What's the darkest thing you've ever had to Google for a book?

[HisDivineShadow]

Usually, it's all sorts of dark stuff in psychology. Even though I know a lot about it, sometimes I need to double-check : like manipulation through NLP, the psychology of a killer, the consequences of different psychological traumas, triggers and reactions, the body's responses to stressful situations. All the dark corners of psychology.
Sometimes it gets too dark to keep studying. It's not as frightening as physical torture, but... The murky depths of the human soul can be scarier than a knife.

 

[Thraben]

Average SA rates in various countries, income brackets, etc.

 

[Lacedaemon]

For Mad World (and possibly for any story I've ever written), the darkest thing I has to search for was research on the impact of sexual abuse, specifically child sexual abuse, because the main character of the series is a survivor of child rape.

For The Burning Desire to Save, I went through a few NIOSH reports on firefighter line of duty deaths because a chapter contained a firefighter getting caught in a flashover and burning to death. I also did research into the deaths of firefighters during the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami, which killed 281 firefighters (254 volunteer and 27 career), because the fire brigade in the story sent up some guys to help out in the past in-universe.

For The Hauntings That Follow Us, it was probably the history of one of the real-life locations featured, the Doryo-do Ruins in Japan, which was the site of two different murders. The first was when an old woman who worked as the caretaker of the temple was killed by a robber in 1963, and the second was ion 1973 when a St. Paul University professor named Hiroyoshi Oba dumped the body of a female college student he had an affair with on the land after he killed her when she told him she was pregnant. Before the police could catch him, Oba forced his entire family to jump to their deaths off a cliff in Shizuoka Prefecture before committing suicide by jumping as well.

For Page by Page, I haven't really had to look up anything too dark as of yet since its a drama/romance series about mangaka.

 

[SurfAngel_1031]

Have you ever had to look something up for one of your books that just made you think, Well...I'm definitely on a list somewhere now.?

For me, it was "How to buy someone from human trafficking?" And the worst part is, I never finished that book, so I didn't even have it to point to as an excuse if the FBI decided to pay me a visit.

How to perform a lobotomy.

 

[HelenaWolf]

Torture methods and impaling in the Ottoman Empire. Didn't sleep that night at all and still have flashbacks

 

[RepresentingDesire]

The darkest thing I remember googling is Vorarephilia

 

[reskisz]

The darkest thing I've researched for a book is on how to rape a conscious girl while protecting your identity. Surprisingly, there are very specific advices on this.