Disturbing books.

[kelby_lake]

Lolita

[semi-fly]

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin

If those don't suit your taste you could always try The Bible, rumor has it there is some really scary stuff in it.

[Zee.]

Lolita - it's good, but I have a feeling it wont be suiting to the book his description wants.

Try, The Raw Shark Texts and House of Leaves

I hear American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis) has what you're looking for, although I must confess that I still haven't read it.

Gorey.

But disturbing? not so much. Not my kind of disturbing anyway.

[vsopvs]

The Day Of Locust by Nathanael West

[DeadAsDreams]

The Novella "Hallucigenia" by Laird Barron

[kandaurov]

Both Women in Love, by D. H. Lawrence and Portnoy's Complaint, by Philip Roth could have the original post as synopsis
Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground is pretty spiteful and disturbing
The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
And methinks you'd get a kick out of some parts of Ulysses, like "Calypso" and "Nausicaa".

[amanda_isabel]

I read something about Death and the Compass a while back. I haven't read the book but the review sounds good.

[JBI]

Bit of a stretch on this one, but Therese Raquin,
and, of course, much of Atwood, especially Alias Grace.

[Hank Stamper]

another vote for wasp factory and american psycho..

i hear cows by matthew stokoe is supposed to be completely twisted and disgusting but i confess i have not read it myself because it is out of print and i have been unable to find a copy anywhere

haunted by chuck palahniuk is worth reading too - if only for the short story 'guts', which is suitably disgusting! (there is a clue in the title!)

[Infinitefox]

Mortal Fear by Greg Iles is pretty twisted.

[Dr. Hill]

Crime.
And.
Pun.
Ish.
Ment.

[Zee.]

Disturbing. Disturbing. Disturbing. Disturbing. Can't quite put your finger on why it makes you feel so displaced.
House of Leaves.

[Dori]

Crime.
And.
Pun.
Ish.
Ment.

My thoughts exactly.

[GX4146]

Ginger Man by i forget what's his name

[kelby_lake]

I can think of plays like that...