Welcome to another TTT! This week’s topic is a Halloween-themed freebie. I woke up in the middle of the night on Wednesday with the most terrifying thing ever: food poisoning. Or maybe a stomach bug? Who really knows? Anyway, I still haven’t bounced back yet and am drinking Gatorade in bed right now. I’ve decided to do a topic I did way back in the olden days that didn’t get a ton of love, and share the top ten things in books that terrify me. I’m basically the biggest chicken ever so this won’t even be hard. So here we go!
1. Ghosts. I don’t do haunted things. I just can’t. Seriously. I keep trying and I’m getting better at this, but it’s slow going.
2. Murderers. I can handle murderers. I like murder mysteries! I just get terrified really fast.
3. Stalkers. It’s the waiting, you guys. Waiting for something to happen. I call it scary tension.
4. Foggy, craggy shores at night. What foggy, craggy shore doesn’t have a deadly person/thing hanging around it?
5. Zombies. I’m just not a fan of people eating other people.
6. The entire Southern Gothic genre is creepy, but I love it! It’s atmospheric!
7. Possessed animals. I’m talking The Hound of the Baskervilles. Or Nancy Drew’s Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake. Wait, that’s a computer game. In any case, it’s scary.
8. Curses. No no no no no no no no.
9. When a character is home alone and they hear something bump or creek in their house. All of a sudden, I have Vulcan hearing and can hear all things.
10. Medical stories that don’t go down so well. Like if the character is drugged and can’t do something! Or a surgeon is also a serial killer and can kill patients but make it look like an accident??
What creeps you out in books? Do you have a high threshold, or are you totally wimpy like me?
What topic did you come up with this week?
Have a safe Halloween this weekend!
Not a lot scares me, but ghosts do it. Or ghostly demons. Footsteps on the stairs when no one is there, things being knocked off shelves, seeing something out of the corner of your eye. *shivers* Yeah, that’s what scares me the most.
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You know, I’m not big on scary things in general. But I LOVE ghost stories. I don’t know what it is about them, but I can never resist them.
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hahahaha I’m a wimp too :) My TTT
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Honestly I’m not super creeped out by things in book that often, if it were movies I’d probably be super creeped out, but I know that I just really don’t like reading about dolls or clowns. I read Dollhouse by Anya Allyn and it featured both of them; I couldn’t sleep that night after reading that part!
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Great list, I can relate to number 9 and I do myself no favors, because I’m a fan of scary stories.
Bring on all the weird delicious goodness on your list. ;)
I don’t like zombies as a rule but did love the book/movie adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies; and the Warm Bodies movie is cute too! Hope you feel better, Jana.
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Great list. Murderers creep me out. Why people kill other people is shocking to me.
Cujo left me terrified of dogs for a long time.
I’m with you on Zombies. Yuck!
I can read most horror but demons/possessions scare me to death! I don’t sleep for weeks afterwards! I can’t watch serious horror movies at all . Goosebumps is about it as far as scary movies go! 😂
I hope you feel better!
I find that I’m fascinated by medical stuff that doesn’t go so well, but it also terrifies me at the same time.
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Real life things are so much scarier than ghostly things for me – murderers and stalkers would be top of my list!
Hahah it’s okay Jana, I am a big scared-y cat, too! No zombies, blood, guts and gore, thank you! That’s why I played it safe this week and made a list of books with witches in: good, bad and funny ones! 🧙♀️
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We don’t really celebrate Halloween over here, so I did a slightly different twist on how we start the season of dark evenings.
Oh yeah, any of these would scare me too! Creepy dolls are one of my no-nos! Lol.!
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I don’t like possessed animals either.
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
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I feel the same way about medical stories that don’t go down well. Just can’t do them!
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I hope you feel better soon!
Yep, hearing creepy things coming from inside the house is the last thing I want–especially if I’m home alone. I stay far, FAR away from home invasion horror films.
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Wow, you are REALLY wimpy :) I like scary stories as long as they aren’t TOO scary because I’m a wimp, too!
Happy TTT!
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Hallo, Hallo,..
I actually planned this week’s TTT in advance whilst I had the chance to have a guest feature by an author respond to a topic I felt was wickedly fitting for Halloween week: Top Ten Reasons Ghost Hunting is a Spookified Experience whilst connecting to the author’s new ghost story! I hope everyone enjoys the post! It is a wicked lovely read – as it feels more like a short story! Happy Halloween, everyone!
PS If your on Twitter – look for our #SpooktasticReads tag and see if you find some new lovelies to be adding to your TBR!
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Yeah, I don’t like scary tension either. I hate being scared…
I do not like to be scared so I don’t read horror, magic, zombies etc. Don’t watch them either. I researched new Halloweenish books and posted what I found for today for those who DO like that stuff.
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I’m a horror wimp, too! And yes, stalkers are terrifying. The waiting is the worst—plus, it’s then so easy to imaging you’re being stalked as you read. *shudder*
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Don’t even get me started on zombies. There’s a reason why I can’t watch The Walking Dead or anything like it. I’m a scaredy cat :)
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Ghosts freak me out as well but they’re also my favourite so…idk haha.
Your entire list is basically what I love to read during Spook Season (except zombies, but only ’cause they gross me out). Ghost stories are the best, but I love “things that go bump in the background” stories too so I leap 8 feet in the air thanks to my, as you say, newfound Vulcan hearing.
The other thing that genuinely freaks me out is realistic post-apocalyptic survival stories — when something happens as a result of climate change or a mega-deadly flu virus (oh hey). Susan Beth Pfeffer’s Life As We Knew It was the first one I ever read and even though I was already 20 as opposed to a young and more impressionable teen, I was legitimately scared to look at the moon for like 2 weeks in case it might have gotten closer!
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I’m with you on the medical, and even in non-horror. Like if I watch Grey’s Anatomy for a few days, that’s it, unrelated panic attacks and nightmares all week long.