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Has a book ever given you a nightmare

  • 29-11-2012 11:20PM
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    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.


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  • #2
    hairyprincess
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭hairyprincess


    Yes. Hold me. Please :o


  • #3
    Giselle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭Giselle


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


  • #4
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


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


  • #5
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


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


  • #6
    GRMA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,417 ✭✭✭GRMA


    Yes, Bram Stokers Dracula did.


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  • #7
    Mince Pie
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    Enid Blyton - The Land of Far Beyond


  • #8
    Fluorescence
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,490 ✭✭✭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:


  • #9
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,343 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


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


  • #10
    LoonyLovegood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,068 ✭✭✭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.


  • #11
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    GRMA wrote: »
    Yes, Bram Stokers Dracula did.

    Jesus that book put me to sleep.


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  • #12
    firefly08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 854 ✭✭✭firefly08


    No nightmares, but they do give me severe indigestion.


  • #13
    Muppet Man
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    The bible. Seriously. Read it. Scary.


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
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    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.


  • #15
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Muppet Man wrote: »
    The bible. Seriously. Read it. Scary.

    you're muppet man.


  • #16
    Wacker The Attacker
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    Pottler wrote: »
    Yeah, my bank-book. Total nightmare. Fiction books, nah, sure it's just makey uppey.


    You still use a bank book?


  • #17
    JupiterKid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,966 ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


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


  • #18
    Wintergreen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 93 ✭✭Wintergreen


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

    Great book though! :D


  • #19
    Mince Pie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,901 ✭✭✭Mince Pie


    Wintergreen wrote: »
    1984 seriously disturbed my sleep for a few nights after I finished it.

    Great book though! :D

    Oh yeah, it gives me waking nightmares!


  • #20
    The Snipe
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    Once.... everybody poops.... So much poop....


  • #21
    laros
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    "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston .... Non fiction about Ebola and scary as hell....:eek:

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


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  • #22
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭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.


  • #23
    Mince Pie
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    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.


  • #24
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭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.


  • #25
    Glowing
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    The Road - can't look at it on my bookshelf without getting the shivers.


  • #26
    Rothko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


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


  • #27
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    Wacker The Attacker wrote: »
    You still use a bank book?
    I still use the Punt, I'm old-skool.


  • #28
    spankysue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 591 ✭✭✭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.


  • #29
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,717 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #30
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #31
    TheLastLazyGun
    Site Banned Posts: 56 ✭✭TheLastLazyGun


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


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