The Most Frightening Places in All of Literature

Chthon by Piers Anthony Isa mine on a distant world and, that place is one the worst hells you can possibly imagine .
 
Agreed that the dystopian future is the most terrifying. Man's inhumanity to man and all that.

It's interesting to see how we aren't too far off of that future. The working man struggling to make ends meet, while companies and fat cat bosses get richer. The rise of fake news and a world lived in fear due to irresponsible journalism.
 
Rodders said:
Agreed that the dystopian future is the most terrifying. Man's inhumanity to man and all that.

It's interesting to see how we aren't too far off of that future. The working man struggling to make ends meet, while companies and fat cat bosses get richer. The rise of fake news and a world lived in fear due to irresponsible journalism.
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Also a bit like In Caverns Below by Stanton Coblentz
 
Don't know if it's been mentioned before but what about "1984" !
If your one of the uneducated peasant/workers it would be a horrible drab world to live in.
If your one of the educated civil servant class such as Winston Smith not only do you have the drabness, but there is all the political Big Brother b******t you have to put up with plus the ever present fear of being denounced and vanished!
 
BigBadBob141 said:
Don't know if it's been mentioned before but what about "1984" !
If your one of the uneducated peasant/workers it would be a horrible drab world to live in.
If your one of the educated civil servant class such as Winston Smith not only do you have the drabness, but there is all the political Big Brother b******t you have to put up with plus the ever present fear of being denounced and vanished!
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Or Facebook as we call it these days.
 
I would say The Grey Lands as described by Peadar O'Guilin in his two books The Call and Invasion
 
Hill 875 from the novel The Hill written by Leonard B. Scott about the Battle of Dak To.

Any WWII sub in a novel about anti-submarine warfare.
 
I always struggle to read that part of Consider Phlebas.
 
Plenty of haunted houses would have to apply. I suppose Hill House would be very popular, but I'd choose The House Next Door from the book of the same name by Anne Rivers Siddons.
 
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