Most disturbing book

[ConstantJoe]

Some of Harlan Ellison's short stories. Well, they didn't really scare me, just creeped me out. There was nothing to be scared of, but I stopped reading, turned on all of the lights, and tried to not think about them.

 

[Kathinka]

Some of Harlan Ellison's short stories. Well, they didn't really scare me, just creeped me out. There was nothing to be scared of, but I stopped reading, turned on all of the lights, and tried to not think about them.

signed. i have no mouth and i must scream made me shiver to my bones. the whole thing is just so extremely wrong...

 

[Zelurien]

Mine is also my favourite, Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory.

Just a chilling look into a diseased mind.

I agree with this. Along with "The Book of Lost Things" by John Connolly. A kind of horrific fairy tale with an obese Snow White and a character called the Crooked Man...

 

[ma55ter_fett]

Fight Club was rather strange...

 

[MiracleOfSound]

American Psycho inspired such a strong feeling in someone who, by the sound of it, would not be considered "faint of heart"? I'm suddenly very interested in reading this.

Yep. I'm definately far from 'faint at heart', I got through the whole of 'Encyclopedia Dramatica: Offended', and the only movie that truly shook me to the core recently was Irreversible.

I'm kind of afraid to go see The Road though... my brother was traumatised by it.

Anyway... American Psycho takes things to a whole other level.

 

[The Last Nomad]

And now that I think about it, The Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe was pretty screwed up.

Yeah Edgar Allen Poe was a little odd alright... All that Opium and crazy life he lead messed him up I guess...

The one where the guy is buried alive in the dungeon is quite messed up...
Saw a performance of it one time, the acting was brilliant, Everyone was laughing at a man being buried alive... It was weird...

Also, Helbent (by I can't remember who) was little disturbing... not in a mindfuck way, but just gross. There was a hot demon office woman who had eyes for nipples which stared at the narrarator when he tried to peek... weird man...

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Have you ever read the Great Glass Elevator? I am so glad that they only made a movie about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory because the Great Glass Elevator would be the single most horrifying movie ever made.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

The Wasp Factory by Ian Banks is pretty disturbing.

 

[Jedamethis]

One that Trivun wrote.

I don't read disturbing books...

 

[AizenTheAzure]

I'll throw in another vote for House of Leaves. Read it if you haven't. Haunted by Chuck Pahlahniuk was pretty disturbing in places.

 

[Beastialman]

Lord of the Flies, mainly on how pdeophilic the boar killing part sounds.

 

[Brownie101]

I found Sepulchre to be slightly disturbing.
Particularly the...It might be considered a wapred kind of Necrophilia...Maybe not...It was too warped for me to tell.

But It was a great book.

 

[p3t3r]

what do u think of this

 

[PinkAngelKitty]

Misery - Stephen King

=x

Carrie was more disturbing than that :x

 

[Mozared]

Seeing as I can't be arsed to scroll through 5 pages, this has probably already been said, but...

Chuck Palahniuk (writer of Fight Club) wrote a shortstory called guts [http://chuckpalahniuk.net/features/shorts/guts] that's about

Spoiler

someone getting his insides sucked out through a pool pump while trying to masturbate underwater after which he has to chew through part of his own intestines to break free and not drown.

I really don't mind gore at all, but I would say that that is just about the most disturbing thing I've ever seen/read/heard off.

Edit: I just looked Chuck Palahniuk up on wikipedia, and this is what it says;

While on his 2003 tour to promote his novel Diary, Palahniuk read to his audiences a short story titled "Guts", a tale of accidents involving masturbation, which appears in his book Haunted. It was reported that to that point, 40 people had fainted while listening to the readings.[14] Playboy magazine would later publish the story in their March 2004 issue; Palahniuk offered to let them publish another story along with it, but the publishers found the second work too disturbing.

Beat me senseless but I do NOT want to know what's in that second work

 

[Earthbound Engineer]

Lost Boy, Lost Girl by Peter Straub was quite an....well, it was a book. It was about.........................

[sub][Punkhead's mind goes blank; he stares into the darkness of his own home. It is days before he is found.][/sub]

 

[shackler]

how can you say Fight Club was written horribly?
Everything in it was just designed to deepen the characters and make them seem ever more realistic and it all worked perfectly

 

[Arsen]

"Bernice" by Edgar Allan Poe.
"Return of the Sorcerer" by Clark Ashton Smith.
"N" By Stephen King.

Some good short stories there.