Does anyone know any gut-wrenching/morbid literature/essays worth reading?
Something like Guts by Chuck Palahniuk.
http://chuckpalahniuk.net/features/shorts/guts
Transgressive fiction is for chumps. Surrealist, absurdist, and existentialist fiction is where the real morbidity and gut-wrenching lies.
Guts is for teenagers. In fact, all of Palahniuk is.
I used to own a copy of Apocalypse Culture, that was fun. Lots of essays/interviews with "outsiders", some shit, some great (like that interview with the guy who hangs his skin on hooks to be closer to God)