I just blew through six or seven of Ted Chiang's short stories, and when I finished "Hell Is the Absence of God" I had to stop. I was physically shaking, my knees went weak and I was reduced to gasping and making inarticulate sounds for the next several minutes. I don't know if that was a fluke, but I would really like it if someone would point to similarly horrifying stories or books.
There's a good one that begins, "A basilisk, a shoggoth, and a cenobite walk into a bar together", but I can't figure out the rest of it.
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