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Scott Adsit
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| Posted: 01 November 2025 at 4:33am | IP Logged | 1
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There's a Stephen King short story that I can't remember much of, but it really got me for a while. The kind of spooked where you don't want to enter a darkened room in your own house.
Help me out with the title. I'm trying to remember more, but it was about a guy who suspects that a relative's corpse has crawled out of the grave and walked into the front door of his house. It's essentially him hearing the sounds that may or may not be a cadaver shambling around downstairs. Anybody know it?
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Dave Kopperman
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| Posted: 01 November 2025 at 4:39am | IP Logged | 2
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Hmm. Maybe 1922?
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James Woodcock
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| Posted: 01 November 2025 at 7:12am | IP Logged | 3
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Scary?
My outright winner is WOLFEN.
There is a sequence where the detectives are in a house and they hear what
they think is a baby sound upstairs. Palpable fright was elicited in my early
teenage mind when I read that part of the book.
It remains my favourite horror novel because it is the only book to ever have
done that to me.
Much like the way THE THING remains my favourite horror film, not only
because it is a ridiculously good film anyway, but because the initial
transformation scene with the dog remains the scene that scared me the
most out of anything I have ever watched.
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Bill Collins
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| Posted: 01 November 2025 at 7:30am | IP Logged | 4
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I have read a lot of horror by the likes of Stephen King,
Clive Barker etc but the one book that made my skin crawl
wasn't fiction...Happy Like Murderers by Gordon Burn. It's
about British married couple serial killers Fred and Rose
West. Some paragraphs i had to read twice after a pause to
let it sink in. The depravity and sheer evil of this couple
makes famous American serial killers look tame. From their
childhoods to the discovery of the true extent of their
crimes, it's truly horrific.
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Craig Earl
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Probably because of age that I read it (around 12?), James Herbert's THE RATS left quite an impression.
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John Byrne
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I should give mention to the Classics Illustrated version of THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, with art by Lou Cameron. There’s a scene in which the hero is hiding in a coal cellar when one of the Martian tripods parks itself directly above him. It sends down one of its metal tentacles to grope around in the dark space. Our hero cowers in a corner, pushing himself against the stone walls as the tentacle twists and coils blindly across the piled coal. Finally its tip touches the heel of the man’s boot. Then it drops, picks up a lump of coal and departs. That night, in my bed in the corner of my parents bedroom, I quite clearly saw that tentacle come through the door and creep toward me. A dream, of course, but vivid enough that it is still sharp in my mind almost seventy years later.
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James Woodcock
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| Posted: 01 November 2025 at 5:06pm | IP Logged | 7
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I used to suffer from bronchitis when I was really young. Probably up to
around 8 or 9 years of age. Really bad, if I went out in the rain, I’d get a bout
and be off school for a couple of weeks. Massive fevers etc.
I had a camp bed downstairs for these episodes.
Once, while having one of these, I watched either Buck Rogers or Flash
Gordon with a bunch of mud men.
Man, did I have a fever dream after that, screaming my head off about mud
men coming out of the walls.
My brothers didn’t let me live that down for years!
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Bill Collins
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Regarding The War of the Worlds, after watching the George
Pal version as a kid, the sound of the Matian machines
scared me. Often whilst in bed i could hear a nearby bus
stop sign clanging if it was windy, and it sounded very
much like those machines!
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