What is the most disturbing book you've ever read? I recently finished Karin Slaughter's Pretty Girls and the experience was terrifying (the book is really good), a lot of violence, gore and blood.
Basically the book is about two sisters, Claire and Lydia, who lost an older sister more than 20 years ago. This sister, who disappeared, vanished without a trace and to this day remains unaccounted for. Claire is the youngest sister and is married to a billionaire who provides her with a prestigious life. Lydia is the middle sister, has a teenage daughter, was once addicted to drugs and now has to work to survive. The two have very different lives and have not spoken to each other for a long time because of fights.
A teenager goes missing and Claire's husband is murdered in a robbery, but how these two incidents connect to the past is a mystery to be solved in the book. To do this, Lydia and Claire come together in a deeper investigation after a terrible and macabre secret comes to light.
Wow! This book was a rollercoaster of despair and complete tension. I've known this author for a long time but I had no idea her books had such violent descriptions. If you're not a fan of excessive gore, I suggest you skip this book for your own good.
by Pepsi_cola666
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Topping from below by Laura Reese
House of Hollow, absolutely destroyed my scale for disturbing fiction.
Outside of splatterpunk, a really disturbing recent read for me was The Echo Man by Sam Holland. It’s about a serial killer in the UK who is copying the murders of infamous serial killers. It’s very graphic and descriptive.
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata. Idk how to even describe it but trigger warning for murder, incest, cannibalism to name a few
pretty girls still turns my stomach to recall!
my dark vanessa still gives me the creeps years after reading.
the girl next door by jack ketchum made me swear off difficult subject matter for a good while.
The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollack. Sort of like East of Eden if everyone was a serial killer.
Night crawling was really good but also pretty disturbing.