I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Short Story • 1967 • Sci-Fi
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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A character is hung upside down by his heel
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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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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The narrator describes eating worms. A locust swarm is referenced.
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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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One character eats another character's face out of desperation
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One main character is described being hung upside down by his heel
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Is someone tortured?
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All 5 main characters are tortured
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Is there eye mutilation?
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One character has his eyes melted out of his head when trying to escape
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4 of the 5 main characters die by being stabbed with icicles
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Death
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One main character accepts her fate at the end and kills herself to save another main character
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Does a major character die?
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All but one of the main characters are killed
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Is someone kidnapped?
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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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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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The representation of the one woman character is not great.
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One character frequently likens AM to God and has religious hallucinations
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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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There are no nuclear explosions. It is mentioned that the Earth is uninhabitable because of AM, but it is not stated or implied that it was caused by a nuclear explosion.
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