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The author of such bestselling novels of terror as Carrie, Salem’s Lot, Night Shift, The Stand, The Shining, The Dead Zone and Fire Starter, Stephen King is the modern master of the macabre. His style is highly visual, revealing an early and strong influence by film. Although he has probably instilled more fear in the hearts of readers than any other contemporary writer, he, too, has experienced chilling moments in the darkness of the cinema.

1 WAIT UNTIL DARK (1967, Terence Young) The moment near the conclusion, when [Alan] Arkin jumps out at Audrey Hepburn, is a real scare.

2 CARRIE (1976, Brian De Palma) The dream sequence at the end, when Sissy Spacek thrusts her hand out of the ground and grabs Amy Irving. I knew it was coming and I still felt as if I’d swallowed a snowcone whole.

3 I BURY THE LIVING (1958, Albert Band) In this almost-forgotten movie, there is a chilling sequence when [Richard] Boone begins to maniacally remove the black pins in the filled graveyard plots and to replace them with white pins.

4 THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974, Tobe Hooper) The moment when the corpse seems to leap out of the freezer like a hideous jack-in-the-box.

5 NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968, George Romero) The scene where the little girl stabs her mother to death with a garden trowel in the cellar … ‘Mother, please, I can do it myself.’

6 PSYCHO (1960, Alfred Hitchcock) The shower scene, of course.

Source: Gabe Essoe, The Book of Movie Lists (Westport Arlington House, 1981)