History NightmareFuel / NakedLunch

* Insect-typewriter hybrids that encourage uxorcide, speaking through gigantic pink sphincters on their backs. Does anything more really need saying?

* Perhaps the scariest thing is the notion that anyone might end up this way if they were made desperate enough.

** AJ himself. Some of his [[ForTheEvulz "pranks"]] include triggering an orgy by releasing [[LoveIsInTheAir pheromone-producing insects]] at a New York high-society gala, unveiling a homoerotic statue in front of a boys' school and hosting a party with the main event being a ''snuff film.''

** AJ himself. Some of his [[ForTheEvulz "pranks"]] include triggering an orgy by releasing pheromone-producing insects into New York City, unveiling a homoerotic statue in front of a boys' school and hosting a party with the main event being a ''snuff film.''

* The rape scene. Poor Kiki is ripped apart and bleeding as Cloquet, in the form of a giant centipede with an UncannyValley version of his face, violates him while a drugged but horrified Lee looks on before fleeing.

* Crosses over with TearJerker: The absolutely brutal descriptions of what drug addiction can do to a person's life. Some Junkies have been reduced to cutting themselves open with bobby pins and then using an eye dropper to apply heroin to the open wounds. Rinse and repeat until the wounds [[NauseaFuel become purple and septic.]] To paraphrase the book: the pusher doesn't degrade his product for the buyer. He degrades his buyer for the ''product.''

* Hassan's orgy. Complete with buggery, alien pederasts and, as a grand finale, Hassan flying into the party dressed as a pirate as he starts decapitating people left and right while singing sea shanties.

* The absolutely grotesque descriptions of orgies, violence and assorted buggery at the hands of the Mugwumps in Interzone.
* Crosses over with TearJerker: The absolutely brutal descriptions of what drug addiction can do to a person's life.
* The simple fact that the entire book was written during a heroin binge so egregious that Burroughs himself couldn't remember its production for the life of him.

* The rape scene. Poor Kiki is ripped apart and bleeding as Cloquet, in the form of a giant centipede with an UncannyValley version of his face, violates him while a drugged but horrified Bill looks on before fleeing.

** The Mugwump typewriter trickles the same substance from its head tendrils whenever Lee writes something good. Lee adds it to his coffee like it was creamer.

* Fooling around with an attractive woman is sexy. But while you're being humped by a misshapen... ''thing'' that is actually, or used to be, your typewriter (which, beforehand, [[SomethingElseAlsoRises grew a phallus after erotica is typed on it]])? Not so much.

* It's [[MindScrew a non-stop surrealist train wreck of a book]] filled with disturbing imagery related to sex, drugs, violence, and human cruelty.
** "Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk?"
** Perhaps the scariest thing is the notion that anyone might end up this way if they were made desperate enough.
** The book's cover as shown on the main page is quite a disturbing thing.

* The rape scene with Cloquet, in the form of a giant centipede with an UncannyValley version of the man's face, and poor Kiki who's ripped apart and bleeding as Cloquet violates him while a drugged but horrified Bill watches before fleeing.
* Fooling around with an attractive woman is sexy. [[spoiler:But while you're being humped by a misshapen... ''thing'' that is actually, or used to be, your typewriter (which, beforehand, [[SomethingElseAlsoRises grew a phallus after erotica is typed on it]])?]] Not so much.
** Worse, the production crew referred to [[spoiler:the thing]] as "The Sex Blob."
* The positively {{squick}}-y scene in the den where people [[spoiler:suck semen from the teats of large insects]]. Yuck, just yuck.

* [[MadScientist Dr. Benway]] mentions a method of torture he devised called the "Switchboard". Drills are clamped against the victim's teeth, and the victim is then tasked with making connections on an arbitrary switchboard in response to colored lights and bells. Making a mistake or missing a connection turns the drills on for twenty seconds. [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption The switchboard is gradually sped up beyond the victim's reaction time..]]

* Fooling around with an attractive woman is sexy. [[spoiler:But while you're being humped by a misshapen...''thing'' that is actually, or used to be, your typewriter (which, beforehand, [[SomethingElseAlsoRises grew a phallus after erotica is typed on it]])?]] Not so much.

* The positively {{squick}}-y scene in the den where people [[spoiler:suck the semen from the teats of large insects]]. Yuck, just yuck.

* The rape scene with Cloquet, in the form of a centipede, and poor Kiki.
* Fooling around with an attractive woman is sexy. [[spoiler:But while you're being humped by a misshapen...thing that used to be your typewriter?]] Not so much.