My favorite is Struwwelpeter or "shock headed Peter". An example in that book is Conrad the Thumbsucker who in the end gets his thumb cut off:
I actually read this book to my kids and they loved it.
Folio: The Uncanny and Strange
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Of course they love it. It isn't pc.
I was a big fan of Hans Christian Anderson when I was little, and his stories were sometimes really brutal. Some became Disney-fied, which took away the scary elements. Is it bad for kids to read scary stories? A lot of them function as cautionary tales veiled in fantasy.
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