The question I pose is a pretty simple one:<\/p>\n
What is the scariest book you’ve ever read?<\/p>\n
It doesn’t\u00a0need<\/em> to be horror, of course, though I expect a good bit of horror to creep and skulk through. And you can talk about comic books, too, if you’re so inclined.<\/p>\n Note: I’m not asking about your favorite scary book. I’m asking about the one that scared you, or freaked you out, or disturbed you on some fundamental level.<\/p>\n I get more than a little freaked out by serial killer books. Exquisite Corpse<\/strong><\/a><\/span> by Poppy Z. Brite is an early one that got under my skin. Recently, worth noting\u00a0Mister Slaughter<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, by Robert McCammon — pre-Revolutionary War serial killer tale, with tension so taut it was like a rope around my neck as I read it. Or, consider the last two Lauren Beukes novels<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: The Shining Girls<\/strong> and Broken Monsters<\/strong>. I’m only halfway through the latter but\u00a0dang<\/em> can she a) write and b) freak you the fuck out. For\u00a0non<\/em>-serial killer novels, while the film version didn’t spook me, the novel of\u00a0The Exorcist<\/strong> is a pretty amazing read, and if you’ve never read it, well, now’s the time<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n Anyway —<\/p>\n Your turn!<\/p>\n What books have really gotten under your skin?<\/p>\n Maybe it’s not a book, exactly, but a particular\u00a0scene<\/em>.<\/p>\n Let’s hear it.<\/p>\n (We’ll do movies next week, and maybe games after.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The question I pose is a pretty simple one: What is the scariest book you’ve ever read? It doesn’t\u00a0need to be horror, of course, though I expect a good bit of horror to creep and skulk through. And you can talk about comic books, too, if you’re so inclined. Note: I’m not asking about your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-6w4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25052"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25059,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25052\/revisions\/25059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}