Childhood trauma. Is it a character builder? A psychic wound? A personality quirk-maker? While no one (except maybe your therapist) can fully answer these questions, I do know this: I wouldn’t be the person I am today without the horrifying books I read as a child. While modern day children’s fantasy tends to pull its punches, the authors of yesteryear were fully prepared to dropkick children right in their little hearts. These are the 10 most traumatizing children’s fantasy books of all time, written by people who need therapy, for people who need therapy.
The Edge Chronicles
(Doubleday)The setting of Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell’s The Edge Chronicles is stressful enough. The series takes place on The Edge, a continent sized precipice that juts out over oblivion. At one end is a forest so dangerous that no one has returned from it alive, and the other end is nothing but open sky. In between isn’t much better – the Edge is home to flesh-eating bird women, flesh-eating trees, and soul-sucking demons from beyond the stars. The people of The Edge do the best they can, living as sky pirates, librarian knights, forest dwellers, and academics that make their homes on floating rocks. It’s a difficult existence, made all the more mortifying by Riddell’s illustrations. I didn’t think I needed to see a fully illustrated depiction of a monster bird lady stabbing a teenager in guts when I was a child, and neither does my therapist, but The Edge Chronicles made that decision for me.
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