The Disturbing Books Iceberg Explained
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- Well, here I am with another iceberg video. After Halloween. Yeah, October wasn’t the best month. Nevertheless November will be great (hopefully)! I hope you enjoy this Reddit iceberg by u/shyplasterlord about some of the creepiest, most disturbing, and scariest works of literature out there! This, is the disturbing books iceberg explained.
Original post: www.reddit.com/r/IcebergChart...
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Inspired by creators like wendigoon, YourEverydayTheorist, and FoxAkimbo. - เกม
Original Iceberg: www.reddit.com/r/IcebergCharts/comments/mkza3t/disturbing_books_iceberg_chart/?
Stop censoring those words just say the words
Abused
Child Abuse
Suicide
Basically if a word isn't censored by The audio speaker (Speak text function) Then you can use the word And even then you still can use any word you want
Grow Some Balls
And you can say the word MURDEROUS
Grow some fucking balls
Why didn't you sense of the word HANGED?
@@y.t.d.7912 Fucking hell dude, no need to be so aggressive. Content creators are rightfully concerned about their content not getting traction in TH-cam's algorithm due to "offensive" words being picked up. Congrats on sounding like a prick I guess.
@@y.t.d.7912 Why are you being so aggressive towards the op?? TH-cam is the reason why so many creators are being demonitized so of course they need to censor.
@@RinLockhart Why should I be nice to someone that Won't use the word murderous Or Abuse But not the word hanged ? When I would say HANGED is a lot more demonetize worthy Then ABUSE?
Why shouldn't I be aggressive To those who use that level inconsistent stupidity?
We got TH-camrs that are swearing like sailors and we've got other youtubers yet other TH-camrs that are too chicken to say the words ABUSE And TERROR meanwhile those same youtubers will use the words HANGED or DIE
I don't tolerate stupidity like that And I'm most definitely Do not tolerate chicken shits.
I’d like to suggest “To Train Up a Child”, one of the most evil books out there. It tries to teach parents to abuse their children by disciplines such as beating them when they’re as young as infancy, starving them and leaving them outside in the cold to “break their will.” The cruelties of this book have led to the deaths of three children, one from hypothermia and another from being severely beaten for nine hours. It’s truly evil and I hope the authors rot in hell
I just looked it up. Why the hell is it still available on Amazon?!
I personally got this book removed from Canada’s largest book retailer - Indigo!
What the hell... You don't 'train' children!! Neither do they 'train' you, you take care of them by providing them what they need when they need it.
This is so wrong in so many levels, and it sickens me that people still say towards parents 'hm sounds like the child is training the parent' when you say you are waking up every time she/he cries and/or are responsive to every sign of a baby who needs something. People still have such messed up ideas of parent-child relationships, and this is just the more extreme version of it...
That book should be retitled "to traumatize a child"
@@abs0lutmadlad669 godspeed, you have done the world a favor
When I was a kid I was abused constantly and I told CPS when they visited my school, but my mother threatened and manipulated me into lying and telling them I was just confused. Few years later my mother gave me the book “The Child Called It” and told me to read it to see how good I actually have it. I left home at 18 and don’t talk to her anymore.
What the actual fuck.
Sorry if the comment seemed rude, but the audacity of your mom giving you a book about a child being abused whilst being abused IRL just seems... fucked up.
I hope you're doing well, though. Sorry to hear that you went through that.
Freaking horrid. I’m glad you got away. Continue to do better than what your mother gave you.🩷🩷
I got two middle fingers for your mother. Hope she goes to heck
gosh,certain people doesn't deserve to be parents,kids always deserved better
im so sorry for you. i hope she rots in hell
“I have no mouth and I must scream” is a very good and disturbing book, I was surprised it wasn’t on here.
What’s it about?
@@IRunWithVampires101 it’s about this super computer made during ww3 that is so advanced it has its own consciousness, and destroys the earth killing everyone, but keeps these five people alive to torture them for his own entertainment
because it's a short story
Definitely a disturbing story, but I think they’re only doing novels for this.
@@carolfromhr9900 oohh okay
It's good to see someone acknowledge Lolita as a horror / disturbing book. So many people act as though it's a romance which obviously is really rough to ppl that have experienced CSA
i really wanna guess the intention of the book was to make it seem like a romance novel until it hits you that it's actually a horror novel
@@shizune_ i think it was, it seems likee a very intentionally disturbing read to show how bad it is
@shizune_ I'm pretty sure this was confirmed at some point by the author himself. The reason why people mistake it for a romance is because of A) The narrator is the nonce and is trying to justify his behavior, and B) The author could not find a regular book publisher who'd agree to publish the book and ended up going to a company that was known to publish smut books. Also, the movie adaptations don't really portray the book's intention art all.
@@shizune_ It honestly just highlights the realistic aspects of a pedophile's relationship with his victim, the victims are impressionable young kids who tend to view their abusers as their 'lovers' and are often not able to see abuse for what it is but rather view it as romance and view their abusers through rose tinted glasses, that is, until they realise what had happened to them.
I remember my mother reading “a child called ‘it’” and her telling me I wasn’t allowed to read it and I saw her reading it for an hour and she started crying. I didn’t know why but right after she put the book down she hugged me. A few years later reading it I cried too. Kids don’t deserve this.
The parents are now dead but one of the siblings has long come foward to say the book was a gross misrepresentation 🤷🏻♀️
@@malicelestrange498 I think is a pretty complex theme, it could be that the brother doesn’t want to admit it or maybe his mind blocked those traumas as a cope mechanism.
So in reality there’s no way we can truly know, I think the reason a lot of people don’t believe is real is because of how brutal the book is, but even if this specific book is not real that doesn’t change the fact that this kind of things truly happened in real life, is seriously awful and sad.
I think the author even admitted he made it up if it makes you feel any better, some of the stuff in the book would be hard to survive at all so I don’t really believe the events of the book happened that way or even happened at all and I say that as someone who was abused. Maybe they were abused, but some of those things are nearly impossible to survive let alone get through it not at least sick or injured from what I can remember.
@@smoothie3993 that does make sense, even so, the book scared me into not having kids lol
i didn't know what the book was about so i read the entire thing when i was 10, my parent's first language isn't english so they didn't know that i was prob too young to read the book. it really is heartbreaking. no child deserves to be treated like this.
In class, we had to read a book called “Long Way Down” by Jason Reynolds in 2017. The books is about a teenage boy who grew up in a ghetto area and constantly surrounded or witnessing gang violence. One day in a fit of rage, he leaves his mom and steps into an elevator to go and take revenge out on the gang. But after pressing the lobby floor the elevator proceeds to stop at every floor where a character from the protagonists past steps in and tells their tale of life and their death by gang violence. By the end, the protagonist has to decide whether he wants to continue on the cycle or go back and try to get out of his situation. It’s a wonderful read and each ghost’s story is told through poems that loop around the page. Not only is it a great book, it’s a beautiful art piece
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Absolutely awesome piece
i have this book and i couldn’t finish it bc it made me so sad
I think I saw that book at my library once. I wanted to read it at the time, and now you reminded me that I still need to read it
@@junaurrrr its super good check it out for sure
0:00 intro
0:36 layer 1
- 0:42 animal farm
-- 1:24 dracula
--- 2:04 frankenstein
---- 2:27 salem's lot
----- 3:08 the shining
------ 3:36 rosemary's baby
------- 4:35 the haunting of hill house
5:26 layer 2
- 5:32 it
-- 5:56 lolita
--- 6:20 night
---- 6:43 lord of the flies
----- 7:13 pet sematary
------ 8:02 the exorcist
------- 8:23 1984
-------- 9:01 the boy in the striped pyjamas
9:39 layer 3
- 9:45 hell house
-- 10:22 fight club
--- 11:27 audition
---- 11:56 battle royale
----- 12:58 in the tall grass
------ 13:59 in cold blood
------- 14:33 naked lunch
-------- 15:13 house of leaves
--------- 16:14 the road
16:40 layer 4
- 16:48 clockwork orange
- 17:58 a child called ‘it’
- 18:35 2666
-- 19:31 the laws of the skies
--- 19:57 blood meridian
----20:56 requiem for a dream
21:26 layer 5
- 21:34 outer dark
-- 22:49 in the miso soup
--- 23:13 the wasp factory
---- 23:53 american psycho
----- 24:26 haunted
25:00 layer 6
- 25:07 the marbled swarm
-- 25:44 flesh & blood
--- 26:05 let's go play at the adam's
---- 26:47 the summer i died
----- 27:09 120 days of sodom
------ 27:37 the girl next door
28:17 layer 7
- 28:21 sick bastards
-- 28:54 room
--- 29:47 survivor
---- 30:11 cows
----- 30:39 bighead
------ 31:02 insane bastards
------- 31:22 weed species
31:48 outro
edit: 25/6/22 thank u for 1k likes
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Replace the last Insane Bastards with the Weed Species.
Did they add "a child called it"? I can't find it
@@60311 i could’ve forgot it, i’ll add it now
@cosmophire literally thank you so very much
For my Child Development class in High School, “A Child Called It” was an optional read and if you didn’t want to read it, you didn’t have to and you could do an alternative assignment for the same grade. I did it along with a good half of the class and it was the most messed up reading sessions me and the remaining class had in our 11 years of school.
Hell, the teacher let us know everyday before we started talking about it if anyone wanted to quit and do the alternate assignment because she was very much aware that the book would be upsetting and I’m thankful she did!
Out of about…20-ish kids only about 9 finished the assignment with me included and the teacher followed up with everyone who read the book (even if they quit or finished it) weeks after the assignment to make sure we where okay and didn’t need to need to talk to the school psychologist and was just there to lend an ear to anyone who needed.
I’m actually glad my teacher was being so kind and understanding for those who did and didn’t want to stay. It made a very dark and disturbing book somewhat manageable during and after the reading.
Damn, your teacher sounds awesome
Wish we had the same treatment in our class - we had to study the kite runner (which has lots of child ab*se, other depressing stuff) and ended up really triggering some of the people in our class who were struggling with mental health :((
This was a required read for us in 5th grade - NO idea who allowed that to happen. It was super disturbing and damaged my relationship with my mom at the time.
Piaget, Bandura and Ainsworth whole lives spent researching: pls don't hurt your kids
Modern parents: I'll pretend I never heard that
This is so nice! My middle school class of 7th grade didn’t have the same treatment, unfortunately. I’m not sure what they wanted us to learn by reading this book every day during advisory period. It was a gruesome book and I wish they’d picked a tamer one that still taught us the values they wished to imprint on us. Now I just have the mental image of many many disturbing things, 4 years later.
That’s insane cause I remember reading this book in seventh grade just cause I saw it in our library 😭 just had to look up the book to make sure i was as remembering right
Hey there was this girl i knew in middle school which only book she has ever read, and was allowed to read, besides the bible, was "the child called it". I wonder how she's doing now
One time i heard someone say that their parents would force them to read that book over and over as a child as a way of saying that the abuse they were putting them through wasn't real because it wasn't as bad as what happened to the kid in the book. So if thats the ONLY other book the kid was allowed to read it seems suspicious
@@spacecadetkaito i wish i was able to talk to her now, i wasnt really close to her so i didnt know much about her beyond that, but i genuinely hope she's ok
@@j.washington8961 From what you said, i hope so too :^(
@spacecadetkaito I was forced to read it and the sequel aswell, but it was my moms friend who made me. I was sent to spend a summer with her a few years back, I think I was around 11/12 then and now I'm almost 15. My parents just used it as yet another thing to guilt trip me and make my trauma feel invalid. :/
WHAT. The fuck. Anyone even encouraging a young kid to read that is emotionally abusive or negligent.
At my elementary school The Child Called "It" was part of the required reading, it was like 1 of maybe 3 options to read and report on. This was probably 2005-2006 and I cant remember small details but I do remember classmates literally crying while reporting on the book
I read it in 7th grade it was an awful experience and the entire time I was reading it in my class was so awkward and upsetting, one of the few times I ever cried reading a book
ELEMENTARY??
I was probably in the 5th grade when my teacher read it to us and it was just hard to sit through and made me so grateful for what I had but damn
I read that book in the 10th grade and my teachers called me weird and disturbed for reading it.... I can't imagine reading it in elementary
yep, read this in grade 7 as required reading and... 😔
‘The incest diary’ definitely deserves a spot on this list. not only how disturbing it is but the details in it, they made me sick to my stomach, and once I finished the book, I just stared into space. So disturbing
I read a small portion of it on Google Books, and I was horrified as I read it. Just the obscene detail of what the father did to the author, how the author feels and responds, and just how she recounts all the way back to two years old all the “encounters” she had. It’s disturbing, very disturbing.
I was scrolling these comments looking for someone to mention this book, It definitely left me in a...daze? Fog?? For a few days after reading it
Holy shit I think the soul has been sucked out of me while reading the Google books preview 😭 I hope she’s doing better now whoever she is
This book is certainly terrifying ,whether it's real or not is another story. If it is true then my heart goes out to her, almost no one deserves this.
Does anyone know the name of the author?
i'm surprised that patrick süskind's "perfume" wasn't on this list! it's about a young man in 18th century france who is a perfume maker and eventually becomes obsessed with the idea of killing women and turning their scents into perfume. it has one of the weirdest and most disturbing endings i've ever read, but it's a very good book.
When I first read the “scene” I was shocked!!!
Kurt Cobain spoke about this in an interview, it was his favourite book
I LOVE THAT BOOK
@@connorvangraan845 apparently that book was the first inspiration for the song ‘scentless apprentice’
that is one of my favorite books of all time, the author is such a talent
The Child Called "It" was what made me realize that any parent can be abusive. It isn't exclusive to gender, age, or relationships status
read 'A Child called It' when I was in JR. High. I was at an age that I was old enough to understand the material but was too young to fully grasp it. The very concept of what was essentially the entire family abusing one small child. I recalled that there were times he almost died because of what happened to him. It hit differently when I became older. It felt heavier and hit harder. The whole idea of putting all of that on one kid was so...heart breaking.
And what's really messed up was that the abuse never stopped. It just transferred to the next kid. (there was a follow up book but I only read parts of it)
Same. I read the other 2 sequels, The Lost Boy and A Man Called Dave which tell the story of how he was rescued, dealt with the trauma, and eventually came to terms with how he'll never receive apology from his mom, nor will he ever see the justice system doing anything to her. I remember reading them when classes were boring and I was sobbing silently in my seat during the first and second book. Sometimes on the third book.
@Adrian Edwards the follow up book is almost just as bad it's heartbreaking .
I read that as a 12 year old along with another book about abuse (MC's name was Jerri but I don't remember the title)
I didn't know there were sequels I'll check it out.
The Author David Pelzer went to my school in Daly City. My teacher was his teacher back in the day. But I don’t know if she taught him during the abuse or when he was in foster care.
I was happy to learn that Dave's "mother" Catherine died in her sleep from a heart attack in January of 1992. Good riddance!
We read A Child Called IT in 6th grade and looking back that seems incredibly inappropriate to me. I think the teacher thought it would make any students in the class tell her if they were being abused, but it totally backfired in my case because I actually was being abused at the time but I thought it didn't count because it wasn't nearly as extreme as what the boy in that book experienced. She should have just talked to us about the different ways abuse can manifest.
You're not alone, I remember reading A Child Called It as a young teenager, maybe 13 or 14, and thinking and something like, "well shit, I've got it good, my mother's only given me X stitches and only beats me every *other* day." Sorry you went through that sort of shit, too. *hug* No contact for 6 years now and never talking to her again.
@@MegaKat Bruh I hate that book it gave me nightmares😤😤😤
I can understand the intention, but it did seem poorly executed.
I think this book is an important read, but only as an adult. If you are younger than an adult you should have a psychologist to talk review afterwards.
I was extremely abused, David’s Mother did some of the most awful horrific stuff I’ve heard, I had thought to myself, “at least I didn’t go through that”. It’s ok to realize that, while being abused, that others do indeed have it worse. Its a double edged sword: on one hand, you have a certain amount of gratefulness for not going through what David did. On the other hand, you minimize what you went through.
yup, same. didnt realize how wild it was for it to be a mandatory reading assignment until now, especially with no follow up discussion with the class about how things dont need to be this bad for kids to ask for help. just vague common sayings like 'talk to a trusted adult' and 'other people can help you if you speak up'
I remember my mom told me to pick out a book at the library and I chose this one called “It Happened to Nancy.” I didn’t expect it to leave such a bad taste in my mouth, but it did and I think I’m still “scarred” after reading it. In short, Nancy, is a thirteen year old girl who meets an older college guy who ended up date-raping her and leaving her HIV. The book features some of her diary entries as she describes her experience with HIV, and how it slowly killing her. It was a really dark book. I remember having nightmares after reading the section of her describing the overall experience of being sexually assaulted on her mother’s bed. The diary entries also still haunt me.
I remember my 6th grade math teacher reading "A Child Named It" to the class. Really disturbed us.
It was hard for me to read it in freshman year. So soul crushing.
I read it in 8th grade
God that book fucked me up, one of the few books to actually make me cry
our health class teacher read it to us. Gave me horrible nightmares for years.
I remember my 4th grade teacher told us about it and goddam was it not only disturbing but it was sad especially (if I remember it correctly) the part where he apparently got stabbed
I remember having to read “a child called it” when I was in 5th grade and it made me realize that it wasn’t normal to go to bed hungry. Thankfully I am in a way better place now that I am an adult.
Glad you’re doing well bro👏
Wait explain why it isn't normal to go to bed hungry?
@@Kuroiwa1988 it's due to the child abuse, children are sadly starved and aren't fed correctly in certain cases
@@gabrielfoos9393 for a moment I thought it was a health reason.
I'm very glad you were able to get better!
A child called It is not a novel, but an autobiographical memoir of childhood abuse. Novel makes it sound like fiction. I actually gained a lot of comfort from the trilogy- that I wasn't alone and that I could grow up and survive. His final book in the trilogy: 'A man named Dave' shows him becoming a pilot.
One I'd strongly recommend is a short novel called "Tender Is The Flesh", by Augustine Bazterrica;
It's about how humanity has adopted cannibalism in the case of animal meat becoming toxic. Society have horrific systems such as bizarre Hunger Games style tournaments to see if criminals can escape being slaughtered, breeding centres for human meat, etc.
I'm in no way vegan and probably won't ever be, but this novel fucked me up for a while.
Shoutout to my schools library for letting me check out A Clockwork Orange when I was 14. I don’t think I’ve had more of a “uh oh. UH OH. *UH OH* ” moment in my life
LMAFO the movie was a hard swallow for a lot of people, nevermind the book. Wonder if it slipped by, pre-dated the movie, or if they were just ignorant to both
@@artskies101 honestly the lady checking me out probably didn’t even notice. When I was 15 I didn’t have a free period, but I knew my library’s shelving system well, so I’d get on the online catalogue to find what I wanted and then I would literally run to the library, get my book and run out to the bus after the final bell. The lady knew I was in a hurry so she’d just send me on my way. Also yeah the book predates the movie by a few years.
No because same for my school…I’ve watched the movie first but then last month I saw it in the recommended section where I questioned myself so much 😂😂 my English teacher even told me that was her favorite book
I watched the movie and read the book when I at the same age lol. It's still one of my favorites, and it caused some...interesting conversations with some teachers when I was reading it at school. Strangely my English teacher had never heard of it.
It’s kind of fucked up but that’s actually one of the first books that made me laugh out loud. I think Alex was talking about his dick or something idr.
I read a child called It, when I was about 10 years old. My mom had read it. My mom was brutally abused by her mother. Their are some things she won’t even talk about with me. Things my grandmother did to her. I never knew under my moms hair she had scars, until my aunt told me just last year. My mom has shared that she had hot water thrown at her by her mom. And her first grade picture has her smiling with a black eye. So this story really resonated with her. And it had a impact on me as well.
Omg I hope she's okay mentally and physically
I hope she’s okay. May God bless you and her. I hope she gave you a better childhood than she had.
I’m surprised “The Bluest Eye” and “The Lovely Bones” weren’t on this list. Both explore similar themes and events that are very traumatic and make you feel uneasy.
Oh god the bluest eye hurt so goddamn much it’s heartbreaking
The Bluest Eye......I remember reading the book's ending and being speechless for so MANY minutes
@@Thewritingelfwhat was the ending?
Not disturbing, but a chilling book is “Killing Mr Griffin”.
In ninth grade, for my English class we read it and we talked about one of the characters, Mark and I brought up psychopaths. I remember taking “am I a psychopath” test as Mark.
It goes into how a group of teens wanted to play a “joke” and it backfired and what Mark did to the protagonist Susan is horrifying.
Highly recommend the book and it’s not a long read.
I had to read a book called “sold” for school where a very young girl is sold into s-trafficking and it just details all her SA. Like why do they make us read this? With no warnings either lol
I read the same book my tenth grade year, I remember a girl left the classroom in tears while our teacher read a really graphic rape scene to us. I had never been sexually assulted but this book was very triggering, i can't imagine how that girl felt. Never understood how we were allowed to read something so graphic
I'm 99% sure I recently put that book out for sale at the charity shop I work at. Hopefully whoever picks it up knows what they're getting into...
I mean, they should have just made you read Holes
@@cohengamertv6548 I remember reading holes in like elementary school
@@MMfan4ever101 i read it in grade 5
I had to read "A Child Called It" for school. Our teacher made no indication of how disturbing that book actually was. Had to ask her to warn her future students.
The boy in the stripped pajamas, oh my god. I remember reading it and literally not being able to sleep. The ending kept playing on repeat in my head. It was terrifying,
We watched the movie in 7th grade luckily we had to take a few days to watch it and i was gone the last day so my friend told me about the ending
@@missicequeen2963 the movies ending was horrifying. I had nightmares about it for days after watching it
@@elizalol222 my friend sent me some tiktoks she found of the ending and it even that was so sad
Man, you really held back in your description of Cows. That is, by far, the most disgusting book I’ve ever read. So much graphic bestiality. So much shit eating. Such an obsession with shit, period, by the author. So much being graphically unpleasant for the sake of being graphically unpleasant. The worst read of my life.
There’s a scene where two characters very unexpectedly and casually have sex while one is giving herself a colonoscopy, and that’s one of the tamest parts of the book!
oh dear-
Ain't no fucking way 😮
I read cows around 10 years ago and it still haunts me to this day. The baby they had and what they did was the worst I thought. Or dudes at work and co worker just a pulls his pants down and. Well you know lol. Couldn’t read more than a couple chapters at a time
Most authors of extreme horror books are incredibly stupid. Don't let the contents bother you that much.
I kinda wished "as I lay dying" by William Faulkner was also in this list. A woman's last wish for her family to bury her body in another town but you realize she did this purposefully to her ungrateful family so they all suffer in the trip.
@Ahmed Malaki they said suffer not die?
Definitely a fantastic eery read. Faulkner was ahead of his time.
Ahhaha what a mood. I should do that if my parents outlive me.
@Ahmed Malaki they can be used in singular
What'd her family do to her?
I remember reading "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" for a book report in 9th Grade. They even asked us to make our own ending to it.
Mine was almost the same, except the parents' reactions are described in detail, trying to make it in time, and their expressions and emotions upon seeing what has happened to Bruno and the striped kid. Nothing more but caracasses upon the others, their own kin on the same level as the strangers, experiencing the same pain and mental crisis as countless other victims of the Holocaust.
I got 100% for it.
That's awesome! Nice approach to it. Making a more in depth ending, instead of just a happy one.
This was an amazing addition. It's more or less a realization of just how deep the parents were in the Nazi party and how it only hurts them when they lost their own child. The parallels you drive from the victims of the holocaust to the conductors of it are gorgeous. Well done.
I had a similar assignment but I had the entire tragedy averted by take travelers going back in time and preventing the Holocaust.
I did that same project! My ending was that it went to the Dads POV where he just sees the bend in the gate hours later and realizes what happened. Then it’s just him walking back into the house with it ending on the mom asking if he found their son
Tbh I like your ending better than the canon
i remember in high school our english class was reading “night”, and it was the only book we liked and paid attention to. not one of us were slumped in our chair or sleeping when the audiobook was playing, we were seriously hooked. no other book that we read like lord of the flies, animal farm, etc. had our attention like “night” did, i seriously recommend it
Something I'd like to throw out there is a book called Go Ask Alice. Its the story of a 15 year old girl who runs away and spirals into a world of self destructive escapism. The perspective the author puts you in is as if you're reading from her diary. It was the first book to disturb and stick with me. Its pretty short and well worth the read.
Does Alice get better in the end?
@LaLaMorbid666 I believe it ends ambiguously. Found out recently that it was not in fact a true story. It was a story to fear monger written by a Mormon writer.
@LaLaMorbid666 No, Sadly she passes away from an overdose, the diary randomly ends at her last entry last entry, then you find out what happened, it's sad as she appeared to be doing so well.
I'm surprised Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka was not on here. A man wakes up as a giant bug and cannot work to provide for his family, who have been living off of him for years. He ends up staving himself alone, locked in his room. It was reflective of how Kafka felt about himself and he even died of forced starvation due to side effects from tuberculosis. Very sad when you think about it.
But The Long Walk and The Library Policeman, both by Stephen King, are also quite disturbing too!
Kafka is one of my favorite authors, i never knew he self starved himself. that's so tragic. like the majority of his life.
i read that the last letter he got was from his significant others father. he had apparently asked him for his blessing to marry his daughter in a previous letter, and this final response was just the guy saying he refused.
There’s something about the way Kafka writes (in the metamorphosis and in some of his other works) that’s really effective at making people feel anxious or on edge. I had to read The Trial in a class and our professor basically said “don’t worry if you get nightmares after reading this, that’s normal”. Not as grizzly as the other entries on the iceberg but definitely makes you feel trapped
i know stephen king is quite well-known, but cujo stuck with me for months since i read it. it terrified me when i was fifteen lol
@@hisfavworstnightmare Fun fact, he was so high and drunk he doesn't remember any of it(Cujo) or most of his questionable books in general.
I read Metamorphosis this year it’s definitely a very unsettling sad book even without the context :(
I’m glad people are actually thinking outside of the box for icebergs now. Better take notes 👹
Calm down lady
@@dickmonddickelheimer9452 No no. He's got a point
We'll eventually get a disturbing food iceberg if we keep on with the diversity, can't wait for any new iceberg idea.
John deacon
I thought about this too
I made the mistake of eating corn while reading guts 🤢 took me a while to eat it again without thinking of it. I thought this list was pretty tame, but it’s a pretty solid one for people who are looking to get into horror/disturbing books. The most disturbing book (I’m not saying it’s a good book tho) I’ve read is “a little life” by hanya yanighihara. It’s genuinely just 800 pages of putting a guy through absolute hell. Don’t know how people can actually like it, but different strokes for different folks.
i just finished “a little life” merely yesterday so every details of the book is still violently scavenging through my brain, and i’ve got to say that even though it encouraged me to sketch its impressive cover - the “orgasmic man” nearly immediately, the book has fucked me over, badly, and absolutely will remain as one of the worst-best read i will ever encounter.
Wait, how common is the name "guts" for books? I found one in my school that was literally named "guts 🤢"
what's the name of the author of guts?
It’s corn!
Why are you eating corn while reading books
This isn’t a book but when “I’m the miso soup” was mentioned I remembered this thing I watched, read, saw I have no clue what media it was. But it was about like this women who made dumplings that were really really good and everyone loved them, they also may have like made you more beautiful or something I forget, but like it’s revealed at the end she makes them out of babies or aborted fetuses or something to that affect.
dumplings (2004)!
@@andreibenedictmendiola1553 yes i found it lol ty
There was a book I read about a girl being forced into this drug rehabilitation program who slowly became gaslit into believing that she was an addict (she only did weed once before the events in the story iirc). At the end she's like the rest of the patients in this program and is let go for good behavior. It may or may not have been based off a real drug rehabilitation program.
What was the book called?
I think I heard of film about that. I think it might have been real.
it was real, it was a memoir. scared straight or something?
@@kittykittybangbang9367 I believe their thinking of dead inside by Cyndy Elter
@@theacook1636 That's the book, thank you so much.
the most disturbing books ive read:
forbidden (inc*st)
the troop (just.... worms, not for those with a weak stomach)
the shining (the hedge animals gave me nightmares)
Sadie (everything. murder, child ab*se, r*pe, p*dophilia)
All the ugly and wonderful things (a book about a child "dating" an adult man, made me vomit, truly sad though)
lolita (obvious reasons)
IT (the sewer scene was unneeded, and the std teen wolf scared me)
Room (held captive, it drove me crazy, felt like I was trapped while reading it)
forbidden is such a good book
@@nando-pv4wy bruh
@@nando-pv4wy made me want to vomit but made me cry hard at the end :(
Sadie is such a good book, both the read and audio book are great. About awful things but it’s so well done
I’m reading The Troop right now lol
Surprised how so many people also discovered A Child Called It in school. Our middle school library was the coolest and gave me my first love of mangas and horror books. One of my classmates was reading ACCI in class and had started crying and me and my friends spent a week texting about it and asking her about the book till we finally got to read it for ourselves. It was pretty upsetting and eye opening for 5th grade me. It made me realize some of my parents actions and how innocent a kid can be, feeling bad for someone thats used, manipulated, and abused them. I saw some patterns in kids I knew at that school and I could only hope they eventually got help as well. I’ve read some other books on this list but I think A Child Called It was one of the first pieces of media that changed how I saw the people around me and gave me a lot more empathy and will to listen to others’ stories.
"A child called it" is what opened my eyes to the fact that, whether man or woman, humans are monsters. For a long time, I couldn't read this book cause it was just too much.
The thumbnail image was "A Child Called 'It'", and it's one of the most traumatizing experiences I've ever had.
Your life is pretty easy then LMAO
@@FiddleYourTiddle666 you’re so edgy
@@fridgehorror4502 not really. If reading a book is one of the most traumatic things to ever happen to you then yes your life is easy.
@@FiddleYourTiddle666 its a book with vivid descriptions of childhood abuse mr psycopath
@@fridgehorror4502 Lots of books have that, but if you have personal traumas of your own no matter how terrible the descriptions are your traumas mean more to you.
If you have ever actually read the 1000+ pages that is "It" you know what the REAL disturbing part is... it has nothing to do with the clown
Yeah this is very true
I was switching between reading and listening to the book and sadly I was outside walking my dog listening to it when "that" happened. I had to stop and actually rewind to make sure I hadn't misheard what was just said. Then I physically couldn't wipe the scowl off my face for the rest of the walk.
If I may ask, what is the "that"?
@@xxx28410 Okay so major spoiler for the end of the book.
If I recall correctly, all the boys and Beverly are in the sewers getting more and more afraid because they can't find their way out. That's when Beverly suggests they all have adult fun time with her, because apparently that would make them remember the way out. At first, everyone says no, but eventually they all do it, one by one. And it's all written in semi-graphic detail over several pages. Children. Having adult fun time. Some while crying because it's kind of forced upon them.
@@Lewisiaisoutofcontext Thats gross
I rarely comment and I pray this doesn’t get lost in this thread but another depressing I recommend is “Monday’s not coming” by tiffany d jackson. It’s about child abuse and racial injustice. Beautiful book but so, so sad. I couldn’t stop thinking about it for 2 days. It’s such an underrated story imo
i was recently in a school production of a one act play called “cry of the peacock” where i played a young abused girl named Mary. to study for this role, i researched about books and movies to watch about child abuse, and found out about “a child called it” i frequently read excerpts and few pages before every competition or performance we had, and it very much changed my perspective on the play we were doing. one of the most life changing books ever for me
It’s absolutely insane how we as a species can think and write the most horrific things that happen to others or themselves.
It's actually recommended by therapists for us to do that. Getting it outside of our bodies helps the healing.
I create wonderful stories, but look father into the dark and brutal corners of my mind, and you'll wish you didn't. If you want to see this brutal, horrific side of me, give me 10 years and then read "5 AM" and "Balcony"
Maybe more than 10 years depending on what happens to me and in my life but just be patient
@@juliefarrell6688 I’ll definitely keep it in mind.
Not that insane
video: * talks about things like child abuse and murder *
youtube ads: **shows people smiling with happy and upbeat music**
I got those ads too
I had read A Child Called It as a fourth-grader, my dad told me that kids at his school were reading it and so I wanted to as well just to prove I was as smart as the high schoolers he knew. I remember him saying suit yourself and that it was a really messed up book. I was so deep in it and it made me cry to read, the story still sits with me til this day.
I know Flowers in the Attic isn’t nearly as disturbing as a majority of these entries, but I’m surprised it wasn’t listed on one of the higher tiers.
I actually got the four part book series on sale at a store. I think the reason it's not listed is it's a series and gets more fucked as it goes instead of just one book like the others.
What’s it about if you don’t mind me asking??
@@Scaryspider555 grandma locks her grandkids in the attic. They raise themselves, it has child abuse and incest in it, death of a child. There are multiple books in the series. I only read 3 of them. They’re really good though
I also remember reading A Child Called "It" in my middle school years, it disturbed me to the point of breaking down in tears during the abuse parts
“Johnny Got His Gun” by Dalton Trumbo should have been some where on that list in my opinion. That was a rough book to read and I finished it in two days.
I read it in 11th grade, there where a bunch of kids in my class who were mad at the author for “making anti war propaganda” which I- yeah, it was tough
Oh man! Haven’t read the book yet but the film version is phenomenal. You can see movie clips of Johnny got his Gun in Metallica’s “One” music video. Love to pick up a physical copy of the book one day.
I never read that book, but I know a lot of people credit that book for their anti-war stance. Instead for me it was “ All Quiet On The Western Front” which pretty much did it for me.
The ending broke me, yeah it should have been here
@@RivieraStyx I had to sit around and think things over after that ending...
I actually read Night with my mom in like 4th grade because she wanted to teach me about sympathy and empathy as well as generally the horrors that humans can bring upon each other
There’s some entries I feel should be mentioned if there are more Book Icebergs:
A Work of Art - The book is about a teen girl named Tera who aspires to be an artist like her dad. However, her plans change when her father is arrested on accounts of… cheese pizza after Tera’s mom calls the police on him.
She has a distaste for her mom for this and seeks to get a lawyer for her dad, thinking it is a huge misunderstanding until things begin to show otherwise.
I’ve read this book myself, not in class but as an adult but still, it’s kinda chilling when you find out what actually happened from Tera’s POV.
I think the most disturbing part of the book is when Tera finds out that her dad published a dirty book, which the cover was a portrayal of a 12-year-old Tera displayed proactively on the cover.
Go Ask Alice: A book about an unnamed girl who writes about her spiral into drug addiction at age 15.
A part of me doesn’t want to spoil this book, mainly because it is more impactful in its original sequence.
But I can guarantee the ending is heart-wrenching.
Living Dead Girl: Definitely down in the bottom and I still can’t believe they let kids read this.
This book is a crime story from the POV of a girl who was kidnapped years back by a perverted and twisted man named Ray. Ray is pretty much the most garbage person you will read about. He starves and sexually abuses “Alice” everyday. Due to her torment, she doesn’t wish to escape since she believes he’ll find her anyway, hoping for death instead.
Then one day, Ray gives her an assignment to “find a new Alice” for him.
This book is a rollercoaster and I’m shocked it’s rarely talked about.
really surprised that the lovely bones wasnt on here ! really chilling and powerful book about a girl who is killed by her neighbor and goes through the afterlife. one of the most disturbing and haunting books i’ve read
That movie was so sad😭
Fun fact about the author of The Lovely Bones: she accused a man of rape in 1981, which turned out to be untrue.
Nothing against her work, as sexual violence against women is an ever present threat, however her intentions and psychology as a liar is fascinating.
@@mx.viscera2247 oh wow, i never knew that! super interesting in the context of the book then. imagine lying about a topic like violence against women and then going on to write a novel talking about it. how strange.
@@chillegirl this is news still coming out. She misidentified the suspect of her rape but there's no evidence that she was never raped. Just recently the suspect that was convicted for the crime has had the case reopened and he almost definitely was innocent
@@mchjsosde yeah i talked to my mom about it and she said she had heard that’s what happened. good to know she likely wasnt just flat out lying. still an interesting case, i hope her and the man who was wrongfully accused are doing okay.
Also, (sorry for the comment chain) but I think The Room could be referring to Hubert Selby Jr's novel about a prisoner's darkest fantasies while he is locked up. It's often considered one of Selby's most disturbing books, with Selby himself saying he couldn't read it again for 20 years and a reviewer claiming the book made them physically ill.
? Thought it was based on some of the kidnapping cases where they kept them for years and years. It's through a child that was born during that and it's all through the eyes of a 4 year old. It's messed up
I looked through the comments on the original reddit post and the creator of the iceberg confirmed they were referring to the Selby book!!!
@@robbiemartin9456 That book is simply titled 'Room'. Great book but really disturbing.
Whays it about??
@@sammiesauls8365 It’s written from the perspective of a child of a kidnapping victim. The mom was kidnapped at 17 and raped in a small prison made for her by the kidnapper. The boy is their child and he’s the narrator explaining through a child’s innocence the horrible things which occur from the imprisonment and ultimate escape as his mother suffers from PTSD.
Surprised that Johnny’s Got His Gun didn’t make the list. It’s about a veteran who loses his limbs, sight, sense of smell, and taste. He’s only left with his own thoughts, and he tries to get nurses to kill him because he doesn’t want to be alive. Very disturbing concept.
Agreed. And the movie is hard to watch, as well.
i remember 'A Child Called It' triggering a PTSD episode in me so bad that my teacher had to walk me out of the room bawling my eyes out
pretty pathetic and cringe which we can tell is all you are based on your cancerous profile pic. proof youre weak and useless and not worth being on this planet
I can't remember what it was called, but I read a pretty disturbing book in school once. It was about a boy and a detective. The boy's friend (a young girl) was murdered and the boy was a suspect.
Throughout the book, the detective would interrogate him, trying to make him confess to the crime, rather than actually try to link him.
By the end, from the pressure, the boy finally broke down and confessed.
The detective was proud that he finally got him to crack, only to immediately find out that another kid was found to be the killer.
The boy, however, now believes that he did commit it. He sees his bully outside of his house, and decides to "prove he can do it", grabbing a weapon (knife or cleaver?) as the book ends.
If anyone knows this book, please tell me the title, and also check it out if you're interested!
Edit: It's "The Rag And Bone Shop" by Robert Cormier. Thank you @Koistantine for your help!
If you find it let me know pleaseee
@@sammiesauls8365 I hope someone who sees this knows, but if I find out, I'll @ you!
@C H
@Sammie Sauls
I think this may be the book, the rag and bone shop robert cormier
@@koistantine538 YES! That's it! Thank you so much!
@@sammiesauls8365 ^ ;)
I now realize that being in every grade Literature class, the books we read were unnerving...
History is unnerving so it tracks that art mirroring life would be too
“oh you’re 13? here, read this book about mass murder/rpe/pdophilia/etc. oh you don’t want to read it? now you fail 8th grade! what do you mean you’re traumatised?”
What were the books? (Dare I ask) (if you can’t remember, that’s fine).
Dude I love how a child called it is at the front it’s literally the most depressing book out there of child abuse.
There’s this really weird, surreal book called Vurt about a bizarre virtual reality drug type thing that you can get trapped in and never come out of, and there’s a gross alien bug thing and one of the main plot points is that this guy is looking for his sister who he’s also in love with. I’d put that book on here.
I read Night, A Child Called It, Frankenstein and 1984 back in high school. And most of them were for English class. I wrote an essay for Night and getting a good grade on it. I had a copy but now I don't have it. It's a shame, it was such a great read.
Yeah I think most schools read Night, Frankenstein, 1984 and Animal Farm.
Rita your pfp is shit
@@jebus4258 Lol
@UC1vDThk7DsjdVrv-fL78-Eg I rather not, now leave me alone
Night is such an incredibly written book. I wish I knew where I put it because I just need to read it again
I actually read all 3 books from Dave Pelzer’s abuse story A child Called It,The Lost Boy and A man named dave. All we’re really sad and I felt for him throughout his story
house of leaves is such a good book, its a shame you didn't quite capture what it really is. If you flip to any page in the book you can see almost immediately it's not written like a typical book. The text can form winding spirals, sometimes the entire page is dedicated to a single word, or the entire page is illegible, etc. Would have been cool if you mentioned/showed that as it can really draw people into it when you show them excerpts of the pages of the book. Also the perspectives are just smashed together in total insanity and can change multiple times per chapter, which isn't something you typically see in books.
the strangest part of my middle school experience was my school librarian. I dont know if ill ever quite understand why exactly, but she took some sort interest in me. she started recommending me books that were all just honestly heartbreaking and disturbing. it started when she recommended me "a child called it" and progressed into an abnormal amount of books on eating disorders (books like "diary of a stick figure", and "Lush"& "perfect") and uncomfortable stories of mental illnesses and suicide. Im just honestly still baffled on how it started in 5th grade and she didnt stop giving them to me till i left middle school
I remember reading a book called House of the Scorpion in I think middle school, it wasn't an assignment exactly but the teacher had a rule where if you started reading one of the books she had, you had to read the whole thing. Essentially, House of the Scorpion was about a country called Opium and aside from the obvious themes of drugs, there was also other stuff like murder, clones that are required to be injected with a mind destroying toxin to harvest their organs for immortality, lots of nasty individuals, and the death of a cute little dog!
I remember reading that book! I read it in grade 7, but for some reason didn't find it that disturbing.
That's a really weird rule... I feel like it would have discouraged me from reading genres I wasn't sure I liked
My 4th grade teacher read this aloud for us as a treat for good behavior
My science teacher in 7th teacher actually had us read this book as a whole class and it actually pretty cool, I don't remember why but I think it was vaguely tied into a biology unit we were doing?? But it was really nice reading it as a class even though it was disturbing, I remember having a classmate who kept saying she wanted to be a drug lord when she older too
I remember that book! Was such a good read but yeah the world in that book was fucked up.
when i was a kid my abusive mother once checked out a child called it from the library and the thought of her having that book made me so upset
I had a friend who’s grandfather bought that book for his dad with a note saying “See how good you actually had it? THIS is abuse”
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I remember being deeply disturbed when doing a book report on “Something Like Hope” by Shawn Goodman.
The book is told by the narrator, Shavonne, describing her thoughts and actions during her time in juvenile detention. She’s close from being let out on good behavior, but she’s got a whole lot of issues to process through from her past and new therapist.
There’s a lot of heartbreaking chapters on what led her to juvie, self harm, teen pregnancy, etc.
One of the most memorable chapters is where Shavonne describes a nightmare she had. It was so disturbing that I never forgot about it…
Personally, The Road by Cormac McCarthy was a very enjoyable read. Following the story between the father and son as they travel the desolate, bleak but somehow living landscape was cozy and satisfying to follow. Maybe it’s because there are only two characters to keep track of at a time throughout the story, but the amazing writing is all the more noticeable when you realize how much McCarthy is able to pull out of seemingly nothing.
It’s such a good read!
I’m sorry, but “Johnny Got His Gun” would definitely top all of these.
The movie was good too
I was gonna say, I'm shocked its not on here.
1.I love Calvin and Hobbes and seeing your pfp made me want to go read some of their strips.
2.What actually is Johnny Got His Gun? I'm intreged.
@@AmondoDazz It's about a soldier that got hit by an artillery shell becoming bedridden as a blind, disfigured, Quadriplegic. That's all I'm going to say, but as an anti war novel it's incredibly bleak.
I read your comment yesterday and when I went to my school's bookshop today, guess what? I saw this book! I bought it too.
Thanks.
Never knew I wanted so many horror books...
I remember having to read the 'Boy in the striped pyjamas' and watching the film in high school. Such an absolute tragic story, especially since it is based upon an actual event from WW2. We even had a survivor from the event visit our school after an incident involving hate towards someone's religion or something along those lines (They didn't give much detail on what it was specifically, but it was really REALLY bad from what I had heard from both the news and mutters from the teachers and staff.) and to hear of the horrors that occurred in those camps was enough to make the entire school shed so many tears.
Battle Royale is definitely one of my favorite books of all time. It’s long and has a lot of characters to keep up with but it’s well worth the read. It’s a story of violence and fear and how horrible situations can bring out the worst in people, but it’s also a story about hope.
The girl next door WAS Sylvia Lykens. Jack Ketchum wrote it from the news details.
Naked Lunch is one of my all time favorite novels. It's just fucking amazing all around and if you can handle its REALLY disturbing content (No, I am not kidding, be warned this novel has themes of drug addiction, child murder and sheer depravity) it is a novel that will make you laugh and think.
Can you elaborate on the depravity?
@@charlottemuniz5702
Lot of bizarre sequences involving murder, bizarre sex of both the consensual and non-consensual variety, a ton of body horror/mutations, people getting melted for fun, a strange scene of open heart surgery with a toilet plunger and god knows what else.
@@Suspiria-Baybee Woah, context for these scenes? I don't plan on reading the book. I just like shocking and horrifying things.
@@charlottemuniz5702
There really isn’t context for these scenes. Naked Lunch is essentially a collection of scenes that jump from one time and space to the next. It’s very strange, but it is quite an experience to read.
@@Suspiria-Baybee How many words is it? The book I mean.
Writing a horror story right now. It's called 5 AM. It's about a neighborhood in the forest where "Midnight Monsters" come out of the forest from 11 PM to 6 AM. It's from the POV'S of 5 children who live in this neighborhood.
It was inspired by my childhood fear that the monsters couldn't get into my house, but were always right outside, so I NEEDED my blinds shut at night to sleep. Which is where most of the horror comes from.
How’s the book going?
Omg, I remember "a child called it" always laying around the house, and as a kid I loved reading so despite being warned multiple times hy my older sisters and parents to not read it I did anyway, and oh boy....
The “Unwind” series is an extremely disturbing read. In the future, abortion is illegal. Instead parents can choose to have their children “unwound” or used for parts for people who need transplants.
What the hell,
IIRC it was also marketed as a new YA book (at the time) too right? Or I at least remember putting it on the same level as the Hunger Games back when I was in middle school. It became a series and I only read the first book, the sequels are in a storage cubby somewhere. I was reminiscing the other day and realized what a truly fucked concept that book had now, whereas my younger self really didn't grasp how disturbing the premise was. I should give it a reread and go into the other books.
Yeah... In middle school, when they showed the trailer for that book, I literally had a mental breakdown, and was sent to the counselor. MIDDLE SCHOOL. Not even in high school. I do not understand why modern-day curriculums put such mature, gut-wretching topics in required (or recommended) reading. At the very least, put this in high school, where ten-year-olds won't be able to read these gory descriptions.
I remember reading this last July, surprised it hasn’t been adapted into a show/ movie yet
God, that book disturbed me so badly when I read it in middle school. Literally had spells of fear abt the concept for years after reading it. Especially in the sequel where one of the characters’ brains was out into another person and he’s still conscious somehow in the new body…Terrifying!
I read "A Child Called It" in elementary school cause I was a more advanced/mature reader, somewhere around 3rd-5th grade. Only knew of one other kid reader of it from my school. I think it had a strong, but good impression on me that young. Made me very grateful despite being in a poorer, single-father household. I think it helped make me a very fiery, protective kid/person that didn't give af how old someone was--I'd go at them if I thought I should. More kids and people should read it, maybe around 6th grade or so. You need to know what the world can be like. Same with other tough books, like "Night" by Elie Weisel (read in humanities class in my high school). Ope, he just mentioned that book at I wrote that! Edit: and "Lord of the Flies" is my favorite book! Wtf.
Grade 6ther here, i can stomach really any thing
@@cohengamertv6548 the question is if you should have to
I’m surprised that coralline and bridge to terabithia aren’t on the first tier of this
My mom had the child called it, when I was in 5th grade I just randomly started reading it and just kept going. My teachers kept saying I should read a different book cuz it was so disturbing. But it was just such a good book. Went of to read the lost boy and a man named Dave.
the most disturbing part about American psycho isnt the murders or the torture but the chapters completely dedicated to describing what people are wearing in great detail
Animal Farm was fucking weird. I remember reading it and 1984 for pleasure reading back in freshman year of high school and I plan on rereading both at some point, but I remember Animal Farm as just being... weird. I had an uncanny feeling reading it and I really can't explain where it came from.
I never read the book but I remember one of my guy friends in 8th grade, his homeroom class read the book and he hated it. He was even more upset in high school (we went to different hs after 8th grade) during freshman yr cuz his literature class had to read it again 😂😂
I really like Animal Farm. It really makes a lot of sense after studying the Russian revolution. The way it explains how the call to revolution to change an unjust system just to go back to that unjust system of government. I loved it so much.
@@justanothergamer7918 I'm also surprised George Orwell didn't make any commentary about the French Revolution since it was very similar to the Russian one
I remember watching the movie too and it was so eerie.
I hated Animal Farm. I still hate that book. But I love 1984, I own a copy and feel the need to reread it every once in a while.
My class and I read a book during 10th grade that I wish I remembered what the book was called, but this book is very disturbing to me. The book follows a time of events leading to a suicide bomber who blows up a bus. Each chapter basically focuses on what this character was doing and that led them to be on the bus the same time as the suicide bomber. I think everyone miraculously survives, but the suicide bomber’s story is very tragic and you can’t help but agree with him on some aspects.
Also, not sure if this is the same book or not, but this literally caused my teacher and some of my classmates to cry during this scene. This chapter is dedicated to a holocaust survivor and the whole chapter is essentially a flashback scene. This character in particular is not the protagonist of the book, and he’s an old man during the setting of the book which is modern time. Anyhoo, he was a Jew during the holocaust and had a wife and a newly born baby. Obviously, they were in poor condition with them mainly surviving off of the woman’s breast milk and simply anything they could find. However, the baby would cry tremendously loud which is obviously bad when you consider the fact that Nazis are around and about. So the man makes the though decision of ultimately murdering their own child. He grabs a pillow and puts it over the baby’s head essentially suffocating for their own survival and also just because they felt as though the baby would be better off with God than here. Cause remember, these people have no fucking clue when the holocaust is going to end if it’s EVEN going to end, but I recall as my teacher was reading aloud, he started to break up and cry as well as some of my classmates. Both are truly sad books and again the whole holocaust could be with the first book but I’m not sure.
Oh my god we need to find this NOW!
I read this book, it's called 'House of Secrets' (gore warning ⚠️ )
It's aimed at teens so I was probably a bit young when I read it, but there was a scene where someone gets their head smashed in with a mace and another where someone is flayed. It was very graphic and I haven't been able to find a book since that has shocked me as much as this one did. It horrified me and I'm glad I couldn't find the sequel
Side note: a child called it and a man named Dave were both really inspirational books that helped keep pushing a get through my abusive childhood
The most upsetting book I’ve read in a while is The Lovely Bones. Made me nauseous for a solid two days and paranoid for my little sisters
What’s it about?
@@unsavorymangos6265 a girl gets raped and killed and then is in the afterlife and goes through it I only saw the movie though
I read this book in 10th grade and it scared me. To this day (at 30 years old) I call my parents and husband while out running errands or traveling to let them know where I am. My biggest fear is something happening to me and them not having closure. I wouldn’t want my death to cause them problems.
That book broke my heart, TBH, especially with what happened to her family.
@@unsavorymangos6265 Long story short, 13 or 14 year old baby girl is kidnapped, brutally raped, and murdered by the new town rando, who the cops never suspect or find.
He buried her in an underground hovel, so her body is never found either. She goes to heaven and witnesses her family fall apart over the lack of closure regarding her death. They don't even have confirmation she died- she just "disappeared." But that's what causes the friction that breaks up the family and causes the girl's younger sister to grow up neglected by their parents after the older sister disappeared and died.
It's not a popular or common book, but when I was around ten I read a book found while exploring an adbandonned. It was called Abomination by Micheal C. Norton, and it's definitely one of the most disturbing books I've ever read. Maybe being waaaaaay too young to read that book contributed to the creepyness factor, but it's definitely one that still sticks with me.
I remember having to read "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" in 6th grade. The class had to read it with the teacher, and we all found it actually entertaining. But then when we got to the ending, I remember the whole class was dead silent until we finished the book.
And then they all complained about how the ending was bad because of how sad it was. It's nice to see the book on this iceberg, as I actually found some of the parts pretty disturbing, and I'm pretty sure my classmates just brushed them off.
I’m kind of surprised that I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison isn’t on here. I’ve never personally read it myself, but I saw an analysis/explanation of it. It’s really disturbing and depressing, and I definitely want to sit down and read it for myself.
Only took me about an hour to read I highly recommend it! It should be here but I feel like only novels were put here :)
It’s a short story this is just novels
It's just a 11 pages tale
Can someone explain to my why on google it says its over 600 pages long? Did I look up the wrong one?
That’s a short story, this is a novel list which is probably why. Although a short story one would be good
I read “a child called it” when I was maybe 9 or 10. My older sister had it. It was really disturbing and sad, and it made me realize how badly other children have it
Okay but COWS at the bottom of the iceberg was... a thoroughly disgusting read. I'm still haunted by it.
“A child called it” was one of the hardest books for me to read. It made me loose so much faith in humanity; but made me realize I could of had a really bad up-bringing. Absolutely disgusting; the things that happen in that book. Took me several months to read because I kept having to take long ass breaks to get over what I just read.
In 6th grade my class had to read "stuck in neutral" by Terry Trueman about a boy with cerebral palsy, I don't remember many points of the book but the ending has stuck with me well into my adult life, it's left for the reader to interpret if the father really did euthanize his son but as someone who was struggling greatly with depression at the time of reading it I have a hard time seeing it another way
I remember reading it too back in freshman year of high school. I felt so bad for the poor kid since it really showed how he was just a regular pre-teen boy despite his condition and was basically trapped within his own body. I’m glade his siblings cared about him though as I was afraid it was gonna be another story where the siblings would be abusive to the troubled protagonist like a lot of other stories. Still, it was a pretty gut wrenching read and I can’t imagine just how horrifying it must be to see one of your own parents considering to euthanize you while all you can do is just lay there and wait for what happens.
What about out of my mind
Oh my god I’ve been trying to remember the name of this book forever thank you. This one also messed me up as a kid, what a horrible “children’s chapter book” lmao. Edit; And isn’t the ending like the dad suffocated him with a pillow or something?
@@Momo-xm1nx a childrens book that features attempted murder, now thats rare
@@cohengamertv6548 so I did more searching and I guess it’s technically a “young adult novel” but they had this at my elementary school that ended at 5th grade lol
David Pelzer came to my high school to talk about A Child Called It. I got to talk to him, and he signed my copy!
Honestly, I kinda believe watchmen (1986) could fit into this, it’s basically a satirical comic that talks about how superheroes could effect the real world, it’s really good and I recommend reading it
"Tales from the House of the Dead" by Fyodor Dostoevsky could be on here. It's about prisoners telling stories to each other and has some really heavy stuff-"Akulka's Husband" in particular being one of the darkest stories I've read
I’m surprised “ The Plague Dogs”, aren’t mentioned at all. By Richard Adams. I’ve not read the book, yet. But I vividly remember the movie: Snitter ( a orange and white fox terrier) Rowf ( a black lab in the Cartoon), are the subjects of inhumane experiments, in a Laboratory in west England. Rowf is forced to swim in a little pool, to see how long he can swim and tread water till he drowns, and is given cardiac defibrillation. This has been happening, repeatedly. Snitter seems to have a bandage on his head, and appears to have undergone vivisection. Their handler, forgot to lock their cage, one night, and they escape. The ending stayed with me, because it was left up to the audience to ascertain, whether the dogs drowned, or they were able to make it to the island in time. “ Just stay with me-I’ll get you there.”
Watership Down, was another disturbing one, in my mid twenties. I lot of kids I grew up with, saw it very young, and got nightmares. Especially the part with General Woundwart, and the hound.
This sounds similar to a movie called Felidae? I think its also a book but I wonder how the movie would stack up on a similar iceberg.
@@angelacolvin6311 I forgot to mention that one. The dead cat puppet scene grossed me out.
"However, after saving the life of a man named Judd's wife--"
Me: Judd's Wife is a pretty weird name for that man to have
Lol
a book that's disturbing in some areas but not like lots of these books is A Tale For The Time Being. this poor girl goes through unimaginable bullying while having her father repeatedly attempt .... it's a beautiful book with a very interesting plot structure that i think everyone should read