btjeppesen Posted April 12, 2012 Report Share Posted April 12, 2012 The title says it all. I'm curious to see what the Storyist community is afraid of. Name a book that scared you. It doesn't have to be horror. It need simple to have scared you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orrenm Posted April 12, 2012 Report Share Posted April 12, 2012 Any book by Ann Coulter! Orren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve E Posted April 12, 2012 Report Share Posted April 12, 2012 For the New Intellectual (1961) by Ayn Rand (Alissa Rozenbaum, 1905–1982). I can appreciate that she was a creature of her time and place (Soviet Russia, later America) but “objectivism” is socialism on its head and is just as irrational. Honestly, I thought she was joking at first. Once I realized she was seriously proposing a kind of supremely selfish libertarianism that proposed (even encouraged) that the poor be left to starve to death and die in the street, every page provoked new horror. It made 1984 and Animal Farm seem very tame by comparison. Political horror is far more frightening than fantasy horror. -Thoth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marguerite Posted April 12, 2012 Report Share Posted April 12, 2012 Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale—not when I first read it, but when I happened to re-read it just around the time Rick Santorum started winning primaries by orating his bizarre views about women's proper place, which is apparently in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant. I began wondering if Atwood had glommed onto a true vision of the future! M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliophoto Posted April 12, 2012 Report Share Posted April 12, 2012 One of the most scary books to me was "The World Without Us" by, Alan Weisman. Information at http://www.worldwithoutus.com/index2.html. There was even some things I saw awhile ago on the TV that were based on this book. The detail it gave on what would happen to our institutions after the human race burns itself out is incredible. The whole book had the effect of making me rethink the way I live and what I spend money on. Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve E Posted April 12, 2012 Report Share Posted April 12, 2012 What about you, BT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btjeppesen Posted April 14, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2012 For me, I'd go with "Desperation," by Stephen King. I get a little creeped out whenever I see a police cruiser behind me now. And because of "IT," I can never look a storm drains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve E Posted April 14, 2012 Report Share Posted April 14, 2012 ... And because of "IT," I can never look at storm drains. I don't mind storm drains. It's the clowns who live down there that creep me out. -T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d_exb Posted April 16, 2012 Report Share Posted April 16, 2012 Nailed by the Heart by Simon Clark. I read in a camp a long time ago and I don't really read horror but that one stayed with me for a long time. It reminded a bit of the Fog crossed with In the Mouth of Madness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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