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02-21-2020, 05:13 AM | #17 |
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The only one I remember that raised my eyebrow as a kid was "The Five Chinese Brothers".
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02-21-2020, 05:53 AM | #18 |
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I suspect this is not what the OP was looking for, but...
I had not read Ian Fleming's Casino Royale since my mid-teens, I think, but when we watched the 2008 James Bond movie a particular scene was instantly recognisable (all the men in the audience cross their legs and cringe). I figure that qualifies as lasting trauma. Wikipedia tells me some of the scene was omitted from the movie released in Britain, Germany, U.S. and China - lucky people. |
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Hans Christian Andersen was terrible, even in my early picture books with the stories prettified. The one that most traumatized me, though, was "The Fir Tree"; I related to that more than to the stories of children, maybe because those old-timey children weren't real to me, but a Christmas tree sure was. The story horrified me and still does.
Reading Black Beauty was also traumatic--again, even in a child's picture book version. When I read the full story some years later, I was retraumatized; some scenes are still in my head all this time later. |
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I remember reading a number of books by the author of Watership Down (slightly disturbing) as a kid and The Plague Dogs stands out as a thoroughly disturbing example of this sort of book. The book that most disturbed me, however, was a book of Canadian Folklore which contained a section on urban legends. |
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I don't have a book that traumatized me and no movie either. Horror stories never bothered me.
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When I was about 12 I read a book of short horror stories - I think they were written for young/teenage readers so they probably were not that scary by adult standards, but I learned then and there that the horror genre was not for me! I get stressed out enough by everyday life - don't need to add unnecessary scares.
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I wouldn't say that it traumatized me but it sure scared the heck out of me: The Exorcist by Blatty. I couldn't stop until I finished it which was about 3 AM.
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I remember reading Stephen King's The Stand when I was 11, maybe 12 years old. Not a particularly scary book but can be quite disturbing especially to someone so young.
There is a part where a character does something with a gun to another character that made me disgusted. |
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I don't remember reading much real horror as a child, but one of my cousins did, and on their relatively rare visits he would sit his younger cousin (me) down and recite stories with body-shaped bloodstains on blocks of masonry in the ceiling and a myriad other gory details. I remember finding the tales vaguely fascinating, but that's about all.
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