This was my first video essay and I'm aware of how ametuer it is. I've got a analog horror series I'm very passionate about that I'd like to get more attention: 12012003.carrd.co/ ua-cam.com/play/PLm4R5-hlN79AFfWB92zNf7HXd9m09uzHx.html
I think this was pretty good for your first video essay! It’s short, but short is good for a recap of this book, you don’t over analyze it, but still get the point across.
The music you chose for this was amazing because the dark theme from undertake is literally the theme of the monsters that were grotesquely mutated from alphys lab
1:46 I'm not even joking when I say the purple minions absolutely terrified me as a child. Like these things could literally eat an entire missile with a crazed look on their face apathetic to it being made of metal and explosives, they're unable to differentiate anything other than a target and they're basically an unstoppable force that could easily kill you.
I'm weirdly surprised how many people were traumatized by this book. Personally it was one of the many books I liked reading back in kindergarten. Perhaps it was the bright colors and illustrations that kept me interested. Or maybe the meaning of the story just flew over my head as a kid ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
i was a pretty sensitive kid. i remember the room being dark and the pages being projected onto a screen, so that might have been a pretty huge contributor to it. i think i even had to leave the classroom because i started crying lmfao. nowadays i look back as someone who loves body horror, and i cant help but feel like this book is what probably what originally piqued my interest, despite how much it traumatized me as a child. i still find the art pretty unsettling to this day honestly. in some weird way the bright colors almost made it worse for me?
when i read his book, i wasn't even in kindergarten. i was 4 and the worst part, was that i loved beans. ESPECIALLY LIMA BEANS. and once i read it, i started crying hard. after that i never ate beans for years. to this day every time i think about this book i get chills and the feeling to cry. now i barely eat beans.
The books we grew up with were absolutely terrifying. I remember one vividly of the old lady who swallowed a fly where she eats bigger and bigger things to take care of the creature she just ate. The modern end was rewritten to where she just became full but in the version we read she literally dies which scared the crap out of me as a kid.
Omg yeah idk what happened in the book because I literally covered my eyes and ears when my teacher read this aloud in first grade She was nice, she said I could sit out if I wanted and I came back just in time to see her fricking explode. Yeah. -_-
HELP I REMEMBER CRYING IN PRE SCHOOL OVER THOSE BOOKS (They were read alouds) Also the bad case of stripes made me feel so uncomfortable I couldn’t sleep for 2 days (pre school) vivid memories of those books
I'm so glad I'm not the only kid who was horrified by this book- We read it as a read-aloud in class, and I had nightmares about it for WEEKS. It took me years to even try and find it again.
This book and rainbow fish were the most traumatizing books for me. Nothing quite like a book about a fish mutilating itself just because if it didn't it would be seen as selfish.
Glad I wasn't the only one who felt unsettled as a kid by this book. It never caused me fear or anxiety. Instead, I was mostly just fascniated and disturbed. Great video btw! Your analysis is great.
the analyzation of the doctors looking down at her is like the perfect way to describe the feeling you get from just the imagery alone and without knowing just *why* it's unsettling. amazing video
True-True. Honestly looking back on the book i find it even scarier how the doctors treat her. Maybe I'm remembering wrong but the doctors seemed to treat her awfully- like something to be tested on rather then a human. They didn't listen to her at all- they didn't see her as human which is what scared me the most as a kid.
I wasn’t traumatized, but fascinated and somewhat disturbed. Definitely intrigued. Regardless, this book has been and will always be firmly ingrained into my memory.
Between this story, the political dystopia involving baseball, and the book detailing how Christopher Columbus destroyed the lives of native people through the eyes of a child, David Shannon had some serious balls.
I used to be absolutely obsessed with this book as a child I became so enthralled with body horror and transformations after that read through in 1st grade
All Tomorrows is considered body horror? Isn't it speculative evolution? I haven't read it but I know the basic idea of it and it doesn't sound too much like body horror Also the title "I have no mouth and I must scream" sounds absolutely TERRIFYING jeez
While this book did scare me as a kid, now as an adult with functional neurological disorder (which I have had most of my life but undiagnosed until recent years) I relate a lot to the mysterious illness that Camilla had! For example, no drs knowing what the illness is and sending Camilla to school despite her showing symptoms of an illness, because they don’t know what the illness is or what to do about it. Also, a personal experience that I relate to in this book - I relate to how Camilla’s illness changes for what those around her mention or suggest. For me, my FND symptoms can often be brought on by mention of someone else’s illness, for example I might see someone on tv that is in hospital and/or can’t walk, and my seizures and leg weakness will come on. But it’s still completely out of my control and REAL! I had completely forgotten about this book, and never suspected that I would relate to it in this way! Thank you for this video, it was truly a walk down memory lane (or should I say, memory scary dark alley, lol)
@@e_s.0848 I dislike you to the greatest degree humanly possible. If you gave me the choice between summoning 700 Tsar Bombas and igniting them or saying hi to you I would choose the bombs.
I think another thing that's so disturbing about the visuals is the color schemes. Like the one page you mentioned, with the doctors looking down on the girl in horror. The bizzare colors of the tendrils and bits and pieces doesn't even just look alien, it looks downright _horrific_ . The girl turned into a writhing mass of... everything and more, somehow.
3:36 The person next to the red microphone has a rainbow shirt that says "love"; I like that, especially since this story is about learning to be yourself :)
I wonder if the illustrator even knew his art was capable of inflicting such surreal terror. Like, looking back and seeing a lot of the shading elements, surrealism, terror, and body horror, it's crazy to think that was all an accident lol. It's possible though, and it seems very common for cartoonists illustrators and other designers to accidentally spook kids
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who was afraid of this book. The picture of her with plants sticking out 2:56 scared me as a kid. I remember I had a nightmare about that one page. Where she was using the tails and tentacles to kidnap children and gram them. I was maybe 4-5 and couldn’t read. Anytime my teacher wanted to read the story I had to be taken out of the class due to pure panic attacks. I never told anyone cuz I felt stupid for fearing a children’s book, but now I’m glad to hear I’m not alone.
Child’s brain is amazing at imagining scary things. I was seriously afraid of a RUG with cartoon mice and bugs on it, because I had a nightmare about them kidnapping and tickling me. That was awful because I couldn’t explain to my parents why I was afraid of a rug.
I wasn't scared of this book as a kid, but I will tell you about the only book that did: When I was like eight I read this book called The Door In The Lake (took me 20 minutes of searching to find it), it was this novel about this kid being abducted by aliens, then being returned 2 years later with no memory of what happened. What freaked me out was probably how the sci fi elements were paranormal, subtle, and a little Lovecraftian and were put in an otherwise normal setting. It was far from the sci fi stuff I was used to.
It’s comforting to know I’m not the only one who was traumatized and still remembers this book. I think it was the art style that was so disturbing to me, but I was TERRIFIED of this book for years
I never actually scared of this book. I understood it wasn’t real but the book weirded me out and rather than scaring me, it made me feel gross and weirded out.
So I guess the whole lesson of this book was about peer pressure and embracing who you truly are. But did Camilla actually have to go through all that just to be taught that lesson? What would the universe have done to her if she stole something? Psychologically torture her until she commits suicide?
It's not necessarily torturing her to teach her a lesson but it's representing what this feels like. Beyond just lima beans, it's kind of draining when people need to keep up an act pretending to be something they aren't and this is symbolic of that painful performance. However, the author is still batshit crazy for making this and he did not need to go that far lmao
Might even just take her parents away for the rest of eternity, and everything or everyone she loves or ever will love (platonically or romantically) will die at her hands, all being accidental.
Body horror for lacking "authenticity" is the modern version of being taken by a demon for promiscuity or sth. We scare our children into not giving into pressure now?
This book absolutely TRAUMATIZED ME. After we read it I was so scared of it and then one day some kid ran up to me, found the "scariest" page in the book, SHOVED IT IN MY FACE AND WAS LIKE "BOO!" AND I WAS LIKE "AAAAAA-"
when I was a kid, I had a strange fear of body horrors as well, but just specifically Wallis and gromet, in that one movie where I think Wallis became a rabbit, and it scarred me.
Okay I literally never have posted a comment before but just because of this video I have to. This book TRAUMATIZED ME to the point that I had to go to therapy for a year straight as a kid. If anyone was reading it in class, they had to stop or id sob. I had to get rid of my mirror because I was so scared of seeing myself in the mirror and having the stripes. Glad I was not the only one.
I also went to therapy because of it. What sucks is that my parents made fun of me for so long but they never read it. When I finally showed them this month they agreed it was fucked up
Dont worry i cried because of it and nobody understood i was scared i begged everyone to not choose it as the story when it was story time before lunch i would be so paranoid because i did not eat beans that i had it
I loved this book as a kid, I grew up autistic and my classmates were not very kind or understanding. I don’t think I got the message as a kid but looking back as an adult I really appreciate its approach on the “be yourself” mantra. I feel like in most stories that have this as their moral only touch it surface level, I really like how this book showed the consequences of not living as your true self and how the further from who we are we become the more we lose ourselves to the conformity around us
Yoooo finally another person that liked the book:0 I'm autistic too, and I'm pretty sure I just subconsciously picked up on the message, as all I remember liking about the book was the good art and really good colour composition:)
I Also adored This book. The art the story everything enthralled me. Not to mention it made me love lima beans! I really do love This book i could just never understand why some people disliked the book lol
The book basically traumatized me as a kid. So much so that I asked my school librarian if she could put it away - to no avail. Just the illustrations and with how graphic and detailed they are just made it unsettling. Even the word “stripes” made me uneasy.While I’ve grown out of that fear, I won’t lie that the cover and some of the illustrations do give a bit of a chill.
My 1st grade teacher gave me this book as gift over summer so we could read. I remember reading it by myself and thinking, "Lima beans exissst????" i never thought of it this deep.
This book STILL scares me, even as an adult now. I like that she’s wearing a rainbow bow in her hair at the very end, though. It’s a creative touch, but it’s also pretty funny.
1) I think I had a morbid fascination with this book, even when I was little lmao 2) I had no idea this guy wrote the David books too! That's kind of wild
When I was a kid (maybe even still right now), I had body horror for unusual skin colors, and let me tell you, this book was an absolute NIGHTMARE. Every time it was read, I would go to the back of the classroom and start hyperventilating with my ears blocked and face under my desk. My fear for this book was so extreme to the point where if someone even mentioned the name “Camilla,” I’d feel like throwing up because it brought back trauma. Not my proudest memories 😂
@@qmjq if your own skin tone was included within your trauma for "unusual skin tones", i'm thinking that might've happened because the lesser diversity of the olden times meant you never saw anyone else with your own skin colour, with your uniqueness in your world eventually sprouting into a sense of abnormality when you internalised only 'orange' skin tones being "natural"... _it's good to accept what you can't change about yourself, of course, and it's good that you have_ _(though as time goes on, humanity has discovered more ways to change things about themselves that they couldn't before, such as hair colour...)_
i love how everyone got traumatized but i was SO interested in horror as a kid so this didnt phase me at all ☠☠ EDIT: STOP WHY DOES THIS HAVE 1K LIKES AND 4O REPLIES IM SURPRISED AND ACTUALLY CONFUSED 😭😭
I feel like it speaks volumes about me that I loved this book as a kid- I was unexplainably fascinated with the ways her body and skin changed and gave me that weird little kid euphoria
I feel like as a kid I was never disturbed by what others seemed unsettling, like this book or Caroline. Yet I now see how dark it really was to other kids.
this book is one of the first stories that truly makes me feel an irrational need to vomit. i never comment on videos anymore but this essay hit hard for me. i remember in kindergarten our teacher put this on the overhead projector (we still used those even then) and it was narrated to us in an audio format, with sound affects and all. it made me feel sick to my stomach and yet no one around me seemed to feel the same overwhelming disgust i still hold to this day. kids were in awe, and my teacher thought it was a "very good lesson." in my opinion, the anomaly that happened to her was more like a cruel punishment than any good intended "lesson." maybe i just didn't and still don't understand it. back then everything felt so much bigger, so much more gargantuan- in the story AND physically in front of me. from the wide-scaled screen to the alphabet carpet i was sitting on, the sickening patterns of her grotesque body, laid out in front of my eyes made me unable to forget it. and to this day it is a vivid memory, praying the story would just end and i could just go into another room. or hell, even go to nap time, i hated nap time, but i was willing to do anything else but watch her condition get worse. i would have been 5. needless to say i never liked stripes, and even right now as i write this i feel like my gut may transform into some detestable monster no one on earth could explain or save me from. the helplessness of the situation happening to an undeserving child is a distinct horror few pieces of media could so accurately depict, (maybe skinamarink), and i truly believe the only reason it has stuck with us for so long was because it felt like the crime did not fit the punishment. the story goes on and overstays its welcome. she just gets worse until all goes away in a turn of the last page. the nostalgia of the not knowing how to navigate your own body and the very relatable aspect of getting no real help as a child struck chords in me.the idea that you're changing, you're ugly, you're becoming unbearable to the eye, unrecognizable to your OWN eye- and you are a spectacle to the world. as dramatic as all that sounded, there's nothing that can make this horrible memory go away, but at the very least, i almost feel freed to hear someone else put this into words and speak it out back to me. thanks
this book absolutely TRAUMATIZED me. when i was like six we had a inside sleepover camp thing at girl guides and this book was there. i read it and i had a hard time sleeping, i couldn’t stop thinking about the images, and even though i knew it wasn’t possible, i'd constantly think "what if this happened to me?" also, whenever i'd experience pareidolia of faces in walls or other things shown in this book, it would like trigger the memories of this book. it took years to get over my fear of it.
ngl i remember being terrified of this book as a kid, in first grade i even wanted to skip class the day they read the book and my parents and the teacher just could not understand why. i kinda started to subconsciously develop a fear of lima beans ever since i'd read it/had it read to me for the first time, because that's the main thing i could remember about the book. even now, this book is the first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions lima beans. lmao.
Finally, someone who gets it! Despite it being a decade later, I am still traumatized by the cover alone. One time, my sister bought the book home. It was in her backpack but just knowing that thing was in my home, left me shivering and terrified for half the night. I gave away a pair of socks because it essentially caused PTSD. I can never admit it to anyone because who the fk is frightened of a flippin' children book? That book will be banned from my future house
Literally! The cover of it disturbed me so bad. Because I had panic attacks about the book in kindergarten, in grade 1 and 2, my classmates would use the cover of the book to blackmail/scare me into doing things I didn't want to do.
@bread_duck_quack dude you dont have to be unwell to have had a different interpretation of the book as a kid. Some people were just more drawn to the fearful aspects than others!
The funny thing is that most of the time when kids would get exposed to this book, it was during storytime. Myself included; we had to do a whole analysis on what the moral of the story was. I think that David Shannon and teachers alike were able to brush aside the fact that the visuals can be considered disturbing, much like we can now that we're adults. This story was told to us because it has an incredible lesson (one that, to this day, I have to keep reminding myself of). So, yeah. The adults in our lives were unintentionally traumatizing us because they wanted us to learn a lesson. It sort of reminds me of old morbid nursery rhymes and fairy tales.
I am a teen and I listened to someone read the book again and I agree, this is some pretty creepy stuff if you really think about it. I know the message "don't change yourself to make other people happy" is an important 1 to learn but i feel like there were better ways to do this.
6:15 - 6:28 I just got very tense when you played this clip. I remember my grandma laughing her ass off by how traumatized I was at this video so to see it again after all these years is honestly a little triggering for me. Thankfully you don’t show the full clip thus sparing me of the jump scare. Sorry for this long tangent I just saw that clip & suddenly remembered something from my childhood
This was literally my intro to body horror and I was absolutely *fascinated* with the artwork. I remember laying on the floor and just staring at the pictures for HOURS
I was never scared by this as a kid, a large factor of that probably being a complete desensitization to gore for longer than I can remember (watching taxidermy), but God was I fascinated by it. The concept alone and the fact this is a children's book and like you said a lot, the art, that beautiful nightmarish art. I was captivated. Probably like 8 years later now and hey I'm obsessed with horror and, hey, body horror; wonder where that influence came from.
7:18 that does make me wonder... why is the best horror on accident? Like think about five nights at freddies. Yes that was intentional, but it was inspired by feedback to another one of Scott's games where people said the characters looked like "creepy animatronics", instead of just taking that feedback as an insult Scott said "oh, so im good at making creepy animatronics? Ill do that."
This video just shot me back to my childhood. My lord, I used to rip the sheet out of book fair magazines that had this book in it. I used to fake being sick to not show up to school for days on end because they had it displayed on the library shelf. I got in trouble at age 6 for burying the book in the dirt during Recess. Genuinely, I had completely forgotten that all of this had happened. This horrified me when I was younger.
I love how I wasn’t the only 6 year old terrorized by this book. I remember a TV show on HBO that played an episode where they did a read along to this book (the episode is kinda lost media, i did some digging a while ago and found every episode but the one about this book). I remember having to cover my ears when my kindergarten class read this book. Shannon’s “No, David” series however is a hilarious classic 🤣
until about fourth grade I considered myself a very easy frightened kid. I refused to go to haunted houses, ran away from spiders, openly covered my ears when teachers read scary short stories, I never dared to read anything that even implied it was horror. But when I was introduced to this book in first grade it just fascinated me. I remember actually being disappointed at the page with the doctors because we didn't get to see how Camilla looked. I didn't think it was supposed to be scary, because there was no blood, no death and Camilla was never stated to be in any physical pain. I have this blind spot tot he uncanny valley and absurdist surreal stuff. even when I was very little thought myself such a scaredy cat I didn't register anything like this as scary, just fascinating. My brain is weird I don't know.
Thanks for making this video, I was absolutely traumatized by this book in 1st grade. I think I may have thrown up before the book was finished, so its interesting now seeing the message of the book. Ironically, that message sums up my life, ever since I've been more accepting of myself and stopped changing myself for the world my life has been much better.
I legitimately only remembered 3 things about the book without the help of this video: Lima beans are the solution The cover art I felt uncomfortable every time I read it I think it didn't scar me bc I had actually repressed it
holy carp man. this is it. this is the first time ive felt like ive had a repressed memory. the feeling of deep, unfathomable unease just seeing your thumbnail suddenly brought up as it made me remember this book was so visceral i had to stop what else i was doing to watch this just to get the feeling out of my system. im not sure how to feel about this but thank you for reminding me of this book.
I think what scared me the most about this book was the cover art. Camilla’s face and the way David Shannon drew her gave me such an unnerving feeling. (She kinda looks like a doll, tbh) I wasn’t even able to look at the cover art after my teacher read it to us in kindergarten.
I’m so glad I’m not alone in how much this book scared me as a kid. It’s that visceral fear you described that I remember so vividly, especially the picture where she became her bedroom. I was a very sensitive kid, so it’s no wonder it affected me so much.
I had completely forgotten about this book until I found this video in my recommended, but when I saw the thumbnail, I was immediately hit with a strange sense of nausea and fear for some reason. I put off watching this video for a little while because tbh I was worried about what the book was and what it contained to make me so stressed just LOOKING at it. And, to be honest, after watching this video….yep I understand why. This book is lowkey TERRIFYING lol, my younger self has this one right
I cannot fathom why I loved this book so much, I’d read it over and over again whenever I could get my hands on it at the school library. Which probably explains why I have such a fascination with body horror now. Huh.
Dude, the youngest memory I have was being terrified of Lima beans because of this book, and then having recurring nightmares that she was in my hallway looking for me, and all I could do was see her through a baby monitor. This book traumatized me so hard that I remember to this day
1:17 same with me, but Superman 3 on my dad’s dvd in my aunt’s DVD player was the first body horror experience and I needed that extreme body horror to scare me.
i dont understand why everyone was scared of this book as a kid, when i first read it as a kid it became my all time favorite and it was really entertaining for me. This book is supposed to show how the lack of self esteem and self love caused this girl to change colors and sizes and once she learned to love her self and her flaws she went back to normal.
I just looked at the pictures in kindergarten. We had a bookshelf behind a carpet we would sit on to learn stuff. Luckily for me, I was sitting in the back of the carpet, near it. So the whole time, I was afraid the girl would magically come out of the book and attack me. I was a crazy adolescent.
@@CookiePlaysOfficial Idk man, morphing into random objects and quite literally becoming your house isn’t all that cool. It was easy to get the message when it was just her skin changing colors. I but with how drastic the book takes the message it feels like visual representation of the phrase “if your friends jumped off a bridge would you”. It’s easy to understand that phrase but if you think about it it’s pretty weird that someone would think you would commit a group suicide for doing something as simple as not eating a lima bean because it’s seen as embarrassing. In words it doesn’t sounds as weird but visual drawn out it kinda is for some kids
I never even heard of this book until now. I can kinda get what you're saying that the details of the art looking semi-realistic and uncanny. It definitely has the uncanny-ness feel to it. If I were to have seen this book as a kid, I probably would have been disturbed yet fascinated with it at the same time. Of course, I would be relieved that the story had a happy ending. Over the years, I've been fascinated with covers that have eye-catching artwork. Whether if it's something whimsical and fun or something disturbing and scary. It's like, I can't look away from it. Great job on your first video essay! It was well constructed and short. You were very informative and shared your thoughts on the book. I'm glad you were able to overcome your fear of this book and read it.
This one and the shivers in the fridge were my favorites. I just love how dark they are. They weren’t like other books for kids. They really stood out and I still love dark stuff today. I also loved good dog Carl, it was just so unique with beautiful art.
Dude, I was so scared of this when I was younger and it took me five years to realize the meaning behind the book. I thought it was just there to be creepy and scare me when I was younger pretty crazy I wasn’t the only one I thought this was very obscure.
Wow, thank you for making this video! It really sheds light on fears I used to have as a kid and I never considered it to be "body horror" until now. I never read this book, but I used to be really freaked out by stories where people get really big or their bodies change shape. In most cases they are supposed to be funny, but when you are that young you have not yet grasped the laws of physics and what could or could not actually happen to you. Another very distressing moment, for instance, was Violet Beauregard turning into a giant blueberry.
This book was the reason why I couldn’t eat sweet peas for a long time. The detail in the Lima beans looked way too much like the peas my mom would buy, so because of the art and the trauma the book gave me, I couldn’t even look at them without wanting to puke. Thanks David 😃👍
This book always scared me this came across me four times in my life ever. Hearing this video changed my perspective and I feel overcomed im 19 now and I'm was literally shaking seing this again. I am SHOCKED to learn to hear the same MAN to make this book and No David (literally my favorite childhood book) it comes full circle.
I READ THIS BOOK. This has haunted me for years and I could never remember anything about it besides the horrifying visuals. Thank you for talking about it!
I remember thinking I was insane or something by being scared by this book! This book made me realize how scared I was about people turning into monsters or something that doesn’t represent themselves.
I was just disgusted by this book. I wasn't really scared, but SO grossed out. I kind of forgot half of it, and this video made it all come rushing back-
I’m not kidding, when I was little, I genuinely loved the art of this book, and I somehow was never terrified of it. I thought it was so interesting and to me it had been so fun to look at that I guess I was too distracted to realize how creepy this story actually is. Now I only have fond memories of the book lol.
I found it so terrifying back when it was read to my Kindergarten class that when it was read the following year in the First Grade I actually had to leave while it was being read. I was so embarrassed by this that when my mother asked what happened I made up a story about what happened. Even now (I’m a grade school teacher believe or not) I find it’s message pretty messed up. “Be yourself or you and your family will deal with horrific trauma” Quite a message for 7 year olds.
I remember being *obsessed* with this book. it’s now that I realized how honestly anxiety causing it is, its actually really disturbing *im scared now*
Suddenly realizing this book was the start of my love-hate relationship with horror stuff. Like… I really like specific kinds of horror, where it walks the line between unsettling and/ or subtly terrifying and outright graphic. I loved this book. It walked that line perfectly, for me. Same goes for stuff like the backrooms, Iron Lung, and certain analogue horror now. I still say I hate horror, though, because I do hate 90% of the mainstream stuff for it, and never watch horror movies, but psychological stuff? Stuff that makes you think? Stuff that leaves you with a sense of existential dread that you only notice after, and have to unpack why? Brilliant.
That book terrified me as a kid, the artwork was stellar but the body horror really messed me up, and... I think thats a good thing. Being introduced the weird and terrifying in a safe way like a children's book. Knowing that "this is made for me, I shouldn't be scared of it" but being so viscerally confused and unnerved. I loved the Goosebumps show as a kid but Slappy scared me far deeper than A Bad Case of Stripes. The idea of doing nothing wrong but adults not believing you despite telling the truth was terrifying. It's funny, seems to relate to my social anxiety I got later on. I had nightmares about Slappy. I don't really believe that "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger", but in the case of being a kid and trying to deal with the fears presented in kids media, and seeing that the characters can overcome those obstacles, it really does help with fostering a sense of bravery or problem solving
This was my first video essay and I'm aware of how ametuer it is. I've got a analog horror series I'm very passionate about that I'd like to get more attention: 12012003.carrd.co/
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Make more videos of childhood fears, i’m glad this video exists so that way i know this book was a universal experience
I thought it was a good video essay despite being shorter than others.
I think this was pretty good for your first video essay! It’s short, but short is good for a recap of this book, you don’t over analyze it, but still get the point across.
The music you chose for this was amazing because the dark theme from undertake is literally the theme of the monsters that were grotesquely mutated from alphys lab
It's good! Not perfect but for a first it's definitely really good. Subbed for it
1:46 I'm not even joking when I say the purple minions absolutely terrified me as a child. Like these things could literally eat an entire missile with a crazed look on their face apathetic to it being made of metal and explosives, they're unable to differentiate anything other than a target and they're basically an unstoppable force that could easily kill you.
Nah they funni
BANANA MOTHER-😊
Bro I don't know why purple minions were scary when we were young
All you need is a lot of jelly to stop them, that is what I told my friend when he confessed his fear of the purple minions to me
YOO SOMEONE ELSE THOUGHT THEY WERE SCARY TOO!!!!
OMG SAME
I'm weirdly surprised how many people were traumatized by this book. Personally it was one of the many books I liked reading back in kindergarten. Perhaps it was the bright colors and illustrations that kept me interested. Or maybe the meaning of the story just flew over my head as a kid ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Me too i thought this book was really cute as a kid!
Eat your lima beans kids
I always wanted to eat the Lima beans 🤤
Same here, that's the same reason why I also liked this book.
i was a pretty sensitive kid. i remember the room being dark and the pages being projected onto a screen, so that might have been a pretty huge contributor to it. i think i even had to leave the classroom because i started crying lmfao.
nowadays i look back as someone who loves body horror, and i cant help but feel like this book is what probably what originally piqued my interest, despite how much it traumatized me as a child. i still find the art pretty unsettling to this day honestly. in some weird way the bright colors almost made it worse for me?
when i read his book, i wasn't even in kindergarten. i was 4 and the worst part, was that i loved beans. ESPECIALLY LIMA BEANS. and once i read it, i started crying hard. after that i never ate beans for years. to this day every time i think about this book i get chills and the feeling to cry. now i barely eat beans.
I haven’t eaten Lima Beans to this day bc of this book 😭😭😭
@@keatonalameda260SAMEEEE I DONT EVEN EAT LIMA BEANS ANYMORE I READ THIS BOOK AT 4 TO
I'm reading it now I'm so scared ahh😭
I always loved that art style. I like to imagine a encyclopedia of horrible monsters in the style of a kids book
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same this was one of my favorite books as a kid
The art for this books is insanely good, it’s all surrealism.
True
why are childrens books always illustrated in a great way, yet more for horror books.
The books we grew up with were absolutely terrifying. I remember one vividly of the old lady who swallowed a fly where she eats bigger and bigger things to take care of the creature she just ate. The modern end was rewritten to where she just became full but in the version we read she literally dies which scared the crap out of me as a kid.
Yeah now that I think about it, that book was actually quite scary!
Omg yeah idk what happened in the book because I literally covered my eyes and ears when my teacher read this aloud in first grade
She was nice, she said I could sit out if I wanted and I came back just in time to see her fricking explode. Yeah. -_-
HELP I REMEMBER CRYING IN PRE SCHOOL OVER THOSE BOOKS (They were read alouds)
Also the bad case of stripes made me feel so uncomfortable I couldn’t sleep for 2 days (pre school) vivid memories of those books
Is it just me or am i the only one who wasnt scared of either things for the first time reading them
OOH! I REMEMBER THAT BOOK!! It’s called There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly!
This book honestly traumatized me as a kid
Same I had nightmares for like two years because of it 💀
I'm so glad I'm not the only kid who was horrified by this book-
We read it as a read-aloud in class, and I had nightmares about it for WEEKS. It took me years to even try and find it again.
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This book and rainbow fish were the most traumatizing books for me. Nothing quite like a book about a fish mutilating itself just because if it didn't it would be seen as selfish.
me too
Glad I wasn't the only one who felt unsettled as a kid by this book. It never caused me fear or anxiety. Instead, I was mostly just fascniated and disturbed. Great video btw! Your analysis is great.
I guess I fell into the same category of Oddly intrigued and Fascinated when I was a kid lmao
@Pumpkin Spice same
Yea I still have the book in my old school we read it and I was sitting behind the back covering my ears after us reading the book together
Same
Why was I scared of this book💀💀💀
This book gave me nightmares, I couldn’t even read past the page where she turns in a pill
the analyzation of the doctors looking down at her is like the perfect way to describe the feeling you get from just the imagery alone and without knowing just *why* it's unsettling. amazing video
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True-True. Honestly looking back on the book i find it even scarier how the doctors treat her. Maybe I'm remembering wrong but the doctors seemed to treat her awfully- like something to be tested on rather then a human. They didn't listen to her at all- they didn't see her as human which is what scared me the most as a kid.
I still remember being disturbed by it at age 4. I haven't even seen the book in over a decade 😂
I wasn’t traumatized, but fascinated and somewhat disturbed. Definitely intrigued. Regardless, this book has been and will always be firmly ingrained into my memory.
The pill one was especially disturbing to me
Ikr
@@thesillyrandom which one ?
@@Ch3llxo The one where she turns into a pill, like she become pill-shaped
@@thesillyrandom ohhh
Between this story, the political dystopia involving baseball, and the book detailing how Christopher Columbus destroyed the lives of native people through the eyes of a child, David Shannon had some serious balls.
I used to be absolutely obsessed with this book as a child
I became so enthralled with body horror and transformations after that read through in 1st grade
same here.
Same here
Same here, minus the body horror. I was more interested in the colors.
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same tbh
This book is possibly the reason why I love body horror books. "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream", "All Tomorrows", and etc.
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Same!
I am genuinelly curious.
Do You have a must read list for body horror books?
Same lol
All Tomorrows is considered body horror? Isn't it speculative evolution? I haven't read it but I know the basic idea of it and it doesn't sound too much like body horror
Also the title "I have no mouth and I must scream" sounds absolutely TERRIFYING jeez
I can’t explain how fitting the Undertale music in the background is. Even with the True Lab lore, really matches the story.
While this book did scare me as a kid, now as an adult with functional neurological disorder (which I have had most of my life but undiagnosed until recent years) I relate a lot to the mysterious illness that Camilla had!
For example, no drs knowing what the illness is and sending Camilla to school despite her showing symptoms of an illness, because they don’t know what the illness is or what to do about it. Also, a personal experience that I relate to in this book - I relate to how Camilla’s illness changes for what those around her mention or suggest. For me, my FND symptoms can often be brought on by mention of someone else’s illness, for example I might see someone on tv that is in hospital and/or can’t walk, and my seizures and leg weakness will come on. But it’s still completely out of my control and REAL!
I had completely forgotten about this book, and never suspected that I would relate to it in this way! Thank you for this video, it was truly a walk down memory lane (or should I say, memory scary dark alley, lol)
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I think another thing that's so disturbing about the visuals is the color schemes.
Like the one page you mentioned, with the doctors looking down on the girl in horror.
The bizzare colors of the tendrils and bits and pieces doesn't even just look alien, it looks downright _horrific_ .
The girl turned into a writhing mass of... everything and more, somehow.
also the faces are weirdly round and shiny and i feel like they dip into the uncanny valley.
Yeah it's actually way worse than most body horror.
It's not just cancerous growth, it's even more wrong than that.
3:36 The person next to the red microphone has a rainbow shirt that says "love"; I like that, especially since this story is about learning to be yourself :)
I wonder if the illustrator even knew his art was capable of inflicting such surreal terror. Like, looking back and seeing a lot of the shading elements, surrealism, terror, and body horror, it's crazy to think that was all an accident lol. It's possible though, and it seems very common for cartoonists illustrators and other designers to accidentally spook kids
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who was afraid of this book. The picture of her with plants sticking out 2:56 scared me as a kid. I remember I had a nightmare about that one page. Where she was using the tails and tentacles to kidnap children and gram them. I was maybe 4-5 and couldn’t read. Anytime my teacher wanted to read the story I had to be taken out of the class due to pure panic attacks. I never told anyone cuz I felt stupid for fearing a children’s book, but now I’m glad to hear I’m not alone.
Child’s brain is amazing at imagining scary things. I was seriously afraid of a RUG with cartoon mice and bugs on it, because I had a nightmare about them kidnapping and tickling me. That was awful because I couldn’t explain to my parents why I was afraid of a rug.
Same! It got so bad that I had to have a check-in check-out form for my behaviour. I was genuinely so afraid of this book 😭😭😭
If you had to leave the room then the teacher should have read another book.
The irony in hiding your fear of the book when the book is all about not hiding your feelings.
When I was in kindergarten I read a book about a Frankenstein falling apart and his eyes and brain was falling out..traumatized me ngl
I wasn't scared of this book as a kid, but I will tell you about the only book that did:
When I was like eight I read this book called The Door In The Lake (took me 20 minutes of searching to find it), it was this novel about this kid being abducted by aliens, then being returned 2 years later with no memory of what happened. What freaked me out was probably how the sci fi elements were paranormal, subtle, and a little Lovecraftian and were put in an otherwise normal setting. It was far from the sci fi stuff I was used to.
It’s comforting to know I’m not the only one who was traumatized and still remembers this book. I think it was the art style that was so disturbing to me, but I was TERRIFIED of this book for years
same
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I also got traumatized as a pre k kid thinking that will happen to me
Same OMg
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I never actually scared of this book. I understood it wasn’t real but the book weirded me out and rather than scaring me, it made me feel gross and weirded out.
The art in this book I found kinda creepy as a kid, the actual story was normal children book fare.
Me asf:
Tree priest and stranger things, SO TRUE
@Stranger_things597 my teacher did too
Dude same I was never scared, all this brings to me is pure nostalgia, I completely forgot about this book.
I would love to see two version of a movie made of this. A lighthearted kid version, and a body horror version for teens and adults.
I'd watch the kids version or none dispite the fact that I'm a teenager lol.
So I guess the whole lesson of this book was about peer pressure and embracing who you truly are. But did Camilla actually have to go through all that just to be taught that lesson? What would the universe have done to her if she stole something? Psychologically torture her until she commits suicide?
It's not necessarily torturing her to teach her a lesson but it's representing what this feels like. Beyond just lima beans, it's kind of draining when people need to keep up an act pretending to be something they aren't and this is symbolic of that painful performance. However, the author is still batshit crazy for making this and he did not need to go that far lmao
Might even just take her parents away for the rest of eternity, and everything or everyone she loves or ever will love (platonically or romantically) will die at her hands, all being accidental.
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Body horror for lacking "authenticity" is the modern version of being taken by a demon for promiscuity or sth.
We scare our children into not giving into pressure now?
This book absolutely TRAUMATIZED ME.
After we read it I was so scared of it and then one day some kid ran up to me, found the "scariest" page in the book, SHOVED IT IN MY FACE AND WAS LIKE "BOO!" AND I WAS LIKE "AAAAAA-"
Was it the pill one
@@realmcarthy it was for me lol
@@realmcarthy YES 😭😭😭
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THE PILL ONE MADE ME CRY THE MOST
the part where she turned into some weird room thing was so traumatizing and obscure for me
when I was a kid, I had a strange fear of body horrors as well, but just specifically Wallis and gromet, in that one movie where I think Wallis became a rabbit, and it scarred me.
Okay I literally never have posted a comment before but just because of this video I have to. This book TRAUMATIZED ME to the point that I had to go to therapy for a year straight as a kid. If anyone was reading it in class, they had to stop or id sob. I had to get rid of my mirror because I was so scared of seeing myself in the mirror and having the stripes. Glad I was not the only one.
I also went to therapy because of it. What sucks is that my parents made fun of me for so long but they never read it. When I finally showed them this month they agreed it was fucked up
Dont worry i cried because of it and nobody understood i was scared i begged everyone to not choose it as the story when it was story time before lunch i would be so paranoid because i did not eat beans that i had it
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Ain’t no way people are going too therapy over this😭😭😭
@@e_s.0848In this case... does he, though?
I loved this book as a kid, I grew up autistic and my classmates were not very kind or understanding. I don’t think I got the message as a kid but looking back as an adult I really appreciate its approach on the “be yourself” mantra. I feel like in most stories that have this as their moral only touch it surface level, I really like how this book showed the consequences of not living as your true self and how the further from who we are we become the more we lose ourselves to the conformity around us
Yoooo finally another person that liked the book:0
I'm autistic too, and I'm pretty sure I just subconsciously picked up on the message, as all I remember liking about the book was the good art and really good colour composition:)
same
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I Also adored This book. The art the story everything enthralled me. Not to mention it made me love lima beans! I really do love This book i could just never understand why some people disliked the book lol
0:02 that looks like my daycare tf- but you i was TERRIFIED of that book
I used to be so obsessed with this book. That explains a lot about my horror obsession
Same!!
I wasnt obsessed, but I wasn’t scared of it either. Weirdly, now I don’t like body horror
XD same
I wasn’t obsessed, but I liked it. It was pretty memorable, but I didn’t really care too much abt it.
Same I would read it almost every night as a kid
IM SO DAMN GLAD SOMEBODY FINALLY SAID THIS. As a kid this book was absolutely terrifying to me.
Me too
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The book basically traumatized me as a kid. So much so that I asked my school librarian if she could put it away - to no avail. Just the illustrations and with how graphic and detailed they are just made it unsettling. Even the word “stripes” made me uneasy.While I’ve grown out of that fear, I won’t lie that the cover and some of the illustrations do give a bit of a chill.
My 1st grade teacher gave me this book as gift over summer so we could read. I remember reading it by myself and thinking, "Lima beans exissst????" i never thought of it this deep.
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This book STILL scares me, even as an adult now.
I like that she’s wearing a rainbow bow in her hair at the very end, though. It’s a creative touch, but it’s also pretty funny.
This book scared the crap out of me when she fuses with the room
1) I think I had a morbid fascination with this book, even when I was little lmao
2) I had no idea this guy wrote the David books too! That's kind of wild
glad all of our previously traumatized inner children can come together and view this book with a new lens of appreciation
YES the art style had NO RIGHT BEING TO DOWNRIGHT TERRIFYING. This entire moment, 5:10 , is the EXACT REASON why this book gave me the heebie-jeebies
When I was a kid (maybe even still right now), I had body horror for unusual skin colors, and let me tell you, this book was an absolute NIGHTMARE. Every time it was read, I would go to the back of the classroom and start hyperventilating with my ears blocked and face under my desk. My fear for this book was so extreme to the point where if someone even mentioned the name “Camilla,” I’d feel like throwing up because it brought back trauma. Not my proudest memories 😂
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@@justarandomguy983 Probably why I used to be slightly nauseated by my slightly yellow asian skin
If thats the case, *Face reveals* OOGA BOOGA >:)
@@qmjq um anyways…
@@qmjq if your own skin tone was included within your trauma for "unusual skin tones", i'm thinking that might've happened because the lesser diversity of the olden times meant you never saw anyone else with your own skin colour, with your uniqueness in your world eventually sprouting into a sense of abnormality when you internalised only 'orange' skin tones being "natural"...
_it's good to accept what you can't change about yourself, of course, and it's good that you have_
_(though as time goes on, humanity has discovered more ways to change things about themselves that they couldn't before, such as hair colour...)_
i love how everyone got traumatized but i was SO interested in horror as a kid so this didnt phase me at all ☠☠
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I hate horror, but somehow I never got scarred by this book and forgot it existed for a while. Idk maybe I’m just weird like that.
yeah, this was never scary
SAME, I also loved the colors!
same
I feel like it speaks volumes about me that I loved this book as a kid- I was unexplainably fascinated with the ways her body and skin changed and gave me that weird little kid euphoria
I feel like as a kid I was never disturbed by what others seemed unsettling, like this book or Caroline. Yet I now see how dark it really was to other kids.
Like I read this and didn’t even realize that this book traumatized people
@@kazoos6952 yeah same.
Same for me. I mean, at most, as a kid, i just found it really weird, but not creepy. But it's totally understandable how this can frighten children.
I read this book and Coraline as a kid too! I didn't really see what was so disturbing about it until I was ten.
this book is one of the first stories that truly makes me feel an irrational need to vomit. i never comment on videos anymore but this essay hit hard for me. i remember in kindergarten our teacher put this on the overhead projector (we still used those even then) and it was narrated to us in an audio format, with sound affects and all. it made me feel sick to my stomach and yet no one around me seemed to feel the same overwhelming disgust i still hold to this day. kids were in awe, and my teacher thought it was a "very good lesson." in my opinion, the anomaly that happened to her was more like a cruel punishment than any good intended "lesson." maybe i just didn't and still don't understand it.
back then everything felt so much bigger, so much more gargantuan- in the story AND physically in front of me. from the wide-scaled screen to the alphabet carpet i was sitting on, the sickening patterns of her grotesque body, laid out in front of my eyes made me unable to forget it. and to this day it is a vivid memory, praying the story would just end and i could just go into another room. or hell, even go to nap time, i hated nap time, but i was willing to do anything else but watch her condition get worse. i would have been 5.
needless to say i never liked stripes, and even right now as i write this i feel like my gut may transform into some detestable monster no one on earth could explain or save me from. the helplessness of the situation happening to an undeserving child is a distinct horror few pieces of media could so accurately depict, (maybe skinamarink), and i truly believe the only reason it has stuck with us for so long was because it felt like the crime did not fit the punishment. the story goes on and overstays its welcome. she just gets worse until all goes away in a turn of the last page. the nostalgia of the not knowing how to navigate your own body and the very relatable aspect of getting no real help as a child struck chords in me.the idea that you're changing, you're ugly, you're becoming unbearable to the eye, unrecognizable to your OWN eye- and you are a spectacle to the world. as dramatic as all that sounded, there's nothing that can make this horrible memory go away, but at the very least, i almost feel freed to hear someone else put this into words and speak it out back to me. thanks
I was a weird child. I loved this book, I read it multiple times because I found the art appealing.
thats not weird
Honestly I liked too it too, I don’t think your weird I think some people are just sensitive
this book absolutely TRAUMATIZED me. when i was like six we had a inside sleepover camp thing at girl guides and this book was there. i read it and i had a hard time sleeping, i couldn’t stop thinking about the images, and even though i knew it wasn’t possible, i'd constantly think "what if this happened to me?" also, whenever i'd experience pareidolia of faces in walls or other things shown in this book, it would like trigger the memories of this book. it took years to get over my fear of it.
I didnt have this book but I had a very similar experience with a fear
Man the OSC is everywhere can’t I leave this fandom for a day 💀
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literally this book gave me nightmares anytime I saw it after that my heart sank and I felt sick
ngl i remember being terrified of this book as a kid, in first grade i even wanted to skip class the day they read the book and my parents and the teacher just could not understand why.
i kinda started to subconsciously develop a fear of lima beans ever since i'd read it/had it read to me for the first time, because that's the main thing i could remember about the book. even now, this book is the first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions lima beans. lmao.
OMG Thats kind of what happend to me Nobody understood why i cried because of the book I was so paranoid that i didnt eat beans that i had it 💀
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Finally, someone who gets it! Despite it being a decade later, I am still traumatized by the cover alone. One time, my sister bought the book home. It was in her backpack but just knowing that thing was in my home, left me shivering and terrified for half the night. I gave away a pair of socks because it essentially caused PTSD. I can never admit it to anyone because who the fk is frightened of a flippin' children book? That book will be banned from my future house
Literally! The cover of it disturbed me so bad. Because I had panic attacks about the book in kindergarten, in grade 1 and 2, my classmates would use the cover of the book to blackmail/scare me into doing things I didn't want to do.
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This was one of my favorite childhood books, I don’t get how so many people are traumatized?? Am I just a psychopath or something??? 💀
@bread_duck_quack dude you dont have to be unwell to have had a different interpretation of the book as a kid. Some people were just more drawn to the fearful aspects than others!
The funny thing is that most of the time when kids would get exposed to this book, it was during storytime. Myself included; we had to do a whole analysis on what the moral of the story was. I think that David Shannon and teachers alike were able to brush aside the fact that the visuals can be considered disturbing, much like we can now that we're adults. This story was told to us because it has an incredible lesson (one that, to this day, I have to keep reminding myself of).
So, yeah. The adults in our lives were unintentionally traumatizing us because they wanted us to learn a lesson. It sort of reminds me of old morbid nursery rhymes and fairy tales.
I didn’t know this book could be so traumatizing, I always loved it as a kid lol and reread it plenty of times during school hours
Same! I loved it as a kid
Me too!
I am a teen and I listened to someone read the book again and I agree, this is some pretty creepy stuff if you really think about it. I know the message "don't change yourself to make other people happy" is an important 1 to learn but i feel like there were better ways to do this.
6:15 - 6:28 I just got very tense when you played this clip. I remember my grandma laughing her ass off by how traumatized I was at this video so to see it again after all these years is honestly a little triggering for me. Thankfully you don’t show the full clip thus sparing me of the jump scare. Sorry for this long tangent I just saw that clip & suddenly remembered something from my childhood
This was literally my intro to body horror and I was absolutely *fascinated* with the artwork. I remember laying on the floor and just staring at the pictures for HOURS
I was never scared by this as a kid, a large factor of that probably being a complete desensitization to gore for longer than I can remember (watching taxidermy), but God was I fascinated by it. The concept alone and the fact this is a children's book and like you said a lot, the art, that beautiful nightmarish art. I was captivated.
Probably like 8 years later now and hey I'm obsessed with horror and, hey, body horror; wonder where that influence came from.
that book was actually one of my favorites as a kid lmao
the visuals were very interesting and entertaining
7:18 that does make me wonder... why is the best horror on accident? Like think about five nights at freddies. Yes that was intentional, but it was inspired by feedback to another one of Scott's games where people said the characters looked like "creepy animatronics", instead of just taking that feedback as an insult Scott said "oh, so im good at making creepy animatronics? Ill do that."
This video just shot me back to my childhood. My lord, I used to rip the sheet out of book fair magazines that had this book in it. I used to fake being sick to not show up to school for days on end because they had it displayed on the library shelf. I got in trouble at age 6 for burying the book in the dirt during Recess. Genuinely, I had completely forgotten that all of this had happened. This horrified me when I was younger.
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I love how I wasn’t the only 6 year old terrorized by this book. I remember a TV show on HBO that played an episode where they did a read along to this book (the episode is kinda lost media, i did some digging a while ago and found every episode but the one about this book). I remember having to cover my ears when my kindergarten class read this book. Shannon’s “No, David” series however is a hilarious classic 🤣
She was scared to tell people she liked Lima beans but she was okay with going to school with stripes 😭☠️
until about fourth grade I considered myself a very easy frightened kid. I refused to go to haunted houses, ran away from spiders, openly covered my ears when teachers read scary short stories, I never dared to read anything that even implied it was horror. But when I was introduced to this book in first grade it just fascinated me. I remember actually being disappointed at the page with the doctors because we didn't get to see how Camilla looked. I didn't think it was supposed to be scary, because there was no blood, no death and Camilla was never stated to be in any physical pain. I have this blind spot tot he uncanny valley and absurdist surreal stuff. even when I was very little thought myself such a scaredy cat I didn't register anything like this as scary, just fascinating. My brain is weird I don't know.
Thanks for making this video, I was absolutely traumatized by this book in 1st grade. I think I may have thrown up before the book was finished, so its interesting now seeing the message of the book. Ironically, that message sums up my life, ever since I've been more accepting of myself and stopped changing myself for the world my life has been much better.
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I remember getting chills when i saw that page in the book.
I legitimately only remembered 3 things about the book without the help of this video:
Lima beans are the solution
The cover art
I felt uncomfortable every time I read it
I think it didn't scar me bc I had actually repressed it
I feel weird now for not being traumatized by this book when I was younger
Me too. I never felt scared by this book 😅
Yeah I wasn't either, except for the one pill drawing never knew why
me too- it was my favorite book as a little kid
@@zerorabbit42 I can relate 😂
Yeah, I was never scared of this book when I was younger, which is weird because I was really easily frightened when I was younger
holy carp man. this is it. this is the first time ive felt like ive had a repressed memory. the feeling of deep, unfathomable unease just seeing your thumbnail suddenly brought up as it made me remember this book was so visceral i had to stop what else i was doing to watch this just to get the feeling out of my system.
im not sure how to feel about this but thank you for reminding me of this book.
I think what scared me the most about this book was the cover art. Camilla’s face and the way David Shannon drew her gave me such an unnerving feeling. (She kinda looks like a doll, tbh) I wasn’t even able to look at the cover art after my teacher read it to us in kindergarten.
I think it's the helplessness on her face
I’m so glad I’m not alone in how much this book scared me as a kid. It’s that visceral fear you described that I remember so vividly, especially the picture where she became her bedroom. I was a very sensitive kid, so it’s no wonder it affected me so much.
Just how do kids read the case of stripes it haunts me to this day
I was f***ing horrified by this book when we first read it in kindergarten lmao, I hated every second of it
(it's only a tiny bit unsettling now ^^ )
Same I had nightmares for two years after reading it 💀
me too but it was in second grade and i still cried
@@SplatToaster_N093 My nightmares started in first grade and then stopped in like fourth grade 💀
This book literally fueled paranoia and anxiety for me as a kid. I was so scared to even look in the mirror after reading this or be in a room alone.
I had completely forgotten about this book until I found this video in my recommended, but when I saw the thumbnail, I was immediately hit with a strange sense of nausea and fear for some reason. I put off watching this video for a little while because tbh I was worried about what the book was and what it contained to make me so stressed just LOOKING at it. And, to be honest, after watching this video….yep I understand why. This book is lowkey TERRIFYING lol, my younger self has this one right
I cannot fathom why I loved this book so much, I’d read it over and over again whenever I could get my hands on it at the school library.
Which probably explains why I have such a fascination with body horror now. Huh.
Imagine if this book got a film adaptation in the style of a horror movie. I would pay to see that.
Dude, the youngest memory I have was being terrified of Lima beans because of this book, and then having recurring nightmares that she was in my hallway looking for me, and all I could do was see her through a baby monitor. This book traumatized me so hard that I remember to this day
1:17 same with me, but Superman 3 on my dad’s dvd in my aunt’s DVD player was the first body horror experience and I needed that extreme body horror to scare me.
i dont understand why everyone was scared of this book as a kid, when i first read it as a kid it became my all time favorite and it was really entertaining for me. This book is supposed to show how the lack of self esteem and self love caused this girl to change colors and sizes and once she learned to love her self and her flaws she went back to normal.
I just looked at the pictures in kindergarten. We had a bookshelf behind a carpet we would sit on to learn stuff. Luckily for me, I was sitting in the back of the carpet, near it. So the whole time, I was afraid the girl would magically come out of the book and attack me. I was a crazy adolescent.
the drawing are scary 😭😭
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@@CookiePlaysOfficial Idk man, morphing into random objects and quite literally becoming your house isn’t all that cool. It was easy to get the message when it was just her skin changing colors. I but with how drastic the book takes the message it feels like visual representation of the phrase “if your friends jumped off a bridge would you”. It’s easy to understand that phrase but if you think about it it’s pretty weird that someone would think you would commit a group suicide for doing something as simple as not eating a lima bean because it’s seen as embarrassing. In words it doesn’t sounds as weird but visual drawn out it kinda is for some kids
I never even heard of this book until now. I can kinda get what you're saying that the details of the art looking semi-realistic and uncanny. It definitely has the uncanny-ness feel to it. If I were to have seen this book as a kid, I probably would have been disturbed yet fascinated with it at the same time. Of course, I would be relieved that the story had a happy ending.
Over the years, I've been fascinated with covers that have eye-catching artwork. Whether if it's something whimsical and fun or something disturbing and scary. It's like, I can't look away from it. Great job on your first video essay! It was well constructed and short. You were very informative and shared your thoughts on the book. I'm glad you were able to overcome your fear of this book and read it.
This one and the shivers in the fridge were my favorites. I just love how dark they are. They weren’t like other books for kids. They really stood out and I still love dark stuff today. I also loved good dog Carl, it was just so unique with beautiful art.
Dude, I was so scared of this when I was younger and it took me five years to realize the meaning behind the book. I thought it was just there to be creepy and scare me when I was younger pretty crazy I wasn’t the only one I thought this was very obscure.
Wow, thank you for making this video! It really sheds light on fears I used to have as a kid and I never considered it to be "body horror" until now. I never read this book, but I used to be really freaked out by stories where people get really big or their bodies change shape. In most cases they are supposed to be funny, but when you are that young you have not yet grasped the laws of physics and what could or could not actually happen to you. Another very distressing moment, for instance, was Violet Beauregard turning into a giant blueberry.
This book scared me as a kid! Glad to see someone break it down.
This book was the reason why I couldn’t eat sweet peas for a long time. The detail in the Lima beans looked way too much like the peas my mom would buy, so because of the art and the trauma the book gave me, I couldn’t even look at them without wanting to puke. Thanks David 😃👍
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This book always scared me this came across me four times in my life ever. Hearing this video changed my perspective and I feel overcomed im 19 now and I'm was literally shaking seing this again. I am SHOCKED to learn to hear the same MAN to make this book and No David (literally my favorite childhood book) it comes full circle.
I was both scared but super intrigued by this book, definitely a gateway drug into body horror for me
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I READ THIS BOOK. This has haunted me for years and I could never remember anything about it besides the horrifying visuals. Thank you for talking about it!
I remember thinking I was insane or something by being scared by this book! This book made me realize how scared I was about people turning into monsters or something that doesn’t represent themselves.
1:28 the tmnt timmity mutation scared the hell out of me of like 7 years
I don’t THINK I was scared of this book, but I can definitely see why it would scare most children. Glad to see you got something out of it, though!
Blue’s Clues was my first favorite show and I’m happy it was referenced in this video!
I was just disgusted by this book. I wasn't really scared, but SO grossed out. I kind of forgot half of it, and this video made it all come rushing back-
I’m not kidding, when I was little, I genuinely loved the art of this book, and I somehow was never terrified of it. I thought it was so interesting and to me it had been so fun to look at that I guess I was too distracted to realize how creepy this story actually is. Now I only have fond memories of the book lol.
I found it so terrifying back when it was read to my Kindergarten class that when it was read the following year in the First Grade I actually had to leave while it was being read. I was so embarrassed by this that when my mother asked what happened I made up a story about what happened. Even now (I’m a grade school teacher believe or not) I find it’s message pretty messed up. “Be yourself or you and your family will deal with horrific trauma” Quite a message for 7 year olds.
That was the way it accidentally came off but it's more of about how you suffer when you hide your true self and interests to appeal others
@@DevLunar I’m sure they intended that but the body horror just seems excessive for a message like this.
I remember being *obsessed* with this book.
it’s now that I realized how honestly anxiety causing it is, its actually really disturbing
*im scared now*
This book traumatized me as a kid. I’m glad someone’s talking about this.
I was so scared of this book as a kid that I had to hold back tears
Suddenly realizing this book was the start of my love-hate relationship with horror stuff. Like… I really like specific kinds of horror, where it walks the line between unsettling and/ or subtly terrifying and outright graphic. I loved this book. It walked that line perfectly, for me. Same goes for stuff like the backrooms, Iron Lung, and certain analogue horror now. I still say I hate horror, though, because I do hate 90% of the mainstream stuff for it, and never watch horror movies, but psychological stuff? Stuff that makes you think? Stuff that leaves you with a sense of existential dread that you only notice after, and have to unpack why? Brilliant.
I'm pretty sure I had a weird obsession with this book when I was younger instead of being traumatized 💀
Me too. I was more shook up by the spongebob episode where he turned into a snail.
That book terrified me as a kid, the artwork was stellar but the body horror really messed me up, and... I think thats a good thing. Being introduced the weird and terrifying in a safe way like a children's book. Knowing that "this is made for me, I shouldn't be scared of it" but being so viscerally confused and unnerved. I loved the Goosebumps show as a kid but Slappy scared me far deeper than A Bad Case of Stripes. The idea of doing nothing wrong but adults not believing you despite telling the truth was terrifying. It's funny, seems to relate to my social anxiety I got later on. I had nightmares about Slappy. I don't really believe that "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger", but in the case of being a kid and trying to deal with the fears presented in kids media, and seeing that the characters can overcome those obstacles, it really does help with fostering a sense of bravery or problem solving
It caused great disturbance in me and few of my classmated in the first grade and managed to make a kid cry.