Compelling Surreal Horror books

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Compelling Surreal Horror books - Lemmy.World

Are you in the mood for a delightful fever dream? For a read that leaves you wondering what, exactly, just happened? For something you feel compelled to finish even as the events or characters become less and less real-feeling? If so, the list below includes some of the most compelling and surreal horror novels. They contain end-of-the-world madness, normalized cannibalism, and a haunted house narrative like you’ve never read before! Those not up your alley? How about a trippy drug that opens portals into another realm or a children’s TV show that all but disappeared from anyone’s memory except for the kids who acted on it? Whether you like a full surreal fever dream or something more grounded with some surreal elements, one of these novels will be just right. - Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica - Model Home by Rivers Solomon - Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam - Fragments of Horror by Junji Ito - Negative Space by B.R. Yeager - Mister Magic by Kiersten White

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He disappeared.

Twenty years later, he’s found inside a sealed flat. 🕯️

No entry. No explanation. Just a stain that shouldn’t exist. 🩸

Against the Sky by CJ Hooper opens The 13th Floor, but the thirteenth floor has more than one way of making itself known.

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🖤 Some stories are too dark for romance.
Too tender for horror. T
oo strange for dark fantasy.

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What's the story you've been carrying?
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really enjoyed reading brian evenson's "last days". been doing a #horror specific #book club with friends and this was a little side quest i went on after we read "dark property".

we've been picking from lists online and so far found that a lot of what makes it to #horrorlit lists is more "somewhat spooky" than what we expect from the genre. last days isn't the only book i've enjoyed recently, but it is the only one that really hit the mark horror wise.