Scariest Stephen King book?

**delores 74** · April 8th, 2009

Originally Posted by finalfantasyVII

Can someone fill me in on this book Eyes of the Dragon?? I've never heard of it and is it a SK book or a Bauchman work..my library doesn't seem to have it and/or what's up with it??? Good reading..Mark FFVII

It's a SK book, definitely not in his "genre". He actually wrote it for his daughter Naomi since she wouldn't read his work. It's a fantasy-type story set in an imaginary kingdom with a prince, his aging father and a very bad magician who is eerily familiar to readers of The Stand. I highly recommend it.

Now, I agree with the general consensus that Pet Sematary was by far the scariest SK novel. It was my first SK novel, and I read it at 12 years old. I've been hooked ever since.

**nosila** · April 8th, 2009

I've never really been afraid by any SK novels, but I did have a very peculiar nightmare about both The Shining and Cell. Least scary: Carrie. Amazing book, but I never was frightened by it, only slightly disturbed.

**iSkane** · April 8th, 2009

Definitely Pet Semetary . That book kept me up all night when I read it. (Luckily I didn't finish it on a school night. The last lines still send shivers through my mind. *Shivers*

**spaced_7** · June 16th, 2009

I admit I have not read many of his books, only three (and a half) to be specific.

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon was the first, and unlike everyone else, it was slightly scary. But as a personal opinion, the ending didn't make it seem to bad after all

Night Shift was the second, and most of the stories in the got to me, mostly Children of The Corn or The Boogeyman

The Shining was after that which did scare me , was pretty much gruesome at parts, and was definatly classic.

Needful Things is the one im reading now and I am finding it very very disturbing, not in a supernatural way, but the way he mixes the mystery, sex, and past of the town into the novel creates a scary atmosphere.

So far I think Night Shift was the scariest, however I have got Cell, Misery and The Tommyknockers on my read list.

**karend3** · June 18th, 2009

Pet Sematary and IT are scary, the Stand has some scary moments in it. The Shawshank Redemption and Green Mile are not scary.

**Lina** · June 26th, 2009

To my mind, one of the scariest books is It. Pet Sematary is also creepy enough. And, besides, when I read The shining the first time - I was about twelve at that time, it scared me too.

**michal** · June 29th, 2009

Pet Sematary - not because Mr. King said its his choice, but simply because read it first, and It because MY GOD, that final scene of the book and some in the middle and the beginning, and every other part of the book frightened me half silly when I was 14. And most of them still do.

**Ace16** · June 29th, 2009

The scariest book is either "It" or "The Shinning" he got the idea for "The Shinning" from the most haunted hotel in Noth America wich makes it a true horror story.

**Ace16** · June 29th, 2009

I would say "It' or "The Shinning" The Shinning is already called the scariest book ever written..He got the idea by staying in the most haunted hotel in North America..

**JRM** · August 7th, 2009

So far, I'd have to go with "Bag of Bones"

However, I haven't read that many King books yet (though, I have a bunch ready for action, haha). I've also read "Insomnia"...didn't think it was scary at all...just trippy.