The Green Mile was not scary at all! What the horror in the book is about is how cruel and unsensitive (white) men can be. The book was written well and had a lot of surprising twist in the plot but if you look past the smoke screen this is what you'll find... A black man gets convicted for raping and murdering two young white girls, it turns out this black man didn't do it a white racist did. This Black man was no vicious killer, he was a "Healer" a "Gift from God" a black man who could never hurt a soul. Stephen King went ALL OUT on this book to portray this wrongly accused BLACK MAN as Jesus, the electric chair his cross, and the white men as Jews to see to it his death sentence would be carried out. If you know the type of garbage I am talking about I wouldn't buy this book, it would probally disgust you as it did with me....