What book scarred you the most as a child?

For me it was "The Nightingale and the Rose" by Oscar Wilde. A young student laments an unrequited love, and a nightingale makes the ultimate sacrifice to help him.

Absolutely

fucking

slayed

me

Little-kid me sat there and sobbed after I read it.

 

The Bible. See the number of paper cuts I used to get off that thing!

 

I got a book for Christmas, stories for girls or something like that..
But there was a story about someone who wakes up in their grave, and people came for her.. calling her, that's all I remember, scared me to death for years..

 

For some odd reason, Alice in Wonderland FREAKED me OUT as a kid. However, I was the same kid that loved watching monster/alien movies and slept peacefully with no problems. Go figure.

 

easily the gruffalo and were going on a bear hunt - freakiest books in the world

 

The dictionary. Nobody was using it.

 

stop ur gonna give me nightmares

 

I think I was most affected by "Dove" in so far as a book I actually read.

But 2 years before that, when I was like twelve some kid at school had a satanic book... wow! that really influenced my life in a negative way. I didn't look at the book, but I knew its title.

It just made me really negative.

 

yeah

 

in secondary i read a book called the crime book

 

it wasnt the murders or arson that scared me, it was the bit on con artists

 

Algebra.