Carrie

This is my second Stephen King since The Shining in high school. Of the two I think I prefer this one; it is just as horrifying but has the advantage of being closer to home (possibly making it more horrifying?). Good horror, in my opinion, always has a sliver of sorrow included in it, and Carrie definitely has that. The thing that sometimes took me out of the story, though, was the interspersed in-universe pieces of writing (e.g. news articles, book excerpts, etc.). I much prefer to just read a straight narrative of events, rather than “accounts” of events, but that's just me. Happy Halloween!