I wanna be so horrified and disturbed by a book that I can’t leave the house for a week, but every book I’ve read that allegedly makes you scared of paper hasn’t even slightly rattled me. Thank you for reading🩷
What kind of disturbing are you looking for? Intense gross out gore? Tabboo? Dark, violent behavior? These questions are so hard to answer because everyone’s definition of disturbing is so wildly different.
azorianmilk on
Rape of Nanking, Survival in the Killing Fields
DrJotaroBigCockKujo on
Hogg by Sam Delany. Or Lolita by Nabakov. I started reading these two back to back last year and boy, I was not having a good time. Hogg is mainly fucking gross, though, since it’s so over the top.
PsyferRL on
Maybe *The Girl Next Door* by Jack Ketchum?
Crafty_Let_2715 on
Finding Me by Michelle Knight.
It’s not scary but there are disturbing things told about her life. I personally couldn’t put the book down once I started it.
LovedBooks on
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
dang0328 on
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara.
Longjumping_Bat_4543 on
The older we get, the myths debunked, the more horrors we see and the less we fear. Look for something you know little to nothing about. Or something that tears at what you love. These days nothing scares me like when I was a kid and it never will again.
Sometimes I get surprised by a book and think to myself “that’s fucking crazy and fucked up” and I’ll feel a bit of creepy discomfort but that’s all. Child murder is the worst of it for me as I have a family with three daughters so that’s my greatest fear. What are you afraid to lose?
Every Dead Thing by John Connolly
Bloodman by Rob Pobi
Had some of those moments. Pet Semetary and The Exorcist came close 25 years ago.
MVP12_22 on
Child of God-Cormac McCarthy
ItsMajick on
House of leaves, If you actually read it, will make you go quite literally insane.
LawfulnessSimilar496 on
Brother by Ania Alhborn and Pretty Girls by Karen Slaughter are my only 5 star reads. Mary by Nat Cassidy was pretty good as well.
Plenty_Comb7502 on
Maybe switch to film? ‘August Underground’ got to me
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What kind of disturbing are you looking for? Intense gross out gore? Tabboo? Dark, violent behavior? These questions are so hard to answer because everyone’s definition of disturbing is so wildly different.
Rape of Nanking, Survival in the Killing Fields
Hogg by Sam Delany. Or Lolita by Nabakov. I started reading these two back to back last year and boy, I was not having a good time. Hogg is mainly fucking gross, though, since it’s so over the top.
Maybe *The Girl Next Door* by Jack Ketchum?
Finding Me by Michelle Knight.
It’s not scary but there are disturbing things told about her life. I personally couldn’t put the book down once I started it.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara.
The older we get, the myths debunked, the more horrors we see and the less we fear. Look for something you know little to nothing about. Or something that tears at what you love. These days nothing scares me like when I was a kid and it never will again.
Sometimes I get surprised by a book and think to myself “that’s fucking crazy and fucked up” and I’ll feel a bit of creepy discomfort but that’s all. Child murder is the worst of it for me as I have a family with three daughters so that’s my greatest fear. What are you afraid to lose?
Every Dead Thing by John Connolly
Bloodman by Rob Pobi
Had some of those moments. Pet Semetary and The Exorcist came close 25 years ago.
Child of God-Cormac McCarthy
House of leaves, If you actually read it, will make you go quite literally insane.
Brother by Ania Alhborn and Pretty Girls by Karen Slaughter are my only 5 star reads. Mary by Nat Cassidy was pretty good as well.
Maybe switch to film? ‘August Underground’ got to me