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* In "The Quest for Blank Claveringi", a short story by Patricia Highsmith, the protagonist is stranded on an island {{spoiler|populated by [[It Can Think|''intelligent'']] man-eating snails the size of Buicks}}. Suffice it to say this does not end well.
* [[Asshole Victim|While well-deserved]], Injun Joe's death in ''[[Tom Sawyer]]'' was likely ''not'' pleasant when one thinks about it for a while. After Tom tells them he was hiding out in the cave - ''after'' being told they sealed up the entrance - they tear down the seal, only to find that Joe has starved after a futile attempt to break the seal, the area around it showing he was eating wax from discarded candles and hunting bats simply to delay the inevitable. Clearly he died terrified and alone, [[Irony|the very fate Tom and Becky had narrowly avoided.]]
* ''[[The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]''; clearly what Hyde does to Sir Danvers Carew fits this trope. The maid who witnesses the murder claims he beat poor Carew with his cane until the cane broke, and then stomped on him in a way she compared to some savage ape, also claiming she passed out from sheer terror from seeing it.
 
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