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In the discussion thread: What's the creepiest short story you've read? [View all]

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Fri Jun 15, 2012, 04:10 PM

Posteritatis (17,253 posts)

31. Yep. (nt)

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79 replies	Author	Time	Post
What's the creepiest short story you've read? [View all]	DerekG	Jun 2012	OP
The one I have in mind is more scary than creepy, but it is really good.	CaliforniaPeggy	Jun 2012	#1
Good call! I think about that one all the time when I'm walking dark dirt	petronius	Jun 2012	#2
Good one. A whole planet as a haunted house. n/t	sarge43	Jun 2012	#13
We Have Always Lived in the Castle	HarveyDarkey	Jun 2012	#3
Shirley Jackson was a master - ok, mistress -	kimi	Jun 2012	#5
That she is	HarveyDarkey	Jun 2012	#6
Ah, yes.	Demoiselle	Jun 2012	#33
I hated the lottery. She totally had me fooled.	applegrove	Jun 2012	#65
First time I read The Lottery I was maybe 12.	alphafemale	Jun 2012	#70
I like The Monkey Treatment by George RR Martin	aint_no_life_nowhere	Jun 2012	#4
I did not know Martin wrote that	CBGLuthier	Jun 2012	#14
The Mark of the Beast	GoneOffShore	Jun 2012	#7
A Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner	Art_from_Ark	Jun 2012	#8
This was my answer.	EastTennesseeDem	Jun 2012	#24
Way back when	HeiressofBickworth	Jun 2012	#9
Ramsay Campbell is a genius at scary short stories.	closeupready	Jun 2012	#10
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson	loyalsister	Jun 2012	#11
Couldn't Agree More	RobinA	Jun 2012	#20
7th grade?	loyalsister	Jun 2012	#30
Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown	sarge43	Jun 2012	#12
I wrote a paper on that story in college.	RiffRandell	Jun 2012	#15
Anything by Shirley Jackson	annonymous	Jun 2012	#16
Specimen 313	pipi_k	Jun 2012	#17
"In the Land of the Lawn Weenies"	HopeHoops	Jun 2012	#18
"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison	YankeyMCC	Jun 2012	#19
That would be my candidate as well	rox63	Jun 2012	#28
That was a good one, but for me, nothing beats "Sensible City" for creepiness.	Aristus	Jun 2012	#52
"The Breathing Method" by Stephen King	mentalsolstice	Jun 2012	#21
The Small Assassin creeped me out as a kid.	nolabear	Jun 2012	#22
Poe...any of Poe's short stories. n/t	Raven	Jun 2012	#23
Was wondering when someone would mention Poe!	pink-o	Jun 2012	#37
I'll second Edgar Allen Poe	Trailrider1951	Jun 2012	#25
My favorite too! n/t	Raven	Jun 2012	#68
"The Nine Billion Names Of God" by Arthur C. Clarke. (nt)	Paladin	Jun 2012	#26
Yep. (nt)	Posteritatis	Jun 2012	#31
"Hinterlands" by William Gibson	LeftOfSelf-Centered	Jun 2012	#27
Lots of great suggestions above (O'Connor, Jackson, Faulkner, Poe); here's a couple more...	Tom Ripley	Jun 2012	#29
both of these suggestions are great, 2 of the scariest stories ever written	pitohui	Jun 2012	#48
Kafka's "In The Penal Colony"	surrealAmerican	Jun 2012	#32
That gets my vote as well.	harmonicon	Jun 2012	#79
The recently deceased Ray Bradbury had one	KamaAina	Jun 2012	#34
That WAS a horror-filled story -- I think it was made into a short B&W British film.	MiddleFingerMom	Jun 2012	#36
I seem to remember this one differently.	surrealAmerican	Jun 2012	#39
She was from Earth originally	KamaAina	Jun 2012	#59
What's "horror" about that? I don't get it. nt	Honeycombe8	Jun 2012	#41
i guess you had to be there	pitohui	Jun 2012	#45
It sounds like "All Summer in a Day"	frogmarch	Jun 2012	#53
DING DING DING!	KamaAina	Jun 2012	#60
"All Summer in a Day". Made me cry.	nolabear	Jun 2012	#58
DING DING DING!	KamaAina	Jun 2012	#61
Kafka's Metamorphosis	lunatica	Jun 2012	#35
+1. Eew. N/t	pink-o	Jun 2012	#38
and strangely the part where he's crippled breaks your heart	pitohui	Jun 2012	#47
I was thinking more of it as a creepy story	lunatica	Jun 2012	#50
he was probably born thinking of himself that way	pitohui	Jun 2012	#51
As a parent I would feel that my child's physical problem were my fault	lunatica	Jun 2012	#56
Stephen King's "Lawnmower Man" I think it's called.	Honeycombe8	Jun 2012	#40
EVERY story in that collection is great.	Frank Cannon	Jun 2012	#66
The Monkey's Paw	frogmarch	Jun 2012	#42
Be Careful What you Wish For. nt	alphafemale	Jun 2012	#69
"The Rats in the Walls" H P Lovecraft or many others by that strange genius n/t	dimbear	Jun 2012	#43
The House of Asterion is pretty creepy	Zorro	Jun 2012	#44
there's a book by peter straub full of them, houses without doors	pitohui	Jun 2012	#46
The stuff in the books by Alvin Schwartz.	sakabatou	Jun 2012	#49
The Cask of Amontillado from Poe	nytemare	Jun 2012	#54
'The thousand injuries of Fortunado	lovemydog	Jun 2012	#63
Noche Boca Arriba by Julio Cortazar	Common Sense Party	Jun 2012	#55
Divided by Infinity by Robert Charles Wilson	pokerfan	Jun 2012	#57
"The Wendigo" by Algernon Blackwood terrified me as a child	Glorfindel	Jun 2012	#62
The Willows by Algernon Blackwood	aint_no_life_nowhere	Jun 2012	#64
"The Judge's House," by Bram Stoker really creeped me out.	raccoon	Jun 2012	#67
This wasn't read but "Blink" in the Dr Who series was very creepy. The angel..	BlueJazz	Jun 2012	#71
This one	Major Nikon	Jun 2012	#72
The last man in the world sat alone in a room.	eppur_se_muova	Jun 2012	#73
The Lottery	WilliamPitt	Jun 2012	#74
Do you like TheTwilight Zone?-	MerryBlooms	Jun 2012	#75
I think it was called "The Lottery"	AsahinaKimi	Jun 2012	#76
* spoiler alert above **	IcyPeas	Jun 2012	#78
"The Mist" by Stephen King.	Johnny Rico	Jun 2012	#77

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