What's the most gruesome piece of writing you have ever written?

[truelyana]

I'm currently writing, some exciting gore. I was curious, to know what everyone's most horrifying piece of writing has been? And why has it been the most gruesome in your eyes? What has the feedback been like? How has this piece of writing, really freaked out people? And also, how have you written it? What was your inspiration? What was the best thing about this piece of Horror?

[Perks]

I wrote a moonlight disinterment scene and it was so greasy and so sloppy and so floppily uncooperative - well, I nearly made myself sick.

Everyone else has been grossed out by it, but in the appropriate way.

It was a blast.

It's in a crime suspense, though. Does that count?

[slcboston]

The most horrifying thing I ever wrote was an attempt at a sword and dragons fantasy novel... though probably not in the way you meant "horrifying." :D

[Kevin Yarbrough]

The speech before my circumcision. Had to have witnesses to make sure they didn't take to much off the top and I needed a 'farwell, you'll be missed' speech for my buddy that would be going to a set of nether regions he never imagined.

[plunderpuss]

When I was a teenager I wrote a story about some depraved psycho who crawls into the Dumpster behind the abortion clinic and stuffs the discarded foetuses into his mouth with one hand while doing something else with his other one. :Shrug: Hey, I was fourteen! And at the time, I didn't know that they totally cremate baby corpses. I wrote it for shock value, and it's only the most gruesome because other people find it gruesome. (My brother ruined me on my own ability to be shocked by feeding me horror movies when he was supposed to be babysitting. haha)

The feedback and freakouts were like this: My cousin thought it was hilarious and brought it to his high school, where he and his friends made copies and passed them around. Their teachers were horrified. Luckily, my cousin was nothing if not loyal, and despite his detention and suspension, he wouldn't tell them who wrote it. My dad guessed anyway, and my denial is the only lie I can remember telling him in my whole life.

The feedback and freakouts were the best thing about the story. :D

[truelyana]

I wrote a moonlight disinterment scene and it was so greasy and so sloppy and so floppily uncooperative - well, I nearly made myself sick.

Everyone else has been grossed out by it, but in the appropriate way.

It was a blast.

It's in a crime suspense, though. Does that count?

Sounds good to me. :D

[truelyana]

When I was a teenager I wrote a story about some depraved psycho who crawls into the Dumpster behind the abortion clinic and stuffs the discarded foetuses into his mouth with one hand while doing something else with his other one. :Shrug: Hey, I was fourteen! And at the time, I didn't know that they totally cremate baby corpses. I wrote it for shock value, and it's only the most gruesome because other people find it gruesome. (My brother ruined me on my own ability to be shocked by feeding me horror movies when he was supposed to be babysitting. haha)

The feedback and freakouts were like this: My cousin thought it was hilarious and brought it to his high school, where he and his friends made copies and passed them around. Their teachers were horrified. Luckily, my cousin was nothing if not loyal, and despite his detention and suspension, he wouldn't tell them who wrote it. My dad guessed anyway, and my denial is the only lie I can remember telling him in my whole life.

The feedback and freakouts were the best thing about the story. :D

Wow, now that is amazing. I really like the sound of that. Have you still got it?

[plunderpuss]

Wow, now that is amazing. I really like the sound of that. Have you still got it?

I believe I have a stained, battered hardcopy somewhere in my attic. You don't want to read it, do you?

Now I'm truly horrified. ;)

(I'll look for it.)

[truelyana]

I believe I have a stained, battered hardcopy somewhere in my attic. You don't want to read it, do you?

Now I'm truly horrified. ;)

(I'll look for it.)

I'd love to. :)

[truelyana]

The speech before my circumcision. Had to have witnesses to make sure they didn't take to much off the top and I needed a 'farwell, you'll be missed' speech for my buddy that would be going to a set of nether regions he never imagined.

What's an example of what you wrote, as horrifying? Were there graphic details?

[callalily61]

One solid chapter of my MC getting crucified: she pukes blood all over herself, rats show up to drink the blood on the floor, and I had to come up with interesting ways to describe all-consuming pain. Oh, and I had her hallucinate that the rotting body on the cross next to her talked, maggots dropping out of its mouth all the while. And that her dead husband shows up and enlarges the holes.

Yep, I'm evil.

[truelyana]

One solid chapter of my MC getting crucified: she pukes blood all over herself, rats show up to drink the blood on the floor, and I had to come up with interesting ways to describe all-consuming pain. Oh, and I had her hallucinate that the rotting body on the cross next to her talked, maggots dropping out of its mouth all the while. And that her dead husband shows up and enlarges the holes.

Yep, I'm evil.

Sounds good. :)

[Kevin Yarbrough]

What's an example of what you wrote, as horrifying? Were there graphic details?

The horror I have written so far isn't so much built around gore but on the horror of what we as a species are capable of. My book I had out was about a demon yes, but not gorey. She was a demon in human form and needed her offspring to keep her young and powerful. So she brough men home to rape and impregnate her daughter and expected her daughter to thank her afterwards.

Not really bad in the horror sense of the word but bad because we, as a species, are capable of things like this.

I've not really delved into the Clive Barker, Wes Craven kind of horror yet, I'm more the King and Koontz kind of writer where the supernatural is just a hair width away from being plausable and, to me, that is more horrific then anything else cause it could happen.

[seun]

I've not really delved into the Clive Barker, Wes Craven kind of horror yet, I'm more the King and Koontz kind of writer where the supernatural is just a hair width away from being plausable and, to me, that is more horrific then anything else cause it could happen.

I go for that angle of horror as well. It's much more frightening to me than straight gore or violence.

Although saying that, I did write a story that features a pregnant woman being torn apart by a load of babies. I just left out the details. :D

[Haggis]

I go for that angle of horror as well. It's much more frightening to me than straight gore or violence.

Although saying that, I did write a story that features a pregnant woman being torn apart by a load of babies. I just left out the details. :D

Sometimes, leaving out the details makes it more horrifying.

[Jcomp]

I wrote a story about cannibals with regenerative powers that got many responses regarding how gruesome it was. Funny thing, I reined in (or at least I thought I did) much of the explicit elements. For instance, a scene where a character has their head blown off only to have it subsequently begin regenerating is considerably less detailed than how I'd initially written it.

[Cranky]

I wrote a scene where this serial killer was raping and killing his soon-to-be ex-wife. It was to kick his serial killer career into the big time, out of stalking and beating people up. Oh, and he had just turned into a vampire, too, so that squicky part got thrown in. He did all kinds of gruesome things to her body while she was still alive, etc. Even more revolting stuff afterwards.

It gave me shivers, and I didn't really get into as much detail as I could have. I was so totally grossed out by what I saw in my own head that I had trouble writing it clearly.

I've set that book aside for now. The character is really repugnant to me, and I'm having trouble with the book as a result. *sigh*

[Cranky]

I wrote a story about cannibals with regenerative powers that got many responses regarding how gruesome it was. Funny thing, I reined in (or at least I thought I did) much of the explicit elements. For instance, a scene where a character has their head blown off only to have it subsequently begin regenerating is considerably less detailed than how I'd initially written it.

That actually sounds really cool! LOL

[Jcomp]

I try to envision the violent moments I write as how Scorcese would portray it on film. Not ignoring it, but not lingering either.

[Cranky]

I try to envision the violent moments I write as how Scorcese would portray it on film. Not ignoring it, but not lingering either.

Not a bad idea. Thanks for the tip! :D

[callalily61]

I can't describe here the squickiest scene I wrote because it's NC-17. I tapped into what would completely freak me out as a woman (without actual rape), and then I had the bad guy do it to the MC.

I have a new moment, tho, that combines squick and gore, yeah! From the sequel to the horror. MC's ex-GF and crew have nailed MC to a cross. The pain has shorted out his censors and when the ex-GF sneaks in to watch/talk to him, he flashes back to their cult life as teenagers. As he loses it, he asks her if she's going to drink his blood like they did then with the victims. She comes closer, stands on tiptoe, gently touches her lips to his, then mashes their lips together and sucks the blood from his mouth that he's been gradually puking up.

This is her turning point, however--she realizes what a sick freak she grew up as and rescues him.

I love writing horror! MWHAHAHAHAHA! :e2headban

[bluntforcetrauma]

One short called Paradise Mall and another one called Gold.

[Cathy C]

I wrote a scene for a book (that was later removed) where the hero (yes, the hero---admittedly an anti-hero) tortures the scumbag owner of a shop because he sold him a faulty product. I had a lot of fun with that scene, because I was really ticked about a very similar thing at the time, so I got really . . . visual. I haven't looked at it in years, but I seem to remember him blowing off both his kneecaps with a shotgun and then rigging his chair to choke him to death unless he kept his leg muscles tensed.

But you can't keep muscles tensed forever... :D

[seun]

I can't describe here the squickiest scene I wrote because it's NC-17.

PM me with the details. I have to know. :D

[DL Hegel]

That's a hard one--I always kill my characters off different ways--my favorite was death by train i guess--see I killed Haggis entries. I grew up on horror and love it!

[TurkeyLurkey]

One of my main characters in a YA used a corpse as a puppet.

[Triangulos]

A carnival sword swallowing act that gets sabotaged as an act of revenge. The sword is some articulated prop designed to look impossible to swallow but which changes shape as it goes in. It's sabotaged so that it starts returning to its previous shape while still inside the performer.

Approximately 1700 words of screaming and vomiting blood and lacerated internal organs then ensues. This guy takes a *long* time to die... T

[Triangulos]

Oh and another one where a guy is trying to create artificial bodies for his dead family to be reanimated into, but the first attempt at making his wife's body results in this haphazard collection of arms and legs and faces like fifty conjoined twins merged together at random, which he disposes of down a sewer. My MC later has to escape down this sewer, and ends up falling into the clutches of this thing, grasping and tearing at him from all sides in the darkness. He can't see what it is, but he *knows* what it is.

T.

(This and the previous one were actually published too, so sometimes it can pay to be sick...)

[Triangulos]

Oh and one more too -- a guy is drugged and dumped on the street, only to wake up strapped to an operating table wondering why his reflection in the steel ceiling panels looks such an odd shape and why there's this pungent burning smell in the room. Bit by bit his awareness returns, only for him to realise that he's being lobotomised one slice at a time for the entertainment of his unseen captors.

T.

[callalily61]

Oh and one more too -- a guy is drugged and dumped on the street, only to wake up strapped to an operating table wondering why his reflection in the steel ceiling panels looks such an odd shape and why there's this pungent burning smell in the room. Bit by bit his awareness returns, only for him to realise that he's being lobotomised one slice at a time for the entertainment of his unseen captors.

T.

Eww! :)

[John Goodrich]

First thing I ever wrote straight for the gross-out was a flash piece whose MC sought out different sorts of pus to drink.

There's a lot of really gross different sorts of pus out there.

[Ol' Fashioned Girl]

I burned my villainess at the stake, in graphic detail... then the beheadings began.

[Captain Howdy]

I'd have to say it's the scene in my current WIP where the teenage midget gets boinked to death by his pet goat. The actual wording is about as discreet as I could make it, but conceptually I think it blows all the other death scenes in my book right out of the water (and there are death scenes aplenty believe you me).

[JB_Finesse]

My protaganist bashes in the head of a would-be rapist with the butt of his shotgun in graphic detail.

...And then a vampire slits a guy's throat with his thumbnail before kicking his head off.

Both sound pretty tame in comparison to some of these.

[shawkins]

the scene in my current WIP where the teenage midget gets boinked to death by his pet goat

Wow.

[truelyana]

Oh and another one where a guy is trying to create artificial bodies for his dead family to be reanimated into, but the first attempt at making his wife's body results in this haphazard collection of arms and legs and faces like fifty conjoined twins merged together at random, which he disposes of down a sewer. My MC later has to escape down this sewer, and ends up falling into the clutches of this thing, grasping and tearing at him from all sides in the darkness. He can't see what it is, but he *knows* what it is.

T.

(This and the previous one were actually published too, so sometimes it can pay to be sick...)

Sounds good to me. I would love to read the story in detail. :)

[Sassee]

I go for that angle of horror as well. It's much more frightening to me than straight gore or violence.

Although saying that, I did write a story that features a pregnant woman being torn apart by a load of babies. I just left out the details. :D

And I read it... was fantastic!

My most gruesome writings have never been the events themselves... always the aftermath. Though I did write a rape scene once that actually caused my husband to lose sleep after reading it. It kind of gives me the squicks too. I keep it buried.

[Triangulos]

Sounds good to me. I would love to read the story in detail. :)

Thanks! It's in an anthology called "Horrors Beyond", link here:
http://www.esp-books.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=54&products_id=272

T.

[HeronW]

Look up unmitigated evil and that's my sorceress:
1. She shrinks a stable boy to rat-sized and his dog eats him
2. She's frustrated so she makes a flock of starlings peck each other to death and bathes in the rain of blood
3. At a temple to herself she has hearts torn from chests, & in the water she has carnivorous jelly fish absorb a pair of lovers
4. a while ago she got pissed off and set a woman burning forever
5. against those who try to stop the sorceress at the end she has one tear out her tongue, another takes out her eyes, a third loses hearing and a fourth tries to remove half her skin.