History CruelAndUnusualDeath / Literature

* ''Rooks and Ruin'' trilogy by Melissa Caruso. In the 3rd book, the demonically possessed Witch Lord, the Lady of Owls, learns that a demonically possessed Zenith Society agent named Aurelio is the one who murdered her daughter and then almost killed her granddaughter. So she punishes him by using her powers to create a forbidden monstrosity called a bone chimera which looks like a giant spiny snake. The Lady of Owls first contains Aurelio by impaling him via multiple animated trees and then she partially inserts the bone chimera inside the guy. The chimera is constantly eating him inside out which Aurelio's possessor demon keeps regenerating him. Eventually while fighting the protagonist, Aurelio gets his throat slashed and can no longer keep up the regeneration and so finally the chimera devours his internal organs and he's slain while his demon is imprisoned in a [[SoulJar magic gem]].

* ''Literature/TheBurningKingdoms'': People are put to death through being crushed by elephants as one form of {{public execution}}.

* In ''Literature/TheDevilGame'', a {{Creepypasta}}, it's described that one may end up in the same room as the Devil if the summoning goes wrong. The summoner's fate is [[NothingIsScaries left to the imagination of the reader]], but it's said that how much of the body is found and in what state depends on the Devil's mood.

* At one point in the war story ''Literature/TheThingsTheyCarried'', the protagonists pitch their tents in a field they later find out is fertilized with the excrement of the entire nearby town. When they're attacked in the middle of the night, the explosions stir up the ground, and a major character ''drowns in shit''. Proving that life is [[JustForPun shittier]] than fiction, the book's BasedOnATrueStory, and the death was apparently a real incident (though this is [[MindScrew definitely]] [[UsualSuspectsEnding questionable]]).

** Barty Crouch Jr. gets his [[FateWorseThanDeath soul sucked out]] through the Dementor's Kiss.

* Grenouille, the protagonist in ''Literature/PerfumeTheStoryOfAMurderer'', has murdered twenty-five beautiful virgins to create the most glorious, irresistible perfume in the world. For his crimes he is ''supposed'' to have his ankles, knees, hips, wrists, elbows and shoulders shattered and then be hung up to die, but he escapes this fate: in the end, he pours the perfume over himself and is torn to pieces and devoured by an adoring mob. The author makes it clear just how hard it is to tear a living human being into pieces, too.

* ''Agakuk'' tells the story of an Inuit living in the cold north in 1940. At some point, Agaguk killed a smuggler. Some chapters later, a lone RCMP officer came to investigate the murder. Agaguk's father, Ramook, wasn't very cooperative. The RCMP officer eventually realize he has outstayed his welcome and hastily departed. Before he could make it far, Ramook shot the Mountie in the back. Then the whole village descended on him. They stripped him off naked, in the snow, and chopped him off ''piece by piece'', while he was still alive and screaming in agony. [[ImAHumanitarian His penis was cut off and the women fought among themselves to devour it. Ramook took the liver and ate it]]. In the end, there was nothing left of him but bones. The chapter was appropriately entitled "The Butchers".[[note]]In real life, such practices have never been documented among the Inuit, whose reputation for cannibalism arose in response to lost European expeditions that were later found to have either succumbed to the elements or, in fact, cannibalized by their fellow crewmates.[[/note]]

* ''Agakuk'' tells the story of an Inuit living in the cold north in 1940. At some point, Agaguk killed a smuggler. Some chapters later, a lone RCMP officer came to investigate the murder. Agaguk's father, Ramook, wasn't very cooperative. The RCMP officer eventually realize he has outstayed his welcome and hastily departed. Before he could make it far, Ramook shot the Mountie in the back. Then the whole village descended on him. They stripped him off naked, in the snow, and chopped him off ''piece by piece'', while he was still alive and screaming in agony. [[ImAHumanitarian His penis was cut off and the women fought among themselves to devour it. Ramook took the liver and ate it]]. In the end, there was nothing left of him but bones. The chapter was appropriately entitled "The Butchers".[[note]]In real life, such practices have never been documented among the Inuit, whose reputation for cannibalism arose in response to lost European expeditions that were later found to have either succumbed to the elements or, in fact, cannibalized themselves/each other.[[/note]]

* ''Agakuk'' tells the story of an Inuit living in the cold north in 1940. At some point, Agaguk killed a smuggler. Some chapters later, a lone RCMP officer came to investigate the murder. Agaguk's father, Ramook, wasn't very cooperative. The RCMP officer eventually realize he has outstayed his welcome and hastily departed. Before he could make it far, Ramook shot the Mountie in the back. Then the whole village descended on him. They stripped him off naked, in the snow, and chopped him off ''piece by piece'', while he was still alive and screaming in agony. [[ImAHumanitarian His penis was cut off and the women fought among themselves to devour it. Ramook took the liver and ate it]]. In the end, there was nothing left of him but bones. The chapter was appropriately entitled "The Butchers".

* The Flazgaz Heat Ray, created by the Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe in ''[[https://www.peltorro.com/Badger_SF089.pdf The Intruders]]'', has gone down in legend as a ForgottenSuperweapon, but in-Universe it's banned for this reason; its target is roasted alive and dies in intolerable pain.

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* ''AllTheSinnersBleed'':