Story that honestly creeped you out????

[Teriw]

I read 1922 recently and it didn't bother me but I rather smiled and laughed and just overall loved the description of him squashing the rat with his bare foot. It was so awesome I read it aloud to my sister whose reaction of disgust but still liking it too was awesome. I'm see "see, this is why I like books. You don't get this shit in the movies". Which is so true. One of the reasons like narrated movies is that u get to understand someones perspective on things like u do in a book.

[Teriw]

Nothing has creeped me out thus far but its still early yet. There's so much that I havent read. Apt pupil disturbed me when I was in high school but it wasn't creepy, didn't keep me awake or anything. It was just wrong how he was turned on by that shit. Now I'm like whatev ppl are just fucked. Lol. The only time I get scared is when something jumps out at me...and that's not gonna happen in a book.

[TJCams]

Wow.... Four Past Midnight is one I want to get - I recently finished Night Shift, and have Nightmares and Dreamscapes to start as well. And the other suggestions above sound fantastic. Definitely keeping my eyes open for those. You guys are now going to result in that TBR pile of mine to grow!

[Sabrina Morgan]

I really enjoyed this one! And the Stephen King story.

I truly enjoyed this book with the exception of a couple of the stories.

[Xiabei]

I just finished A Book of Horrors and the short story Ghosts with Teeth by Peter Crowther was really good. I'm not sure if it was all the gore or just the creepy ending but it stuck with me for days.

I really enjoyed this one! And the Stephen King story.

[srboone]

Forever Angels by Ronald Kelly made my skin crawl when I read it. Not particualrly horrifying, but made me a Kelly fan for life.

[Sock Monkey]

"Again" by Ramsey Campbell. Holy crap did that story creep me out!

[Sock Monkey]

I also liked The Library Policeman. Probably my favorite from Four Past Midnight. "The Likeness of Julie" is one of my favorites. Not really one that keeps you up at night, but it kind of lingers afterwards.

[ozmosis7]

Stephen King's The Library Policeman.

^Agreed.

[Xiabei]

For me it was a rather surprising story. Stephen King's The Library Policeman. It is the third novella in Four Past Midnight and it did not come out until I was an adult. I read the first stories at night when I was going to bed. I began The Library Policeman and found that when I read that before going to bed I was not able to go to sleep. It is, to this day, the only story that I was unable to read at night because it kept me awake. I switched to reading this during the day and had trouble finishing it because of how much it disturbed me. When I finished the story I could not bring myself to read the fourth story in the book. I put to book on the shelf and did not pick it up to finish it for over a year.

I think I'll give that a go now! I don't remember if I ever read it.

[Martin]

For me it was a rather surprising story. Stephen King's The Library Policeman. It is the third novella in Four Past Midnight and it did not come out until I was an adult. I read the first stories at night when I was going to bed. I began The Library Policeman and found that when I read that before going to bed I was not able to go to sleep. It is, to this day, the only story that I was unable to read at night because it kept me awake. I switched to reading this during the day and had trouble finishing it because of how much it disturbed me. When I finished the story I could not bring myself to read the fourth story in the book. I put to book on the shelf and did not pick it up to finish it for over a year.

[srboone]

I have to add The Shining to the list. Like Ghost Story, TS gave me nightmares in 1981, and gave the chilly willies when I reread it last year.

[Xiabei]

I just finished A Book of Horrors and the short story Ghosts with Teeth by Peter Crowther was really good. I'm not sure if it was all the gore or just the creepy ending but it stuck with me for days.

Reading this now, so hopefully I'll find one!

[Sabrina Morgan]

I just finished A Book of Horrors and the short story Ghosts with Teeth by Peter Crowther was really good. I'm not sure if it was all the gore or just the creepy ending but it stuck with me for days.

[RJK1981]

Something that scared me? Nothing that I can think of right now, and the same goes for movies. The most powerful in terms of a book that had a part that made my jaw drop in surprise was Blatty's The Exorcist. One part in particular is what made that happen when it came to how descriptive it was in a certain part. Definitely was not expecting it at all. I have not reread that book yet, though I will when I get the Lonely Road Books edition of the Anniversary edition of that book.