The phrase "a shocking account of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a narrative or report that is surprising or disturbing in nature.
Example: "The journalist provided a shocking account of the events that unfolded during the crisis, leaving readers in disbelief."
Alternatives: "an alarming depiction of" or "a startling narrative of".
The book of the week is a shocking account of mass rape during the fall of Berlin, while Susan Hill calls for submissions for Long Barn Books.
My colleague from the Independent, Catrina Stewart, recently wrote a shocking account of what happened during one interrogation, which was recorded on video.
This weekend the Sun published a shocking account of a woman whose life has been blighted by a forced marriage imposed upon her when she was just five years old.
And so he set out to shake off the deception and shake up the system that he had spent his life supporting.The result is "Tombstone", a shocking account of what are known euphemistically in China as the Three Years of Economic Difficulty.
When the Guardian first book award was launched in 1999, Zadie Smith was a smart student still waiting to be published, and a shocking account of the Rwandan genocide caused a stand-off between judges and reading groups before narrowly beating David Mitchell's first novel to the inaugural prize.
The blog Benzo Withdrawal Help is a shocking account of Leigh's journey and one that resonates with many of the millions of worldwide benzo addicts.
That's the simple, heartbreaking truth Lori Roy delivers, sotto voce, in UNTIL SHE COMES HOME (Dutton, $26.95), a quietly shocking account of the tiny tremors in the life of a city that warn of cataclysms to come.
Similarly, there is a genuinely shocking account of the abuse and intimidation levelled at climate-change scientists by global-warming deniers, which caused at least one researcher to contemplate suicide.
The Algerian government is furious at the credence the French media and intellectuals have given to The Dirty War, a detailed and shocking account of almost a decade of alleged Algerian army involvement in the massacre of tens of thousands of innocent civilians.
In the late 80s Kanan wrote a book called "Republic of Fear" which was a vivid & often shocking account of Saddam Hussein's reign of terror both inside and outside of Iraq.
It provides an encyclopaedic and sometimes shocking account of woman's condition as 'other' in a world dominated by male descriptions and power.
