The history of acid attacks can be traced back to Victorian era Britain and has plagued several societies since then. Literature has long depicted incidents of acid attacks. From the classic Victorian era novels to contemporary literature, narratives of acid attacks raise awareness about this heinous crime and about the experiences of the victims. While recent literature on acid attack is mostly biographical and autobiographical, in the Victorian era novels such as Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life, George Gissing’s The Nether World, and R.L. Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne’s The Ebb-Tide, the fictional instances of acid attacks are embedded within the broader themes of social realism, labour conflicts and criminality. Not only do these novels reflect the prevalence of acid attacks in Victorian Britain but also highlight the multifaceted motives behind these crimes ranging from criminal intent, jealousy, and revenge. It also explores Edwardian literature, particularly, The Adventures of the Illustrious Client by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The present chapter also explores the contemporary literary representations of acid attacks that range from fictionalized narratives to factual accounts. Where autobiographical works such as Katie Piper’s Beautiful and Beautiful Ever After offer firsthand accounts of victimization, fictionalized narratives like the comic book series Priya’s Shakti and its sequel Priya’s Mirror provide alternative visions of empowerment and resistance. Despite increased attention to the issue, the chapter critiques the limited representation of the male victims of acid attacks and oversimplification of the motives behind the crime in some of the literary works. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach that blends sociocultural critique and literary analysis the present paper aims to examine the complex narratives of acid attacks by shedding light on the precarity of lives of acid attack victims. To critically engage with these complexities, this chapter adopts Judith Butler’s theory of precarity as a theoretical framework. Butler's conceptualization illuminates how certain individuals, including acid attack survivors, are rendered vulnerable to harm and dispossession due to societal norms and power structures.