#extreme horror books

[rottingbiogirl]

I am so happy right now!!!!!!! 🖤🖤

[naansdeadtired]

hi i go by naan im 18, love horror books especially, splatterpunk and psychological horror. my favorite authors are chandler morrison, edgar allan poe, and kurt vonnegut . I love tim burton movies, gory movies like terrifier 2 , im a college student. I hope to eventually gather the courage to write horror stories let me know if anyone wants to be mutuals.

[bekah-reading]

40/50

5/5

Oh my God! Have I really been sitting on this like all year?! I can’t believe that. I should have read this sooner. I loved Gone to See the River Man, and this is the sequel. So as not to spoil, the first book I won’t talk about characters or the plot.

Kristopher Triana, did an amazing job with this one. I love his writing style. This was very atmospheric, and the details were jarring and graphic. I loved the characters inside this novel, and it was creepy. This is my third Kristopher Triana novel, and for sure I am keeping my eyes out for more from him. I totally need to read his backlist.

[androgynousblackbox]

billy martin (formerly wrote under the name poppy z brite) is probably my favorite extreme horror writer, he has a very romantic writing style so if you're not into that he might not be for you, but he wrote very queer extreme horror in the 90s, so everyone's very goth and edgy. my favorite of his novels is exquisite corpse, about two serial killers who fall in love and decide to kill someone together, their chosen victim, and the victim's hiv+ radio dj ex boyfriend. he also has a few short story collections if you want to get a feel for his writing style before trying a full novel.

Oh, I absolutely ADORE Billy Martin! I devoured everything from him that I could! My favorite book from him is Lost Souls because the story gets more obviously 90s goth and is about vampires, incest and fucked up people.

I also love the way he describes the most disgusting shit imaginable like it was beautiful and soft. I only aspire to ever write something so beautiful and fucked up as his works.

[dontcallmeeds]

Occasionally I read things other than fanfic. Rarely (sort of), but like occasionally. I bought Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca after wanting it for months and having to wait for republication. I consumed (no pun intended yuck) the entire first & main story and I gotta say dude…I really like extreme horror. Does my stummy BURN with anxiety and disgust? Yes. Was it absolutely harrowingly beautiful? Uh, yeah.

[angelawayagain]

Psychic Teenage Bloodbath by Carl John Lee

Ok so I finished this book a day or two ago and I really liked it. It reads like a paranormal slasher. Also, the main characters, and being lesbians was nice too. I kinda had the impression the author doesn't know a lot about how lesbians have sex, but it doesn't matter too much. Both romances in the book are sweet. The book starts small and scales up in a way that feels organic to the story. But the gore is very over the top in some places, which can be comedic. Also I love a booka where some one banana get cut🍌✂️

But one last note it is an extreme horror or splatterpunk, so it has all the hallmarks of those kinds of books. So the uninitiated should do some research first.

[horror-aesthete]

[cara-delaney-author]

I just finished this one today. Holy shit. Goddamn. 10/10, the sledgehammer scene made me fucking SQUIRM.

There's so much in this. It's meta. It's passionate. It feels extremely personal on a level that's difficult to explain. It's joyful and brutal and snarky and clever. It knows what it wants to say and it does so spectacularly.

It's a wonderful book by one of my favourite authors.

Chuck Tingle - BURY YOUR GAYS. Go read it now.

[clonerightsagenda]

Love reading the conclusion of a romance plot and trying to figure out whether the author realizes it's a horror story.

[dayurno]

Do you ever just think about how the headboard on Kevin's bed on the Nest doesn't budge. Of all the hints about what his life there was like that's the one that gets to me the most because it's so deliberate. Because even though he's probably physically stronger than Riko or at least evenly matched, Kevin wouldn't fight back. But he wasn't given the choice to anyway

honestly i think putting neil in kevin’s side of the room is such a telling choice during the castle evermore scenes. we spend so much of the first and second book hearing about how much kevin fears his so-called family, their haunting of the narrative as bloodthirsty hounds who can sniff out his fear, and when we actually get to finding out why that is we see it from someone who was immediately shoved into kevin’s old place. riko wasn’t just hurting neil because he wanted to (“i’m going to enjoy hurting you just as much as i enjoyed hurting kevin”), he was making sure neil knew he was inferior by putting him in direct contact with the roles kevin and jean played in the nest, using him as a substitute for the one that got away. neil gets a speedrun of some of the worst moments of kevin’s life, and he gets not a single breathing moment for it before he has to be shoved back into exy, like kevin was

i wouldn’t dare presume nora sakavic’s intentions on anything at this point, but i like the idea that neil’s stay at evermore was supposed to tell us all we needed to know about kevin’s time there, without kevin ever having to actually recount the years (he wouldn’t, even if he could): that it was horrifying, and that being in his shoes will never be as glamorous as neil previously thought. i like the breaking of neil’s expectations for kevin; i like how it makes neil realize the life kevin led was not better. and that’s the point, isn’t it? when neil is lying in kevin’s bed, handcuffed to kevin’s headboard, his legs pinned under kevin’s only friend, getting hurt by kevin’s brother, that’s what neil realizes: this is not better. it might be different than life on the run, but it is not better.

[daddyd0nt]

I just finished "Fluids" it was really interesting and was another piece of art that I felt like really showed the similarities between trans and cis women and the sisterhood of identifying as a woman but I still would really like to read an extreme horror/splatterpunk by a female-born woman if anybody has recommendations

[rottingbiogirl]

reading “Exquisite Corpse” rn

[crybaby-writings]

the other day in the walmart i saw that they had put the book 'tender is the flesh' by agustina bazterrica in the "romance" (porn, basically) section and a little part of me died, because that is NOT where that goes 😭

[bekah-reading]

74/120

4/5

I wanted an extreme horror and so I went on Kindle and found one. I needed a break from the other book I’m reading Sick Fux, I was crying and I’m on my period so it just made everything worse and just blergh. So I wanted something else.

For something super super short- I was not expecting a warning halfway through this. In fact, I’ve never had a book stop and give a warning page. It certainly was jarring, and not expected.

This was crass, and disgusting. I’ve read some people say that this was a senseless SA and incest filled story. But I also think that was a bit of commentary on those very subjects. But I did find that it wasn’t the most subtle and so every scene was just more akin to a hammer being banged over your head. This was gratuitous in its SA but that is the horror of this story, way more than the gore.

I don’t like reading SA much, but after Hogg a few days ago (or so it feels) I enjoyed this A LOT more than that disgusting filth. Even though it was short (less than 100 pages) this took me all day, I found I just couldn’t get fully immersed and it couldn’t hold my attention for it to be a one sitting type of book.

[nedlittle]

wow dude do you think oscar wilde may have been gay? should we tell the discord? should we inform rupaul?

[paperw0rmz]

“How can you like splatterpunk extreme horror books but shame book tok books?”

Because 99.9% of authors and readers of splatterpunk understand that this is BAD and don’t read it to get off too. When we read about grown man grooming a freshly 18 year old and kidnap them it isn’t because it’s “smut”. It’s because it’s horrifying and scary. But in book tok books the authors and readers read about a grown man grooming a freshly 18 year old and kidnap them is “goals”.

And the scary part of this whole thing is that book tok books about these topics are childish in nature cover wise and are promoted by grown adults to their audience of children. Never EVER will I PUBLICLY recommend a splatter punk novel unless asked about it because I’m aware there are CHILDREN that are online and they should NOT fucking read this stuff.

Literally it’s HARD to find any splatterpunk recommendations unless you go SEARCHING for it. Which is GOOD because it’s extreme and is not for most people. Yet we are recommending abuse to young girls who don’t even know what menstruation means let alone can spell it.