- Nightmare Fuel: The excruciating description of Camille's dead body (as "not pretty" as the decomposing bodies of drowned people usually are). And each time it is brought up as Thérèse and Laurent are haunted by such visions of him after the murder and lose their sanity.
- Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: The novel is one of the darkest pieces of French Literature from 19th century, no-one in it is redeemable and the sheer horror of the two murderous lovers being haunted by their crime via Camille's corpse manifesting to them at all times plus the degeneration of Mrs. Raquin's body into total paralysis can make for an excruciating reading experience.
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