• Sickos [they/them, it/its]
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    5 months ago

    Coraline is pretty intense.

    A quote from Neil Gaiman about his editor's daughter, who served as the book's first audience

    I told her, "You know, we kind of have you to thank for all this, because you weren’t scared by it." And she said, "Actually, I was terrified. But I wanted to know what happened next. I knew if I let anybody know I was scared, I wouldn’t find out."

  • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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    5 months ago

    The original Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books, with the fucked up heroin withdrawal style illustrations

  • PeterLossGeorgeWall@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    A lot of the original versions of the brothers Grimm stories. For example Cinderella, one of the sisters chops off bits of her feet so that she can try and get into the shoe Cinderella dropped. I think the Prince only figured it out because she's dripping in blood.

  • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]
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    5 months ago

    Not a book, but as a kid I absolutely loved The Land Before Time.

    It's such a terribly sad and traumatizing movie for a young child.

  • meanmon13@lemmy.zip
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    5 months ago

    The other night I read my son an old children's book named "Prickly Pie". He wasn't traumatized by it but I could easily see a kid getting traumatized by in. In the story a young hedgehog decides to skip school and ends up being hog tied by a sly fox and almost cooked over a fire.

  • DokPsy@infosec.pub
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    5 months ago

    So uhhhh no one else read Stephen King's work or the Child Called It series as a kid huh?

  • fubarx@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Don't know about kids, but "Clifford, the Big Red Dog" sure traumatized Grandma.