Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the Broke and the Bookish. Today’s theme was:
Halloween themed freebie — your choice (ie. 10 best ghost stories, 10 things that scare you in books, 10 literary Halloween costumes, 10 vampire novels, 10 books that WILL scare you, 10 non-scary books for Halloween, 10 scariest covers, etc.)
10 Things That Give Me the Creeps in Books and/or Movies (I don’t want you to think I’m a pansy. These things may creep me out, but it doesn’t mean I don’t want or read these kinds of books – okay, except mannequins. Keep those things away from me)
- Dolls/mannequins that come to life
- Possession
- The person looking through the window/watching you when you don’t know it
- People eating other people and/or using their body parts for other things (like when people wear someone else’s face *shudders*)
- The dark
- The person who is always facing away from you and never turns around
- People without faces
- The monster under your bed
- Little kids singing – you know the kind I mean
- When things come out of the water – in a lake or a bath
What things creep you out in books or movies?
Caught Read Handed 
I love this post, I was thinking of doing something similar to this on Halloween! Lol you beat me to it.
One thing that has terrified me since I was a kid was mirrors/reflections. Like when your reflection moves or talks without you doing so OR when there is something in the reflection that isn’t by you (like a face or something!) I actually had a string of nightmares in third grade where I was faced with my reflection and it. kept. moving. without. me. moving! Traumatized me for weeks!
You can still do one! I’d love to see your list. I completely agree about reflections moving of their own accord. FREAKY.
Possession is my number one no no. The second is like crawling/bodies moving in unnatural ways. (really anything that occurred in The Exorcist movie.)
YES. Bodies moving in ways they aren’t meant to freaks me out too. I think that usually goes hand in hand with possession.
YES TO ALL! I’m a huge, huge wimp so pretty much anything horror lated scares me. As a kid, I used to push my dolls to lay face down so they couldn’t stare at me while I was sleeping XD
Hahahaha. ME TOO!
Singing kids are a little creepy. I haven’t found anything that really creeps out in books except for people eating people. I quite like books that are meant to be scary, better than I like scary films anyway,
I agree! I prefer scary books to scary movies. I wonder why that is.
Maybe it’s easier to be scary when it’s in film form. Or we just don’t read that scary books.
You summarized my creep-factor fears very well, so I’m glad to know that I won’t be alone in my fright when those dolls come out from under my bed while the possessed and faceless children sing. Now, clowns REALLY rate at the top of my fear-factor scale!!
NOOOOOO. Why did you have to write it out like that? NIGHTMARES.
Possession is probably the one thing I can’t handle even a little bit. I think demon possessions are the scariest, but even ghost/spirit possessions creep me out. Things taking over people’s bodies? NOPE NOPE NOPE.
AGREED. It freaks me out in movies when people’s bodies move in really weird ways because they’re possessed.
I literally cannot even look at a mechanical doll or mannequin. Especially if their eye move. Sometimes when they set up animated displays in the shopping mall at Christmas I just had=ve to not go in there. Add to things coming out of the bath/lake: especially when they have long wet hair covering their face. Ugh! Your list gave me the chills but I loved it! MyTTT
SAME. Mannequins that are really realistic are especially freaky to me. *shudders*
Little kids singing (creepy!), porcelain dolls, zombies. I canNOTbtake zombies – it’s the whole eating people thing. Ew.
You know, I get freaked out by people eating people but not by zombies. I have no idea why. I am a huge fan of The Walking Dead.
I’m pretty freaked out by all of these but clowns…
Clowns. I once had a nightmare about a clown and now I’m pretty done with clowns. I mean if I see one in the mall or something, that’s fine. But nighttime, when I’m alone, clown walks to me, it’s run for my life.
I know A LOT of people who are freaked out by clowns, but I’ve never gotten that. I mean, if it’s like It or something, of course I’m scared, but just a normal clown?
I’m fine with normal clowns but you know, the kind of clowns with that evil laugh.. yeah, the ones that only exist in movies, if I see THAT, I’ll freak. I still prefer not to see any clowns in the dark alone. Normal clowns are quite okay, I had to get balloons from them for my sister when she was younger. I think it’s the laugh..
dolls that come to life, clowns and small, dark places are like that for me….geeeh. i dont like thinking about them hehe. Happy reading! https://ireadboooks.wordpress.com/2015/10/27/my-top-5-halloween-reading-recommendations/
I’m pretty desensitized to horror by now, but little kids singing are still creepy.
Great list.
My Halloween TTT: https://samwhitehousewriter.wordpress.com/2015/10/27/top-ten-tuesday-halloween-top-ten-fictional-fighters-of-evil/
Right?! I’m glad I’m not the only who feels that way. Singing kids are freaky.
So many of these things freak me out. I know exactly what you mean by little kids singings.
YES. They are just weird.
Stephanie, ALL OF THIS. I so agree. Especially the dolls/mannequins. *shudders just at the thought* I also the kids singing is soooo creepy. Eeeesh
My TTT- http://rachelwritesthings.blogspot.com/2015/10/top-ten-scariest-book-covers.html
RIGHT? Mannequins freak me out!!