Gotcha is really good and scarey.
But if I may (devert from Ray for a moment).
Egar Allen Poe...writes some pretty scary stuff, in fact pretty much ALL of Poe is scarey.
However no matter what you choose good luck, because if you widen your search your going to discover a large number of authors that write "scarey" stories.

The Body-Snatcher is the most scariest story I had ever read.
It -- Stephen King,Black Magic,Don't Turn On The Light and The Ghost in the Alley are few more scary stories.

Not nearly as scary as this PERSISTENT NEW ZEALAND SPAMMER!

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Not nearly as scary as this PERSISTENT NEW ZEALAND SPAMMER!

But this one is an Albertan with a dot com address! Can they be spreading to the Great White North?!

Don't be fooled by the dot com; it is not unique to the US. That last site is for a NZ company. I checked.

It is AMAZING, though, that so many different people from so many different places are coming here, making one post with a NZ web address in their sig and never coming back.

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Originally posted by philnic:
Don't be fooled by the dot com; it is not unique to the US. That last site is for a NZ company. I checked.

You're good.

It has to be, "The Traveller".
Written in 1946, it predicts the use of fully automatic cars, and the tragic consequences when techology goes awry.

Still gives me a the tingles.

October Games is so scary and it has a chilling end. "The Wind" is also scary.

Lots of good scary Bradbury. Though I love Ray in every permutation, i think his horror stuff is my favorite. It's funny how identified he is with SF and yet he's one of the best horror writers of all time. (Of course, he's also one of the best SF writers of all time so...)

Anyway, got to say "The Trap Door" from "Toynbee Convector" really gave me the spooks, especially since our house's attic trap door is at the top of the stairs. Can't walk underneath it anymore without getting a little chill. The short story "the Illustrated Man" also has a nice creepy ending. Though not in the horror vein, I get the willies every time I read "The Murderer" because of how dead-on the prediction in that story was, and we're worse off for it, sorry to say.