The Disturbing Books Iceberg Explained

Well, here I am with another iceberg video. After Halloween. Yeah, October wasn’t the best month. Nevertheless November will be great (hopefully)! I hope you enjoy this Reddit iceberg by u/shyplasterlord about some of the creepiest, most disturbing, and scariest works of literature out there! This, is the disturbing books iceberg explained.

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[Bellepix]

When I was a kid I was abused constantly and I told CPS when they visited my school, but my mother threatened and manipulated me into lying and telling them I was just confused. Few years later my mother gave me the book “The Child Called It” and told me to read it to see how good I actually have it. I left home at 18 and don’t talk to her anymore.

[soulflowerstuff]

I’d like to suggest “To Train Up a Child”, one of the most evil books out there. It tries to teach parents to abuse their children by disciplines such as beating them when they’re as young as infancy, starving them and leaving them outside in the cold to “break their will.” The cruelties of this book have led to the deaths of three children, one from hypothermia and another from being severely beaten for nine hours. It’s truly evil and I hope the authors rot in hell

[pluutonius]

It's good to see someone acknowledge Lolita as a horror / disturbing book. So many people act as though it's a romance which obviously is really rough to ppl that have experienced CSA

[chrisdankdaddy]

I remember my mother reading “a child called ‘it’” and her telling me I wasn’t allowed to read it and I saw her reading it for an hour and she started crying. I didn’t know why but right after she put the book down she hugged me. A few years later reading it I cried too. Kids don’t deserve this.

[ermagerhd]

In class, we had to read a book called “Long Way Down” by Jason Reynolds in 2017. The books is about a teenage boy who grew up in a ghetto area and constantly surrounded or witnessing gang violence. One day in a fit of rage, he leaves his mom and steps into an elevator to go and take revenge out on the gang. But after pressing the lobby floor the elevator proceeds to stop at every floor where a character from the protagonists past steps in and tells their tale of life and their death by gang violence. By the end, the protagonist has to decide whether he wants to continue on the cycle or go back and try to get out of his situation. It’s a wonderful read and each ghost’s story is told through poems that loop around the page. Not only is it a great book, it’s a beautiful art piece

[Tunade]

For my Child Development class in High School, “A Child Called It” was an optional read and if you didn’t want to read it, you didn’t have to and you could do an alternative assignment for the same grade. I did it along with a good half of the class and it was the most messed up reading sessions me and the remaining class had in our 11 years of school.

Hell, the teacher let us know everyday before we started talking about it if anyone wanted to quit and do the alternate assignment because she was very much aware that the book would be upsetting and I’m thankful she did!

Out of about…20-ish kids only about 9 finished the assignment with me included and the teacher followed up with everyone who read the book (even if they quit or finished it) weeks after the assignment to make sure we where okay and didn’t need to need to talk to the school psychologist and was just there to lend an ear to anyone who needed.

I’m actually glad my teacher was being so kind and understanding for those who did and didn’t want to stay. It made a very dark and disturbing book somewhat manageable during and after the reading.

[vqbnzsp]

At my elementary school The Child Called "It" was part of the required reading, it was like 1 of maybe 3 options to read and report on. This was probably 2005-2006 and I cant remember small details but I do remember classmates literally crying while reporting on the book

[j.washington]

Hey there was this girl i knew in middle school which only book she has ever read, and was allowed to read, besides the bible, was "the child called it". I wonder how she's doing now

[AlexMartinez-nncm]

i'm surprised that patrick süskind's "perfume" wasn't on this list! it's about a young man in 18th century france who is a perfume maker and eventually becomes obsessed with the idea of killing women and turning their scents into perfume. it has one of the weirdest and most disturbing endings i've ever read, but it's a very good book.

[rhiannonhamilton]

read 'A Child called It' when I was in JR. High. I was at an age that I was old enough to understand the material but was too young to fully grasp it. The very concept of what was essentially the entire family abusing one small child. I recalled that there were times he almost died because of what happened to him. It hit differently when I became older. It felt heavier and hit harder. The whole idea of putting all of that on one kid was so...heart breaking.
And what's really messed up was that the abuse never stopped. It just transferred to the next kid. (there was a follow up book but I only read parts of it)

[kroolan]

“I have no mouth and I must scream” is a very good and disturbing book, I was surprised it wasn’t on here.

[mvo]

We read A Child Called IT in 6th grade and looking back that seems incredibly inappropriate to me. I think the teacher thought it would make any students in the class tell her if they were being abused, but it totally backfired in my case because I actually was being abused at the time but I thought it didn't count because it wasn't nearly as extreme as what the boy in that book experienced. She should have just talked to us about the different ways abuse can manifest.

[randomdudewholikesmusic]

I remember reading "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" for a book report in 9th Grade. They even asked us to make our own ending to it.

Mine was almost the same, except the parents' reactions are described in detail, trying to make it in time, and their expressions and emotions upon seeing what has happened to Bruno and the striped kid. Nothing more but caracasses upon the others, their own kin on the same level as the strangers, experiencing the same pain and mental crisis as countless other victims of the Holocaust.

I got 100% for it.

[jordannall]

The Child Called "It" was what made me realize that any parent can be abusive. It isn't exclusive to gender, age, or relationships status

[pikablu]

I remember my mom told me to pick out a book at the library and I chose this one called “It Happened to Nancy.” I didn’t expect it to leave such a bad taste in my mouth, but it did and I think I’m still “scarred” after reading it. In short, Nancy, is a thirteen year old girl who meets an older college guy who ended up date-raping her and leaving her HIV. The book features some of her diary entries as she describes her experience with HIV, and how it slowly killing her. It was a really dark book. I remember having nightmares after reading the section of her describing the overall experience of being sexually assaulted on her mother’s bed. The diary entries also still haunt me.

[cosmophire]

0:00 intro
0:36 layer 1
- 0:42 animal farm
-- 1:24 dracula
--- 2:04 frankenstein
---- 2:27 salem's lot
3:08 the shining
3:36 rosemary's baby
4:35 the haunting of hill house
5:26 layer 2
- 5:32 it
-- 5:56 lolita
--- 6:20 night
---- 6:43 lord of the flies
7:13 pet sematary
8:02 the exorcist
8:23 1984
9:01 the boy in the striped pyjamas
9:39 layer 3
- 9:45 hell house
-- 10:22 fight club
--- 11:27 audition
---- 11:56 battle royale
12:58 in the tall grass
13:59 in cold blood
14:33 naked lunch
15:13 house of leaves
16:14 the road
16:40 layer 4
- 16:48 clockwork orange
— 17:58 a child called ‘it’
— 18:35 2666
-— 19:31 the laws of the skies
--— 19:57 blood meridian
---—20:56 requiem for a dream
21:26 layer 5
- 21:34 outer dark
-- 22:49 in the miso soup
--- 23:13 the wasp factory
---- 23:53 american psycho
24:26 haunted
25:00 layer 6
- 25:07 the marbled swarm
-- 25:44 flesh & blood
--- 26:05 let's go play at the adam's
---- 26:47 the summer i died
27:09 120 days of sodom
27:37 the girl next door
28:17 layer 7
- 28:21 sick bastards
-- 28:54 room
--- 29:47 survivor
---- 30:11 cows
30:39 bighead
31:02 insane bastards
31:22 weed species
31:48 outro


edit: 25/6/22 thank u for 1k likes <3

[jjgems]

I read a child called It, when I was about 10 years old. My mom had read it. My mom was brutally abused by her mother. Their are some things she won’t even talk about with me. Things my grandmother did to her. I never knew under my moms hair she had scars, until my aunt told me just last year. My mom has shared that she had hot water thrown at her by her mom. And her first grade picture has her smiling with a black eye. So this story really resonated with her. And it had a impact on me as well.

[ciciriddick]

A Child Called It actually has three other books. The Lost Boy, A Man Named Dave, and The Privilege Of Youth. Dave Pelzer put his entire story (good, bad, and ugly) out in the hope that he could help others who went through what he did.

[PlaguedMoth]

I’m glad people are actually thinking outside of the box for icebergs now. Better take notes 👹

[ChrisNotDuncan]

I remember my 6th grade math teacher reading "A Child Named It" to the class. Really disturbed us.