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!!!

Sometimes we need a little bit more out of horror books. What’s better than adding creepy art?! From ghosts and monsters to serial killers and slow descents into madness, this is a list of graphic novels that delve into the dark. Some are stand-alones and some are part of a series, I’ve only included the first of these to save my sanity (and space). Recommendations encouraged Please no Marvel or DC

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.

deep dark old woods -- weird small towns -- ancient gods -- horrors beyond comprehension -- A Welcome to Elderfield inspired list

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.

Stephen King is overrated, read these horror books instead.

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

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 😊)

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

Surreal stories for a bizarre summer

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