Best fucked up books

[BlackWaterSails]

I'm sure someone's already mentioned it here but Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind is a good subtle fucked up book. Throughout it gives the main character a lot to empathize with but slowly leans into how his treatment molds him a monster. Plus, the descriptions of the events add a layer to how fucked up it all feels. A book can say some of the most disgusting, disturbing and atrocious things imaginable but that does not hold much weight when it comes to being fucked up. I think this book is a better example of fucked up literature than something like The Boys comics, even though the latter has worse things happen. It has more haunting and descriptive language used and not just throwing shocking image or dialogue at the reader constantly. That's why it is my recommendation.

 

[Mister Mint]

Ass Goblins of Auswitz

Is about a race of creatures who resemble kids age 5-10 who one day get invaded by creatures who resemble sentient bipedal nazi asses and they torture and kill the race of kids probing them up the ass, killing them with things up their asses, feeding them shit with a tube up their asses and mostly ass stuff and nazy iconography.

Is really fucked up on the description and the idea.

I believe the author is low-key a pedophile with nazi tendencies, cause of the way he described some scenes which are somewhat erotic and disturbing about how they insert stuff up asses.

I read this awhile back just out of internet edgelord curiosity, along with a few other "bizarro fiction" books. Some of the dumbest shit I've ever read. Just page after page of edgy poop and swastika imagery.

No matter what they say the Bizarro genre is all just an excuse for talentless authors to be edgy and le random and I don't know why you would need a special genre for either of those things considering two of the most famous books by two of the most widely celebrated authors are about a guy that wants to fuck a child and a guy that just up and turns into a bug.

 

[Pee Your Pants]

I jotted down a lot of books from this thread and am finding a few of them hard to find - they're either out of print and ridiculous prices second hand, or I can't even find a PDF. I'm halfway through The Necrophiliac by Gabrielle Wittkop (found a PDF of it) and loving it; its one of my favourite types of 'fucked up books', where its written in a romantic way about something so vile. I find those books a more disturbing read as they almost try and seduce you into thinking what they're doing is a beautiful thing. It creeps me out. If anyone can point me towards a PDF/digital copy of Jesus Ignacio Aldapuerta's The Eyes then I would be thankful, as I can't find a copy.

 

[Rembrandt]

I'm halfway through The Necrophiliac by Gabrielle Wittkop (found a PDF of it) and loving it; its one of my favourite types of 'fucked up books', where its written in a romantic way about something so vile.

It read like a modern day fanfic from a sick fuck on Archive of Our Own, down to some fake ass moments of clarity and questioning one's morality. Nigga you're not exploring a taboo topic, you're jerking off

 

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If anyone can point me towards a PDF/digital copy of Jesus Ignacio Aldapuerta's The Eyes then I would be thankful, as I can't find a copy.

It's on zlib (bookszlibb74ugqojhzhg2a63w5i2atv5bqarulgczawnbmsb6s6qead.onion)

I'd upload it here but it's huge.

 

[Saint Agustin]

I read this awhile back just out of internet edgelord curiosity, along with a few other "bizarro fiction" books. Some of the dumbest shit I've ever read. Just page after page of edgy poop and swastika imagery.

No matter what they say the Bizarro genre is all just an excuse for talentless authors to be edgy and le random and I don't know why you would need a special genre for either of those things considering two of the most famous books by two of the most widely celebrated authors are about a guy that wants to fuck a child and a guy that just up and turns into a bug.

I feel there is a difference between Bizarro fiction and straight up bizarre random content that serve no purpose other than to shock and/or disgust the reader.

For example, I read a small story about a farmer who grows hands from the ground and is in constant fear the machine that pumps the world alive that is beyond the mountains will suddenly stop.

That right there is a nonsensically bizarre premise, but it has some backbone to stand and you can gleam there is backstory for a lot of the worldbuilding. Is not just random but random with a purpose and clear objective.

That story (which I can't remember the name or who wrote it, but it was in an anthology book) can illustrate how the Bizarro genre flex creativity writing without the need to shock and disgust the reader. Most writers nowadays are hacks who write either bland inconsequential stories or edgy Portland faggots.

 

[Mister Mint]

That story (which I can't remember the name or who wrote it, but it was in an anthology book) can illustrate how the Bizarro genre flex creativity writing without the need to shock and disgust the reader. Most writers nowadays are hacks who write either bland inconsequential stories or edgy Portland faggots.

Yeah, to be fair I've seen some that do try to build a proper story, the big issue I have with the genre is that it's needless. The bizarro fiction label is almost always used by, as you said, edgy Portland faggots, who just want to say "LOOK HOW WEIRD I AM GUYS! I'M A REALLY WACKY FELLA THAT HAS A FEW SCREWS LOOSE!" and pretend they're rebelling against a system that can't handle their weirdo books when, in reality, weirdo books have always been a thing and are often embraced.

 

[Jason Wynn]

Yeah, to be fair I've seen some that do try to build a proper story, the big issue I have with the genre is that it's needless. The bizarro fiction label is almost always used by, as you said, edgy Portland faggots, who just want to say "LOOK HOW WEIRD I AM GUYS! I'M A REALLY WACKY FELLA THAT HAS A FEW SCREWS LOOSE!" and pretend they're rebelling against a system that can't handle their weirdo books when, in reality, weirdo books have always been a thing and are often embraced.

Wrath James White is a "great" example of the kind of retarded edgelord faggot author bizzaro fiction seems to mostly entail. Sucks because there are some great examples of bizzaro short stories out there if you're willing to dig through all the dreck. Little Blenny Bunting by Airika Sneve is wonderfully surreal and stands out amid all the extreme gore and fetish deviancy that unfortunately permeates the genre.

 

[NOT Andy Kaufman]

"Killer Fiction" by Gerard John Schaefer AKA G.J. Schaefer

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[glass_houses]

I jotted down a lot of books from this thread and am finding a few of them hard to find - they're either out of print and ridiculous prices second hand, or I can't even find a PDF. I'm halfway through The Necrophiliac by Gabrielle Wittkop (found a PDF of it) and loving it; its one of my favourite types of 'fucked up books', where its written in a romantic way about something so vile. I find those books a more disturbing read as they almost try and seduce you into thinking what they're doing is a beautiful thing. It creeps me out. If anyone can point me towards a PDF/digital copy of Jesus Ignacio Aldapuerta's The Eyes then I would be thankful, as I can't find a copy.

Do you know how to google, mofo? It was literally the top result.

 

[RealMuthaForYa]

The Dice Man.

 

[ComStar]

While i can't claim to be an authority on these things, i'd like to mention Love On The Farm and Kowlongo Plaything from the Pan horror books.

The links are to PDF versions. the Pan books themselves are hit and miss, like most anthologies

 

[RealMuthaForYa]

Phillip Kerr who was both an adult and children’s author wrote the Bernie Gunther Berlin Noir novels. Superbly dark and well written. March Violets is magnificent, and Kerr’s description of the Dachau concentration camp is frightening and horrific.
He’s got a wicked turn of phrase: “He had more cheek than a nigger with a trumpet” is genius….

 

[NOT Andy Kaufman]

I jotted down a lot of books from this thread and am finding a few of them hard to find - they're either out of print and ridiculous prices second hand, or I can't even find a PDF. I'm halfway through The Necrophiliac by Gabrielle Wittkop (found a PDF of it) and loving it; its one of my favourite types of 'fucked up books', where its written in a romantic way about something so vile. I find those books a more disturbing read as they almost try and seduce you into thinking what they're doing is a beautiful thing. It creeps me out. If anyone can point me towards a PDF/digital copy of Jesus Ignacio Aldapuerta's The Eyes then I would be thankful, as I can't find a copy.

libgen.is

 

[BrunoMattei]

I keep wanting to bump the thread but I don't want to be a faggot about it, right? I used the search function (not trying to suck off Josh but the Farms has the absolute best search function I have ever seen on a forum) and could not find any mention of this one:



Killing For Culture.

(Cover is a still from a very obscure Mondo picture called Savage Zone and that is most likely a real fucking severed head taken from a sequence where mercenaries on behalf of an unnamed oil corporation kill a bunch of natives to take over the land)

This is my favorite film book. Hands down. This is the one. I've re-read this fucker from front to back 20+ times. What is it about? It's about the history of snuff films. A great alternate title could have been "Everything You've Always Wanted To Know About Snuff Films But Were Afraid To Ask." This fucker goes over EVERYTHING up until 1995 for the version I posted the cover too. It goes over the origins of the legend going back to the Manson Family, to movies using Snuff as a plot point, to movies that were thought to be actual snuff films (I.E. Cannibal Holocaust, Last House on Dead End Street, Guinea Pig 1 and 2, etc) until proven otherwise, movies that had actual cadavers and other shit in them, and then a lengthy conclusion on actual snuff films or shit where you could say it's "close enough."

Last I checked, the FBI still insists that snuff films do not exist. It's a laughable statement but they define snuff as: a murder on camera EXPLICITLY made to be sold to a mass market. They also believe the murder has to be sexual. Even with that very specific definition I'm sure you could come up with a couple of examples of that being done like 3 Guys 1 Hammer being one case where the killers tried to sell the snuff footage and may have actually done so but the details are sketchy. There's other shit where mercs record killing guys and sell the footage at local markets but you could argue that that's terror tactics 101 from the great big book currently still being written by our federal government.

It sucks that the book stopped at 1995 but wait...



The use of Saddam Hussein's execution for the cover was brilliant. This version is even more exhaustive and covers even more films and supposed snuff films and goes even deeper into internet snuff. Giant fucking book to dig into if you have some time to kill.

Also, @Lokenstien pointed this out but 4Chan has been taking influence from this thread:



A little credit would be nice, jeeze. They also forgot about Motherfuckers: The Auschwitz of OZ and the rest of the Lord Horror books.

Edit: I was looking at the list 4Chan's LIT thread made up and there's two entries I disagree with: Dark Spring by Unica Zurn is very good but it's not really "fucked up/disturbing" it's more depressing than anything and the author lives out her suicide fantasy in the end. Interesting author/artist who has been more well received through her art and the circles she hung out with rather than her writing. A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud is also not disturbing or fucked up. Very good prose book even though Rimbaud was a faggy edge lord during the time of writing.

 

[BrunoMattei]

The original publication of Soft Machine is closer to Naked Lunch. Mostly because it uses the last bit of pages (referred to as The Word Horde) he wrote during his trips in Tangiers that made up Naked Lunch. Not long after the first publication of Soft Machine he received a lot of critical feedback from the usual assholes and radically changed the book. That original version has never been re-published and is worth several hundred dollars.

Trivia: the term "heavy metal" comes from The Soft Machine. The more you know.

Double post. Fuck it.

Just wanted to update this thread because a friend of mine sent me a PDF of the original publication of Soft Machine that's worth at least a grand now. I liked it. Kind of Naked Lunch-lite but that's fine. Enjoy. @AnOminous @trailcamwhore

 

[Lokenstien]

This is my favorite film book. Hands down. This is the one. I've re-read this fucker from front to back 20+ times. What is it about? It's about the history of snuff films. A great alternate title could have been "Everything You've Always Wanted To Know About Snuff Films But Were Afraid To Ask."

I feel you on wanting to bump this thread but not having great reasons too. I'm still working my way through many of the classics on that partial list that was ripped from you but your post about snuff films books did remind me of particular piece of morbid internet history I own:

In the 2010's I become briefly obsessed with snuff films and disturbed movies and become semi-active on a forum called Death Addict. It's seems mostly defunct now as registration has been closed for years and I haven't thought about it for longer. But the site owner (I think) published this little okayish written 62 page book without page numbers that is tasked with detailing some of the most famous shock and gore videos out there from 2 girls 1 cup and Mr. Hands too the Dagestean massacre and The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs. The book is still available on kindle along with Cliff Dearing's other book about giving women orgasms but physical copies like mine seem to of the past and Mr. Dearing seems mostly done with running gore sites as far as I can tell.

A little credit would be nice, jeeze. They also forgot about Motherfuckers: The Auschwitz of OZ and the rest of the Lord Horror books.

I've been using that picture as reading list recently and if its not too much ask would you mind making an updated version of it? A dream of mine would be have a book shelf full of all those titles partially because I haven't had this much fun reading in a while and partially because I enjoy the idea of having a true to form bookcase of evil and nightmares like its some eldritch beast in of itself.

As a final note I finally finished Assisted Living by Nikanor Teratologen and while it took me months to work through and I felt genuine disdain for it while reading it, finishing left strangely wanting more. I don't think I gave it enough credit for how viciously creative the language it uses is and the fact that it’s part of trilogy but the other two lack proper English translations taunts me with the same taboo knowledge that most of these books do. I find that I also must respect just how committed to the nature of violence and vulgarity the author was in it since it’s one of the few books that truly does not stop with its obscenity. I'm also getting close to finishing The Torture Garden by Octave Mirabeau which has been one of the stranger reads. Its narrative structure has been kind of annoying as it jumps around or slows to a halt in major places, but the content has been fascinating. It continues a common theme I find with these books in which Life and Death are these intertwined gods that feed off each other. Therefore, that which produces the most horrific deaths will eventually blossom into the grandest flowers. Blood Merdian was a notable purveyor of this as it often oscillated between massacres and the beauty of the American landscape. I have a couple short stories up next to read like Steps by Jerzy Kosinski and Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille which I'm excited to dive into once I leave Clara and her orgasmic lust for blood in China. I’m also reading JunjI’s Ito’s adaptation of No Longer Human which falls more into the “more depressing than extreme” but the emotions still feel just as intense and the art is highly worth a gander alone.

I really need to make a day of reading this thread in its entirety so to make sure I haven’t missed discussion on the books I’ve already read.

 

[BrunoMattei]

I've been using that picture as reading list recently and if its not too much ask would you mind making an updated version of it? A dream of mine would be have a book shelf full of all those titles partially because I haven't had this much fun reading in a while and partially because I enjoy the idea of having a true to form bookcase of evil and nightmares like its some eldritch beast in of itself.

Can't guarantee when but I'll work on it. I don't want to come off as the ultimate edge lord gatekeeping faggot of subversive/weird/disturbing/surreal literature.

 

[Slimeball92A]

Blindness by José Saramago is a fucked up fave of mine..
The Movie wasn't anywhere near as disgusting, you might find it arousing if you're a scat freak.

All time fucked up fave is Bad Wisdom by Bill Drummond and Mark Manning, not really horrific but hilariously disgusting, and rather based.
The book alternates between the 2 writers' accounts of a journey to the North Pole. As it goes along, Manning's account goes off the rails into a juvenile acid-fueled cross between Hunter S. Thompson , Tolkein and Sade. Used copies go for stupid cash nowadays. Ebooks are downloadable from the usual free repos.

 

[Skitarii]

The Talmud