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Click on the "play" button...if you dare. Wow, you don't seem very scared. Well, we did what we could. Guess thrillers aren't our forte.
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- 00:01
Thrillers, a la Shmoop. Thriller. Suspense. Horror.
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These terms are used to describe books that might be a little frightening, like a spider
- 00:13
scurrying across the floor...
- 00:15
...or a little gross, like a glass of milk left out on the table overnight...
- 00:19
...or a little of both...like a Justin Bieber song.
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Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, for example, is a novel that is both thrilling
- 00:31
and suspenseful, in a good, non-Bieberish way.
- 00:34
The book also comes with a side order of technological hijinks and a heaping plate of Swedish meatballs
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thrown in for good measure.
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The book made headlines...and bestseller lists around the world...
- 00:44
...thanks to its butt-kicking heroine, Lisbeth Salander.
- 00:46
She's a little bit country and a little bit rock n' roll...
- 00:50
Wait, scratch that. There is no country in Lisbeth Salander: she's all punk rock n' roll.
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She's also a talented, borderline sociopathic computer hacker bent on revenge.
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This isn't your grandma's suspense novel, although we'd bet MawMaw probably read The
- 01:08
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo before you did.
- 01:11
She probably saw the movie first, too. You're falling behind the curve, young whippersnapper.
- 01:16
Now, if you're looking for a story so scary that it will haunt your dreams for the rest
- 01:20
of your life...
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...you might want to try reading Stephen King, the master of modern horror.
- 01:24
He's written about possessed cars, writer's block, rabid dogs, and the end of the world...
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...but one of King's most famous and most frightening novels is about a really, really nasty case
- 01:36
of cabin fever. In The Shining, the Torrance family takes
- 01:40
up residence in an old hotel in the mountains for the winter.
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The management fails to inform them that the hotel is crawling with ghosts.
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Not Casper the Friendly Ghost, either, but some seriously sinister spirits.
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So, what happens when Mr. Torrance goes bonkers?
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Will his wife and kid make it out alive? Will the Redrum girls stage an intervention?
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You have to read the book to find out...although the Stanley Kubrick film adaptation is darned
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good, too. Feel like scaring yourself half to death?
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Either of these bestsellers should do the trick.
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Just make sure you don't drink a glass of water first and then read these in bed.
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We can't be held responsible for anything that happens.
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