There’s a children’s book I can’t remember the name of about a girl who goes to stay with her “uncle” who looks like a skeleton and it turns out he looks like that bc he burned his finger and liked the way it tasted so he ate all his flesh and then ate his entire tribe and I think her parents.
All of Stephen King except ‘Salems Lot. Vampires are cool. The rest of horror just freaks me out. I guess Anne Rice had something to do with my vamp feelings.
@Elaine I actually just really liked this book. It made me horribly sad that it’s possible we could do this to our planet, but the father/son relationship was so tender and sweet
I remember dipping into a 1952 copy of Mrs Beeton. No joke – that was very disturbing, the way it kow-towed to a patriarchal agenda. The Executioner’s Song was disturbing (positively) because Mailer offered up no easy answers for a very difficult story. Two killings posted a thousand pages apart, and the rage you felt over the first, heinous killing was not assuaged by the execution of the murderer at the end. Terrific book. (Mailer’s take on Gary Gilmore)
The Making Of Dr. Phil McGraw was a disturbing book for me, it doesn`t align with my mental health wellness beliefs and mental health lifestyle. He thinks I should work a part time job and go through a smart phone app, well sorry to say to him and his team, but I have a phyciatrist, a Canadian and family man who believes I should trust my own mental health gut when it comes to healthy mental illness lifestyle, I don`t need mental health facilities to have a clean fun time, and having friends now would only complicate things for me, but in the future, friends would be a nice respectful thing to look forward to meeting the females, not the males in my new circles.
I love horror and read it all the time, but I almost dnf’d The Witching Hour by Anne Rice because the satanic vibes started creeping me out. Also, Gerald’s Game by Stephen King. The part with the dog was very disturbing to me.
“A Child Called It”
Auschwitz A New History
There’s a children’s book I can’t remember the name of about a girl who goes to stay with her “uncle” who looks like a skeleton and it turns out he looks like that bc he burned his finger and liked the way it tasted so he ate all his flesh and then ate his entire tribe and I think her parents.
It’s called Skeleton Man.
i read it as a kid and I still think about it all the time.
@Mari-Ellen omg!
What she left behind.
Man’s search for meaning
Ghosts in the nursery is the most horrifying book I’ve ever read.
Flowers in the attic by vc Andrews
Alice by Christina Henry
We need to talk about Kevin.
Funhouse – Dean Koontz
A Piece Of Cake by Cupcake Brown
The Silence of the Lambs, Helter Skelter.
Anything by Stephen King. It’s not even horror, just evil.
hmmm
The Crow Girl.
Pet semetary but that is more haunting then anything
Pet semetary but that is more haunting then anything
are you going to see the new movie?
Roots, by Alex Haley. Man’s inhumanity to vulnerable ones never ceases to amaze me…
The unusual case of Charles dexter ward
Les mauvais anges by Eric Jourdan
Yes! The Hunt for Skinwalker is scarier than anything I’ve ever read! So disturbing!
Helter Skelter – always!
I can’t read anything that is disturbing.
Yes. American Sniper
All of Stephen King except ‘Salems Lot. Vampires are cool. The rest of horror just freaks me out. I guess Anne Rice had something to do with my vamp feelings.
Anne Rice had everything to do with my feelings toward vampires too. It’s always weird for me to remember that her books are considered horror.
Anne Rice wrote the unholy grail of vampire series’.
The Girl Next door
I couldn’t finish that book
American Psycho
Yes I did it was People Who Eat Darkness, based on a true crime case. It bothered me for days but was extremely well written and researched.
The Girl next door
The Collector by John Fowles
Helter Skelter
Yes, Justine by the Marquis De Sade
A child called It
Just Mercy
Mercury by Amilie Nothomb
Verity by Colleen Hoover
@Brittinee I love her! I’ve read all of her books except this one. Not sure I’ll like it…
Atlas Shrugged
My Absolute Darling by Tallent, forget 1st name of author. A grim read however compelling.
The boy in the striped pajamas
@Vijaya
Absolutely!!
A very sad, yet enthralling page turner.??
The Stranger Beside Me
Truly chilling and very descriptive of Bundys crimes. The Chi Omega chapter gave me chills.
The Loney
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
@Elaine that book was so depressing. Just made me want to lay down and give up.
@Elaine I actually just really liked this book. It made me horribly sad that it’s possible we could do this to our planet, but the father/son relationship was so tender and sweet
Amsterdam 2012 as it could really happen
I’m righting a comment so I can come back to this post. I kinda like disturbing reads ?♀️
@Sarah haha me too
Yup……I always like when someone asks a question like this because it gives me lots of tbr books…..lol
Helter Skelter
I remember dipping into a 1952 copy of Mrs Beeton. No joke – that was very disturbing, the way it kow-towed to a patriarchal agenda. The Executioner’s Song was disturbing (positively) because Mailer offered up no easy answers for a very difficult story. Two killings posted a thousand pages apart, and the rage you felt over the first, heinous killing was not assuaged by the execution of the murderer at the end. Terrific book. (Mailer’s take on Gary Gilmore)
Not yet, thankfully
OMG anything Lisa Gardner Writes… I am still haunted….
wilde card was pretty disturbing……………… a little too graphic and sexy for me………………….
@Carlin who wrote it?
@Dannielle i hated the book so much i forgot the author, but the cover is blue and light pink…………………
Was it
This one?
@Dannielle yes it was that one. kobo recommended it to me so i tried it, because they’re usually really good, but they went WRONG with that one…………………
@Carlin lol I’m gonna read it.. ???
Helter Skelter
The Collector
Heroin Diaries by Nikki Six… couldn’t finish it…
“The Perfume” by Patrick Suskind
In Cold Blood
Disgusting? Falconer.
The Boy called it, and Pet Cemetery. I don’t like to read anything to do with child abuse either.
The Appeal by John Grisham
The Making Of Dr. Phil McGraw was a disturbing book for me, it doesn`t align with my mental health wellness beliefs and mental health lifestyle. He thinks I should work a part time job and go through a smart phone app, well sorry to say to him and his team, but I have a phyciatrist, a Canadian and family man who believes I should trust my own mental health gut when it comes to healthy mental illness lifestyle, I don`t need mental health facilities to have a clean fun time, and having friends now would only complicate things for me, but in the future, friends would be a nice respectful thing to look forward to meeting the females, not the males in my new circles.
The bible
@Dan ziiiiinggggg
@Dan The Bible’s a fairytale isn’t it? 😉
Helter Skelter
Lolita was a hard read.
American Phsycho fucked me up. The Road too.
In Cold Blood…
Sophie’s Choice. Heartbreaking. Unforgettable.
Broken Heart by Tim Weaver
I love horror and read it all the time, but I almost dnf’d The Witching Hour by Anne Rice because the satanic vibes started creeping me out. Also, Gerald’s Game by Stephen King. The part with the dog was very disturbing to me.
American Psycho, All the Beautiful & Ugly Things, The Exorcist, A Little Life
the exorcist was a book?! i thought it was just a movie…………… i saw a clip of the movie when i was 4, if you can believe that………………..
@Carlin yes, it was a book first. It was written by William Peter Blatty.
We Need to Talk about Kevin was the most disturbingly real books I’ve ever read. Years later, I still don’t know if I liked it
American Psycho.
Tarantula by Thierry Jonquet. Short but had a huge impact.
I started a couple. Didn’t finish them. Life’s too short and I don’t want to fill my mind with that sort of darkness.
Wizard of Oz
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.
Middlesex. Lolita.
Pet Sematary
Baby Teeth!
I second that! ^^ Baby Teeth!
There were a few moments in The Road as well!