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[fuchsiamae]

an incomplete list of unsettling short stories I read in textbooks

the scarlet ibis

marigolds

the diamond necklace

the monkey’s paw

the open boat

the lady and the tiger

the minister’s black veil

an occurrence at owl creek bridge

a rose for emily

(I found that one by googling “short story corpse in the house,” first result)

the cask of amontillado

the yellow wallpaper

the most dangerous game

a good man is hard to find

some are well-known, some obscure, some I enjoy as an adult, all made me uncomfortable between the ages of 11-15

add your own weird shit, I wanna be literary and disturbed

[repulsion-gel]

The Tell-Tale Heart, The Gift of the Magi, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County, Thank You Ma'am

[allyitis]

the box social by james reaney. i remember we all had to silently read it in class, and you would hear the moment everyone reached the Part because some people would audibly go “what”

[fuchsiamae]

wHat did I just put my eyes on

[schrodingers-rufus]

“The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury

Not quite a short story, but read in class: “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” from The Twilight Zone

[w3rewolf-th3rewolf]

Harrison Bergeron, Cat and the Coffee Drinkers

[rebel-against-reality]

“Where are you going and where have you been” by Joyce carol oates

[actuallyapathy]

“The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury

[asexualzoro]

the lottery by shirley jackson

[eccentwrit]

i can’t believe Roald Dahl’s “The Landlady” wasn’t already mentioned and also it’s not so much unsettling as more absurdist but “The Leader” by Eugene Ionesco definitely made me go wtf

[idlewildly]

Ett halvt ark papper. I cried so much.

[bravinto]

Ночь у мазара, А. Шалимов

[siderealsandman]

A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury

[insanitysbloomings]

I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

[felderwin]

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury 

[was-once-somewhere-else]

Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby, by Donald Barthelme

[titleleaf]

We read lots of good disturbing shit in hs or in the writing groups I joined in hs but somehow the top of the heap for shit that haunted me’s still indisputably Ethan Canin’s “The Palace Thief”. It’s not horror as such but it freaked me the fuck out. 

There was another O. Henry short story we read that was also really alarming but I had to google a major spoiler (which is also a warning) to recall the name – “The Furnished Room”.  

[lesbianshepard]

there will come soft rains by bradbury was very unsettling for middle school me

[demo-ness]

I had no idea so many were all written by Ray Bradbury, why did he do this to us

[i-see-your-light]

“Emergency” by Dennis Johnson – not entirely disturbing but really weird and there’s one Bad Part

“A Small, Good Thing” by Raymond Carver – again not all that bad but sad and kind of creepy 

[asterlark]

i had to read a collapse of horses by brian evenson for a writing class last year and it’s. very fucking weird

[wuqs]

“the birds” by du maurier

[periegesisvoid-deactivated]

Bradbury wrote a lot of weird shit. But, “The Book of Sand” and"The Library of Babel" by Luis Borges.

[dentes-mentis]

“It’s a Good Life” - Jerome Bixby “The Little Black Bag” - Cyril M. Cornbluth “The Cold Equations” - Tom Godwin “The Nine Billion Names of God” - Arthur C. Clarke “Mars is Heaven!” - Ray Bradbury “Born of Man and Woman” - Richard Matheson “That Only A Mother” - Judith Maril “The Country of the Kind” - Damon Knight “Mimsy Were The Borogroves” - Lewis Padgett “Lamb to the Slaughter” - Roald Dahl “We Can Get Them For You Wholesale” - Neil Gaiman “BLIT” and “Different Kinds of Darkness” - David Langford (set in the same universe) (there are a couple of other “basilisk” stories and they’re worth checking out) “The Secret Number” - Igor Teper

[vr-trakowski]

“Hush” by Zenna Henderson

[minuiko]

Master and student

[katerinapetrova]

SEX EDUCATION S01E08.

[yuutta]

The Legend of Korra as Penguin Classics (insp.)

[avatarparallels]

“Of Aang’s three children, Bumi was the one who most encapsulated his father’s penguin-sledding spirit.”

- Bumi’s Bio on The Official Nickelodeon Website.

[flawlessgentlemen]

The projects that I end up doing, that I want to be involved with in any way, have always been projects that will be impactful, for the most part, to my people — to black people. To see black people in ways which you have not seen them before. So Black Panther was on my radar, and in my dreams.

[siancore]

[ma-che-noia]

Marwan Kenzari and Luca Marinelli being cute immortal husbands in The Old Guard

[zsww-moved-to-pillowfort-deacti]

Why did you grab me by the collar? … Here, you can just hold my hand.   I don’t touch other people.

[murdershegoat]

look, we give glee so much bullshit bc it turned into over-the-top farcical nonsense but the fact of the matter is that for three days all over social media i have seen hundreds and hundreds of young women talking about how watching santana lopez be out and proud on glee was a formative part of coming to terms with their sexuality. there’s an entire generation of women who watched and who felt comforted by this character and felt as though maybe they, too, could be happy and gay. 

santana did that. 

naya did that. 

[softlenaluthor]

I’m going in with my smile.

[bongjoonhoe]

Grace Kelly as Lisa Carol Fremont in Rear Window (1954)

[sexeducationsource]

I don’t think I want to have sex yet.

[gorgonapologist]

julia oldham, why are there no great female werewolves?

[capinejghafa]

~ peter kavinsky in p.s. i still love you (novel)

[noaaahcentineo]

I promise I am not going to break your heart. 

[stuckinreversemode]

#this is the only thing that matters