rapidshare.com/files/3031390455/The_Black_Cat.mp3

 

Call me old fashioned, but I am a huge fan of HP Lovecraft. I love his use of language, and he really had a talent for making very palpable the sense that horrible things lurk everywhere, just out of sight.

 

Just finished this. I agree. It is disturbing on the level of how cavalierly life was treated in that environment.
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I'd like to check out Dean Koontz. Which do you recommend?

 

I didn't list every one I've read, just the ones I enjoy re-reading. The colored ones I especially liked.

Your Heart Belongs to Me 2008
In Odd We Trust 2008 (prequel to Odd Thomas)
Odd Hours 2008
The Darkest Evening of the Year 2007
The Good Guy 2007
Brother Odd 2006
The Husband 2006
Forever Odd 2005
Velocity 2005
Life Expectancy 2004
Odd Thomas 2003
The Face 2003
By the Light of the Moon 2002
One Door Away From Heaven 2001
From the Corner of His Eye 2000
Seize the Night 1999
Fear Nothing 1998
Sole Survivor 1997
Tick Tock 1996
Intensity 1995
Dark Rivers of the Heart 1994
Winter Moon 1994
Mr. Murder 1993
Dragon Tears 1993
Cold Fire 1991
The Bad Place 1990
Lightning 1988
Watchers 1988
Twilight Eyes 1987

Here's a link to his website with the list of his books and their synopses:
http://www.deankoontz.com/all-books/

 

No contest.
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn.
I am always talking about this book and am amazed that so few people have read it.
It's horrific and bizarre. But so exquisitely written that it takes your breath away.
Katherine Dunn is a master. She writes this story with such power and poetry that you forget that these people are freaks until she reminds you again.
She is the Diane Arbus of literature.
You know, if you're into that sort of thing.
Arturo is one of the most frightening characters I have ever read in literature. And it's not because of his flippers.

 

Gerald's Game and Cujo - both by Stephen King - creeped me the hell out because despite being Stephen King, the premises were almost believable, especially Gerald's Game. I think Cujo bothered me because I have a phobia of dogs. Gerald's Game was just...disturbing.

 

Pet Semetary was a good scary book. Also, The Books of Blood by Clive Barker.

 

Pet Cemetery was especially creepy from the perspective of losing a toddler to a truck accident. Sent shivers down my spine.

 

Clive Barkers " Sacrament " gave me nightmares, woke me in the middle of the night.

 

Books of Blood and Sacrament by Clive Barker are both worth the read.
Joe Hill picked up his dads touch with the scary so his books Horns and Heart Shaped Box are very good.

 

The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson.

This 1952 novel is tame by today's standards, at least on the blood & gore level, but is still a chilling look inside the mind of a cold-blooded killer.

 

What I like about C. Barker is that it's not generic blood and gore. It's as if I am viewing evil. The way he writes it becomes a movie in my mind. And he has been able to do it to me every time. I have never been disappointed.