The worst thing about The Girl Next Door is definitely that all that stuff happened to a real girl, Sylvia Likens... I hope she's resting in peace, she truly deserves it after everything she went through.
No, the worst thing about this case was that the perpetrators, the Baniszewski family, never showed remorse. The mother, Gertrude Baniszewski, received a relatively light sentence and feigned innocence pretending to not remember what she's done due to her being "under the influence of her medication". All lived/are living normal lives afterwards and that was truly the sickening part to me. It is one of the most upsetting extensively documented crimes to ever be committed and I hope Sylvia and her sister rests in peace
It kinda leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Seems disrespectful to write a book heavily based on the suffering and misery a real life human being went through
The even worser worst thing is...if you've read the book it's pretty graphic when it comes to describing the ways she is tortured and abused..but Ketchum actually LEFT OUT THE WORST STUFF (out of respect for the Likens family) so it actually gets so much worse...if you google "Sylvia Likens Crime" it takes you to the wikipedia page that gives the full details, and it is one of the most disturbing things I have ever read.
This iceberg actually got way darker than I expected. But seriously, going into detail, especially with these books, can help me figure out if I can deal with the content in them. If I went in blindly, I would probably have lost it. Thanks, dude!
I feel like the problem is with books, is they all just become the book from that south park episode eventually. Where butters tries to create that super disturbing book by just putting a bunch of gross stuff in a book.
I just realized you don't have millions of subs and views and I am SHOCKED. This video is very well edited and we can tell how much effort you put into it. 10/10, keep up the good work!
I skimmed through _120 Days of Sodom_ out of morbid curiosity. I am grateful that I do not remember what I read, because it gave me a _shit ton_ of psychic damage. It was like reading the Necronomicon. But what disturbed me the most was that it was written as if it all came from personal experience.
Exactly, I don’t get why it’s not on the top of every list of disturbing books. It was the only book I could only get halfway through. It’s full of grotesquely sexual depictions of children being raped, molested, tortured, murdered, and being forced into disgusting and excruciating acts for adults’ pleasure, and reads more like an extremely disturbing erotic novel than a horror book. I have no doubt that everything marquis de Sade wrote was arousing to him as he was well known as a sadist and rapist in his time. I’m shocked such detailed and sexualized depictions of child rape and abuse in a novel are even legal, let alone considered a literary classic.
Not going to lie I fell IN LOVE with the book: "Insane Bastards"(I love the scat scenes a little less). It was so quick to read and the action was through the roof. You can't ever get bored of that book.
that's how i feel about a lot of chuck palanuiks work tbf; the short story of the guy who gets his organs ripped out of his anus and dies in the swimming pool comes to mind
@@pimposki6232 I’m pretty sure that’s kind of the point though. Been a while since I read haunted but the authors try to one up each other in their short stories iirc
For real. A few on the list seem to use the violence to send an actual message or to get the reader thinking about morality or other aspects of humanity. But others seem to be violent just because, without an actual message or purpose.
Cows had a little social commentary but over all was packed with the nastiest things. I almost wanna say it was too much but I couldn’t put it down till I finished it!
I really appreciate your channel. I get curious about these things but I'm not a fan of scary music or scary visuals that other people tend to overdo. You also cover things I haven't seen others cover and you do it well, informative and straight to the point, no exaggeration or filler or overkill vibe. No clickbait, got more than I was thinking from the title. You're also really really cute and you have such a nice voice 🥺 It's like I'm experiencing this with a family member or club member.
i'm ngl, i'm not at all one of those edgy "nothing phases me" ppl, but what the hell is ROOM doing that low on the list??? below stuff like cows, american psycho, haunted, etc? ik it's all subjective but there's basically nothing graphic in room and it's on the bottom of the iceberg??????
Sooo I saw this and decided to read Cows. I can't even begin to explain how much I hate this novel. It's disturbing but not like Cormac McCarthy disturbing. I think the author was trying to go for an Animal Farm vibe but failed miserably.
This is a really good video! It’s nothing compared to the books in this video, but if you like disturbing books, one I like a lot is called Diaries From The Bunker Not quite this level, but very interesting
WARNING, SPOILERS: Let's Go Play at the Adams' is a sadistic romp pretending to deal with disturbing-but-necessary themes such as the cruelty of children, the relationship of torturer and victim, the power imbalance inherent in adult-child dynamics, peer pressure, etc. It doesn't deal deeply with any of those issues, but it utilizes them as props to assault readers with a story of torture, r@pe, cruelty, murder, and impunity crowned by the five young psychopaths finding a scapegoat they kill so as to successfully get off the hook for murdering a woman. I cannot see anyone "enjoying" this novel except those who get all tingly at sadism. The author fortunately died shortly after the publication of his "masterpiece," so he didn't have a chance to regale us with more samples of his "genius." He did not write any other fiction, as far as I know, so that is another plus. Sadism has always existed among humans and, at times, the novel reads like a cheap approximation de Sade's worst excesses, or like the novelization of one of the many violent, graphic adult movies from the 1970's that, in the next decade, became impossible to produce and film legally. Those adult films were honest, at least. Nobody pretended they were adding anything to the 7th Art, or to thespian nuances, dialogue intricacies, or juxtapositions of story arcs. Let's Go Play at the Adams' plays at being literature and, as usual, plenty of readers and critics took the bait and have elevated this sad, angry bag of vomit into something "respectable." It isn't. It's just the last, cruel swan song from an author who seems to have written it because he just couldn't bring himself to live it. If so, we are fortunate.
There is also a Hubert Selby Jr novel called The Room and it's by far his most fucked up novel. And that's really saying something. It's equal to the rest of the novels mentioned here.
I don’t understand why you made this series. You clearly haven’t read a single one of these books, almost all of these ‘descriptions’ are just story synopses from tropedia. Often, with the way you’re pronouncing the names of acclaimed authors, their characters, or just words to describe their works (I recall you calling one work “existentionalist”?), I begin question if you’re someone who even wishes to read any of them? I’m not claiming that I have read all of these, several I had never even heard of, but I would never take it upon myself to introduce people to an entire genre of books when my entire understanding of them is from a wiki reading on the right hand side of the camera...
I'm super late but hey, thank you for this! I'm a 23 yo woman, and see mostly other young women recommending horrors/thrillers.. I've noticed that I must be more desensitized than them, because what they find disturbing is mild to me. No hate!! It is what it is. I'm so happy to have finally found a different and decent perspective. Men do tend to have a thicker skin with this sort of thing. Anyway, thanks again!
In Let's Go Play... what the kids do to the babysitter is half the horror. Why they do it is the other half of the horror. I read this last year and it still haunts me.
I'm about to finish "the bighead" I've got less than an hour to go it's not a bad read but like how do I begin to tell people about it or recommend it to people
So is The Bighead worse than Going Monstering? It's another Lee book about a group of girls that want to get into a sorority who's members go on to become extremely beautiful, popular and smart. In order to get in though, they spend a week uh... Well... It IS an Edward Lee book.
Okay just found your channel because it was suggested to me, as I watch a lot of iceberg videos, especially horror ones. Now yes, reading every book on an iceberg would be a lot, but I feel like maybe you should have taken the time to read them rather than just reading a description of the book that can be found online. There's something missing in this iceberg in terms of making it watchable imo, like when I was a disturbing movie iceberg I know the reviewer actually watched the movies, can describe scenes in detail, and give their own opinion on the content. This on the other hand is simply reading these 'shocking' descriptions' with no nuance or insight into the subject at all. I'd suggest that maybe next time you do an iceberg, you should go through and explore the content more in depth, take the time to do more research besides the basic plot summary such as exploring the author's other work, reading other reviews for the book, and lastly at least skimming the books you're reviewing. If you watched or read a movie review, you wouldn't want someone to just describe the plot with no further analysis would you? I'm just saying this as an observer, because I was actually excited for an iceberg like this but I couldn't even finish this video because the way you're reading these descriptions lack any real thought behind them.I'd say just keep this in mind, no hate man just wanted to give some thoughts!
The room was a brilliant book, as was the movie. It was moving. Not a thing to bring disgust (except for the man that kidnapped the mother). It was a well done story.
It's kind of hard to listen to what your saying, when your face is being so distracting, it's so perfect in all ratios. Very strong and perfectly beautiful features. ❤ hehe love the video content too! Keep it up ^^
The worst thing about The Girl Next Door is definitely that all that stuff happened to a real girl, Sylvia Likens... I hope she's resting in peace, she truly deserves it after everything she went through.
That's exactly what I thought and was about to comment.
No, the worst thing about this case was that the perpetrators, the Baniszewski family, never showed remorse. The mother, Gertrude Baniszewski, received a relatively light sentence and feigned innocence pretending to not remember what she's done due to her being "under the influence of her medication". All lived/are living normal lives afterwards and that was truly the sickening part to me. It is one of the most upsetting extensively documented crimes to ever be committed and I hope Sylvia and her sister rests in peace
It kinda leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Seems disrespectful to write a book heavily based on the suffering and misery a real life human being went through
@@AleTitan especially when in the book they were trying to blame a "declining mental state" no the real woman was just evil with no real excuse.
The even worser worst thing is...if you've read the book it's pretty graphic when it comes to describing the ways she is tortured and abused..but Ketchum actually LEFT OUT THE WORST STUFF (out of respect for the Likens family) so it actually gets so much worse...if you google "Sylvia Likens Crime" it takes you to the wikipedia page that gives the full details, and it is one of the most disturbing things I have ever read.
This iceberg actually got way darker than I expected. But seriously, going into detail, especially with these books, can help me figure out if I can deal with the content in them. If I went in blindly, I would probably have lost it. Thanks, dude!
I feel like the problem is with books, is they all just become the book from that south park episode eventually. Where butters tries to create that super disturbing book by just putting a bunch of gross stuff in a book.
The Poop That Took a Pee
some of the stuff is people just trying to be dark and gross without characters having a reason. Ive read most of this stuff and most of its garbage
@@buckiemohawk3643 Splatterpunk ends up bordering on snuff fetish porn for real
@@xeres6232 its just people writing the most awful things they can think of....
@@modestalchemistlol!!
I just realized you don't have millions of subs and views and I am SHOCKED. This video is very well edited and we can tell how much effort you put into it. 10/10, keep up the good work!
Let’s go play at the Adams was fantastically written, but god damn what a roller coaster of emotion
I skimmed through _120 Days of Sodom_ out of morbid curiosity. I am grateful that I do not remember what I read, because it gave me a _shit ton_ of psychic damage. It was like reading the Necronomicon. But what disturbed me the most was that it was written as if it all came from personal experience.
Exactly, I don’t get why it’s not on the top of every list of disturbing books. It was the only book I could only get halfway through.
It’s full of grotesquely sexual depictions of children being raped, molested, tortured, murdered, and being forced into disgusting and excruciating acts for adults’ pleasure, and reads more like an extremely disturbing erotic novel than a horror book. I have no doubt that everything marquis de Sade wrote was arousing to him as he was well known as a sadist and rapist in his time.
I’m shocked such detailed and sexualized depictions of child rape and abuse in a novel are even legal, let alone considered a literary classic.
Room seems like the “happiest” of these books so far
I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be another book by the same name but written by Hubert Selby jr. (Same dude who wrote Requiem for a Dream)
@@jaskrip sshh
the creator of the iceberg confirmed its referencing “the room” by hubert selby jr
Not going to lie I fell IN LOVE with the book: "Insane Bastards"(I love the scat scenes a little less). It was so quick to read and the action was through the roof. You can't ever get bored of that book.
Some of these books are just disturbing for the sake of disturbing.
that's how i feel about a lot of chuck palanuiks work tbf; the short story of the guy who gets his organs ripped out of his anus and dies in the swimming pool comes to mind
@@pimposki6232 I’m pretty sure that’s kind of the point though. Been a while since I read haunted but the authors try to one up each other in their short stories iirc
For real. A few on the list seem to use the violence to send an actual message or to get the reader thinking about morality or other aspects of humanity. But others seem to be violent just because, without an actual message or purpose.
Cows had a little social commentary but over all was packed with the nastiest things. I almost wanna say it was too much but I couldn’t put it down till I finished it!
I really appreciate your channel. I get curious about these things but I'm not a fan of scary music or scary visuals that other people tend to overdo. You also cover things I haven't seen others cover and you do it well, informative and straight to the point, no exaggeration or filler or overkill vibe. No clickbait, got more than I was thinking from the title.
You're also really really cute and you have such a nice voice 🥺 It's like I'm experiencing this with a family member or club member.
I stumbled upon your page a few days ago and I really love your content! you deserve way more recognition keep up the amazing work😝
Bro, your content is top notch. Subscribed and will be spreading word of your channel!!!!
Earned a new sub! Can't believe you dont have 10k subscribers, the quality of your vids is great! Wishing you tons of success
I didn’t even realise you only have 200+ subscribers, this video is really good
i'm ngl, i'm not at all one of those edgy "nothing phases me" ppl, but what the hell is ROOM doing that low on the list??? below stuff like cows, american psycho, haunted, etc? ik it's all subjective but there's basically nothing graphic in room and it's on the bottom of the iceberg??????
Hey I love your channel! I really respect the amount of effort in this video, I truly thought you had at least 10k. Keep it up this will get you far!
This channel is a hidden gem . This is what I have been looking for !
Sooo I saw this and decided to read Cows. I can't even begin to explain how much I hate this novel. It's disturbing but not like Cormac McCarthy disturbing. I think the author was trying to go for an Animal Farm vibe but failed miserably.
Cows was so dumb, it almost seemed like it was going somewhere until it wasn't
I seen the movies of these books. However I think I have read two of them.
I think The Room being referred to is the one written by Hubert Selby Jr
that's not the right 'The Room' 😅
great videos dude keep it up
greetz from gernany
This is a really good video! It’s nothing compared to the books in this video, but if you like disturbing books, one I like a lot is called Diaries From The Bunker
Not quite this level, but very interesting
Big head is like a fallout mod gone horribly wrong to put it lightly
WARNING, SPOILERS: Let's Go Play at the Adams' is a sadistic romp pretending to deal with disturbing-but-necessary themes such as the cruelty of children, the relationship of torturer and victim, the power imbalance inherent in adult-child dynamics, peer pressure, etc. It doesn't deal deeply with any of those issues, but it utilizes them as props to assault readers with a story of torture, r@pe, cruelty, murder, and impunity crowned by the five young psychopaths finding a scapegoat they kill so as to successfully get off the hook for murdering a woman. I cannot see anyone "enjoying" this novel except those who get all tingly at sadism. The author fortunately died shortly after the publication of his "masterpiece," so he didn't have a chance to regale us with more samples of his "genius." He did not write any other fiction, as far as I know, so that is another plus. Sadism has always existed among humans and, at times, the novel reads like a cheap approximation de Sade's worst excesses, or like the novelization of one of the many violent, graphic adult movies from the 1970's that, in the next decade, became impossible to produce and film legally. Those adult films were honest, at least. Nobody pretended they were adding anything to the 7th Art, or to thespian nuances, dialogue intricacies, or juxtapositions of story arcs. Let's Go Play at the Adams' plays at being literature and, as usual, plenty of readers and critics took the bait and have elevated this sad, angry bag of vomit into something "respectable." It isn't. It's just the last, cruel swan song from an author who seems to have written it because he just couldn't bring himself to live it. If so, we are fortunate.
I can’t believe you didn’t put Hogg on any of these lists, it’s one of the most Disgusting books ever written.
How so? (I'm gonna regret asking this)
I really dont think Pat Cornwell's Flesh and Blood is the right one. It sounds like a very mainstream and safe thriller.
11:04 it's the berenstain bears!!
I watched the three parts back to back and it was great watch
I enjoyed the video. There were a couple I haven’t read. I’m just wondering if you read the books or just read about them? Just curious.
I'm an avid horror reader, The Girl Next Door is the only book that has made me tap out because I couldn't handle it
Worst part is, is that's not jack ketchums most disturbing book
There is also a Hubert Selby Jr novel called The Room and it's by far his most fucked up novel. And that's really saying something. It's equal to the rest of the novels mentioned here.
that's the one on the "iceberg"
@@debberdoo This video covered Emma Donoghue's The Room, not Selby's book.
@@mrt77wv correct, but the one in the iceberg is the Selby one ;)
Is your hand doing the reading or just conducting 😂 Great stuff
i read cows without even realizing what genre it was going to be and come to find out its one of the worst of the worst lol
I’m disappointed that every video about this iceberg has picked the wrong “Room” to talk about. Hubert Selby Jr deserves better
everyone knows tommy weisseou made the superior room
Can you talk about the book “The president’s son”?
That what I search up
I don’t understand why you made this series. You clearly haven’t read a single one of these books, almost all of these ‘descriptions’ are just story synopses from tropedia. Often, with the way you’re pronouncing the names of acclaimed authors, their characters, or just words to describe their works (I recall you calling one work “existentionalist”?), I begin question if you’re someone who even wishes to read any of them? I’m not claiming that I have read all of these, several I had never even heard of, but I would never take it upon myself to introduce people to an entire genre of books when my entire understanding of them is from a wiki reading on the right hand side of the camera...
I'm super late but hey, thank you for this! I'm a 23 yo woman, and see mostly other young women recommending horrors/thrillers.. I've noticed that I must be more desensitized than them, because what they find disturbing is mild to me. No hate!! It is what it is. I'm so happy to have finally found a different and decent perspective. Men do tend to have a thicker skin with this sort of thing. Anyway, thanks again!
In Let's Go Play... what the kids do to the babysitter is half the horror. Why they do it is the other half of the horror. I read this last year and it still haunts me.
I absolutely love your video...Thank you!
Listening to the description of survivor was uncomfortable, not because of the content, but because Brad and Lisa r the names of my aunt and uncle😭😭
I'm about to finish "the bighead" I've got less than an hour to go it's not a bad read but like how do I begin to tell people about it or recommend it to people
So is The Bighead worse than Going Monstering? It's another Lee book about a group of girls that want to get into a sorority who's members go on to become extremely beautiful, popular and smart. In order to get in though, they spend a week uh... Well... It IS an Edward Lee book.
Surprised Geek Love isn't on here
Just a note: you got the wrong version of "The Room", the book listed on the iceberg is the book by Hubert Selby Jr
Okay just found your channel because it was suggested to me, as I watch a lot of iceberg videos, especially horror ones. Now yes, reading every book on an iceberg would be a lot, but I feel like maybe you should have taken the time to read them rather than just reading a description of the book that can be found online. There's something missing in this iceberg in terms of making it watchable imo, like when I was a disturbing movie iceberg I know the reviewer actually watched the movies, can describe scenes in detail, and give their own opinion on the content. This on the other hand is simply reading these 'shocking' descriptions' with no nuance or insight into the subject at all. I'd suggest that maybe next time you do an iceberg, you should go through and explore the content more in depth, take the time to do more research besides the basic plot summary such as exploring the author's other work, reading other reviews for the book, and lastly at least skimming the books you're reviewing. If you watched or read a movie review, you wouldn't want someone to just describe the plot with no further analysis would you? I'm just saying this as an observer, because I was actually excited for an iceberg like this but I couldn't even finish this video because the way you're reading these descriptions lack any real thought behind them.I'd say just keep this in mind, no hate man just wanted to give some thoughts!
I recommend The Turner Diaries for this video!
The room was a brilliant book, as was the movie. It was moving. Not a thing to bring disgust (except for the man that kidnapped the mother). It was a well done story.
If Slaanesh was an author:
this is sooo besides the point of anything but this guy is FINE. like so attractive. gr8 vid too tho
Room is a real story
why do these never have Dead Inside 😭
The room has a movie as well
2 min in & i think i can't handle this
I cant find these books anywhere!
Amazon perhaps? I know a lot of them are at Barnes and nobels
The torture p@rn equivalent in books is Splatterpunk 😁
I want to read the bighead.
Me having read most of these 👁👄👁
It's kind of hard to listen to what your saying, when your face is being so distracting, it's so perfect in all ratios. Very strong and perfectly beautiful features. ❤ hehe love the video content too! Keep it up ^^
Giggity lol
Blowie 2
Cows is just pure insanity. 🤣