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* The Tim Powers book ''The Stress of Her Regard''. The vampire fetishists. The way the protagonist's wife is described as being crushed like she got rolled over by a millstone. The wife's twin's robot thing. The medical wards and the surgery theatres and so much more.

* Zenna Henderson (best known for ''Literature/ThePeople'') also has children changed into rocks in her short story "The Believing Child". Little Dismey Coven, the daughter of sharecroppers, hears the stories her teacher reads with "eager acceptance -- and ''recognition''". The teacher at last realizes that she understands the stories as facts. The class bullies have been after her from day one, and one day they push her too far, and she uses a magic word...

* ''Młody Technik'', a Polish magazine about technology, had once published a short story about a lake which was a dumping ground for all sorts of trash. Eventually, between having so much trash in the lake and an accidental [[ILoveNuclearPower nuclear explosion]] in the vicinity, the lake becomes animate, and proceeds to eat everything around it while growing bigger and bigger. The government tries to destroy it, but all attempts fail. Eventually, the surviving humans desperately escape Earth, while the bog proceeds to eat the entire planet. Then it eats the whole Solar System. Then it turns its attention to the Milky Way. The illustration that depicted an amorphous monster with terrifying teeth also added to the horror.

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* He may be most famous for writing children's books, but Creator/CSLewis had a very firm grasp on what is scary. In particular '[[UncannyValley the Unman]]' and 'The Head' (which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin) in Literature/TheSpaceTrilogy... actually, the whole [[PeaceAndLoveIncorporated N.I.C.E.]], which is anything but...

* "Flash Frame" by [[http://www.innsmouthfreepress.com/?page_id=17 Silvia Moreno-Garcia]], a story from the ''[[http://cthulhurotica.com/ Cthulhurotica]]'' anthology, is pretty [[FanDisservice damn disturbing.]] It's basically a modern-day retelling of ''Literature/TheKingInYellow'' with a good dose of ''Literature/TheRing'' thrown in. A reporter for a Mexico City tabloid is on the hunt for a sensational story when he hears about some kind of cult meeting at a local porno theater. So he decides to spy on them. Strangely, all they seem to do is view a few minutes of some faux-Roman [[BrownNote exploitation flick]] that seems a bit... [[UncannyValley Off.]] After a few sessions, the reporter starts having nightmares about a [[TheBlank grotesque]] [[HumanoidAbomination seductress.]] And then he realizes his tape recorder has picked up the hidden audio track...

* Nick O'Donohoe's ''Crossroads'' trilogy has its moments. The [[DeathOfAChild death throes]] of a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Wyr]] [[KillTheCutie pup savaged]] by a panicked [[MixAndMatchCritters chimera]] in ''Under the Healing Sign'' stands out in particular; until finally given a MercyKill, the poor baby ''shifts from mangled puppy to mangled toddler and back'', crying all the while, in a desperate and futile attempt to activate his HealingFactor.

* Nick O'Donohoe's ''Crossroads'' trilogy has its moments. The [[DeathOfAChild death throes] of a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Wyr]] [[KillTheCutie pup savaged]] by a panicked [[MixAndMatchCritters chimera]] in ''Under the Healing Sign'' stands out in particular.

* Nick O'Donohoe's ''Crossroads'' trilogy has its moments. The death throes of a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Wyr]] [[KillTheCutie pup savaged]] by a panicked [[MixAndMatchCritters chimera]] in ''Under the Healing Sign'' in particular.

** Ava Vespilio]]'s ultimate fate. He was evil, but the implications of what will happen to him now...

* In ''Literature/TheOtherworld'', [[{{Necromancer}} necromancers]] can raise and control the dead, though it takes a lot of skill, effort, and a ritual to accomplish. Unlike simply reanimating an empty cadaver, raising the dead in this 'verse requires the necromancer to [[FateWorseThanDeath shove the original soul back into its corpse. Even if it's only the skeleton that's left]]. And as horrifying as that is, there's something worse: Chloe Saunders. Chloe's a fifteen-year-old necromancer. who has [[BlessedWithSuck so much power]] that she can (and occasionally does) raise the dead, whether animal or human, [[PowerIncontinence in her sleep]]. If Chloe raises the dead in her sleep and never realizes it, then that soul[[AndIMustScream is going to be trapped in its rotting corpse until it becomes nothing but a skeleton]].

* The "docudramas" from R. J. Rummel's ''Never Again'' series, written by one of the world's leading experts on crimes against humanity, which are said crimes from the POV of a common citizen living in the nation committing said crimes at its height. The description of Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge is particularly stomach-churning: the scene where young children are forced to execute their teacher for the crime of teaching them too much knowledge is absolutely horrifying. They're completely oblivious, thinking that it's a game, and while happily running around and tugging on ropes attached to a tree, hang him.]]

* The children's horror anthology ''Baleful Beasts and Eerie Creatures'' was pure NightmareFuel to its readers, partly because of the incredible illustrations by Rod Ruth. One story, "The Patchwork Monkey," involves a horrifying monkey doll and what it does to a young girl's brother. it tries to MERGE with him and succeeds,and the last scene is her brother, wearing its red ribbon smile as he speaks to her in its voice.]] Picture of it is [[http://the-haunted-closet.blogspot.com/2008/06/patchwork-monkey.html here]]. Almost every story in the book was as scary.

* ''Literature/TheActsOfCaine'': ''Blade of Tyshalle'' has a nasty disease that resembles rabies on steroids, the God of Dust and Ashes, and the scene where the avatars of said god MindRape [[BreakTheCutie the protagonist's daughter]]. The winner, however, would be the scene where the bad guys summon a demon who [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness takes out a mortally wounded and expendable underling]]. The demon feeds off of terror and despair, and to keep that disemboweled sap alive, ''reaches into his rib cage and manually pumps the heart to keep his blood flowing'']].

* ''Literature/ABadDayForVoodoo'' has some pretty graphic descriptions of Tyler losing his ear and it being bloody]].