The Most Disturbing Book You've Ever Read.

@those doubting The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

I'd recommend reading the rest of the series. Though the topics of rape and abuse stay very prominent, he's set up a brilliant plot line and it's a true shame there's not more to read from him. Every scene like that comes into play from the first book, and, if you do continue, you'll LOVE Zala in the second/third book He's such a mastermind, it's brilliant.

A book that disturbs me is my collection of Edgar Allan Poe's works. They make me cringe and I can't stop reading them

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Oh gosh, I read this book months ago (I can't remember the name of the book or the name of the author! ) that was absolutely just... horrific. It was about this poor young woman in the 1700s who was in love with this upper-class guy and gets pregnant. Her mother (who was a midwife and was considered a witch by the other villagers) sends her to London to live with this doctor. The girl thinks that the doctor is going to help her "get rid" of her pregnancy, but he doesn't. Instead, he's trying to use her as an experiment to prove that women who are traumatized in pregnancy give birth to children who have deformities reflecting those traumas, and continuously gives the woman drugs and terrifies her with images of rabid dogs and monsters. She gives birth to a perfectly healthy son, who she loves immediately. The doctor is furious and takes her son, replacing him with a neighbor's terribly deformed infant. And that's all I remember.

But it was terrible.

It sounds so interesting. I wanna read it.

Hannibal.

And then Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates, but for very different reasons. It just got in my head and stuck with me forever.

Night freaked me out a lot. It was really disturbing and horrible, it made me cry too.

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Night freaked me out a lot. It was really disturbing and horrible, it made me cry too.

By Elie Wiesel? That was disturbing.

Books by Poppy Z Brite. I have read Lost Souls and some short stories, and there certainly were quite... well, disturbing scenes. Which does not make me love her books any less.

I Don't Want to Be Crazy by Samantha Schutz. A collection of poems about the author's experience with anxiety disorder.

^ That sounds really interesting.

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I'm still in the process of reading this, and I love it so far, but I think it's still worth mentioning.

Johnny Got His Gun.

It's about a young man who suffered extreme injury during his time in World War One. He loses all his his limbs and his entire face (robbing him of his sight, taste, hearing, and smell). He is essentially senseless. A machine is pumping food into his stomach and pumping air into his lungs. He has been reduced from a man to a thing. All he has is his mind, and throughout the book he's reflecting on his life and the morality of warfare, and desperately trying to communicate with the doctors keeping him alive.

It's absolutely astounding and I'm really enjoying it, but the concept of being trapped completely in your mind without any contact with those so close to you is completely terrifying.

^ That sounds so interesting. I really want to read now. o_o

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This book called 'Metro' by Alasdair Duncan. I know it's supposed to be a social satire and the author does not promote the main character's behaviour at all but it was so disturbing. I couldn't think properly after I'd finished it. It was just ... really scary to know that there are actually people like that out there.

The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs is an insanely disturbing book. I mean I liked it when i read it but it's so creepy.

It's about these twins and they stuffed their mother (taxidermy) and it's just really creepy

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.
Ellis is one of my absolute favorite writers, and I did love this book a lot, but at the end of the day, he still writes like all bets are off throughout the NUMEROUS and unbelievably graphic sex and murder scenes. I'm not very squeamish myself, and I can handle gore and sex idk it just doesn't bother me, but I'd say there was at least 6 or 7 times where I literally had to stop reading and keep myself from throwing up, or just skip chapters entirely. His writing is so enticing though, that most of the time I'd go back and reread the parts I skipped thinking it wasn't as bad as I thought it was, but it was. It's gruesome.
If you've seen the movie, well, imagine the movie's ONE sex scene literally amplified to the 1000000000000000000000000000000th power. I've had a couple friends ask to borrow it and I always warn them and they're like, "lol it can't be that bad~" and they give it back like two days later.

Let The Right One In.

I spent all night reading it then the next day I thought I'd dreamt some of it.

I don't know if anyone else has posted about this book, I didn't go through and read allL16 pages worth of posts. But one novel that scared me to death was "House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski. It has nothing to do with blood and gore, or monsters. The entire book is a mind game. It gets into your brain and makes you hear sounds that are not there. It makes you paranoid to be alone. But despite the fear that makes your imagination run it is an AMAZING book, and I recommend everyone to give it a try.

Ehh... I doubt anyone has ever read this, as it was only translated into english in 2005, but ''The Horrific Sufferings Of The Mind Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot His Wonderful Love And His Terrible Hatred'' has probably been the most disturbing book I have ever read (also strangely one of my favorites) it basically cracked open the darkest, sickest corner of the human mind, and displayed human emotion so plainly that it was almost vulgar.
It is probably one of the most grotesque novels in existance, but it makes so many important points, and asks so many important questions, and the protagonist draws you in so that putting the book down, even if it becomes painful to read, feels like abandonment.

If anyone is interested though, the authors name is Carl Johan Valgren

A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold

The Red Wedding and the aftermath of what they did with Robb Stark’s body and what happened to Catelyn and how she became Lady Stoneheart.

Especially the Lady Stoneheart part ._.

Blind Mag!:

I would have said Needful Things, but then I read Misery. The scene with his foot was scary as. Those who've read it will know what I'm talking about.

The foot part, I didn't mind, but the lawnmower scene disturbs me to this day.
And has made me scared of ridable lawnmowers

The Lovely Bones. Just the one bit where she's in that weird...underground thing with her murderer and it's just....eurgh. I nearly stopped reading.

I don't remember the name, but it was about this man with multiple personalities. And he was convicted for murder and as the book progresses, it turns out that he's like dominated by this female personality who makes him do really nasty things to himself :l
I read that book and I got depressed.

The Crossroads by Niccolo Ammaniti. That shit was so fucked up.

A Wolf At The Table and Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs... I felt so bad for him growing up like that.