The Road by Cormac McCarthy is the most recent disturbing thing I have read. Sometimes I kind of wish I had never picked it up. There was also a comic book called Crossed that I read several years ago. It was kind of like a zombie apocalypse except that people who were infected didn't become zombies, they became evil like demons walking the earth. It was pretty fucked up.
The road was good but blood meridian is a way more disturbing philosophical violent western.
I read All The Pretty Horses before that so I guess I wasn't expecting McCarthy to be so dark. I might check out the rest of the Border Crossing trilogy at some point but I'm going to be wary of his other work.
Definitely do blood meridian! Couldn't get into at first but when I went back loved it
I forgot about Crossed. Yes I remember reading that as the web comic. I've just tried to revisit the site but the server is down http://www.crossedcomic.com/
If I remember correctly it's a plague that causes people to have a red cross shaped wound on their foreheads. I thought it was an unsubtle attempt to denigrate Christianity, as so much is nowadays, it should have been a star!
The infected just behave like the Reavers from Firefly and try to rape and torture everyone.
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