Sunday Fun Five: The 5 Stories/Books that Never Cease to Scare You

The Sunday Fun Five #12

Sunday Fun 5:

#1: The 5 Stages of Reading a Bad Book

#2: The 5 Literary Antagonists You Hope You Never Meet

#3: The 5 Realms of the Written Word You Wish You Never Left

#4: The 5 Authors You Would Revive, If Only For a Day
#5: The 5 Books That Define You as a Person and a Reader
#6: The 5 Genres (or Subgenres) You Never Get Tired Of
#7: The 5 Husband-Material Characters You Wish Were Real
#8: The 5 Books You'd Rather Steal Than Wait For (To Be Published)
#9: The 5 Alternate Blog Names For Your Blog
#10: The 5 Books That Make You Want to Go Places
#11: The 5 Fatal Mistakes of an Author (Literary Pet Peeves)
#12: The 5 Stories/Books that Never Cease to Scare You
For the 26th of October: #13: The 5 Unluckiest Characters in Books
...because it's #13.

Feel free to participate by commenting below or writing a blog post: I wrote up some guidelines for blog participation here.

A Countdown of

The 5 Stories/Books that Never Cease to Scare You

I'll be honest- I'm a bit of a lightweight when it comes to horror/scary stories- I simply don't like being scared that much while reading, so most of mine aren't too scary.

5. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
I think this is the ultimate nightmare for any woman- to live in a place where your value is determined by your fertility, and even if you have that, you still have no rights. Although I dearly hope this would never become real, this dystopia presents a distinct possible future if we ever relied solely on religious extremism to dictate our laws.

Image From Wikipedia and the film

4. "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
The ultimate survivor story, combined with a game that may or may not be legal and a crazy host. Run, Rainsford, run!

3. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The nameless second wife of Maxim de Winter is unsure what foul deed killed his first wife, and lives with a housekeeper who worships said first wife as if she's still alive. I wouldn't want to live in that house, no matter how cool it looks on this book cover!

2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (and its entire series) by Stieg Larsson 
I was up all night reading this, in part because the mystery was gripping, but also I was scared to death for Lisbeth and Mikael Blomkvist. Mikael because he poked around a little to much, and Lisbeth because she's surrounded by psycho people. I can't say more without the dreaded spoilers, but this book is seriously scary.

Image From Wikipedia

1. "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
This is both my favorite scary short story and the one that scares me the most. I can't tell you much without spoiling this delight (other than it's murderously good), so I'll have to review it on my Mini Macabre Review Monday soon.

Do you have a favorite scary read- or one that scared you so much you don't want to read it again?