[kitty86]

It seems silly to say this book disturbed me because I cant remember the title or the author I'm hoping thats down to selective memory and not the fact I'm getting old.

When I was about 15/16 I read this book that creeped the hell out of me and disturbed me for ages. It was about a guy who worked in this hospital/lab thing and there was a floor that nobdoy but a few were permitted access to, one day he found himself in there and it was full of deformed children and babies in cages who had been part of an experiment that had gone wrong.

I wish I could remember what it was called but it was a brilliant book, and like i said disturbed me for a long while.

IT - the film and then the book (again at age 16) thought I could handle it, turns out I couldn't, it was even more scary as an adult = my fear of clowns and to a lesser extent drains

[lazyjane]

Originally Posted by halfacrown

Peter James book Perfect People, this book was unexpectedly unsettling for me, its not a horror/supernatural novel but nonetheless....

I like Peter James books so I just looked this one up on amazon and you can get it for 20p (on the kindle) at the moment.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Perfect-Peop...FXQ9B50ZCW0TM4

[puppypower1980]

The book Push - A Novel by Sapphire really disturbed me. Not scary or supernatural but very very graphic about certain horrific acts! Actually had to stop reading and come back to it in a couple of days. The book was a million times worse than the film with regards to details but overall the book was better than the film.

[meechyemoo]

Originally Posted by kitty86

It seems silly to say this book disturbed me because I cant remember the title or the author I'm hoping thats down to selective memory and not the fact I'm getting old.

When I was about 15/16 I read this book that creeped the hell out of me and disturbed me for ages. It was about a guy who worked in this hospital/lab thing and there was a floor that nobdoy but a few were permitted access to, one day he found himself in there and it was full of deformed children and babies in cages who had been part of an experiment that had gone wrong.

I wish I could remember what it was called but it was a brilliant book, and like i said disturbed me for a long while.

IT - the film and then the book (again at age 16) thought I could handle it, turns out I couldn't, it was even more scary as an adult = my fear of clowns and to a lesser extent drains

I think this is a James Herbert book - Others (?)

[meechyemoo]

Originally Posted by wiseguy100

the last 20 pages of Tokyo/The Devil of Nanking by Mo Hayder.

This and the Treatment, especially the very end, very very sad

[Grabid Rannies]

No matter how many times I go back to it, I still find certain passages in Lord Of The Rings - the Barrow Downs incident, going through Moria, the Dead Marshes to name but a few - quite positively horripilating (great word!) to read, with their vividly eerie descriptions of spooky situations and other-wordly sights. Especially so at night in bed alone!!

[Aarghawasp!]

Originally Posted by lazyjane

I like Peter James books so I just looked this one up on amazon and you can get it for 20p (on the kindle) at the moment.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Perfect-Peop...FXQ9B50ZCW0TM4

Cheers, I nabbed it for 20p. Bargain!

[Studmuffin]

Originally Posted by lazyjane

I like Peter James books so I just looked this one up on amazon and you can get it for 20p (on the kindle) at the moment.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Perfect-Peop...FXQ9B50ZCW0TM4

Bah, won't let me buy it over here

[livingdeadgirl]

In the Stephen king book Skeleton Crew, a story called "the jaunt" I found really disturbing. Carrie also had some quite creepy disturbing bits.

I also read A Child Called It as a teenager and that was hard, disturbing amd completely emotionally draining. After that I vowed never to read another true life story of child abuse again.

It's strange coz there seems to be hundreds of them kind of books around these days

[Rip the TV Eye]

Animal Farm because of its ending. Whereas in most stories featuring a dictatorial regime have a happy ending with at least the beginning of that regime's collapse, this didn't - lending a real sense of permanence to the situation, and making it more depressing.

[nw0307]

Like another poster, I read the Exorcist when I was about 13 and it really frightened me. I couldn't read it on a night time.

Another one was Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh. The torture of the cat really upset me and stayed with me for weeks.

I didn't like The Wasp Factory either - made me feel uneasy somehow

[Cat.J]

Originally Posted by wiseguy100

the last 20 pages of Tokyo/The Devil of Nanking by Mo Hayder.

I agree, I thought the whole book was very disturbing. Pig Island was quite disturbing too.

Domain by James Herbert got to me too, but I was only about 17 when I read it and at the time I was regularly commuting into Charing Cross station and then walking down to Embankment tube station - so his descriptions of London and (if I remember correctly) an underground nuclear bunker on the Embankment really resonated with me, and it all seemed very real and possible (well ok, maybe not the bits about the mutant rats... ). Actually I must read it again!

[Phoenix Lazarus]

Originally Posted by Rip the TV Eye

Animal Farm because of its ending. Whereas in most stories featuring a dictatorial regime have a happy ending with at least the beginning of that regime's collapse, this didn't - lending a real sense of permanence to the situation, and making it more depressing.

The ending in the movie is superb, when the pigs are sat round their table with some human farmers-now their friends-as equals, wearing human clothes, and their faces metamorphosise and change into human ones, in the shadowy half-light, as the other animals, who are not allowed in the farmhouse, watch through the window, at night.

[CremeBrulee]

Originally Posted by livingdeadgirl

In the Stephen king book Skeleton Crew, a story called "the jaunt" I found really disturbing. Carrie also had some quite creepy disturbing bits.

I also read A Child Called It as a teenager and that was hard, disturbing amd completely emotionally draining. After that I vowed never to read another true life story of child abuse again.

It's strange coz there seems to be hundreds of them kind of books around these days

Same here, it was so harrowing, I was a bit younger than 13 when I read it, and it has stuck in my mind since then

Originally Posted by nw0307

Like another poster, I read the Exorcist when I was about 13 and it really frightened me. I couldn't read it on a night time.

Another one was Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh. The torture of the cat really upset me and stayed with me for weeks.

I didn't like The Wasp Factory either - made me feel uneasy somehow

I had to study The Wasp Factory for coursework, it was incredibly creepy and just plain weird. Although It was kind of ruined by the fact that my English teacher kept going on about the "super epic twist that makes all other twists in literature mediocre"


The Road by Cormac McCarthy has so far been the most disturbing book I've read. It's so good, but I can't bring myself to read it again

[spaceoddity1]

As pathetic as it sounds, the Demonata series by Darren Shan was pretty disturbing , its aimed at teenagers and I was about 13 when I read them, they're really good- just graphic!!

[Zombi]

Pet Semetary for the description of the unearthing of little Gage. I still think the book brilliant though.

I've been told to steer clear of Irvine Welsh's book Filth. I was told about a very brutal scene that made me feel ill. Now I want to read it to see if there was a reckoning for the antagonist.

[nk_88]

We Need To Talk About Kevin and American Psycho definitely gave me food for thought.

[nk_88]

Originally Posted by Rip the TV Eye

Animal Farm because of its ending. Whereas in most stories featuring a dictatorial regime have a happy ending with at least the beginning of that regime's collapse, this didn't - lending a real sense of permanence to the situation, and making it more depressing.

Completely agree, flawless book.

[Mishcoll]

Donna Tartt - The Secret History - the strange thing is I cant remember the ins and outs of the book, just that I had alot of thinking to do when I finished it and it took a long time to forget the book.

[Nasalhair]

I've only ever been disturbed once by a book, and that was "House of Leaves" by Mark Z Danielewski. A difficult but stunning read, and now my favourite book.

[Johnbee]

I have two for you.

Lawrence Block writes The Burglar books, and very excellent and enjoyable they are,. But he also wrote A Dance At The Slaughterhouse which I finished and put in the dustbin next day because I was scared I might one day be tempted to reread it.

Completely different but a genuine horrible thing indeed is Mister Pip. Read it and you will wonder what the heck I am talking about. Then you won't. It is a great book as well.

[chocoholic100]

exquiste corpse by poppy z brightman
totally

[perspective_man]

Go Ask Alice was so vivid and disturbing that I made a vow never to touch any type of hallucination drugs, ever.

[wuffles]

Fatal Vision by Joe Maginnis - it's a true life book about an American army doctor who murdered his pregnant wife and two small daughters. I couldn't get it out of my head for weeks after I finished it.

[Ella71110]

Originally Posted by halfacrown

Peter James book Perfect People, this book was unexpectedly unsettling for me, its not a horror/supernatural novel but nonetheless....

i enjoyed this one by Peter James-although a couple of his others (not his Roy Grace series) i found really disturbing-i must look them up and tell you the names-there were quite sick-it made me have funny dreams whilst reading them