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43: A book about something that goes bump in the night
- What are you reading this week?The Girl with All the Gifts
- What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
It takes a lot to scare me, but I found House of Leaves and Bird Box unsettling last year.
- What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about?
Zombies
What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
Ghosts or things I can't actually see.
- What else gives you the chills?
Cockroaches :/
Progress Post:- What are you reading this week?
This House is Haunted
- What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
I haven't read many scary books -- I tend to watch my horror/spooky stuff haha -- but I have read lots of local legends/ghost stories and find it interesting. This might actually be the first "scary" book I've read!
- What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about?
Vengeful ghosts and spirits
- What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
Vampires O_o
- What else gives you the chills?
Zombies and the idea of the resurrected dead. Oh, and organized religion ;)
Erica wrote: "- What are you reading this week?The Girl with All the Gifts
- What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
It takes a lot to scare me, but I found House of Leaves..."
House of Leaves is creeeepy... but I actually think the people in it are the creepiest part. Have that one in my "finish it" pile because I'm struggling with it a bit.
Jenna (BadKitty) -- IsProbablyReading -- wrote: "Zombies and the idea of the resurrected dead. Oh, and organized religion ;)"Same here! haha
How about Abhorsen by Garth Nix, it has demons and the dead in it...?
This is the fifth challenge I completed and I chose to read The Killing Woods by Lucy Christopher. This is a young adult, murder mystery. I do not read very many mysteries or spooky-type books, but this book was a huge disappointment none the less. Lucy Christopher is the author of Stolen: A Letter to My Captor, which I have heard pretty decent things about. I wanted to read that book also, but after this huge disappointment of a book I will probably not. My main problem with this book is just that the plot points are all so unbelievable. The whole town is ready to convict this man of murder with basically zero real evidence. Not to mention the characters repeatedly make dumb choices and the writing style is totally awkward. Besides, this whole "spooky woods" thing is so cliché. Most disappointing read of 2015 so far. :(
For this week I attempted to read Girl in the Cellar: The Natascha Kampusch Story. It's not that good of a book, so I did not finish it :(It is about the woman in Germany that was kidnapped and kept in a basement for many years.
What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
Hands down The Road by Cormac McCarthy
What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about? What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
This current book is about a real life kidnapping that resulted in her being held against her will for many years before she was finally able to escape.
What else gives you the chills
Ghosts, haunted locations, real life scary people.
What are you reading this week?this week I read Day Four by Sarah Lotz
What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
I really dont like scary books. I think the scariest would be Crazy Love You by Lisa Unger
What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about? What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
in Day Four the ship has broken down and some passengers are seeing ghosts on the ship.
What else gives you the chills?
Most things give me the chills. Ghosts, zombies, vampires.
- What are you reading this week?A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
- What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
I haven't really read anything that has been scary.
- What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about? What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
A monster is visiting a boy at night. I find zombies the most scary I think.
- What else gives you the chills?
Paranormal activities.
What are you reading this week?
3/10/16-3/12/16- What's the scariest book that you've ever read?so far I haven't read any thing that's so scary that it gives me nightmares
- What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about? Professor Crow ( you have to read to find out why)
What creatures of the night do you find most frightening? snakes
- What else gives you the chills? buried alive and small small spaces and hights
What are you reading this week? Slade House by David MitchellWhat's the scariest book that you've ever read? I remember being terrified by The Silence of the Lambs. Besides that, The Exorcist and The Omen were really scary.
What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about? What creatures of the night do you find most frightening? The book is about a creepy brother and sister duo. Haunted houses are scary.
What else gives you the chills? I think I would probably find everything scary. As a child i was terrified of bats, frogs, mice etc etc etc.
-What are you reading this week?The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
- What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
Rebecca by Daphne duMaurier It was creepy.
I don't read what people would call scary books, like Silence of the Lambs or things about zombies.
- What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about?
Family secrets, good and evil twins, old burned-out mansions
-What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
None, really. I'm more frightened by people being horrid to each other (e.g. Holocaust), serial killers, very old photographs, old buildings.
- What else gives you the chills?
Shipwrecks under the water.
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- What are you reading this week?'Salem's Lot
- What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
In Cold Blood
- What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about? What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
Vampires. Real criminals is what scares me more than monsters, aliens, etc. But if I did have to pick I'd pick ghosts because I guess they are the most real to me.
- What else gives you the chills?
Historical, old Haunted Houses
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I read The Ghost Files
- What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
The Bachman Books in high school. Still can't eat strawberry pie without a shudder.
- What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about? What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
This one is about ghosts and it's a mild read, not scary at all imho.
- What else gives you the chills?
I am not big on straight up horror books anymore. I like my sleep too much!
I am reading Beyond Black, which is about a psychic. The "thing that goes bump in the night" are the ghosts that she communicates with. The creatures of the the night that I find the most frightening are real-life criminals. The scariest book I've ever read was "It", even though it was ludicrous! What else gives me the chills? Mostly snakes! I don't even like seeing them on tv. If I ever saw a bear or mountain lion, while hiking, I would get the chills also!
What are you reading this week?
05/10/2016What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
This one for sure.
What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about? What creatures of the night do you find most frightening? A serial killer who is a brilliant, twisted character.
These are the creatures I find most frightening. Actual living, breathing psychopaths that walk among us.
What else gives you the chills?
Fear. Books like this...movies like The Strangers. Pointless violence. Torture. Nut jobs.
- What are you reading this week? Hannibal- What's the scariest book that you've ever read? I don't really read books that scare me but Perfect Days creeped me out pretty good.
- What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about? What creatures of the night do you find most frightening? Well this is about Hannibal Lector who is a serial killer and eats his victims so that's pretty creepy.
- What else gives you the chills? I think just creepy people in general. The guy from Perfect Days was pretty creepy and I would never want to run into someone like that ever.
What are you reading this week? The Graveyard BookWhat's the scariest book that you've ever read? Hard to say.
What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about? What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
I find thrillers scare me more than horror, so I suppose people more than creatures.
What else gives you the chills? Wasps
What are you reading this week?The Boy Who Drew Monsters
What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
Last Days
What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about? What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
I'm not exactly sure. Monsters a kid has drawn on paper. Maybe the boogeyman.
There aren't any creatures that really frighten me. Realistic stuff makes me jumpy though.
What else gives you the chills?
Realistic, unexplained horror.
- What are you reading this week?The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
- What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton.
- What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about?
Zombies.
- What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
I don't like reading murder stories before going to bed.
- What else gives you the chills?
Spiders.
What are you reading this week?Night of the Crabs by Guy N. Smith
What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
It's a tie between Ghost Story by Peter Straub and The Ruins by Scott B. Smith
What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about?
giant crabs coming out in the moonlight to eat beachcombers
What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
peeping toms
What else gives you the chills?
heights
What are you reading this week?The Ice Twins by SK Tremayne
What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
I'm a bit of a wuss about scary books, but probably the scariest I've read is Red Dragon.
This book was horrifically scary (The Misremembered Man) in a completely different way. It put me in tortuous places, with the protagonist. There were times I had to walk away from the book.
What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about? What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
I thought that this would be a typical twisty-turny novel, like Gone Girl. But it was more frightening than anything I've read in a long time.
What else gives you the chills?
Feeling suffocated, probably.
What are you reading this week?The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
I likely did not finish it.
What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about? What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
People who hurt other people
What else gives you the chills?
Vampires
What are you reading this week?The Lost World
What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
Watchers
What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about?
Dinosaurs
What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
Ones that could really happen, such as animals running amok.
What else gives you the chills?
Ghosts and, like Gail mentions, people who go out of their way to hurt others.
What are you reading this week?The Girl with All the Gifts
- What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
Stella: One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal and Survival in Hitler's Germany, which is about a woman who worked for the Gestapo and gave them info about friends/neighbors to save her own skin. And it's TRUE, which makes it wayyyy more scary than any dystopian novel.
- What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about?
Zombies
What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
Ehhhh, I'm not scared of things I know will never happen. I'm more afraid of wasps, snakes, bears, etc.
- What else gives you the chills?
Graveyards, being home alone at night for too long, the possibility of getting raped/kidnapped when I'm out alone at night
- What are you reading this week?The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
- What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
The Trial has that distinction, though if we are talking actual marketed as horror novels books, more likely Misery.
- What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about? What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
Ghosts. I would say that I am not particularly frightened by anything which does not actually exist. Humans are really the only thing that frighten me (and maybe taxes/bills).
Eeny MeenyWhat are you reading this week?
Eeny Meeny by M.J. Arlidge
- What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
IT by Stephen King when I was a teenager
- What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about?
Psychopath serial killer who gives a choice. kill your fellow prisoner or they will kill you.
What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
Psychopaths
- What else gives you the chills?
Ghosts
Eeny Meeny
- What are you reading this week?I'll officially be reading The Eye of the Moon, but it's book two and it's been ages since I read the first one, so I'm going to read book one, The Book With No Name as well.
- What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
I don't know....I generally don't read horror, and when I do, it doesn't really scare me.
- What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about? What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
Vampires, and a host of other supernatural beings...
- What else gives you the chills?
Spiders
I love the Bourbon Kid series, it's so funny and crazy!
What are you reading this week? I read The Graveyard Book by Neil GaimanWhat's the scariest book that you've ever read? I do not read many scary books, to be honest. I'm using a children's book for my "bump in the night" book so ... what does that tell you? ;) I usually find dystopian books chilling because they have a more realistic quality to me. Like, wow, that could actually happen.
What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about? What creatures of the night do you find most frightening? Ghosts, mostly. But I certainly wouldn't want to find a Sleer under my bed or in my closet. :x
What else gives you the chills? Ugh, spiders. They're so creepy and crawly and yuck.
Progress Post:- What are you reading this week? The Woman in Black
- What's the scariest book that you've ever read? Probably It, by Stephen King
- What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about? What creatures of the night do you find most frightening? Ghost in the book. I don't really find creatures of the night frightening!
- What else gives you the chills? Snakes, I hate snakes!
- What are you reading this week? Dark Matter- What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
For some reason books tend not to really scare me but The Road was a reality so bleak that it made uncomfortable.
- What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about? Not sure yet but think bad humans
What creatures of the night do you find most frightening? Evil humans
- What else gives you the chills? bugs crawling on me.
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- What are you reading this week?This Savage Song by Victoria Shwab
- What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
World War Z
- What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about?
Monsters that are born from human violence
What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
not a fan of zombies, or paranormal/ghosts
- What else gives you the chills?
parasites, being on the ocean in a fog, swimming in water I can't see the bottom to.
What are you reading this week?I am cheating myself a little. I wanted to read "Dracula", but since I am already behind schedule and read - by chance - a book about someone, who is a horse by day and a man by night, I thought, it fits, too. (If the guy doesn't leave the house in time, the horse even goes bump in the doorframe.): My Lady Jane
- What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
Ghost Girl. I read it, when I was 16 and was so scared I begged my mother to let me sleep with her. I think it was so scary, because there was no supernatural about that story. Just human beings being outrageously inhuman in treating their kids. Plots that deal with history or weave stories around people who suffered / existed in real life affect me the most.
- What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about? What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
The book is about shapeshifters in Elizabethian times. Most of them can control their change, but some change with the setting / rising of the sun. Not creepy at all. The book is rather funny/silly/sysuppy. The creatures that bother me most are deal-demanding demons and djinn, I think. Those you cannot predict.
- What else gives you the chills?
Psychological thrillers. Basically the scary human being.
- What are you reading this week?Elite
- What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
I've read several by Stephen King, and I can't say which was the most scary because they all were very creepy.
- What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about? What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
The book I read for this week had many different creatures that the hero of the book had to fight against. It's not a horror-type book, but the descriptions make them sound pretty creepy. One was a super-giant spider, and there were others that had snake bodies and 4-6 arms.
- What else gives you the chills?
I find a lot of different things scary, but the things that are the most scary to me are the things that could really happen (like Silence of the Lambs).
What are you reading this week? The Phantom of the Opera- What's the scariest book that you've ever read? It
- What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about? What creatures of the night do you find most frightening? "Erik", the opera ghost, who looks like a corpse without his mask. I'm more scared of real people (criminals, I mean) than any fantasy creatures. The crime rate in my hometown has skyrocketed...I'm glad I moved!!
- What else gives you the chills? Spiders, definitely spiders, lol
- What are you reading this week?It - Stephen King (Actually more like the past 2 & a half weeks... it's a damn long book!)
- What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
Almost certainly this one -I don't read much horror though
- What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about? What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
Erm... it's hard to describe IT, but it often takes the form of a killer/canabalistic clown... so yeah, definitely what you would classify *it* as.
- What else gives you the chills?
I hate those movies with things that jump out at you. They always get me!
And things like Saw which are just really gruesome and gross...
What are you reading this week?The Halloween Tree. I wasn't planning on reading this, but I couldn't resist a book of the month that fits into a prompt that I still had open/flexible.
What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
By far, Little Girls.
What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about? What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
At the time that I'm posting this, I'm only about halfway through the book. So far, the characters have encountered a mummy, a whole bunch of bugs, and a creepy skeletal person coming out of a leaf pile.
As for which creature I find most frightening, definitely ghosts.
What else gives you the chills?
Psychological horror/thrillers, bugs, child psychopaths, basically any really scary movie, deep water (thanks to former co-workers who threw me into the water repeatedly at the beach when I couldn't swim!)
For this week, I read This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers. I don't really read scary books, but I want to start reading Stephen King. This book is about zombies and I frequently read books about zombies because despite my irrational fear of them, I enjoy reading about human survival during the ZA. I'm also terribly afraid of spiders and needles.
- What are you reading this week? Shallow Graves- What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
"The Monkey", short story by King with alive toy. Creeeepy!
- What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about? What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
It's about a undead girl (like in "rising from the grave") that can see supernatural stuff (ghosts, killers, etc). I think I'd be very disturbed if I could see ghosts.
- What else gives you the chills?
Usually, people. Also, dolls (Chucky trauma survivor here).
What are you reading this week?I read Sharp Objects
What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
Ooooh I have no idea. I read a lot of scary books. I think Michael Grant's Gone series as a whole has been pretty terrifying. I actually had a nightmare after I binge-read the first 4 novels.
What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about?
Serial killers. I read a lot about ghosts and vampires and zombies regularly, so I thought I'd try something a little different. Plus I'm more scared of serial killers than I am of the former because serial killers actually exist.
What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
People. People are the scariest fucking things in the world.
What else gives you the chills?
And trees. All plants, really. I always have these weird dreams of them being alive and grabbing me with their branches and vines and shit o_O
- What are you reading this week?Swan Song
- What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
Hmm not sure, something Stephen King, maybe The Shining
- What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about? What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
Humans after nuclear war, people themselves are turning out to be the scariest thing after the initial destruction.
- What else gives you the chills?
Creepy Crawlers like spiders and bugs
What are you reading this week? HornsWhat's the scariest book that you've ever read? 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about? Demons from Hell
What creatures of the night do you find most frightening? Dead children
What else gives you the chills? Spiders
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- What are you reading this week?This week I will be reading Carrie by Stephen King.
- What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
The Woman in Black was fairly creepy. The Comfort of Strangers is also creepy but in a "WTF????" way.
- What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about? What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
I have seen the film Carrie so I believe it is about a teenage girl with telekinesis who is bullied at school and emotionally abused by her Christian Fundamentalist fire-and-brimstone mother. Eventually she snaps and wreaks havoc on all those who have been plaguing her.
I am not particularly bothered by creatures of the night now but as a child I used to have a recurring nightmare based on the scene in the film ET when Elliot and ET first encounter each other in the long grass.
- What else gives you the chills?
Clowns. Old-fashioned porcelain dolls. Poor spelling and grammar.
What are you reading this week?I read The Halloween Tree
- What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
I don't read many scary horror type books, so I will say The Handmaid's Tale, as that scenario can really happen one day.
- What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about?
There is a mysterioius figure that takes 8 boys on a scary journey through time.
What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
Clowns! They are so scary.
- What else gives you the chills?
Lizards, they really freak me out.
What are you reading this week?The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
I honestly don't know. I guess It by Stephen King? I did not like it at all and didn't feel particularly scared by it, though... just grossed out.
What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about?
Zombies. I haven't gotten to where they reveal that yet, but I have read enough reviews of this to guess...
What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
Zombies.
What else gives you the chills?
Evil tyrants/government bureaucracies. Possibly aliens? Yes, definitely aliens. And ghosts, maybe.
- What are you reading this week?Never Knowing - What's the scariest book that you've ever read? I don't remember.
- What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about? Serial killer.
- What creatures of the night do you find most frightening? It is not a creature but I don't like abandoned houses.
- What else gives you the chills?
How people behave (mostly in the name of God).
What are you reading this week?All the Missing Girls
What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
I'm not sure
What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about?
Unknown killer/missing girls
What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
Serial killers
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- What's the scariest book that you've ever read?
- What "thing that goes bump in the night" are you reading about? What creatures of the night do you find most frightening?
- What else gives you the chills?