ItвЂ™s almost through the last layer of the book (or the screen). The blurred scream is always more upsetting than the sharp scream.Дaphne du Maurier, The Birds and Other Stories Pan Macmillan 1977 edition Nightmarish and strangely tactile-I know exactly what this scene would feel and smell like, and it isnвЂ™t good.ДЄdam Nevill, The Ritual Pan 2011 editionДaphne du Maurier, DonвЂ™t Look Now NYRB 2008 edition Primo Levi, If Not Now, When? Penguin Classics 1995 edition It gives me chills but I canвЂ™t stop looking.

This one is beautiful in its own way, which only makes it more disturbing-the tiny hand, the gruesome puppet, the wide, deep, shining lips. Thomas Ligotti, Songs of a Dead DreamerВ and Grimscribe В art by Chris Mars Penguin Classics 2015 edition Something about this illustration has always disturbed me, even though these books were ostensibly for children-maybe itвЂ™s the vague hint of clown makeup, or maybe itвЂ™s the skull mushrooming up out of the countryside, fully excited about its brand new unlife. Applegate Scholastic Books, 1996-2001ДЄlvin Schwartz, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Scholastic Books 1989 edition Just imagine them singing a little wheedling song, too, and weвЂ™ll be all set for eternity.Д«asically all of the Animorphs covers are deeply upsetting, now that I have a little bit of distance on the matter. I actually have no idea what this looks like because I can only look at it through squinted eyes.Д«rett Rutherford and John Robertson, Piper cover by Lisa Falkenstern, Zebra 1987 editionДancing children in matching outfits are always creepy, especially when accompanied by a merry dancing death-jester. Shawn Hutson, Spawn Leisure Books edition I mean, this is probably what bacteria look like.

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