If you want to read a book which is smart and is good enough to scare you, then read on. A book that serves the purpose is Carrie written by the king of Horror Stephen King.

Carrie is the first published novel by the now renowned American author Stephen King. It was first published in 1974. The novel revolves around the life of Carrie, after whom the novel is named. Carrie is a shy girl studying in high-school who is tormented by her schoolmates and one day she unleashes hell on all of them.

The novel narrates its story with the help of various fictional documents, like the various news reports, book excerpts, and hearing transcripts. Through these documents the book narrates the story of Carietta "Carrie" White. She is a 17-year-old girl from Chamberlain, Maine.

Carrie has a fanatical Christian fundamentalist mother with an extremely vindictive and unstable personality. Over the years her mother has ruled her life with an iron rod and had always repeatedly threatened with damnation and some times a little physical abuse. Carrie also faces problems at school where she is ridiculed looks and has no friends and is not popular at all. She is continuously ridiculed in the school and outside. One day when the embarrassment pushes her too far, she reverts back in such a way that it unleashes hell on everyone

The book has been banned in the United States of America on more than one occasion in the various schools. Since the book is written in an epistolary structure, with the help of magazine articles, letters, newspaper clippings and excerpts from books.

So get this book, lock your door, curl up in the bed under a nice quilt and start reading the book, I bet that you will feel the chill run down by the spine.

Great book - I discovered Stephen King when I was about 10 years old, and have religiously read everything he's ever written.

His list of great books just goes on and on... It was always one of my favorites, along with The Stand and Tommyknockers.

He's really underrated as a serious writer. The horror genre would not be the same if it wasn't for him, and he's had some really amazing non-horror work as well - The Dark Tower springs to mind. A really, really great series if there ever was one.

I really liked "Carrie," but I didn't find the book scary. (I saw the movie, remake, and sequel first then read the book years later.) I think my not being scared had more to do with my interest in the concept of telekinesis. Did you know that Steven King is credited with having coined the word "telekinesis"?

I am not so keen on horror books or films, but I remember that the movie "Carrie" was shown when I was in college in the 70's. I did not get to see it cuz horror movies gave me sleepless, scary nights then. I didn't know there was a sequel.

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I remember reading this book, and it was amazing, the way the story is written just wants you to read more and more. And Steven King well hes just an amazing writer.

It also watched the movie, which lived up to the books expectations.

I read the book,too, just a few years ago. I found myself in a great deal of awe about the concept of telekinesis. It wasn't really scary, just very interesting. I wrote a short story in school that was inspired by "Carrie" the day after I saw the movie, and people were afraid of me. They thought I was going to destroy the school or something.