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George R.R. Martin's "The Pear-Shaped Man", which I read at the age of 12 or so, which was over 20 years before I knew anything about The Song of Ice and Fire.
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I just remembered my real, actual answer and holy poo poo how did I ever forget this? When I was about 8 I picked out a book from my classroom's "library" called The Plant People. It's a short novel about aliens or plants making lights in the atmosphere which, if you watch them, make you start slowly turning into a plant. And then later on they're hiding in a supermarket and the televisions start showing the lights  Anyway, this book terrified me so much that I literally couldn't stand to even look at it. I don't recall any other piece of media actually ever scaring me, I was afraid of normal things like "that dark corner of the basement" but that book, Jesus. Here's the cover:  Jesus Christ 
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Talmonis posted:Fictional Golden Dawn, Manson Family, etc. It might be too obvious to recommend The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea, though I actually prefer Wilson's later Historical Illuminatus Chronicles. The Widow's Son is by FAR the single novel I have read the most number of times, I believe I've read it nearly a dozen by now.
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Earwicker posted:I enjoyed the Illuminatus! trilogy and some of Wilson's other books but they aren't horror at all and there's nothing remotely scary in them? I mean yeah he refers to cults sometimes but it's always in the form of over the top parody I mean, the concept of Literally Nazi ABBA taking over the world is kind of frightening. Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:I just got done with pretty much his entire non-fiction catalog that's still in print. Now it looks like next up is the Historical Illuminatus Chronicles. Yeah, it's great, but it's been a long time, I'm way overdue to re-read it.
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Oct 26, 2016 23:35
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Well at any rate I was only recommending it because cults came up, specifically old cults like the Golden Dawn, not because it's scary. 
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A human heart posted:The Golden Dawn were not a cult, as has been stated. That's debatable. I don't believe they are one, and if they are then I'm a cult member. But somebody specifically mentioned them so I recommended something. OK I'm glad we had this derail.
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