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What’s the scariest book your librarians have ever read?

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Ms. Hahn — Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

I don’t do scary–I’m not sure why really, but I don’t.  When I was a kid my friends would have sleepovers and watch scary movies, my mom allowed me to go until we all discovered that it caused me just too much grief! I cried, I threw up, and I had wildly terrible nightmares.  Even as an adult I still have flashes of bits of movies that I witnessed—an alligator that grew in the sewer or a car driving in the dark and hitting a kid coming out of the corn field.  Terrible stuff.  So, when you ask me the scariest book I’ve ever read. . .well, I’ve long since known that everything is too scary for me.  Even so, when my book club chose Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn, I committed to reading it.  I can’t really remember much about the story, but I do remember pacing while I read it and having to read just a page or so at a time.  My book club loved it.  They talked about every plot twist and how the writing was sharp and kept them on the edge of their seats.  It sort of gives me a touch of the willies to even check the book out to someone else.  

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Ms. Wolgamot — Pet Sematary by Stephen King

The book that scared me was Pet Sematary by Stephen King. I was in high school when the book came out, and I was an avid Stephen King reader.  I checked out a copy from the library right away and took it with me to a babysitting job.  Babysitting was great – you gave the kid dinner, read them a story, and put them to bed by 8. If all went well you would have 3 or 4 glorious, quiet hours to read before the parents came home.  Everything started out fine – the youngster was rambunctious, but after a little wrangling, he was off to bed.  Soon I was sitting alone in an unfamiliar living room, dark save for a small lamp by the couch. If you have read Pet Sematary you know that animals buried there come back to life.  You also know that a small boy is run over by a truck and buried in that cemetery by his father.  But when he comes back to life, he is different, and terrifying.  I was so deeply engrossed in this book that I did not hear the real child that I was babysitting sneak out of his bed and crawl behind the couch where I was sitting.  He leaped from his hiding place and yelled “BOO!” at the top of his lungs.  I screamed and jumped higher than I have ever jumped.  I was scared and angry — he giggled merrily and went back to bed, mission accomplished.  And really, that book was scary enough without any external terror added in!  If you like scary books, definitely give this one a try.

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Ms. Rott — Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Lord of the Flies isn’t your typical horror book: No jump scenes, no ghosts, no murders — just a bunch of little boys on an island adventure. But for me, Lord of the Flies is the scariest book I’ve ever read. 

Maybe it’s so scary because of when I first read it. I was twenty-two,  finishing my English degree, and on maternity leave with a  brand-new baby boy. While Nathan napped, I read about the boys in the book: Ralph, Jack, Piggy, and Simon. At first I imagined my sweet Nathan growing up to explore  tropical islands, to build huts for other children, to establish order by blowing a conch.  I wanted his world to be grand and full of possibilities, and to make sense. 

However, the story soon turned dark: There was a monster on the island, and the monster WAS THE BOYS! In one horrible scene, the Lord of the Flies — the symbol of evil — told Simon, “I’m part of you.” 

I was shaken. Did my innocent baby have the capacity for good and for evil? And would he grow up in a world filled with people who could act in evil, brutal ways? I knew it was true, and I was terrified. People can be scarier than monsters.

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What’s the scariest book you’ve ever read? Come to the library and find one that shakes your bones.

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