Hard to say if it qualifies as hidden, but you may enjoy **The Wasp Factory, by Iain Banks**. Certainly qualifies as disturbing.
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* I second the recommendation of The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. 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 fairly well known book.
* Anything by Kameron Hurley, a grimdark sci fi and fantasy author. My personal favourite is The Stars Are Legion, which is a cosmic horror/body horror space opera.
* The Rifters series by Peter Watts, also 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 most disturbing.
* 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.
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The Blind Owl is creepy as hell
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The Zone of Interest- fictional perspective of those that worked in the Nazi concentration camps. Obviously monsters but it also includes the perspective of the Jewish men that were forced to work there as well doing unspeakable jobs. I use the term work loosely.
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‘Earthlings’ by Sayaka Murata
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Exquisite Corpse by Brite is extremely disturbing. I lent that book to someone without understanding what it was about and they thought I was crazy.
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Hard to say if it qualifies as hidden, but you may enjoy **The Wasp Factory, by Iain Banks**. Certainly qualifies as disturbing.
* I second the recommendation of The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. 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 fairly well known book.
* Anything by Kameron Hurley, a grimdark sci fi and fantasy author. My personal favourite is The Stars Are Legion, which is a cosmic horror/body horror space opera.
* The Rifters series by Peter Watts, also 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 most disturbing.
* 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 Blind Owl is creepy as hell
The Zone of Interest- fictional perspective of those that worked in the Nazi concentration camps. Obviously monsters but it also includes the perspective of the Jewish men that were forced to work there as well doing unspeakable jobs. I use the term work loosely.
‘Earthlings’ by Sayaka Murata
Exquisite Corpse by Brite is extremely disturbing. I lent that book to someone without understanding what it was about and they thought I was crazy.
Tender is the Flesh by Bazterrica.
Butterfly Garden by Hutchinson.
Horns by Hill.
Johnny Got His Gun by Trumbo.