Stephen King is creepy, and clive barker is transcendental. But I have to throw my vote in with Ghost Story by Peter Straub.
This book actually gave me nightmares. Not ghost nightmares: I had a dream that i was doing homework, I had a climateology course at university and was doing an isobar map. My dream was that the isobars came to life, malevolently, jumping from the page i was working on , wrapping themselves around my neck and attempting to strangle me.
It woke me up from a deep sleep, and I was sweating like crazy and breathing heavy.
I swear, the movie does not do this book justice (and the movie was good)
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