The reason why truck kills in Pet Sematary are significant is because Louis's house is situated near a highway, which is frequented by speeding trucks. Therefore, due to Louis's carelessness, the cat dies, and a few months later, his son Gage also dies because of a forthcoming truck. The book is also inspired by a real life incident experienced by King, when his son almost got run over by a truck, like Gage.

Night was the first book to ever make me cry when I read it in high school.

i read night for school and it hurt so bad. it was amazing, but god it was sad. one of the best holocaust novels.

I didn’t know how badly I needed this video until right now

Despite how utterly depressing The Road is, I'm just glad the son was taken in by a genuinely good family.

Good video, but I think Stephen King is the only name you pronounced correctly.

I'm only a minute in and when you mentioned the first tier and what could be in the blue skies my mind instantly went to those holocaust books I had to read in highschool.

The frightening part of holocaust books is that they actually often took place as described. Truly sad how cruel humans can at times be. Hope it never happens again but it most likely will.

I saw the thumbnail for this video when I started reading The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. I thought, "It can't be that bad!" The thing is, Holocaust books always are. The Dollmaker of Krakow, another Holocaust book, has a fantasy element to it, and I still wasn't prepared for how dark it would be. Anyway, back to The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. I just finished it today. I was not ready for that ending. So I'm coming back to watch this.

this is underrated

Lolita needs to be further down that iceberg because it is pretty gross disturbing and downright a creepy novel about an older man preying on a child but because he’s an unreliable narrator it’s hard to believe whether or not everything that happened is ACTUALLY happening or Humbert is being a gross psycho pedophile who has an obsession with a 12 year old girl. The people who think that Lolita is a love story need mental help. The point of Nabokov’s writing is that his prose is so brilliant and complex that it makes readers think if it is meant to be implied as a tragic love story with a main character who is a mentally ill borderline creep. He might be writing about the most grody and nastiest things but the prose and vocabulary he uses is entwined so beautifully where it traps you thinking that you are idolizing and romanticizing SA.

This video is amazing! I'll 100% check out some of these books later.

One small note tho: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is striking and sad, but it's important to know that children during the Holocaust (on both sides of the fences) knew what was happening in the camps. The children of Nazis grew up hating the people on the other side of the fence, bc their parents certainly mentioned that they deserved to be there.

Legit thought that was a wendigoon thumbnail

I just watched an hour long video on this iceberg but he sped through the descriptions (still a good video, don’t get me wrong)
So I’m glad to see someone go into a little more depth! Ready to hear about those that are lower lol

Nobody's mentioned martin amis's earliest works " Dead Babies" and " Success" which introduced him to the world very much as the l'infant terrible before he eventually wound his way to intellectual emanant gris. These books will fuck you up and I ain't playin'.
Nabokov's Ada was just as pervy as lolita as it's about an incestuous brother and sister who plot to make the baby sister part of a thrupple.
Don't forget The End Of Alice and Geek Love, either.
Honorable mention to The Collector, which depicts the inner monologues of both the demented incel kidnapper and his victim throughout her captivity.
For the intellectuals among you, Kafka's Metamorphosis will instil in you a proper fear of capitalism run amok and some strangely ambivalent sympathies for vermin.

It's pronounced l-e we-sell

Oooh gonna have to read some of these books!!🤔

I've read my fair share of disturbing books over the years. Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door, a bunch of Holocaust books (Maus, Night, Man's Search for Meaning), Harlan Ellison's I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Lovecraft's Call of Cthulhu. The Road took me a whole year to read, what a sad story that was!
My recommendations for disturbing literature include three underrated short story collections:
Sick Things, Vile Things, and Necro Files.


Pet Sematary, like most of King's novels, could've been a decent novella without all the padding! Does Stephen King get paid according to page count or something?

You’re really funny! Immediately subscribed. I can definitely see you blowing up soon

Now I’m gonna go read all of them 🙃