We should really have support groups for all of us who read Flowers in the Attic way too young and were scared for life. A safe space to talk about our fear of powdered donuts and love for books with confusing relationships. We could watch the Blue Lagoon film with Brooke Shields for a movie night!

I loved so many of these books as a kid. So many Shirley Jackson stories, Avi books, R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike, Gary Paulsen. Also a lot of Holocaust books, for some reason. Why did they have so many kids books about the Holocaust in the early '90s? Other ones I can think of are The Whipping Boy, Miss Nelson is Missing, Mrs. Pig's Bulk Buy, The Giver, Don't Hurt Laurie, I'll Love You Forever, Bridge to Terabithia and at least a little bit of every Judy Blume book. Not to mention all the books about kid detectives facing off against kidnappers and jewel thieves and whatnot, like Boxcar Children, Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden, etc. I'm in my 40s now and I still haven't been brave enough to reread the story in Scary Stories about the scarecrow who is abused and then gets his revenge. I didn't sleep for several days after I read it the first time when I was maybe 8. I still shudder when I see a scarecrow.

Little matchstick girl wasn’t actually supposed to be hopeful, matchstick girls were real and common and it was a critique on the idea that it was just giving handouts and the parents should just work more, and was meant to point out that from no failing of their own, children suffer. It’s similar to come views today, although less prevalent due to child labor laws. (Also Animorphs was not accidently existential there’s a lot of thing about that kind of thing, like Tobias being stuck as a bird forever as a main cast member, another cast member straight up committing genocide, and the kids all having PTSD but having to hide it bc all of them either have mind controlled family members or don’t know if/when they will be. Personal fav is when jake gets possessed by a yerk and first person pov describes having his body being possessed, worrying about it betraying his friends, and then his friends kidnapping and tying him up for days not knowing for sure if it’s actually him but wanting to make sure if theres a Yerk it dies)

Great video, homie :)

I loved this book, I love jhorror you gotta do a deep dive on The Ju-On series(The Grudge) there is a novelization of the movie and there a few mangas. Although sometimes they can be hard to find.

I’m surprised here’s no mention of the recent Mcarthy controversy. His muse (who is the major inspiration for almost every main character ever wrote) was an abused 16 year old who he was “with” when she was 17 and on and off for the rest of her life.

Absolutely loving all of these iceberg videos! As a horror fan and a book lover, they've given me tons of books to put on my reading list. A book that scared me as a kid was The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales because of the illustrations and general 'weird' tone...the illustrations are still pretty eerie!

I was waiting on Maus.😢

The series of unfortunate events got real dark in the last two or three like that book thirteen was the first book that I closed and felt like my whole world was hollow for like a week and at the same time sent me on loving the genre of "oh god I got to check my limbs are still there because I can't feel anymore"

I see The Giving Tree as a story about a mother and child. Sometimes children really do just take and don't give, but the mother is happy. Also, I'm surprised Goodnight Moon wasn't on here. For some reason that book always creeped me out when I'd read it as a kid, and I wasn't sure why. Then I recently re-read it and figured it out pretty quick. But maybe it's just me.

modern baseball is so fire

I listened to this last night and I remembered my teacher reading the true confessions of Charlie Doyle in fourth grade. Also, a problem I’ve noticed with most of these stories is predictable endings.

When I was younger I remember seeing the cover for a child called it and assumed it was a religious book so I never read it. In hindsight I’m glad I didn’t 😭 In terms of books, the art style of stinky cheese man and fairly other stupid tales used to get to me as a kid!

Island of Blue Dolphins really freaked me out as a tween, even if it wasn't exactly meant to... It's about the last living member of a native tribe on an island off the coast of California, loosely based on Juana Maria of San Nicolas Island.

Sylvia Plath definitely didn’t unalive herself. Sorry. If you do research her husband was manipulative and abusive. I certainly wouldn’t put my head in the oven to end my life. Whew that got me heated 😂

I dont understand why pet semetary is on every single one of these lists its like babys first horror movie you see on tv at 11am on a day home sick from school

39:23 I read The Lottery and Omelas for the first time on the same day in grade 9 or 10. (I was SHOOK that day.) They remain a couple of my favorites to this day. Two of the best short stories ever written.

in middle school our teacher read touching spirit bear to us and i really liked it but from what i remember it was pretty brutal, both because the teen himself is so violent and also because ya know he gets mauled by a bear and has to survive on an island alone.

Absolutely obsessed with your videos, banger after banger. I’ve been waiting for a channel to do what you are, thank you for the content :)

I think it's crazy that we read "The Perfume" in high school, like it was an actual class reading.... 😶

I loved the unwanteds as a kid. The most disturbing part for me was in the second book where 2 characters are forced to wear necklaces made of thorns, which cause them to loose their voice.

I got a few stories I remember reading in school. They came from those reading textbooks so you only got part of the books most of the time. Unfortunately its lost media for me but, I'll try to explain it the best i can: Story 1: the main character goes to a mirror one day and finds a boy that looks just like him. They switch places via the mirror as one is sent to the past and the other, the future. 2: there's a group of people that are hiding because of a rule that there can't be 3 children in a family (i think its also futuristic?) Story 3: this wasn't from a textbook rather, i saw it in a store and regret not buying it as it was interesting. So from what i can gather, they were on a boat before they land on an Island. This isn't the Lord of the flies or life of PI.

5:38 I know this is probably nothing to most people but something bothers me about how the stud is "a man" while the women are "the females". Like, even in dehumanization, women are still somehow lower...

Thank you for covering this book, someone claimed it was boring and I was confused, knowing the premise. Thanks for horrifying me! If I may recommend a crazy scary book: Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie. I will admit the ending is out there to me but good foundation as a whole.

Apparently in 1985, Peter Sotos was arrested on CP charges due to his content!

As a Shelly, it is wild to hear about all the tthings I did

16:55 the real scary part of the monologe is the theological fallacy. (Obviously a character named Satan should probably be spouting fallacies anyway, it just made me laugh)

new subscriber 🤩 been loving the iceberg videos keep it up!!

Hey did anybody else notice the repetition of lines through the video? Idk if it's just a me thing or if it's editing/uploading glitches but I'll hear the same sentence twice, like it happened during the discussion of dustbin baby, not sure what's up I mostly listen to these videos as I do other things, so it could be a glitch on my end I'm not catching

I think the scariest part about the Money's Paw is the possibility that it really was just his son, returned to life in full health. Trying to come home.

A bit strange and priviliged to say that "This Sweet Sickness" is only mostly disturbing when you're a woman. As if those things cannot happen to men as well, and it's not only when you share the gender with a character that you can understand the horrors that someone goes through. That's like saying "Don't be mean to women, don't you also have a mother and sister? Would yu want that to happen to them?" as if empathy for women can only be brought in their proximity to a man. Having a woman being stalked to that extent is not less horrible if the reader is a man, woman or nonbinary.

Hmm never heard of the book but reminds me a bit of the Oddworld franchise.

47:26 we actually read this story once in early highschool mainly as an example of how the industrial revolution was at the time for children and the whole child labor thing.

The repeating of worlds is starting to bother me 46:00

I feel like the older drawings are so much more striking with the stark black and white while the newer gray tones seem to soften it for me.