Recs if you like I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream...

Book titles that represent reasons you might go to the doctor, what you might say to each other, or what treatments might be offered to cure your ailments. It's up to you to decide what is what😉

(This is not a commentary on these books or authors! The focus of this list is purely on the titles---but if you find a favorite new read here, I'd love to know🤭)

Horror books with a page count of 200 pages or less.

Before we started defining novellas by word count, they were defined as being any book less than 200 pages. Source: my Analysis of Short Stories & Literature professor in community college. I loved that class. But he loved James Joyce. So, ymmv, I guess.

on average people read 40-60 pages an hour, so this is a continuously updated collection of books with 60 pages or less & a couple short story collections

audiobooks where the narrator is the author! any book goes, no matter the genre. there may be multiple versions of the audiobook, but at least one version has the author as narrator. please suggest more in the comments!

ANTI: fascism, ai, nfts, Big Tech, billionaires, surveillance states, optimization, algorithms, bot farms, technofeudalism, enshittification, exploitation, extractionism, planned obsolescence PRO: organized labor, punk, analog, solidarity, free speech, friction, degrowth, experimentation, right to privacy, right to repair, diy, material process, mutual aid, ecological living, the human hand, the human mind

*Short stories welcome. Looking for nonfiction? Check out The Big Bad Luddite List.

For when reading a classic feels too daunting. Classics under 200 pages!

body horror as a metaphor for autonomy, mental health & identity

Tier 2 from the disturbing novel iceberg, inspired by the disturbing movie iceberg.

More taboo themes, more gore, and books that stick with you long after reading.

full-cast audio dramas have their place, and celebrity narrators are fun to recognize, but sometimes it's better to hear it in the author's voice, literally.

just some really great horror scifi

for those who are trying to get a little bit smarter but also have short attention spans.

Books which have video game adaptations or are cited as heavy inspirations for them. I love both books & games as mediums & feel there is more connection between them than oft credited. Obviously, creatives are influenced by innumerable things, but it's awesome when developers, etc. share their inspirations. Please say if there are others you know of!

Fiction about (maybe) being the last human alive on Earth — speculative, post-apocalyptic, dystopian

These are just ones I’ve read and can confirm are good/recommendations from others. Some of these have sequels!

inspired by me watching youtube videos about literary analysis of villains, here is a list full of books in which i believe their villains to be absolutely ghastly and horrifying; bloody and abusive, terrorizing and killing. if you have any to recommend, please put them in the comments! i'd love to make this list large!

sci-fi which has had an immeasurable impact on the genre or on the world (or the sci-fi i would include in my college course syllabus).

I'm making a list of authors, the problematic information is very public and easy to find. This list is to inform anyone that doesn't know. The authors are horrible people and I never separated the art from the artist!

Never-ending list that just keeps on growing

lots of gore and/or taboo topics trying to add mostly based off what i’ve read

Books that I think I could make a case for being influenced by one of the fears from The Magnus Archives

books that are about exploring holes, or being stuck inside holes, or — no, not in that way. get your mind out of the gutter — see, now your mind is inside a hole too. everything is holes.