Blood Meridian is so incredibly fucked up

The Jaunt!  JFC that is some troubling shit.  “It’s longer than you think, Dad!  It’s longer than you think!”

And The Road, while not necessarily “scary,” is SO FUCKING RELENTLESSLY BLEAK. Man that’s a tough read. I loved it, but never again. UGH

Said edginess is just saying dude in a dress or I identity as a helicopter.  If I wanted lame repetitive comedy that punches down I'd watch Bill Maher.

Not even transphobic jokes at this point. Just full-on hate speech without even an attempt at humor.

“Cancel Culture” money is big money. There’s a huge profit motive for celebrities with 0 shame or incapable of handling criticism shout “Cancel Culture” and whine when they are even lightly criticized for being an asshole. People flock to the content in question, discourse is had, and in the end the celebrity’s…

Here’s a pretty good thread that sums up the issue by a trans person who works for Netlfix.

How did I miss this list when it came out?????????

Blood Meridian is so incredibly fucked up

Cask of the amantiallo, hands down.

The Haunted cover glows in the dark, which I learned after getting creeped out by a story, deciding to “call it” for the night, turning out the lights, and FUCK THAT FACE IS STARING AT ME FROM ACROSS THE ROOM

Well, as long as you’re sorry. Admitting it is always the first step.

“Lord of the Flies”. I know that sounds pretentious, maybe, but I was 12 when I picked it up at random from my school library, and when ***** is killed it scared me so bad I put the book into my dresser drawer for two days. When I looked at the drawer it was in, I’d hear a roaring in my ears, and distant crashing…

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman. He’s always been one of the best at creepy imagery, but this book strips down any of his other usual tricks that can distract you from that to present a little kid going through absolute hell from his own parents, plus what’s basically an evil Mary Poppins.

I love both Haunted and House of Leaves (even though I’d say the latter really only works best on 2/3 of its various meta-levels), and I’d add:

Of Lovecraft’s stories, I found The Colour Out of Space to be the scariest. It conveys the fear of the unknown and the sense of inevitable doom in an unrivaled manner. 

Came here primed to post about House of Leaves being left off this list but, I suppose I’ll just wander off into the nothingness

Yes, the book is really disturbing and not really enjoyable for me. The film a lot less disturbing and more enjoyable, because it isn’t so graphic (and implies that all the violence might be a delusion of Bateman anyway), and focuses more on the emptiness of 1980s yuppie life.

In high school a bunch of people I know used to pass around a copy of American Psycho one of them had (still sold under the counter in Australia) and it was one of the most disturbing things, not even just books, I’d ever experienced.