Who here loves a good horror novel? With movies becoming the main form of entertainment, people
tend to stop reading horror books, and instead just rely on the movies to get a good scare
from. But theres something about horror books that personally make me more scared. I guess
its because I'm putting myself in the characters' shoes, and imagine myself in that circumstance,
as opposed to watching the characters go through it.
Hey hi hello whats up? Whats going on, how are you all doing? Im doing great, i hope
you all are too. Welcome back to top 5 scary videos Im your host lindsay Ivan, and today
i'm bringing you the top 5 scariest horror books that will change you.
Before we begin let me know in the comments below if you prefer reading horror books,
or watching horror movies. And with that being said let's dive into my
list. Now just a little disclaimer I'm trying not to give away many spoilers for these books,
just in case you decide that you want to read these books after watching this video.
Alright in our fifth spot we have the call.
This is a suspenseful fantasy fiction book published in 2016. This novel surrounds a
world where every teen at one point in their life is transported to a grey land. Doesn’t
seem that scary right? Wrong. Well when they reappear to their world 9 out of 10 children
return dead. And the few survivors come back disfigured, or mentally and physically scarred.
It is said that 3 minutes and 4 seconds is the amount of time that they vanish and then
reappear. But to them it's a whole 24 hours in this grey area. This novel surrounds the
main character Nessa, who is trying to do everything she can to survive when she is
called, although she is permanently on crutches due to polio. When you are transported to
this land you have to fight for your life against terrifying creatures whose main goal
is to torture and kill you. There is kind of a hunger games vibe to this book, except
it's not just a couple of people from each district that get enlisted, instead every
teen has to go through this, at any random moment it. Now this grey land is completely
colourless, the grass will slice your feet, the trees will slice you open or rip off your
skin. The creatures want to disfigure you. If that's not scary already here is a quote
from the novel. The pain is the most intense the boy has ever known. So bad that it drives
him to his knees, his eyes roll in his skull, and he dislocates his own jaw in his efforts
to scream. And the Sídhe pinches off the arms like lengths of putty, before grabbing
him by the knees and working the same horrible miracle. Truly horrific.
Coming in at number 4 we have the Troop. The troop is a 2014 novel about a troop of
boys going on a 3 day camping trip. Now I wish that this novel was more light hearted
like with the troops having a good time, maybe roasting a couple marshmallows, but it is
way darker than that. Now in this book, the scout master tim riggs, leads a group of 5
teen boys to the canadian wilderness. Apparently this was a tradition for the group, however
things start to take a twist soon. While on this trip they encounter a thin, very pale
man. This man is eerily sick and gaunt, and even coughs up slime. Upon cutting the man
open a giant worm slithers out. This worm then latches on to another boy, and infects
them. This novel continues with the troop boys struggling for survival among this deadly
bioengineered infestation. Now even stephen king left a review saying The Troop scared
the hell out of me, and I couldn’t put it down. This is old-school horror at its best.
If the horror thriller writer stephen king himself got spooked during this one.. Dang
goodluck to you. This novel is fairly gorey and psychologically scary. Although worms
may seem like harmless creatures, in this book they were re-engineered for weaponization,
to infect and take control of the host's body. Sounds pretty terrifying to me.
Next up at number 3 we have Naomi’s room. Now this novel was released in 1991 by the
author Denis maceoin. This novel surrounds a family whose 4 year old daughter naomi was
kidnapped from them from a department store on christmas eve. She is eventually found
dead, with her bloody clothes and body found in an alley way. Throughout this book as you
try to figure out what happened to naomi, more people get killed along the way, and
more puzzling and scary things happen to naomi's dad. Some of scary events that they encounter
are hearing footsteps in the attic, hearing whispers or even seeing faces at the attic
window. Then you have a reporter that shows who is haunting them, who then is later even
seen in vacation photos…. So creepy. Here is a quote from the book.
Something is coming down the stairs. It is very slow, and I think it stops and listens
every step or so. If I hold my breath and wait, I can almost hear it breathing. Please
God, help me get through this, help me get through tonight at least……..
This book does an amazing job at filling the readers head with terrifying images when they
read, definitely making it harder for them to sleep at night. It becomes even scarier
when you find out the backstory of the house, and it'll make you wish that you never had
an attic in your house.
Moving on to number 2 we have The amityville horror
Amityville (am - i- tee-ville) horror is a 1977 novel written by jay anson. Im sure you
have heard of the amityville hauntings before, infact there are several movie based on them.
Well this book is about the true experiences that the Lutz family has experienced. I think
thats a main reason why it is so terrifying, because its based on true claims from the
family. Now some people believe that the paranormal experiences that this family state are made
up, but either way this book is bone chilling. However, IT IS about the real life story of
Ronald DeFeo Jr., who shot and killed his family of 6 in their family home. After that,
the lutz family moved into this home and were terrorized by paranormal hauntings. The book
describes some of the nerve wrecking things that the family has experienced such as george
lutz waking up at 3:15 every morning…which they later discovered that it was the time
that ronald de feo killed his family. The book even talks about a small hidden room,
with walls that are entirely red, that gave off an ominous vibe. Or even george seeing
his wife transform into a 90 year old women with salvia dripping from her toothless mouth,
with massive wrinkles right before his eyes. Whether these accounts are real or not, this
book will surely get to you.
And in our number one spot we have the book titled intercepts
Intercepts is a 2019 psychological thriller novel written by T.J Payne. This novel surrounds
Joe, a man who works at a government facility that performs human experimentations. Things
start to shift in joe’s life when these experiments start to go wrong, and starts
to seep into joe’s personal life. In fact, Joe's daughter Riley starts to have hallucinations
like seeing a woman tearing her own skin off her face. This book doesn't stop there. It
is filled with other terrifying visuals and gorey details. It is definitely a mind bender,
and i think the main reason it instills so much fear in individuals is due to the fact
that we truly don't know what the government is up to. We don’t know if there are current
human test subjects. I think the whole government conspiracy really adds onto the creep fact
of this book. In this book, the government is doing these tests to unlock abilities in
the human mind. I mean the government has been found guilty of doing inhumane tests
in the past. Such as in the 1940’s 11 employees were injected with malaria and then starved
for 5 days, or when the us government in 1993 tested mustard gas and other chemicals on
american troops. I think thats a main reason why this book is so unnerving. And then you
have the more supernatural aspect to it as well from joe and rileys pov which seems like
a haunting that is driving people insane. This fills them with terrible visions and
hallucinations. As a result it makes you almost feel like you are hallucinating too. This
is definitely a thought provoking book, which does not have the happiest ending, so be warned.
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