High school teacher had us read Survivor Type - thus began my love for stephen king
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Maybe not disturbing enough, but the short story that really stuck with me was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_to_the_Slaughter
Random shitposts on the internet have wiped away all the trauma I got from anything I read in school.
Guts by chuck palahniuk.
did you hold your breath?
Why stop at a short story? I'll go for a novel.
They Bite by Anthony Boucher is like four pages long and had me jumping at every shadow in the corner of my eye for a week. I found it in my grandparents' copy of Alfred Hitchcock's 30 Best in Horror or something like that, bought a copy for the brother I like because it shook me so badly (I verified it was in there)
"On the Quay at Smyrna" by Ernest Hemingway. A very short read, almost a vignette, but it left me depressed. Too on the nose for the current world situation.
The Dweller in the Gulf by Clark Ashton Smith.
Exit by Harry Farjeon.
Recommend me one fellas
By the Waters of Babylon still haunts me in the best way.