What is the scariest scene in the novel

I'd say that scene, too. She's holding a dying rat in a trap and licking it's blood off her fingers while she's talking in this scene.

I actually found the end the creepiest when he isn't even sure if she's dead. It wasn't like the movie where it was clear. She had gone out to a barn or a shed or something after their fight and she dies out there but if I remember correctly be was scared a d kept thinking she was going to come back in the house.

I know I'm not explaining it very well but I remember that being disturbing.


"It's Minnie Pearl's murder weapon."

When she cuts off his thumb, for me.
I don't mean to impose, but I am the Ocean.

Her mentioning her Laughing Place was creepy.

The worst for me would be the part when she cuts off his thumb and later puts it on a Birthday cake (when it is not even his Birthday) and tells him he won't have to eat any of the "special candle" if he promises to be good. This was by far the worst in my opinion. Worse than the cutting off his foot.

This is gonna sound weird, but to me the creepiest part of the book (which I just finished reading tonight) was near the beginning when Paul is in bed first waking up from his coma and he gets his first real look at Annie. The way he senses something really scary about her right away and he describes her as seeming just very "solid" all the way through, as if she has no blood vessels or internal organs or anything, she's just one thick solid mass of... whatever she is. It's just so unsettling to me to think of someone like that! Just totally "solid" inside.. euugghhh creepy.

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To me the scariest part is where Annie is very depressed and offers to get the shotgun and end both their lives. In that scene, she also asks Paul if he knows that he wont make it out of her house alive. In that scene, all hope is gone.