The Scariest
Writers, what’s the scariest story you’ve ever read? Ever written?
John L. Taylor: The scariest thing I ever read was probably The Hitchhiker by Christopher Pike (the story and title have nothing to do with each other). Though as an adult, The Russian Sleep Experiment has challenged that. As for scariest thing I’ve written, it would be “What Gasoline Won’t Burn,” a YouTube narration that I had written. I did this under a creative commons license, so feel free to adapt.
How scary a book is depends on what age you read it. These days, after spending decades as a CSI, fiction no longer scares me. But way back when, there was Steven King’s Pet Sematary and before that Ray Bradbury’s “Something Wicked This Way Comes.”
As for the scariest story I’ve ever written, that would be “Choice of Damnation” a Bianca Jones story found in Monsters Among Us.
Danielle Procter Piper: The scariest one I read was a short. Two medical students were getting ready to put their cadaver up after class and one mentioned how cadavers sometimes sit up, groan, and even roll off of things. They walk their cadaver down the corridor into the elevator, enter it to go to the morgue, and while in the elevator there’s a power failure. As far as ones I’ve written…they don’t scare me, but my readers would have to vote on which was the scariest.
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