It is by far his least frightening book - to me anyway. But the plot and subject matter are by far the most disturbing I've ever read in any of his books.
That's an excellent book, also 'Nobody True' - well worth a read. Again, not frightening but a excellent book!
Can't believe we're this far in with no-one mentioning Irvine Welsh's "Marabou Stork Nightmares". Pretty grim all the way through but the ending left me shaking and in tears of shock. Perhaps it was just because I was a teenager when I read it but I've never felt I've wanted to go back as an adult to test the theory
Bumping up this thread purely because it's a belter! I've got it bookmarked and dip in to dowload when I need a good horror. I love being creeped out, whether it's a psychological mindf*ck or a full on gorefest.
Although most of it went over my head at the time, back in the 90s, I've since re-read the Twin Peaks tie-in 'The Secret Diary Of Laura Palmer'. I have to say I was quite taken aback - and not in a positive way - as an adult at the vividly descriptive authorship of the under-age sex, drugs and orgy shenanigans Laura embroils herself in; to the point of becoming more uncomfortable with the concept of the book itself than the actual content.
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That's an excellent book, also 'Nobody True' - well worth a read. Again, not frightening but a excellent book!
I've just ordered several books on the back of this thread.
Also A Woman in Berlin, so many terrible instances.
The Kite Runner, I read it before it was famous, and had NO idea what was to happen.