I appreciate so much the fact that you weed out violence against animals and women ❤

That ending to Tender is the Flesh SHOCKED me. The part that shocked me the most was when Marcos was taking an investor on a tour of the plant.

I really liked Come Closer. Also your lipstick is fire.

I keep coming back to the fact that Nutting (Tampa) just wrote child abuse fantasy porn. I don’t know why it was ever given so much attention, it seems to be clearly written for, uh, pleasure, and I really don’t understand why it’s being sold so openly. I don’t know anything about Nutting, but I do hope she’s been investigated. This is legal only by a loophole and may not be a happy story, but seems primarily designed for the enjoyment of those with abusive preferences. Also the cover art is revolting, we all know what it is supposed to imply, and it glorifies abuse.

Great list! A bunch of lists like this tend to repeat the same set of books, but you add a bunch I haven't heard of which is cool, thanks!

I dont read a lot of horror but youtube decided that this video was for me and i'm very glad it did. The amount of small booktube channels of such great quality is crazy, subbed

such a refreshing video from my usual book bubble! and about the books I wouldn't normally read but now I want to!🥰 the extra appeal is the little fluffy dog nose at the bottom of the screen haha

Tender is the Flesh is such a fantastic commentary on race, class, and the dehumanization and commodification of people under capitalism. To me, it is so much more than "meat industry bad"

This video was my sign to finally read Penpal! I got Exquisite Corpse a few weeks ago, and only made it about 10 pages in. I've never been so revolted by a book before and I've just full stopped.

I came across this video by chance and I really enjoyed it. So many 'most disturbing books' videos are the same books over and over, which I understand, but they're not offering anything new to add to my tbr list. There were some different ones here that I'm so excited to read, so thank you for that! Throw a cute dachshund into the mix and you got a new sub from me, lol.

Happy to see a horror/disturbing books video! 😈 it's not the most disturbing book I've ever read but based on some content you mentioned here, I think you could really love Juniper and Thorn by Ava Reid. The most disturbing book I've ever read was probably Zola by D.E. McLusky, very much intentional gross out splatterpunk/extreme horror. Not a great book by any means but very effective in what it set out to do, so props to it for that.

Totally off topic but your wedding ring is stunning! Is the stone a tanzanite? Love your book content too, i subbed!📚

Girl, your makeup is gorgeous and, don’t take this the wrong way, you are beautiful. Just saying, us woman need to support each other and appreciate another woman’s beauty.

Earthlings threw me for a lopp lol. Tender is the Flesh was one of my favorites last year. Tampa made my physically ill and I couldn’t finish it.

First Day of Spring!! One of my top books ever.

I loved Still Missing and you're the first person I've seen talk about it.

Thank you for the recommendations, had not heard about most of these. I am more the Shirley Jackson psychological horror type of reader. Have ordered Naomi’s Room and Come Closer; wanted to start with something “milder” before going to extremes. Highly agree that any type of animal abuse is a big trigger, and no, after seeing your charming miniature Doxie, I can’t blame you for feeling that way.

Oh I got some great recs from this. 😈 Earthlings had me mouth open gaping at the ending haha.

none of the horror I've picked up lately has actually been scary so I'm very interested to check these out :) thank u!!!

Naomis Room is one of my favourite books of all time. I've read it so many times

I’m not a horror movie person. But I love horror books! 📚 ❤

Woom is the only book I gave 5 stars for, THE writing, story telling and how smooth it flows is top notch 🤩 Saving Noah by Lucinda Berry was disturbing, but not in a way you’d think, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. And then there’s Off Season by Jack Ketchum. Kudos to you for actually finishing Tampa, I read 2 chapters before I gave up not because of the content but the writing, it’s like it mimics a male teacher preying on female students, the book or the main character had no personality.

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Agree with everything you said about Naomi's Room. Read that book back in the late 90s when i was about 11 or 12, & so far no other book has ever managed to leave me feeling as terrified as that book did. I've also read Jonathan Aycliff's other books The Matrix & The Vanishment, & they were both really unsettling as well.

So glad Earthlings was in this roundup :')

My favorite book and the most disturbing I've ever read was A Little Life by Hannya... I forget her last name, but I'm sure it is easy to find.

Tender: Loved it. Earthlings: not so much. Still Missing: at the library. Bloom: very good. A Botanical Daughter: up next. Hawk Mountain (Conner Habib): most disturbing book I've read. Great content.

laws of the skies sounds like the troop by nick cutter.

Could you please tell me where to get those fantastic earrings? Thank you for all the disturbing recommendations.

Locate a copy of “I have no mouth and must scream”. SF short story from ? 1970s? Harlen Ellison. Ellison was once mad at his publisher and sent him a dead animal like 3rd class mail which sat in mailroom.

I can recommend Notice by Heather Lewis. Just recently republished. Not for the faint of heart. Great stream!

The Girl Nextdoor by Jack Ketchum got under my skin. It did exactly what it set out to do and I'm never reading it again.

there is a French author, Romain Sardou, who's written one of my favorite books but now that I've tried to find the English translation - there is none... it is called No One Will Get Away, and if you ever come across it I think you'll enjoy it! It's a detective story but I was impressed with the level of detail and knowledge that's been put into the plot I also tried to read another book of his several years ago, Forgive Us Our Sins, but I couldn't pass a couple of chapters - it was too disturbing!

Earthlingsssss one of my favourite reads of this year thus far and it was so f***d up but I liked it a lot 🤣

Hi Peyton , i highly recommend " Flowers in the attic" by V.C Andrews. It tells the story of four children being locked up in theyr grandparents attic for many years and theyr fight to survive. Maybe not in the extreme horror genre , but a book you will never forget.

Chevy Stevens is one of my favorite authors!! I have read every book she has written and Still Missing was the first book that introduced me to Chevy Stevens. I recommend Never Knowing by Chevy Stevens.

If you enjoyed Penpal, you should read (if you haven't already!) Borrasca and Feed The Pig

Wonderful, Wonderful Times by Elfriede Jelinek. Her work is amazing, difficult to read and stomach for many, but she has an interesting way of FORCING Austria to be accountable for its part in WWII. She also wrote The Piano Teacher, and funnily enough, she worked as a piano teacher after the same conservatory, whilst living with her mother.

When I think disturbing books, these two come to mind: Hell by Judith Sonnet and Nipples That Spit by Malika Micucci. I shudder just thinking about those two. Thanks for the list!

I have not read any of these books, I don't think I will. thanks for the warning! 🤢

This video deserves a thumbs up for the dog alone! 😍 If I can give some criticism (which is meant as a hopefully constructive one): I didn't appreciate the spoilery nature. When you opened the presentation of the first book with saying "none of them make it out alive" basically in the first sentence, I got nervous. I've read Woom so I knew what it was about and after listening to that segment I basically skipped through the video just to see the authors and titles. 😕

Fun Fact: there's a documentary called Earthlings that is downright unwatchable at times. It goes into detail on why most people decide to stop eating meat if that tells you anything ❤ Cows is the scariest or most disturbing book I've read. Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis is a close second.

Ive read a lot of things… Tampa is one I could NOT stomach and get through…. I made it like 3/4 chapters in and thats enough

lol I can so relate re eating while cannibalism is going on. I have never understood why emergency cannibalism of already-dead people is so scandalous, but I had to skip even your warning about puppies.

Come Closer is my favorite horror novel! I wish I could read it for the first time again. I haven't read A Mouthful of Air but I saw the movie with Amanda Seyfried and Finn Wittrock and was equally gut punched. I had never heard of it, I was just flipping channels and it was on HBO so I watched it a year or two ago. I thought about it for weeks. I think I'm the only person who didn't enjoy Penpal.

😈 I recently listened to This Little Family by Inès Bayard. Ooph, that one was dark😳 Great list 👍

American psycho was disturbing imo. The girl next door also disturbing.

I tried to read The Abuse of Ashley Collins by Jon Athan but it was too much. It needed to be a lot less. Like so much less. Way too disturbing. I was like nope. I cannot finish this. Books by the writer of Fight Club are full of bodily fluids. Too many. One has to read then wearing gloves. It's not a disturbing book, just this scene in Women of Brewster Place involving a man's head and a brick and just the description of it. Eeeeek Also your dog is cute and i love him and his cute nose

I read Tender is the Flesh in its original Spanish and I was pissed throughout the whole thing. The ending kinda surprised me but not really because the whole book is, in my opinion and among other things, an allegory to Argentinian’s obsession with carnism (?) so I was y expecting a happy ending. Edit: I also read it around the time I watch this masterful video essay kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qNWCd5d3ntbLZac.htmlsi=LltB1IBt930oiZkn and I just gotta recommend it because boy it helped me process the grieving from that book lmao

I really enjoyed woom

The law of the skies was legitimately the worst book I’ve ever read solely because no child thinks the way the kids did in that book. Idk if it’s because of the translation or if young French children are all secretly mentally 12+ lol but the further along I got the more pissed I got because even the most messed up violent 6 year old does not have the capacity to think about things the way the antagonist Enzo did. Genuinely could have enjoyed it if they made the kids even as young as 10 but there is nothing anyone could say to make me think any 6 year olds process things the way a number of these fictional children did.

You should check out Brainwyrms by Allison Rumfitt! It's the absolute grossest, funniest, and erotic critique of British transphobia you will ever read. 10/10 recommend.

sounds like First Day of Spring was inspired by the life of Mary Bell

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At the risk of sounding like a really old fart, there’s a lot of great ghost story writers BUT not so much in the 20th century (unless you subscribe to the theory that Shirley Jackson is writing about ghosts in several works like Hangsaman, which is her fictional version of what happened to that Vermont girl in the 60s who disappeared into the AT). “Turn of the Screw” is no good as a movie but oooof Mr James (Henry? Or William?) can write! Also, “cosmic horror” is mostly ghost stories, but ya gotta ignore Lovecraft in the genre. He can’t write very well. You want to read LeFanu, Machen, some Bierce (read all the Bierce, but some is satire, plus his actual bio is wild), and maybe deMaupassant but he’s mostly just depressing. The ghosts of Machen are fleeting glimpses beyond the veil - not big bulky things like cthulu but wispy snippets and it’s 95% vibes. If you don’t mind slowing down, plot is not always the strength here, sometimes just a tiny tiny bit more than nothing happens. I am a fast reader, my love of Machen hurts me a bit. You have to read and reread but to this day, the opening images, so richly detailed in a way that usually drives me bonkers, of The Great God Pan are seared in my mind. Machen is my fave, once properly digested, which for me has meant re-reading thru my life, 10+ times over, lives in one’s mind forever. There’s something about cosmic horror ghosts that is 100x as terrifying as sad drowned historical figure ghosts, like we are getting snippets of truth from a universe we cannot understand literally. We aren’t, it’s important to underscore that none of this is true lol, but the writing gives it life in a way that no other genre does. I personally can’t stand the classics like Wuthering Heights (Kate Bush’s version is perfection itself tho, the plot requires less than 5 mins), but some people love a ghost on the moors… (England is so small yet was chock full of lonely windswept moors in 1885)

Tampa sounds like American Beauty, not American Psycho? 🤔

Eyes Wide Open by Ted Dekker and The Oath by Frank Peretti. Eyes Wide Open is about a sane main protagonist that gets stuck in a mental ward where everyone gaslights her into thinking she is crazy. (It will make you start to wonder if you are loosing it too while reading.) It is a THICK book. The Oath is a creature story set in this weird, cultish rural town. It gets disturbing the more the main character finds out what is actually going on. Both are christian books, BUT VERY good horror stories. I recommend it if you want to stay up all night.

Read a lotta fucked up shit, but Man Down by Roger Smith is one that really left me starring into space for a while... It's a thriller, though. Meat by Joseph D'Lacey's another one I can highly recommend - sick shit, but very well written. Latest crazy one I read was The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias - definitely a What The Fuck one.

The ending of Tender Is the Flesh was so predictable to me, it always surprises me when people say it shocked them. I feel like the whole novel was so clearly building up to it, I didn't expect it to end any other way. Maybe that's also why I was a bit underwhelmed by it. A lot of the things that I felt were supposed to be shocking weren't that shocking to me. Maybe I'm too much of a cynic, idk. I didn't dislike it, but I also wouldn't rate it as highly as I've seen many people do. The Laws of the Skies sounds interesting, the vibe (gross, kids) sounds a bit like The Trop by Nick Cutter, which is one of my favorite books. I love body horror done well.

For me its got to be the short story by the late Howard Waldrop. "Horror, we got". It perfectly illustrated why pc and cencorship...usual do the opposite of what they are intending to do.

as some one named Naomi the mispronunciation drives me nuts. (NAA-Oh-MEE) if that helps. lol great book recs tho

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