Do you get scared when you read ever?

[readertim]

Do you get scared when you read? I usually don't get scared, and when I do I only get a little scared. I like horror books for the suspense, though.

If you get scared, do you get scared while you are reading or after you have been reading and put down the book?

[Doddric]

Not necessarily scared, more disturbed. Last time I was disturbed by a book was with Brett Easton Ellis's American Psycho at the insouciant, almost blase manner in which the central character metes out violence (at one point he matter-of-fact-ly spoons the eyes out of street urchin.)

[readertim]

I didn't read that book, but I want to. I saw the movie American Psycho. Is that based on the book? The movie is definitely disturbing.

[Desdemona]

I don't like being scared because I can't get to sleep! But I do enjoy being disturbed and/or creeped out.

[Rapuncel]

Sometimes, I get scared, sometimes I don't. when I was much younger, I could get scared. But now, when sometimes I read again th same books, I hardly get scared.

[Bellatrix Lestrange]

The only book i can remember being truly disturbed by was Dracula. I know it sounds silly, but i happened to be reading the part where the count seduces Mina, him entering the room as a bat....shutters banging, her screaming.... and it happend to be 1 oclock in the morning in the middle of a thunderstorm, the atmosphere was significantly heightened by the weather. Same with Frankenstein, though not to the same degree.

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The only book i can remember being truly disturbed by was Dracula. I know it sounds silly, but i happened to be reading the part where the count seduces Mina, him entering the room as a bat....shutters banging, her screaming.... and it happend to be 1 oclock in the morning in the middle of a thunderstorm, the atmosphere was significantly heightened by the weather. Same with Frankenstein, though not to the same degree.

[Einsamer Krieger]

What scares me during reading is far from Gothic fiction... It would be off-topic to post it here.

[ShirleyJ]

I scared myself by reading Dracula but I was quite young, early teens. I remember reading the Exorcist too around that time and having to leave the light on.
Now I don't, I'm more disturbed by violent scenes although I did read a short story recently in bed and had to skim read the last bit as I was feeling a bit nervous about being in the house alone. That's good writing if it can make me feel like that. I read it again properly in the daylight and was fine.

[jammyrose123]

it is always scary to read these books.