Recs if you like Gyo...

forced into unending sleep or perilous insomnia, repeating tedious daily routines until your body rots, watching as your skin starts to glow or your hands sprout scales - these novels feature illnesses that are far from typical

if you enjoyed / find yourself enjoying my strange plagues quest, you’ll find even more suggestions for further reading within the niche here!!!

includes contemporary fiction, scifi, horror, speculative fiction and nonfiction

what are these characters becoming? who is to say! these are different works across fiction in which the main character, or a large subset of characters, go through a physical transformation(s) of some sort.

Stephen King is overrated, read these horror books instead.

💬OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS. Just comment and I will add.

A comprehensive list of Junji Ito collections and works. I know I've needed them all in one place for so long so this is in case other do as well.

Little list of horror literature focused on books set in/on/near the ocean or any other body of water 🌊

(This list includes only books I have read so far; will update from time to time 😊)

Surreal stories for a bizarre summer

books featured on the podcast Shelved By Genre

"I want to know about elfs. I want to know about dwarves. I want to know about: wizards. I want to know about: goblins. I want to know about: cyberpunks. I want to know about: rampant AI. I want to know about: Master Chief. I want to know about: gay wizards. Okay? Like that’s what I want to know about." - Cameron Kunzelman

Not a single page of these books was nice to my stomach or psyche.