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Originally Posted by Catlady
Reading Black Beauty was also traumatic--again, even in a child's picture book version. When I read the full story some years later, I was retraumatized; some scenes are still in my head all this time later.
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Black Beauty was intended to be at least somewhat traumatic as it was written to convince hard-headed adults to treat horses better not to be a children's book.
I remember reading a number of books by the author of
Watership Down (slightly disturbing) as a kid and
The Plague Dogs stands out as a thoroughly disturbing example of this sort of book.
The book that most disturbed me, however, was a book of Canadian Folklore which contained a section on urban legends.