Nightmare Fuel / A Feast for Crows

• Biter pins Brienne down, breaks her forearm, sinks his filed teeth into her face and rips off a good portion of her cheek!
  Brienne: He is eating me!
• Maggy the Frog's prophecies. Cersei's prophecy is already terrible but what she says to little Melara is far worse: Worms will have your maidenhead. Your death is here tonight, little one. Can you smell her breath? She is very close.
  • Worse if you consider the possibility that the death Maggy is talking about is Cersei, standing by Melara's side, who it's believed may have murdered Melara by pushing her down a well and leaving her to drown.
• Cersei offering a lordship to anyone who brings her Tyrion's head creates a slew of bounty hunters murdering random male dwarfs (and in some cases, children) in hopes of claiming the reward. Worst of all, most of these bounty hunters get away with it because Cersei refuses to publicly punish anyone who kills an innocent dwarf for fear it will discourage other bounty hunters and allow Tyrion to escape her.
• What Randyll Tarly orders done to a whore that gave some of his men the pox - he has her private parts washed out with lye◊.
• Marillion's fate is disturbing, although some would argue he deserves it. To gain control of the Vale, Littlefinger kills Lysa by shoving her out the Moon Door shortly after marrying her, then pins the crime on Marillion and has Mord the jailer torture and mutilate him to make him believe he did it, including removing his eyes and several of his fingers. He also makes Sansa lie in front of the lords of the Vale that she saw Marillion push Lysa to her death.
  • Sansa's description of Marillion singing day and night while he's imprisoned and how it permeates the Eyrie is very unsettling. Even after he's dead, Robert Arryn/Sweetrobin can still hear him.
• The Black Cells, particularly after Qyburn, the Westeros equivalent of a Nazi doctor, takes over them. You never find out exactly what he does, only that he prefers women and runs out of subjects rather quickly. Cersei provides for him a pretty steady supply, and mentions that what happened to one was enough to make even her stomach turn.
• Two of the guards Jaime sends to search the labyrinth of secret passages in the Tower of the Hand disappear, and can't be found by their colleagues even though they can hear someone calling out to them.
  • Made even more horrible by the fact that soon after the incident, Cersei ordered the tower demolished with wildfire, presumably with the lost guys still inside.
• Cersei's plans to bring down Margaery Tyrell include torturing Margaery's singer, the Blue Bard, until he agrees to lie about Margaery's supposed lovers. Then, when Margaery's arrested, he's seized by the Faith and tortured again. By the time of A Dance with Dragons, the poor boy's gone mad, and small wonder.
  • Also, the Faith's treatment of Osney Kettleblack; when he makes the (false) confession that he commited adultery with Margaery, the High Septon is skeptical. So they whipped and scourged him until his back and shoulders were almost laid bare to the bone, and he was soon singing a very different song...
    • The High Septon takes a sharp right turn for the creepy when he admits to Cersei that he often has himself whipped for his sins. He is not spouting religiousness just to win followers, he really does believe in every single word he says. Varys may have said "there is nothing on earth as terrifying as a truly just man", but replace "just" with "pious" and it would be perfectly fitting.
  • When Cersei coaches the Blue Bard on what he is supposed to accuse Margaery and her cousins of, her narration mentions staring into the one eye that Qyburn hadn't carved out yet. Yeesh.
• Arya's encounter with a Faceless Man in the House of Black and White. Quoting it in all of its horrendous glory will do.
  The priest lowered his cowl. Beneath he had no face; only a yellowed skull with a few scraps of skin still clinging to the cheeks, and a white worm wriggling from one empty eye socket. "Kiss me, child," he croaked, in a voice as dry and husky as a death rattle.
• Euron "Crow's Eye" Greyjoy can put on an amiable nature, similar to Robert's charisma, but he shows himself to be one of the most dangerous and villainous characters in the series. The descriptions of him in prophecies, as a Drowned Crow and a creature sailing on a sea of blood, help this.
• Aeron in his POV Chapters has very creepy memories of when he was a child. "The sound of a door opening, the scream of a rusted hinge. Euron has come again." The implications of what Euron was doing to his little brother are... not pleasant.
• Jaime's recollection of his time as Kingsguard to Aerys II Targaryen, the Mad King are nightmarical. The Mad King got so aroused by burning men alive, he'd afterwards go and sexually abuse his unfortunate queen. Jaime, forced to stand guard during one of these incidents after Aerys had his third Hand of the King burned alive, considered having to listen to Queen Rhaella's screams as her husband raped her worse than listening to those of Lord Qarlton Chelsted being burned alive. When Jaime tried to protest that the Kingsguard were sworn to protect the Queen as well, his partner on duty, Ser Jonothor Darry bluntly replied "We are, but not from him". Jaime was further haunted by overhearing some of the Queen's maids gossiping after bathing their mistress the next morning, saying the Queen looked like she'd been mauled by an animal.
  Jaime had only seen Rhaella once after that, the morning of the day she left for Dragonstone. The queen had been cloaked and hooded as she climbed inside the royal wheelhouse that would take her down Aegon’s High Hill to the waiting ship, but he heard her maids whispering after she was gone. They said the queen looked as if some beast had savaged her, clawing at her thighs and chewing on her breasts. A crowned beast, Jaime knew.
• Jaime finds out what happened to Vargo Hoat. When Gregor Clegane took Harrenhal back, he had Hoat chopped into pieces over an extended period of time but made sure he was still alive. It doesn’t end there. The Mountain proceeded to feed Hoat his own severed limbs! It was a very well deserved and gratifying death for a scumbag like Hoat, but it doesn’t make it any less gruesome and it also shows that while Clegane is a brute, he’s not an idiot and he can be savvy when torturing people, as this was clearly a mockery of Hoat’s love of chopping off limbs.
  • Clegane also forces Harrenhal's remaining servants and captive nobles to eat some as well.
  • The story of Harrenhal servants. During the time Arya is there, there is a few hundred servants, cleaning the castle, cooking, washing dishes, milking cows, working in the stables... Arya leaves while the castle is still under Bolton's control when he says that he'll give the castle to Vargo Hoat and his Psycho for Hire squad, people who rape, maim and kill people for fun. People so cruel that Arya's lie that Vargo Hoat will cut off everyone's left foot to prevent them from running away is not only instantly believable but turns out not to be a lie but just a slight exaggeration (he cut some servants' feet off, not every servants' and killed a lot of them). The castle then falls to equally psychopathic but slightly more disciplined Mountain's men. Mountain's idea of fun pastime is cutting off Hoat's limbs piece by piece and feeding the pieces to him and servants. By the time Jaime comes there less than a year after Arya has left, only three servants are left: A cook (who is missing a foot, to cook for them and who was saved by letting Clegane's men into the castle as a revenge for Hoat lopping it off), an old blacksmith Ben Blackthumb (to fix their equipment, because experienced blacksmiths are hard to find) and Pretty Pia (as someone to serve them and a target they can rape. They left several "wenches to warm their beds" but only Pia survived). And Pia's nose was broken and teeth were smashed by Clegane's fist because she spoke while Gregor wanted silence. The last time we saw Pia was in A Clash of Kings as one of the shaved girls being left naked in stocks to be raped by any soldier who felt like it. In this book, she is forced to leave the castle she lived in her whole life because Ser Bonifer Hasty, the new commander, is a religious zealot who took a vow of chastity and won't allow ANY woman in the castle. Pia's life sucks.
  • Jaime executes one of the Mountain's men and is disturbed by his "kicked puppy" look as if he genuinely doesn't understand what he did wrong. His crime? Attempting to rape Pia right in front of Jaime, implying that was normal behavior under Gregor Clegane's command. His final words are chilling as well.
    I had her before, a hunnerd times. A hunnerd times, m'lord. We all had her.
  • During one moment, Jaime recalls a recent dream he had where he found Cersei sleeping with the court jester Moon Boy. In that dream, he killed the fool and used his hands - with the gold one working as well as a normal hand in his dream - to smash her teeth in just as Gregor Clegane had done to poor Pia. While Cersei is emotionally abusive and manipulative towards Jaime, it shows that his mind is heading to some dark places after he finds out about his sister-lover's suspected infidelity. He even thinks to himself that if he returned to King's Landing to be by Cersei's side, he didn't know what he would do next. It's very possible Jaime's thoughts towards Cersei are quickly becoming murderous in nature, similar to Tyrion's.
• The remaining Brave Companions laying waste to the town of Saltpans. Although only the aftermath of the raid is seen and described, as told to Brienne and her companions by the Elder Brother, the descriptions are gruesome enough. Rorge brutally rapes a twelve-year-old girl before giving her to his men, who cut her nose and nipples off (though she survives). One woman is raped a dozen times and her breasts are chewed off and eaten by Biter. And what does Ser Quincy Cox, the Knight of Saltpans, do during all this? He bars the gates of his castle and stays safe inside while the raiders slaughter his smallfolk and burn the town. The aforementioned woman uses her dying breaths to curse him instead of the raiders.
• When Euron is feasting his men after the conquest of the Shield Islands, the women and girls of House Hewett are reduced to serving wenches in their family's hall. Lord Hewett's bastard daughter Falia, who had previously been forced to work as a servant to her father's family, becomes Euron's mistress and makes them strip off their fine gowns in the middle of the hall and serve the Ironborn naked, while their lord father is Forced to Watch while tied to a chair and gagged with a radish shoved in his mouth. The youngest is only ten years old and her mother has to help her undo the laces down her back. Later, Left-Hand Lucas Codd rapes one of the girls on a table in plain view of her sisters as they scream and cry in horror. Even Victarion is somewhat disgusted by this—and remember, this is a man who follows Ironborn tradition so rigidly that he beat his wife to death with his bare hands after she had been raped by Euron.
• Shagwell the jester smashing Nimble Dick in the leg and then the face with his three-headed morningstar. And—although it's completely deserved—Brienne killing Shagwell right after by stabbing him repeatedly in the groin with her dagger, while screaming at him, "Laugh! Laugh! Laugh!"