body horror as a metaphor for autonomy, mental health & identity
created by robynnn
last updated August, 2026
Lapvona
Ottessa Moshfegh
Womb City
Tlotlo Tsamaase
Natural Beauty
Ling Ling Huang
Skin
Kathe Koja
Hell Followed With Us
Andrew Joseph White
You Weren't Meant to Be Human
Salt Slow
Julia Armfield
Nightbitch
Rachel Yoder
The Handmaid’s Tale
Margaret Atwood
When She Woke
Hillary Jordan
Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica
The Island of Dr. Moreau
H.G. Wells
Cursed Bunny
Bora Chung
Parasyte, Volume 1
Hitoshi Iwaaki
Secret Rendezvous
Kōbō Abe
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
Harlan Ellison
Sisyphean
Dempow Torishima
In the Miso Soup
Ryū Murakami
Tomie
Junji Ito
Our Wives Under the Sea
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
Uzumaki
Earthlings
Sayaka Murata
The Vegetarian
Han Kang
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Rosemary's Baby
Ira Levin
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
'You weren't meant to be human' and 'Hell followed with us' both by Andrew Joseph White fits here
Added! Thanks for the recs!!
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