#splatter punk

(I’m going to include some trigger warnings with each recommendation but I am doing it from memory so please, use your own discretion before reading any of these.)

1. I’m Thinking Of Ending Things. It’s an excellent subversion on the thriller genre and I highly recommend you go in as blind as possible.

(TW: mental illness, suicide, stalking, animal death)

2. Fever Dream. Appropriate to its name this one reads like a Fever Dream, its quick, abstract, and bitting. It’s covers something rarely talked about but definitely horrifying, and it dose an amazing job of it.

(Child suffering, disability, animal death, poisoning, parental stress)

3. The Vegetarian. This book is a bit less mind bending as the others on this list but it’s no less strange or incredible. Taking even the seemingly mundane and twisting it to something tense and thought provoking. I’ve never read anything else like it.

(Sexism, SA, abuse, body horror, starvation, meat.)

4. Woom. This one’s by a very large margin the most disturbing, so be carful. i find it genuinely difficult to articulate what I like about it. It’s a psychosexual nightmare, bordering on splatter punk, which is not what I normally read. most of the time I wouldn’t enjoy this kind of over the top depravity boring, but there’s something so compelling in the way the prose are written that it kept me gripped and stilling thinking about it to this day.

(Tw: everything honestly do not read this if you don’t have the stomach for extreme horror. Most notably SA, intense gore, body horror, and pregnancy horror.)

5: Rant: An Oral Biography Of Buster Casey. This is my all time favorite book. If your familiar with Chuck Palahniuk’s other work then you’ll know some of what to expect in this one, though I’d argue it’s out there even for him. Grimy to it core, this book’s atmosphere is amazing. Real feeling character set in this bazaar world, fallowing logic close to, but not quite our own. It is an experience to read.

Oh my my my…. First hour notes! Terrifier 2