Has a book ever given you a nightmare

I am reading the Justin Cronin books at the moment and last night I has an actual nightmare about the vampires in the book, now I haven't read a book like that since I was a teenager, I use to read loads of rubbish horror book James Herbert ( the Rats is a great book ) and Stephen King and they never frightened me at all.

hairyprincess

Yes. Hold me. Please

Giselle

I have the first two of those Justin Cronin vampire books, but haven't started them yet. Are they really that frightening?

Pottler

Yeah, my bank-book. Total nightmare. Fiction books, nah, sure it's just makey uppey.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

I read IT and The Stand by Stephen King years ago....scared me at the time.

GRMA

Yes, Bram Stokers Dracula did.

Mince Pie

Enid Blyton - The Land of Far Beyond

Fluorescence

Pottler wrote: »

Yeah, my bank-book. Total nightmare. Fiction books, nah, sure it's just makey uppey.

So are horror films but they still give people nightmares! :pac:

Pherekydes

Rings, Fields and Groups by I can't remember who. Still gives me nightmares.

LoonyLovegood

When I was about eleven I was scared of the Darren Shan vampire books. Still am, honestly, but I don't get nightmares any more.

Celly Smunt

GRMA wrote: »

Yes, Bram Stokers Dracula did.

Jesus that book put me to sleep.

firefly08

No nightmares, but they do give me severe indigestion.

Muppet Man

The bible. Seriously. Read it. Scary.

Its well written and it not too ott about what the vampires are like I would describe as more a mediative on evil that anything else.

Celly Smunt

Muppet Man wrote: »

The bible. Seriously. Read it. Scary.

you're muppet man.

Wacker The Attacker

Pottler wrote: »

Yeah, my bank-book. Total nightmare. Fiction books, nah, sure it's just makey uppey.

You still use a bank book?

JupiterKid

Peig - still gives me nightmares just thinking of that book.

Wintergreen

1984 seriously disturbed my sleep for a few nights after I finished it.

Great book though!

Mince Pie

Wintergreen wrote: »

1984 seriously disturbed my sleep for a few nights after I finished it.

Great book though!

Oh yeah, it gives me waking nightmares!

The Snipe

Once.... everybody poops.... So much poop....

laros

"The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston .... Non fiction about Ebola and scary as hell....:eek:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hot_Zone

Shryke

I had a fever/flu type situation just after I had finished reading my first James Ellroy novel a few years ago, The Black Dahlia. I remember having some pretty fcuked up dreams but I have to attribute them to extenuating circumstances.

Mince Pie

Bring up the bodies - Hilary Mantel. So many beheading's and the description of Anne Boleyn's head chopping made me squirm and rub my neck. Couldn't sleep.

Pottler

Anyone who's read "The Iceman" and gives much thought to it might lose a bit of sleep. Kuklinski was a real dream-wrecker, in fairness.

Glowing

The Road - can't look at it on my bookshelf without getting the shivers.

Rothko

Salem's Lot is the only novel that's ever frightened me

Pottler

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

You still use a bank book?

I still use the Punt, I'm old-skool.

spankysue

American Psycho gave me a few sleepless nights, it was the most terrifying book I've ever read, still makes me shudder just thinking about it.

looksee

Some 'young teen' book that described a couple of people trapped in a cave and they had to swim down a narrow channel and negotiate a kind of u-bend that they could barely fit through. It must have been well written because it still makes me feel queasy thinking about it.

Celly Smunt

Glowing wrote: »

The Road - can't look at it on my bookshelf without getting the shivers.

great book,i read it every winter to comfort myself a little.

TheLastLazyGun

The book which I have about the South Shields poltergeist is definitely not something to be read at night.

666WillFixIt

The Old Testament.

Most terrifying work of fiction ever.

Azure_sky

Two, the Koran and the Bible.

Kylo Ren

The shining. It got to the stage where I had to lock it in the freezer.

Where To

Grinny by Nicholas Fisk.

Scared the **** outa me when I was a wee lad.

'I'll call you my Grinny Granny'

*shudder*

eviltwin

Justin Cronin's "The Passage" is my favourite book but yes I too got nightmares from it.:D

ChemHickey

For a few months last year and the year before I was trying to find a book that'd scare me. I wouldn't be able to find a book scary though. There's something not unsettling about reading about, just say, a murder and then seeing one in a thriller movie. Books can't convey the same sense of panic/adrenaline as movies can imo.

Or else I'm doing it all wrong... :pac:

arybvtcw0eolkf

American Psycho.. I tried reading it three times and had to give up because of the nightmares.

I finally admitted defeat when I'd a vivid nightmare where I had chased my son under his bed and I was trying to knife him, but I couldn't reach ~ he was cowering up against the wall.

Funny because I don't find the movie the least bit scary.