Top Ten Scariest Stephen King Books

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Here are the Stephen King books that I would consider his scariest! Which is saying something, because I normally don’t get scared reading books, but my top 3 are definitely scary for me! Let me know down below what are your scariest SK books!

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[otherworldsthanthese]

I love that I predicted your three scariest in my video! Thanks for the shoutout by the way 😂

[CestKevvie]

I'm excited to see that Gerald's Game is so high up on your list! Makes me even more excited to read it!

[teatimewithtraceyandcrew]

omgoodness I love this this intro. The interview is everything! lol. I have to subscribed (#518) for that for sure! lol. Love me some King for sure... Love all genres but am on a horror kick. Thanks so much for sharing. I haven't read alot of Stephen Kings... I did read The Stand, It, The Shining, Pet Cemetery but am so going to continue to keep going. Peace, Love & Drumstix...opps I mean Happiness~ Tracey

[deedeejade]

I loved loved loved the intro!! 😂😂 so funny

[markgillespie]

In my teens I only read Skeleton Crew and 'The Monkey' genuinely creeped me out. Since starting with King again as an adult, I'm 20 books in and can't really say I've felt scared by anything I've read yet, the closest I've felt was maybe the end of 'The Man who Loved Flowers' and 'The Boogeyman', both in Night Shift.

[lukesheehy]

Just picked up Revival earlier today and started reading it. I am excited to see what this ending is all about (been avoiding spoilers).

[SheWasOnlyEvie]

Nice to see the new set being used for b-roll interlude footage!

[hazawazzawoo]

love the shameless promo, super excited to see how the book club goes 😀

definitely agree that full dark, no stars and pet sematary are some of his most terrifying reads but the two scariest individual scenes ive read are definitely the well scene in dolores claiborne and the fridge scene from IT. these are the moments that really make king live up to his title of the king of horror.

ive not read salems lot or misery but of course ive heard amazing and terrifying thing's about them (if the misery book is anything like the movie im sure id be terrified reading it).

personally i loved cujo but didn't find it too scary, more depressing and pet sematary esque. the most scary parts for me were definitely near the beginning of the book with the monster in the closet, something about that really spoke to me.
geralds game also didn't scare me much when i read it but that was because id already seen the fantastic netflix movie that did the perfect job terrifying me on it's own. the first time you see the moonlight man genuinely made me jump hahaha. all that being said id definitely be scared if i was in the situations presented in cujo or geralds game so i see where you're coming from.

my final weird pick will be the tommyknockers which i just finished recently (my 24th king book for anyone who cares haha). whilst most of the book didn't actually scare me i did have a particularly intense dream revolving around losing teeth and horrible disfigured people with bleeding smiles chasing me based off the book which solidified it as one of my favourite reading experiences. i love when a book has such a large impact on me and as such i loved the tommyknockers despite all the hate it gets.

fantastic work, keep it up 😊

[daliagonzalez]

The first book I ever read ( Or attempted to read because I didn't finish it) written by SK Pet Cemetery and that thing scared me. I get that it's fictional and the events won't happen in the real world but the emotions the characters felt and the topic of death and how we deal with it is very much real and I guess that's why I find that book scarier than the other books that are realistic.

[michaelroy]

The ending of Revival still haunts my memory ever since I finished it long ago.

[seekanddestroy]

I saw you post on one of Otherworldsthanthese's videos, and I'm pretty sure that you said in that comment that the top 3 are Gerald's Game, Cujo and Misery.

[CestKevvie]

Also, the Night Shift ebook is on sale right now so I just picked it up! 11/22/63 is also on sale, but I'm not going to get that one because I'd never read it; books of that length I prefer to listen to.

[chrillabbe]

If you dont get scared by movies or books you should try games like amnesia or outlast.

[TalibHOB]

I really want to start reading Stephen King but I just can't decide where to start, people say that his writing can get really weird and really creepy and that the reason one should read them but God help me decide where😂

and yeah I loved the drums

[patcoston]

You said The Long Walk was ahead of it's time but King got inspiration from the short-story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson which was published in 1948. So don't give King the credit for inventing the concept. The novel has been compared to these movies:

* The Hunger Games (2012), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)
* The Maze Runner (2014), The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015), The Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)
* Deathsport (1978), Death Race (2008), Death Racers (2008), Death Race 2 (2010), Death Race: Inferno (2013), Death Race 2050 (2017), Death Race 4: Beyond Anarchy (2018)
* Battle Royale (2000), Battle Royale II (2003)
* The Condemned (2007)
* The Running Man (1987)
* The Circle (2015)
* The Thinning (2016)
* Squid Game (2021)

but was written before these.

Note: Death Race 2000 (1975) was released before The Long Walk was published in 1979.

[markolepotan]

I really loved Revival and it’s one of my favorite King book! I don’t see anyone mentioning the Green Mile as one of the scariest books but for me that book was very disturbing and obviously just heartbreaking (also one of my favorites)

[aaronsaunders]

my 3

it
the running man
the shining

[genosciacca]

I actually got Cujo free at the library then burned it in my firepit before reading it cause I would just get out of the car and hit it with a tire iron and get a rabies shot after flagging for help.

[djlu]

Salems Lot was not scary to me. The vampires were too cliche. They're like...vampires from Buffy. It was almost cartoony.

[angelaholmes]

Would you ever do videos on Stephen king adaptations 🤔📚📕