If you're the kind of person who luvs a good scare, or scaring others, then you'll LUV this post! I havn't read that many horror books myself, but, the ones I have read have been pretty good at their scaring job.
The first horror book I read was an old book my family had sitting in the book cupboard.
The cover's torn now but it was a really good book. It was called: Fright Night. Now when I look back, it doesn't seem so scary as it did then. It was 3 books in one. Short spooky stories though. The ones you'd tell around a campfire.
The first was to do with this young-ish boy, last name Valentine, who's mother was a teacher at a university that taught about the paranormal. After he'd gone to a cemetary with his mum to pick up some tombstones to be repaired, a weird ghost girl started to follow him around,. In the end he and his 2 friends, one girl, other boy, got pulled through this portal in the back of the main boy's closet, and were trapped there being freaked out for like ages.
The second was about another young boy who had this annoying little sister, who one day, after his 'rents had told him of this spooky curse their dead neighbour had cast on their great-great-great grandfather, brought a black cat called Alice home. Funnily enough the dead neighbours name was Alicia. The sister found it as a stray in the creepy woods that were between the boys house and his friend's house. The kids called the woods: The Howlin' Tree Woods. The reason is too hard to explain, you better read it yourself.
The third, well, I can't exactly remeber what the third book was about so you'll just have to find the book, Fright Night and read it yourself.
The second series of horror books I read was Goosebumps. By R.L Stine. Now his books were amazing, my fave's had to be: Say Cheese and Die 1,2 and 3, Night of the Living Dummy 1,2 and 3, How I Got My Shrunken Head, and It came From Ohio. The last of which was an autobiography. I also have a private copy of How I got My shrunken head. I started reading Goosebumps mainly because my Year 4 teacher had a whole section of our classroom books shelf full of them.
if you want a good scare then read Goosebumps!: Readers Beware, You're in For a Scare!
PS. If you want horror read the first 2 short stories on the Short Stories Page!
