Every book Creator/JamesEllroy has ever written contains plenty of NightmareFuel.

* The extract from the killer's journal in ''The Black Dahlia'', in which, among other things, the killer wishes that the baseball bat she is using to rape the victim had nails in it.
* A scene in ''American Tabloid'' where a woman who is being tortured for information by having her head crushed in a vice bites her own tongue off so she won't be able to talk, forcing the gangsters to put her out of her misery.
* The fictionalised account of his own mother's rape and murder in ''My Dark Places'' is also extremely disturbing.