{"product":{"product_id":"0987453661","title":"Cows","price":"12.99","image_url":"https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51VzmaStXuL._SL500_.jpg","url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/0987453661"},"comments":[{"body":"(On mobile so hopefully my formatting isn't borked!)\r\n\r\nEveryone's nightmare fuel is different, of course, but here are a couple that gave me some freaked out nights for very different reasons:\r\n\r\n**[COWS](https://www.amazon.com/Cows-Mr-Matthew-Stokoe/dp/0987453661) by Matthew Stokoe**\r\nThis book is sick. But it's also well written, which is what takes it beyond shock value. Pretty much everyone who has read it can recite a scene that really messed them up.\r\n\r\n**[THE GIRL NEXT DOOR](https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Next-Door-Jack-Ketchum/dp/1503950565) by Jack Ketchum**\r\nI took this out of the library several years ago. I had to renew it multiple times because I could only read it in small sections. It made me cry more than once and I definitely had nightmares. I've never read any other Ketchum, but I've seen folks around here saying he's got other books that will mess you up. I know OFF SEASON and THE WOMAN get mentioned quite a bit; maybe someone who's read those can chime in. \r\n\r\n**[HOUSE OF LEAVES](https://www.amazon.com/House-Leaves-Mark-Z-Danielewski/dp/0375703764) by Mark Z Danielewski**\r\nThis one is divisive, but it's one of my favourites. I buddy-read it with several long distance friends in various time zones (I'm in Toronto, and they were in Ohio, California, Washington State, Colorado and Australia!), so we spent many nights texting about how creeped out we felt being home alone while reading it. We likened it to a long, terrifying drug trip.\r\n\r\n**[HAUNTED](https://www.amazon.com/Haunted-Novel-Chuck-Palahniuk-ebook/dp/B000FCK40O) by Chuck Palahniuk**\r\nA collection of short stories that have a through line narrative. Each story is about/written by one of the characters, and each is its own kind of disturbing, creepy, or upsetting. \r\n\r\n\r\nI used to moderate a massive book club on Livejournal (!!) that was devoted to the most disturbing books in the world; I wish we could've migrated all of the 4,000 members to Reddit successfully, because we had a hell of a list! (ETA: [here](https://disturbingbooks.livejournal.com/tag/captivity) are a few posts about books with a captivity theme - THE GIRL NEXT DOOR is mentioned a couple of entries down. I'm amazed [our massive archive](https://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=disturbingbooks) is all still intact! You can [search it by tag, too](https://disturbingbooks.livejournal.com/tag/).)","subreddit_name":"horrorlit","author":"ehchvee"},{"body":"Or you could just read this: https://www.amazon.com/Cows-Mr-Matthew-Stokoe/dp/0987453661/","subreddit_name":"blursedimages","author":"biannual69"},{"body":"[Cows](https://www.amazon.com/Cows-Mr-Matthew-Stokoe/dp/0987453661/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EEQD19XWTE57\u0026amp;keywords=cows+matthew+stokoe\u0026amp;qid=1671120595\u0026amp;s=books\u0026amp;sprefix=cows%2Cstripbooks%2C124\u0026amp;sr=1-1)","subreddit_name":"pics","author":"casual_shoggoth"},{"body":"Have you read [this?](https://www.amazon.com/Cows-Mr-Matthew-Stokoe/dp/0987453661)","subreddit_name":"pics","author":"casual_shoggoth"},{"body":"[Cows](https://www.amazon.com/Cows-Mr-Matthew-Stokoe/dp/0987453661) by Matthew Stokoe","subreddit_name":"AskReddit","author":"casual_shoggoth"},{"body":"[Cows by Matthew Stokoe](https://www.amazon.com/Cows-Mr-Matthew-Stokoe/dp/0987453661). Just to see the outrage.","subreddit_name":"AskReddit","author":"Candycoatedmuffin2"}]}