Recs if you like Story of the Eye...

Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.

Overlooked, lesser known classics from all over the world and of many genres.

This list also exists as a book club on Fable under the same name.

cosmic, violent, nightmareish, ancient, warped, bizarre, absurd, strange, surreal

these books look back 👀

always accepting suggestions for books with eyes featured prominently on the cover

Tier 3 of the Disturbing Novel Icberg. Stories are more graphic with darker themes.

Note: some books are missing due to lack of access.

“It’s like a car crash you just can’t look away from”

Books where the red flags are flashing from page one. You see the obsession forming, the moral line blurring, the disaster building — and you keep reading anyway. Slow spirals. Psychological rot. Inevitable collapse. Oh my!

Transgressive, perverted, depraved, debased writings from before the Information Age ~1967.

At times disgusting, ecstatic, abhorrent, funny, erotic, evil. Occasionally, actually way less shocking than the reaction from the time of their initial publication suggested.

Seek content warnings. I haven’t read them all and many I regret having in my brain. But I think they’re all intriguing, maybe not all important but they offer us a different view of the past.

Suggestions welcome!

Creepy and cozy vibes are having a date in this list.