History EyeScream / Literature

** LivingLegend Meas Gilbraith, [[TheCaptain the shipwife]] of the bone ship, Tide Child, who's also [[TheChosenOne the prophesied Tide Child]] is severely tortured for information. The final torture she's subjected to, is having one of her eyes removed.

** LivingLegend Meas Gilbraith, the shipwife of the bone ship, Tide Child, who's also [[TheChosenOne the prophesied Tide Child]] is severely tortured for information. The final torture she's subjected to, is having one of her eyes removed.

* In ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', Winston Smith [[spoiler:finally betrays Julia when O'Brien locks his face in a cage with rats and tells him that they've been known to chew out people's eyes.]]

* In ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', Winston Smith [[spoiler:finally betrays Julia when O'Brien locks his face in a cage with rats and tells him that they've been known to chew out people's eyes.]]

* ''Literature/{{Tempest}}'': In ''Tempest Revealed'', the octopus monster Turisas grabs Tempest's dad, but he manages to stab it in the eye with his knife. Turisas thrashes around, trying to get him to let go, but only succeeds in injuring himself more. Finally he drops him into the ocean. Tempest stuns Turisas with a [[ShockAndAwe blast of electricity]].

* ''Literature/{{Tempest}}'': In ''Tempest Revealed'', the octopus monster Turisas grabs Tempest's dad, but he manages to stab it in the eye with his knife. Turisas thrashes around, trying to get him to let go, but only succeeds in injuring himself more. Finally he drops him into the ocean. Tempest finishes Turisas off with a [[ShockAndAwe blast of electricity]].

* A major theme in the Stuart [=MacBride=] novel ''Blind Eye''. Numerous victims are very messily blinded off-screen, along with [[spoiler:one unsympathetic minor character]] on-screen (not described in much detail); however, the worst bit is the pathologist describing how the perpetrator would have gone about it.

* Creator/CormacMcCarthy's ''[=The Crossing=]'' has a particularly gruesome scene involving the Mexican revolutionary. After mouthing off to the German mercenary Wirtz and spitting in his face, Wirtz proceeds to lick up the spittle, swallow it, smile, then ''[=sucks out the man's eyeballs with his mouth, leaving them to dangle down his face=]''. The revolutionary talks about how, due to his eyes hanging from his face via a handful of nerves, the world seems to jostle as his eyes sway back and forth on his march back to camp.
* In Creator/MartinCaidin's ''Cyborg'' novels, Col. Steve Austin's bionic eye had to be physically removed in order to obtain the microfilm stored inside (in the original novels, it was a camera; it didn't provide super-vision). In the first book, during a mission in which Austin's survival is uncertain, he gives a female agent rather squicky instructions on how to remove the eye without having access to the bionics lab. For some reason, this aspect of Austin's bionics was skipped when ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'' came along.

* In ''Emerald Star'' by Creator/JacquelineWilson, Hetty's foster brother Gideon is discharged from the army after an incident where he loses an eye (and most of the vision in his remaining eye.) He is so traumatised that he can't or won't explain what happened to him, so we never find out ''how'' he lost his eye.

* In Edmondo D'amici's ''Heart'', main character Enrico and his classmates begin a snowball fight. Unfortunately, one of them ([[MoneyDearBoy Garoffi]]) throws a 'ball carelessly and hits an old man in the eye, crashing his glasses as well and causing him a serious injury. [[spoiler: This also marks Garoffi's CharacterDevelopment: he is [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone emotionally broken]] due to his careless actions and [[MustMakeAmends works hard to earn his inner peace]], despite having been forgiven by the old man and his family.]]

* Used with tons of FridgeLogic in the Italian fantasy novel ''Heroes of the Twilight'' (think of a more grammatically correct ''Literature/TheEyeOfArgon'' in Italian): one of the good guys take out a [[OurOgresAreHungrier giant ogre]] by wounding his eye. Later, as he's about to be discovered and killed by some [[LegionsOfHell demons]] he stabs again deeper his blade in the Ogre's eye, causing him to awaken in a berserk rage (rather than, you know, die because of the pierced brains).
* Literature/HonorHarrington loses an eye in ''Honor of the Queen'' when defending the Protector from goons sent by TheMole, to later be replaced by a prosthetic. Which was then damaged beyond repair a few books later by StateSec. She got better.

* In Jonathan Coe's ''The House of Sleep'', the main antagonist has a bizarre and sinister fetish for resting his fingers on his partner's eyelids and applying steadily increasing pressure.

* In Louisa May Alcott's ''Jack and Jill'', Jill tells Jack about a guy who threw his fork at his brother's face during a fight and accidentally tore said bro's eye out. The brother ultimately forgave him.

** ''Dark Rivers of the Heart'': One of the {{serial killer}}s in the book fantasizes about removing the eyes of another character.
** ''Dragon Tears'': The villain's mother gouged out her own eyes when he was born. After he grew up to be a SerialKiller, he collected his victims' eyes in jars.

** ''From the Corner of His Eye'': one of the main characters had a form of cancer as a child that meant that his eyes had to be surgically removed.

** ''Watchers'': the Outsider not only gouges out the eyes of victims but removes the eyes from all pictures, e.g. magazine illustrations.

* In ''[[Literature/MichaelStrogoff Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar]]'' by Creator/JulesVerne the title character gets a heat treatment to destroy his eyes by the enemies of the czar. [[spoiler:It turns out the treatment was a failure, because the hero cried like a little boy.]]
** "Heat treatment" doesn't do the passage justice. What the Tartars do is they jab a cavalry saber in a fire pit until it's white hot, then put it right next to his eyes to burn them. And [[spoiler: it doesn't work because Michael's tears instantly boil, thus forming a sort of insulating gas barrier]]. Either way...!

* ''The Painted Bird'' by Jerzy Kosinski contains the very graphic and detailed scene in which drunken farmer blinds his farmhand. With a spoon.

* In Thomas Harris's novel ''[[Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Red Dragon]]'' and both its [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptations]], the titular SerialKiller puts mirror shards in the eyes of his victims. (Luckily, this is ''after'' he kills them.)
** In a later Harris novel, the AssholeVictim is not so fortunate: under the hypnotic suggestion of Dr. Lecter, [[spoiler: Mason Verger removes his ''own'' eye (and much of his face) with a shard of broken mirror. The remaining eye survives, albeit lidless.]]

* On the Eastern side of things, the ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'' has Xiahou Dun, who ends up taking an arrow in the eye -- then plucking it out and swallowing it.
** "Essence of my father, blood of my mother, I cannot throw this away." ''So badass''.

* In Christopher Fowler's ''Rune'', Mrs. Nahree [[spoiler: presses a soldering iron into her eyes, trying to blind herself.]]

* In the Song of Albion book ''The Silver Hand'', [[spoiler:Tegid]] has his eyes slashed out after saying that he'll never see [[spoiler:Meldron as king]].

* The transsexual drug dealer Coco in Jo Nesbø's ''The Son'' is known for her use of ice pick, and she attempts use it to pry out an eye of one her clients who hasn't paid his debts. Luckily for the client, the title character pays his debts for him.

* ''A Stranger Came Ashore'' concludes with Robbie Henderson luring Finn Learson- [[SelkiesAndWereseals the Great Selkie]] currently in human form- into a trap so that [[spoiler:Yarl Corbie can attack Learson as a raven and tear out one of Finn's eyes. This will allow Finn to continue to hunt in his natural form, but he will no longer be able to seduce human women as he did in the past now that he won't be as handsome as he was before]].

* In ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'', if a [[SoulCuttingBlade Shardblade]] passes through a vital part of your body, your eyes shrivel up as if burned and you instantly die. Also, it turns out that [[spoiler: in Shadesmar the spren of 'dead' shardblades look like mostly-normal spren with the eyes scratched out. The other spren call these "deadeyes"]]
** Near the end of ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance'' [[spoiler: Adolin]] kills [[spoiler: Highprince Sadeas]] with a knife shoved into his eye.
* The ''[=StrangeMatter=]'' book ''Fly the Unfriendly Skies'' involved an evil alien race of hovering balls of black water called Cepheids. Late at night they would enter the homes of people and release drops of themselves into their eyes. These people would over the course of a day [[BodyHorror slowly transform into Cepheids]].

* J.F. Gonzalez's ''Survivor'' opens with a bondage-themed lesbian tryst between a [[TheFifties 1950s]] housewife and a cheerleader. Once the cheerleader's naked and tied up, the housewife sucks her eye out with her mouth and eats it.

* Denis Johnson's Vietnam War novel ''Tree of Smoke'' features a scene in which a soldier tortures a captured Viet Cong by popping out his eyeballs with a spoon (while leaving the optic nerves attached), and then re-inserting the eyeballs into their sockets in reverse, so that the victim can "take a look at himself."

* In ''Literature/TheCandyShopWar,'' the heroes are stalked by a floating eye-like thing. So LawfulNeutral John Dart tells them to shoot at it. They realize afterward, from the splatter of blood and the horrible shriek, that they ''shot out the BigBad's actual eye.'' [[spoiler: This causes some dissonance later when the BigBad is rendered harmless as an [[AmnesiacDissonance amnesiac little girl.]] She's a cute little lass with a cute little eye patch.]]

* ''Literature/{{Stray}}'':

* In ''[[Literature/TheWolfDenTrilogy The Wolf Den]]'', a prostitute named Drauca loses her eye when a her master's rival arranges an attack on the bar where she works. The protagonist Amara is later threatened with a similar fate, though she is rescued before she can come to harm.

* In''[[Literature/TheWolfDenTrilogy The Wolf Den]]'', a prostitute named Drauca loses her eye when a her master's rival arranges an attack on the bar where she works. The protagonist Amara is later threatened with a similar fate, though she is rescued before she can come to harm.

* From ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'', Ghostmaker. While on a completely frozen world, with temperatures well below zero, a trooper puts his eye up to the glass of a scope. It froze in place and the other Ghosts had to pull the gun away from his face. Okay, ''ouch.''

* [[{{Yandere}} Hitagi Senjougahara]] from ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' nearly stabs Koyomi Araragi in the eye with a mechanical pencil after he so much as talks about another female using her first name without an honorific.

* As stated above, ''Literature/BattleRoyale'' has a rather large description of [[spoiler:Chigusa]] clawing out one of [[spoiler:Niida]]'s eyes, with her middle finger and thumb (deciding that this had more strength than her pointer and thumb). This was followed by testicular crushing. But that's another trope.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'':

* The light novel series ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', depicts Erika and Walker torturing a man by imitating a scene from ''Manga/BlackButler'', by branding his eye. It's a very disturbing reveal of just ''how devoted'' they are to their anime and manga -- although they're also quick to note that if it wasn't anime and manga, it would be something else that they would take their inspiration from. In the anime, it's PlayedForLaughs, by just seeing comical struggling from outside the van, just barely skimming over how twisted these kids are.

* ''A Stranger Came Ashore'' concludes with Robbie Henderson luring Finn Learson- the Great Selkie currently in human form- into a trap so that [[spoiler:Yarl Corbie can attack Learson as a raven and tear out one of Finn's eyes. This will allow Finn to continue to hunt in his natural form, but he will no longer be able to seduce human women as he did in the past now that he won't be as handsome as he was before]].

* In Mollie Hunter's ''A Stranger Came Ashore'', [[spoiler: this is how Yarl and Robbie defeat Finn Larson aka [[SelkiesAndWereseals The Great Selkie]].]]