User blog comment:HumboldtLycanthrope/Scariest novels and why/@comment-25941663-20150207111110

That is eerie. I was going to post this topic myself in a few minutes...

Aaanyway, probably the only story that has creeped me out outside the creepypasta world is Arthur Conan Doyle's The Five Orange Pips. It isn't a novel, but I have to bring this to people's attention. The feeling of dread and terror was building up steadily fast through the story and near the end it exploded through the roof.

To be perfectly honest, the ending was much 'horror-esque' and kinda brought the creepiness down a bit, but other than that, it was a horror-masterpiece (even though it wasn't intended as one).

What I liked the most about the story is that it took a pretty nonsensical and trivial, that I never thought to be creepy, 'thing' and gave it an otherwordly meaning of hatred and malice.

I would really recommend it to anyone who wants to read something different, from the author of Sherlock Holmes himself.