Recs if you like Last Days...

Books where cults are a significant part of the narrative. Some fiction, some non-fiction.

my favorite genre. elvia wilk’s essay is the best on what this genre is, but here’s an excerpt: “Weird knowledge does not deny the capacity of the human mind and body to produce knowledge, but it does not reduce the world to human subject experience either. Unlike science fiction—in which there is a rational explanation for everything—and fantasy—where magic explains it all—weirdness hovers between poles of explainability.”

dismemberment, parasitic infection, medical transmutation... body horror truly has it all. when the horror lives inside you, when there's no external danger, what do you do? you can't run from the transformation you've undergone. body horror centers the unbecoming of who you are at your core and the subsequent changes on the outside.

detectives, missing girls, dark lakes, inhuman mysteries

Past and present winners and nominees of the Shirley Jackson Awards. Frightful reading!

List of horror books (mostly 2000-2023) compiled by Sadie Hartmann, aka Mother Horror.