With ~spooky~ season upon us, we asked the BuzzFeed Community which books were too scary for them to even finish. Here are the ones you might want to read with the light on.
***Warning: Some spoilers ahead.***
1. Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
2. Misery by Stephen King
3. Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
4. The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver
5. The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
6. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
7. Bag of Bones by Stephen King
8. Final Truth: The Autobiography of a Serial Killer by Donald H. Gaskins and Wilton Earle
9. 1984 by George Orwell
10. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
11. Pet Sematary by Stephen King
12. Grimm Memorials by R. Patrick Gates
13. Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage
14. Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
15. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
16. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
17. You by Caroline Kepnes
18. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
19. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
20. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
21. Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh
22. The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty.
23. AndThe Shining by Stephen King
Note: Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.