Scary 50

Thanks to Tina at Book Chatter for the link. It’s fall and Halloween is right around the corner. It’s time to curl up with a book guaranteed to give me the shivers. The 50 Scariest Books of All Time is limited one book per author. The first ten titles are:

It by Stephen King
Piercing by Ryu Murakami
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Hell House by Richard Matheson
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Best of H. P. Lovecraft by H.P. Lovecraft
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

It’s a great, intriguing list indeed, which covers pretty much most of the modern horror classics. The ones marked in red are what I have picked out today at the store. I have never been a fan of vampire stories so Dracula stays off my reading list. The Handmaid’s Tale is a classic even though I don’t find it scary at all, more appalling and chilling. The list also mentions The Haunting of the Hill House, which has not be matched in its magnitude of horror until I read The House Next Door this year. American Psycho is just disturbing, both in words and in motion picture. Grisly and bloody graphics don’t scare me as much as the atmospheric horror.