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Harry Potter and the Case of Dumbledores Hardrive....damn....that book s*** me up.
And most of Nick Caves back catalogue qualifys as very very disturbing.
And most of Nick Caves back catalogue qualifys as very very disturbing.
Has anyone mentioned The Road yet? That was a harrowing read. Man + Boy wander post-apocalyptic America scavenging food and hiding from cannibals. Laugh-a-minute stuff.
The film's pretty good too - although the ending of the book is cleverer; more ambiguous.
The film's pretty good too - although the ending of the book is cleverer; more ambiguous.
the Penguin kid's book about how kids are made
"When a man and a woman love each other very much, they hug in a special way"
THAT AIN'T RIGHT
"When a man and a woman love each other very much, they hug in a special way"
THAT AIN'T RIGHT
Careful, there. Let's not turn this into a flamewar.Issac Death said:
For me, it'd have to be Animal Farm at 10-ish. It didn't help that the version I read had some incredibly disturbing illustrations.
Wasp Factory, 'Kin Ninja'dFurburt said:
When I read the bit.. Come on, you know THE BIT. I went straight to bed because I was so freaked out... Then had to get up because a fly was buzzing round my room and it was messing with my head.
The Colour Out of Space [http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/thecolouroutofspace.htm], a short story by H.P. Lovecraft. I read it very late at night, and it had me feeling unsettled all the next day.
Or at least I thought it did - when the most riotous bout of vomiting I've ever had in my life so far to date happened later that day I realized I was probably just feeling nauseous from my undetected case of the flu. The story is still really creepy though!
Or at least I thought it did - when the most riotous bout of vomiting I've ever had in my life so far to date happened later that day I realized I was probably just feeling nauseous from my undetected case of the flu. The story is still really creepy though!
No. Bad.House_Vet said:
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I forgot to mention Perfume.
The opening chapter... you can practically smell the afterbirth and fish guts.
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.
It is a novel written in an interesting style, with footnotes and an index and fake research papers that get you very personally involved with feeling like you're researching the story.
It's pretty creepy story too, and I highly recommend it.
It is a novel written in an interesting style, with footnotes and an index and fake research papers that get you very personally involved with feeling like you're researching the story.
It's pretty creepy story too, and I highly recommend it.
I think you'll like this web page. It has the '10 Most Disturbing Books Of All Time'.miracleofsound said:
Here is the link: http://www.popcrunch.com/the-10-most-disturbing-books-of-all-time/
Let me know if this did you any good.
I love Lovecraft, Poe, King, and the classic thrillmasters, but the book that really disturbed me more than any other was a weird little fantasy novel called The Wishsong of Shannara [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wishsong_of_Shannara] by Terry Brooks. I don't know if it was being nine years old or having read it in one sitting between 6pm and 5am that did it, but the stuff that happens in this book just put me on edge and weirded me out. It's not even a horror book, and saying it has "horror undertones" would be stretching it. It's just dark fantasy, but the way it's delivered is nuts.