I’m looking for something really truly sick. It is hard to find anything these days as I have covered so much ground. I have already read books like 120 days of Sodom, American psycho, Blood Meridian, I have no mouth and I must scream, Naked Lunch, child of God, etc.. does anyone else out there read disturbing work? I just want to read some thing and be scarred by the time I put it down. Is that so much to ask?
by WinkyStizzleteats
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Have you read {{Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica}}?
The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum. Loosely based on a true story.
I’m not a huge reader of disturbing fiction, but here are some you may like. Hopefully you haven’t already read them all!
* Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt. I have not read this and do not plan to.
* The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. A young man muses about when he was a child and murdered other children! Among other things. Having read about what the author intended to say with this book, most of it went over my head.
* A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, a classic.
* Courtship Rite by Donald Kingsbury. Very rich, detailed worldbuilding of a brutal society on an inhospitable alien planet.
* The Rifters series by Peter Watts, available as free ebooks on his website. A heartless company starts a job program composed of severe abuse survivors for their ocean floor power plants because the world is so direly in need of electricity, and then the entire world flies off the rails from there. The final book is definitely the darkest.
* Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin. Contains slurs, rape, and graphic sex and violence. This one reminds me a lot of classic dystopian novels such as The Handmaid’s Tale and 1984, but updated for the modern era.
The only two books that have really bothered me were Lolita and Clockwork Orange
The Sluts – Dennis Cooper, New Millenium Boyz – Alex Kazemi, Woom – Duncan Ralston, Tell Me I’m Worthless – Alison Rumfitt, Lapvona – Ottessa Moshfegh
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Kin by Kealan Patrick Burke
The Sublimes by Yuri Mamleev.
A grotesque underground novel written in the sixties of the last century and for a long time had no chance to be printed in the USSR. It is a surreal, noir and metaphysical depiction of spiritual and physical entropy. The visible world is an illusion and the realm of death, where spiritual quests turn into obsession.
A Little Life by [Hanya Yanagihara](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=f5f2bc2e5380d47d&rls=en&sxsrf=ACQVn09ZroIeXQKRYT1Ud7k_zcE_AmYw1g:1708055574438&q=Hanya+Yanagihara&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgVuLSz9U3sCzKy60qe8Royi3w8sc9YSmdSWtOXmNU4-IKzsgvd80rySypFJLgYoOy-KR4uJC08SxiFfBIzKtMVIhMzEtMz8xILEoEAKOgs8lZAAAA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwivipXu-q6EAxWmplYBHWYxA-YQzIcDKAB6BAgrEAE)
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca?
Rape of nanking. I had to put that one down it was So brutal
Worse because it’s true
If you can find a copy of Tengu by Graham Masterton, it really messed me up.