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Topic: What was the most disturbing piece of literature you read?
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PixieJane
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posted May 21, 2014 07:19 PM
  
I've read so many that I'll want to think on that awhile. Offhand, Dirty Little Secrets of the Twentieth Century comes to mind but there are so many contenders, and more that I can't recall the name of.
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But I'll share that when I was 10 I saw a copy of Blue World someone had left out at the library. Curious what adult horror was like (I did read scary story for kids) I thought I'd give it a try right there in the library. I flipped through the anthology and found the shortest story I could find called "I Scream Man." Keep in mind I was 10 and this was completely new to me as I read it:
It starts off real boring and I was wondering what scary thing COULD happen, as they played Scrabble at the kitchen table, but as I was frowning at how ordinary this was it kept getting weirder and weirder in a way that didn't make sense, that clued me in that something wasn't quite right, like choosing words as (IIRC), "nuclear" and "radiation sickness," while the father was telling them to "stop it." In the back ground was the ice cream man coming, and his kids saying, "Take us out to the ice cream man, daddy!" while he said no, they were misbehaving too much in their game for that. And somehow, I don't recall how, but with clarity I realized that his entire family was dead and he was insane. There had been a nuclear war and the ice cream man was actually a group that were taking out corpses that went home to home crying, "Bring out your dead!" As they got to his home, he freaked, the people collecting the dead broke down the door and overpowered him. As he came to and saw his family was gone, he vowed that the "ice cream men" would not take his family away, and grabbing his gun, he raced out to save his family from the I Scream Man. The realization struck me on like the last page, and while it got weirder and weirder, the realization of what was going on didn't hit me until I got to the end. I was so freaked that I left the library crying. I'd thought it was going to be about monsters, but that was somehow too real to me, that though the story was made up, that it COULD happen. Mainly, it was his pain and insanity that struck me so. I think it was also the realization that everything can be normal and then suddenly everything can change for the worse--and it might not ever get better (something life had already shown me to be true, though obviously not to that degree). But I read it again as an adult, nowhere near the same impact as it had for me then (possibly because I already knew how it ended). IP: Logged |
PixieJane
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posted May 21, 2014 07:25 PM
You might also find this thread interesting:
http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum32/HTML/000029.html
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12muddy
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posted May 21, 2014 11:41 PM
When the Devil holds the candle. I lost sleep over it and considering the number of crime n horror books that I've read, it really was something. IP: Logged |
Ami Anne
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posted May 22, 2014 08:14 AM
The Hot Zone about the Ebola virus, that was really scary.------------------
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KarkaQueen
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From: Uranus
Registered: May 2011
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posted May 22, 2014 08:17 AM
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Originally posted by Ami Anne:
The Hot Zone about the Ebola virus, that was really scary.
Lol where do all of you get these books from? How recent are they? IP: Logged |
Doux Rêve
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posted May 22, 2014 09:04 AM
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Originally posted by Violets:
I'll add that reading a history text book or watching/ reading the news is disturbing enough. I don't need to add to it in my own creative spare time. :-/Perhaps that's a part of having Pluto in 3rd...
I'm already quite aware of the disturbing potentials in life and humanity, so I prefer not to draw it more to my attention than is necessary.
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Violets
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posted May 22, 2014 09:22 AM
It seems odd to me that, despite some of the books that I've read, like Helter Skelter, and some other book by a detective about serial killers, it's always the classics that stick with me.I'm not sure why that is. IP: Logged |
Ami Anne
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posted May 22, 2014 09:23 AM
Karka
I am such a book worm. I would go to the library, every week, and get a pile of books on any subject. The Hot Zone was in the Best sellers section, so I just got it.------------------
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Ami Anne
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posted May 22, 2014 09:34 AM
This is really sad and disturbing. I read the books by the FBI Profilers. One baby was killed and it was wrapped in a blanket and buried. They knew the mother did it by how the baby was buried  ------------------
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Padre35
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posted May 22, 2014 09:42 AM
Screw Tape Letters, just the sort of feeling of deep deep darkness pervades the book and the sense of what a world without Love would look and feel like. IP: Logged |
Pearlty
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posted May 22, 2014 01:35 PM
Historically I have thought this literary story often retold about his doll is disturbing and a little bizarre.
http://www.readperiodicals.com/201101/2727860531.html IP: Logged |
MetalAphrodite
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posted May 22, 2014 08:43 PM
Push by Sapphire. The movie, titled "Precious", still could not fully hit the range of horror for this young woman but it tried.I want to read "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream". I read a review on the video game and just the description creeped me out. The short story must be amazing and dreadful at once. IP: Logged |
BellaFenice
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From: Phoenix, AZ, USA
Registered: Sep 2013
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posted May 22, 2014 09:07 PM
The Yellow Wallpaper: had to read this in high school. I literally felt like I was becoming crazy by having to read this.120 Days of Sodom: I got through a chapter maybe and had to stop. Beyond disturbing. Blood Meridian: the level of violence in this book should be illegal. The last chapter seriously makes you wonder what the bleep just happened. The Wasp Factory: first of all the book itself is all over the place and makes it tough to explain. The concept of kids killing kids makes my stomach flip. IP: Logged |
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