/lit/ - Literature

Hello,
I've never posted on this board before just lurked a bit because I don't read very much, but anyway I have a friend who loves reading and she's really into dark twisted type books (she's always reading books on serial killers and such). I was wondering you any of you could recommend, the more fucked up the better. thanks in advance

Dem Batman bed-sheets.

"Help me"

Must have 'referred' to that scene about 10 times before taking the book back to the library.

The child killer – identified only as "Chappy" – who narrates most of the novel, has been in prison for 23 years. Now in his 50s and with a parole hearing approaching, he receives a letter from an unnamed 19-year-old girl who takes a morbid interest in his case. She then begins to relate how she plans on seducing a 12-year-old boy named Matthew who lives in her neighbourhood.

The girl corresponds with him and the man’s past is contrasted with explicit details of how she seduces Matthew, a typical young boy with many of the unattractive habits a 12-year-old can have, plus a few uniquely disgusting ones of his own creation.

Chappy encourages her, and the girl soon accomplishes her mission by first giving Matthew tennis lessons and then, when she babysits him, strips naked and gives him a quick hands-on lesson in feminine biology. The pair soon have sex and continue to do so on regular occasions.

Chappy eagerly reads the girl's letters as she describes her successes, although he also berates her for her poor grammar and for her liberal use of exclamation points. There are several scenes of prison sex.

During the novel, Chappy makes frequent references to "Alice," his victim, but it is only towards the end of the book that he finally elaborates. Alice was a 12-year-old girl with whom he had a sexual relationship. At the very end of the story, during his parole hearing, we find out the convict brutally murdered and decapitated Alice after she blamed him for her bleeding, which was actually her period (she didn't know what it was). He tried to explain to her what had happened, but she kept threatening to kill him.

The novel also references Chappy's childhood, especially his unstable, emotionally and sexually abusive mother.

OP here with an unsettling book. I'm just trying to get the ball rolling on this thread /lit/. I guess people don't like the topic much.

End of Alice

>>1198999
The End of Alice was pretty sad. Child abuse. A pedophile whose mind is misunderstood by a society that plagues and rejects him. And the slow but sure decline of a young girl's innocence/sanity.

Also "The Raw Shark Texts" made me cry. Mainly because i was dealing with the suicide of my sister while i was reading it.

>>1179193
John Dies in the End
The Raw Shark Texts
anything by Borges
Hell House
House of Leaves
If on a winters night a traveler
The End of Alice
Spare Key
DHALGREN

Dear /lit/ are there any other books similar to this one? And if you haven't read this book, I'll lay out some of it's characteristics to help you. (Also I'm thinking of trying the book "Spare Key" by R. Frederick Hamilton)

-Disturbing
-Mind-fucking (i know many hate this phrase, but it's very fitting)
-warped
-suspenseful
-possibly told in first person
-deals with delicate content that society deems too gruesome or controversial to focus on (pedophilia, serial killing, etc)
-insanity

*I've already read "Lolita" also.

Are there any other books that are quite similar to this one?

Take my opinion with a grain of salt, but i found the book to be the following:

-Disturbing
-Suspenseful
-Warped
-Thought provoking (causes you to consider your own morality)

*I'm considering picking up "Spare Key" by R. Frederick Hamilton.

The End of Alice, by H.M. Homes

Discuss. Opinions, critiques, etc etc.

Personally, I thought it was an amazing book. A bit of a mind-fuck at times, but a great read nonetheless.