Recommend a scarey book

Krug · Jun 9, 2004

If you're into comics, might want to take a look at the Junji Itto Horror Comic Collection that's available as e-books on Amazon. Some of the stories are quite chilling.

WayneLigon · Jun 9, 2004

I've read quite a few horror novels but at the moment can't really recall one that scared me badly. Short story horror, though... that's where I've been scared several times.

Robert McCammon's work sometimes does that for me. 'Pin', in Blue World. Blue World, in fact had a lot of good tales. 'Yellowjacket Summer' and 'Something Passed By' are both excellent. You can read several of his tales on that site.

Pielorinho · Jun 9, 2004

WayneLigon said:
Robert McCammon's work sometimes does that for me. 'Pin', in Blue World. Blue World, in fact had a lot of good tales. 'Yellowjacket Summer' and 'Something Passed By' are both excellent. You can read several of his tales on that site.

Ooh, I just read "Something Passed By," and it's creepy. Good stuff!

Did "Yellowjacket Summer" by any chance involve a kid's getting stung by a single yellowjacket, with no supernatural elements? That's a total shot in the dark, but I read a story with that basic plot in one of the Year's Best Fantasy & Horror anthologies several years ago, and I remember that, despite its relatively low-key subject matter, it was quite unsettling.

Daniel

Merlion · Jun 10, 2004

I too have read a lot of horror, but rarely anything that really scared me.

Stephen King has done it once or twice, somewhat. I havent read Pet Semetary but I hear its pretty strong stuff.

I love IT to dearly for it to ever really scare me.

I once read a story, I think it may have been by Robert Bloch, and its title had something to do with a house...it was a ghost story, and the ghost acted via mirrors. It had me almost incapacitated for a couple of days.

I'd tend to suggest going out and getting a couple of good horror anthologies, since I also agree with whats been said that short horror stories often have more actual fear-punch.

Song of Kali has I believe been reprinted...I saw it in a borders some ways back. I may just have to check that out myself..

WayneLigon · Jun 10, 2004

Pielorinho said:
Did "Yellowjacket Summer" by any chance involve a kid's getting stung by a single yellowjacket, with no supernatural elements?
Daniel

Nope; it's about a kid who can whistle and control yellowjackets, and his fatal encounter with a woman and son who stop for gas in the small town where he lives. Pretty darn creepy, and would make a nice episode for some horror anthology TV show.

The White Wolf original horror anthologies had some very good tales in them. One particularly stuck with me, about a guy who is going to be inducted into a prestigeous fraternity. One that produces captains of industry, senators, presidents, etc. He's heard that they have an exceptionally humiliating hazing ritual and he invents all sorts of horror scenarios in his mind about it, but none come close to the awful and final truth of the matter.