Horror books with a disturbing ending

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That ending that shakes you. That stays with you. That makes you lose faith in humanity, and makes you fear it.

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  • Otomatik portakal

    A Clockwork Orange

    Anthony Burgess · 1972

    One of Esquire's 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time "A brilliant novel.... [A] savage satire on the distortions of the single and collective minds."— New York Times In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends' intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition, and Burgess's introduction, "A Clockwork Orange Resucked."

    Science fiction Classics Crime Dark Gritty Unsettling Unflinching
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  • Naomi's Room

    Naomi's Room

    Jonathan Aycliffe · 1991

    Tormented by grief after his four-year-old daughter is murdered, Charles hears sinister whispers as he tries to discover the truth about Naomi's death. But long-buried secrets threaten to take Charles to a place where he could lose his very soul. Aycliffe is a pseudonym for Daniel Easterman, the bestselling author of Brotherhood of the Tomb.

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    The Yellow Wallpaper

    Charlotte Perkins · 2023

    Why buy our paperbacks? Most Popular Gift Edition - One of it's kind Printed in USA on High Quality Paper Expedited shipping Standard Font size of 10 for all books 30 Days Money Back Guarantee Fulfilled by Amazon Unabridged (100% Original content) BEWARE OF LOW-QUALITY SELLERS Don't buy cheap paperbacks just to save a few dollars. Most of them use low-quality papers & binding. Their pages fall off easily. Some of them even use very small font size of 6 or less to increase their profit margin. It makes their books completely unreadable. About The Yellow Wallpaper "The Yellow Wallpaper" (original title: "The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story") is a 6,000-word short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's health, both physical and mental. Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer. Foregoing other rooms in the house, the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form of treatment she is forbidden from working, and is encouraged to eat well and get plenty of exercise and air, so she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency", a diagnosis common to women in that period. She hides her journal from her husband and his sister the housekeeper, fearful of being reproached for overworking herself. Because it's a nursery the room's windows are barred, to prevent children from climbing through them, and there is a gate across the top of the stairs, though she and her husband have access to the rest of the house and its adjoining estate.

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  • Rojo no 1/3

    Rojo no 1/3 ES

    Carlos Sisí · 2019

    We only have this synopsis in Spanish.

    Conjuga la trepidante acción que sedujo a los lectores de Los caminantes con un nuevo universo donde los vampiros toman el control. En una base militar en Nueva Jersey mantienen custodiada a una vampira terriblemente poderosa. Cuando esta escapa, desata el terror y el apocalipsis en forma de plaga vampírica. En la cercana población de Hillsdale, coinciden varios supervivientes: Sonia, una policía; y Jimmy, un inteligente friki de Star Wars. Ambos acuden al campamento militar, pero solo encuentran a Elexia, la vampira encargada de convertir humanos. En su huida conocen a Jared, un militar malhablado, violento y bebedor que deserta de su puesto para liquidar a las letales criaturas. Este es el inicio de una aventura que llevará a los tres protagonistas a luchar por sobrevivir a la plaga a medida que descubren que gran parte de Estados Unidos ha caído. Pero puede que haya una pequeña esperanza, puede que exista alguna manera de vencer a Elexia...

    Horror Thriller Science fiction Dark Gritty Propulsive Tense Urgent
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  • Tender Is the Flesh

    Tender Is the Flesh

    Agustina Bazterrica · 2015

    THE RUNAWAY NATIONAL BESTSELLER AND INTERNATIONAL SENSATION Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing. Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.

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  • El almohadón de plumas y otros cuentos de terror

    El almohadón de plumas y otros cuentos de terror ES

    Horacio Quiroga · 2019

    We only have this synopsis in Spanish.

    Estos cuentos de Horacio Quiroga nos siguen asombrando y despiertan en grandes y chicos la fascinación por lo desconocido, por más espantoso que sea. Es que se trata del horror cotidiano, real y conocido. Puede ser el que alberga un cómodo e inocente almohadón de plumas, los hermanos idiotas de una malcriada niñita, unos espectros que habitan las salas de cine o un insólito vampiro que, inexorablemente, terminará atrapando a su víctima. Historias para atesorar, para asombrarse y asustarse, como pasa siempre con la gran literatura de terror.

    Horror Short stories Classics Unsettling Haunting Dark Mysterious
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