any books that manage to pull off a "jump scare" effect, or at least make you sit up straight and wonder what the fuck you just read?
>dankey kang
>not princess zorldo
>>8259868
>meriam bros.
>jabus
>captain forlkem
I shuddered whenthe bookshelf shrinksin House of Leaves. The delivery is very fluid. It's amazing what the simple word "scream" does to the imagination.
I remember jolting a little during 1984 whenWinston and Julia get arrested i the hideout. "You are the dead"
>>8259868
The castration in GR
>>8259926
Poor Major Marvey... Shouldn't've put on that pig outfit.
>>8259868
>jumpscare
nigga it's just words
>>8259974
words can kill
papa pyncon see0s those eyelids comin down over your eyeballs, in slow motion and he knows what to do. "hey, you hear there's a giant octopus?" whatttt? no way... now you're sittin up.
>>8260151
This is what I love most about pynchon, you never know what kind of crazy curveball he's going to wollop you with next.
>>8259868
I had that happen with the eye in the sky in whichever Lord of the Rings book it was
The fellowship of the ring where frodo dreams about being in the shire and seeing the nazgul peering over his garden fence.
I Am Legend, when Neville is lost in thought, suddenly he realizes the sun is going down...he looks up and sees the ghoul hurrying across the street towards him.
kinda shit myself a little bit on that.
Catch 22 when Aarfy reveals that he's an insane prostitute murderer out of fucking nowhere.
But he's never payed for it. Not once.
>>8261388
It's not really out of nowhere, he talk a lot about how him and his rich fraternity bros would rape local girls at least once.
>>8260151
'Rats in the Walls' by HP Lovecraft, it's a short story so you can google it and have read it in half an hour.
Also 'House of Leaves', when they enter the house/labyrinth and hear things, never thought a book would scare me.
>>8262404
>yfw it's old pynch himself posting it
>>8259901
this. that part startled me too
When this image happens in the story.
I don't know why. The whole book was trying to show his humanity but when this happened I felt a shiver from just knowing he was out there.
