I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Short Story • 1967 • Sci-Fi
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garlicking
AM has set up a world where the last living woman is assaulted for his amusement
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garlicking
It is largely implied that AM is changing the brains of the survivors by implanting ideas to gaslight them into their worst selves.
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Anonymous
The narrator describes eating worms. A locust swarm is referenced.
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jiraibong
One character is turned into an ape-human hybrid and is frequently tortured by AM and ridiculed by some other characters
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garlicking
It is not a long passage, but the narrator talks about assaulting his friend often, and it happens within the timeline of the story he narrates.
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Yes, Ellen gets slapped by Gorrister when she is crying about Benny early on in the original short story. She then falls down and he kicks her.
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Is there cannibalism?
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One character eats another character's face out of desperation
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A character is hung upside down by his heel
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jiraibong
4 of the 5 main characters die by being stabbed with icicles
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One character has his eyes melted out of his head when trying to escape
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All 5 main characters are tortured
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Is there a hanging?
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jiraibong
One main character is described being hung upside down by his heel
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Children
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Death
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jiraibong
One main character accepts her fate at the end and kills herself to save another main character
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jiraibong
All but one of the main characters are killed
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Is someone kidnapped?
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jiraibong
All 5 main characters are taken to AM's complex unwillingly
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Literally the opening page
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Well, in the radio drama version of the short story, there is iirc. But just the writing itself or the audiobook? Nope.
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garlicking
YES, it is mentioned that all of the main characters have tumors from the atomic blast, and AM is the only thing keeping them alive.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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garlicking
Yes. Ted and Benny. Very loudly.
And AM, at the end, when the other four die.
And AM, at the end, when the other four die.
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garlicking
The main character has this when he thinks the others are laughing at him.
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no one *dies* as a result of suicide, but it's explicitly stated that AM's captives have tried to kill themselves before and he's stopped them from succeeding
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garlicking
AM is said to be tearing off parts of himself and throwing them into a graveyard of sorts. self harm CODED, I suppose.
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They're aware.
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The representation of the one woman character is not great.
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jiraibong
One character frequently likens AM to God and has religious hallucinations
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Are there demons or Hell?
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jiraibong
It is mentioned many times that the main characters are in some form of Hell, though it's not literal.
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A character is transformed into a chimpanzee and has a sexual relationship with another character.
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AM’s main method of torturing Ellen is by forcing her to be a sex object for the other characters to gawk at. If this is something that bothers you, don’t read this story.
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garlicking
The main character cries often. And despite his misogynistic responses to Ellen, his tears are not belittled by the story itself
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garlicking
All of the humans have terminal illnesses from the atomic blast. AM is what keeps them alive despite the pain.
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Violence
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garlicking
Before the events of the story, yes. The story was created because of the Cold War. They are 'in the bowels of AM' under the earth because the top would be uninhabitable due to nuclear winter. This story is about the aftermath of nuclear warfare.
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