50 Books like The Unworthy

Private Rites

by Julia Armfield

Three sisters reunite for their father's funeral at a glass house on stilts built for sacrifice.

3.58

16k+

🖤 Literary Horror 🌈 Queer Horror 💔 Estranged Sisters 🕯️ Ritual Sacrifice 🔥 Slow-Burn Horror

Private Rites 94%

Three sisters reunite for their father's funeral at a glass house on stilts built for sacrifice.

by Julia Armfield 2024

3.58

16k+ ratings

🖤 Literary Horror 🌈 Queer Horror 💔 Estranged Sisters 🕯️ Ritual Sacrifice 🔥 Slow-Burn Horror

We Call Them Witches

by India-Rose Bower • 2026

The world ended. A girl guards her family with folk magic, but survival steals her soul.

3.36

2k+

🏚️ Folk Horror 💕 Sapphic Romance 🫂 Found Family 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread 🌾 Rural Apocalypse

We Call Them Witches 94%

The world ended. A girl guards her family with folk magic, but survival steals her soul.

by India-Rose Bower 2026

3.36

2k+ ratings

🏚️ Folk Horror 💕 Sapphic Romance 🫂 Found Family 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread 🌾 Rural Apocalypse

Morsel

by Carter Keane • 2026

A work trip strands Lou among Appalachian cultists who keep a starving god in the basement.

3.58

2k+

🫀 Body Horror 🌲 Folk Horror 🕯️ Cult Horror 💼 Corporate Horror 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Protagonist

Morsel 93%

A work trip strands Lou among Appalachian cultists who keep a starving god in the basement.

by Carter Keane 2026

3.58

2k+ ratings

🫀 Body Horror 🌲 Folk Horror 🕯️ Cult Horror 💼 Corporate Horror 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Protagonist

My Darling Dreadful Thing

by Johanna van Veen • 2024

A medium escapes to a widow's decaying estate, where love and the dead both prove insatiable.

3.85

21k+

🖤 Sapphic Gothic 🏚️ Haunted Estate 👻 Spirit Companion 🩸 Toxic Devotion ✍️ Lyrical Horror

My Darling Dreadful Thing 92%

A medium escapes to a widow's decaying estate, where love and the dead both prove insatiable.

by Johanna van Veen 2024

3.85

21k+ ratings

🖤 Sapphic Gothic 🏚️ Haunted Estate 👻 Spirit Companion 🩸 Toxic Devotion ✍️ Lyrical Horror

House of Hunger

by Alexis Henderson • 2022

Marion sells her blood to a northern countess, but the gothic estate hungers for far more.

3.63

25k+

🩸 Sapphic Gothic Horror 🌑 Dark Fairy Tale 💔 Dark Sapphic Romance 🦴 Body Horror 🖤 Sensual Horror

House of Hunger 92%

Marion sells her blood to a northern countess, but the gothic estate hungers for far more.

by Alexis Henderson 2022

3.63

25k+ ratings

🩸 Sapphic Gothic Horror 🌑 Dark Fairy Tale 💔 Dark Sapphic Romance 🦴 Body Horror 🖤 Sensual Horror

Smothermoss

by Alisa Alering • 2024

Two sisters draw monsters for protection while a killer stalks their Appalachian mountain.

3.43

5k+

🏔️ Appalachian Gothic 🌲 Folk Horror 👭 Sisters In Peril 👾 Monsters Come Alive 💜 Queer Awakening

Smothermoss 92%

Two sisters draw monsters for protection while a killer stalks their Appalachian mountain.

by Alisa Alering 2024

3.43

5k+ ratings

🏔️ Appalachian Gothic 🌲 Folk Horror 👭 Sisters In Peril 👾 Monsters Come Alive 💜 Queer Awakening

Gideon the Ninth

by Tamsyn Muir • 2019

A rebel swordswoman and her necromancer nemesis face a murderous trial in a haunted space palace.

4.18

188k+

🔥 Enemies To Lovers 🏚️ Gothic Mansion 🔍 Locked-Room Mystery 💀 Bone Magic 🖤 Dark Humor

Gideon the Ninth 92%

A rebel swordswoman and her necromancer nemesis face a murderous trial in a haunted space palace.

by Tamsyn Muir 2019

4.18

188k+ ratings

🔥 Enemies To Lovers 🏚️ Gothic Mansion 🔍 Locked-Room Mystery 💀 Bone Magic 🖤 Dark Humor

A Botanical Daughter

by Noah Medlock • 2024

Two Victorian recluses build a daughter from a stolen corpse and sentient fungus; she wants out.

3.58

7k+

🖤 Queer Gothic 🌿 Botanical Horror 🏠 Found Family 💕 Sapphic Romance 🧪 Mad Scientist

A Botanical Daughter 92%

Two Victorian recluses build a daughter from a stolen corpse and sentient fungus; she wants out.

by Noah Medlock 2024

3.58

7k+ ratings

🖤 Queer Gothic 🌿 Botanical Horror 🏠 Found Family 💕 Sapphic Romance 🧪 Mad Scientist

Letters from the Dead

by Isabella Valeri • 2025

An heiress must hide her family's murderous past or lose the woman she loves.

3.26

325

🏰 Gothic Family Saga 💔 Forbidden Sapphic Love 👑 Dysfunctional Dynasty 🏫 Boarding School 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread

Letters from the Dead 92%

An heiress must hide her family's murderous past or lose the woman she loves.

by Isabella Valeri 2025

3.26

325 ratings

🏰 Gothic Family Saga 💔 Forbidden Sapphic Love 👑 Dysfunctional Dynasty 🏫 Boarding School 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread

Wilder Girls

by Rory Power • 2019

A quarantined school mutates its girls. When a friend vanishes, a survivor digs for answers.

3.45

101k+

🩸 Body Horror 🚫 Quarantine Horror 💘 Sapphic Slow Burn 🏝️ Isolated Island 🃏 Adult Betrayal

Wilder Girls 93%

A quarantined school mutates its girls. When a friend vanishes, a survivor digs for answers.

by Rory Power 2019

3.45

101k+ ratings

🩸 Body Horror 🚫 Quarantine Horror 💘 Sapphic Slow Burn 🏝️ Isolated Island 🃏 Adult Betrayal

Itch!

by Gemma Amor • 2025

An ant infestation after finding a corpse forces her to confront her family's secrets and a ritual.

3.71

3k+

🌾 Folk Horror 🤢 Body Horror 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Sapphic Horror 🔥 Feminine Rage 🔄 Unreliable Narrator

Itch! 93%

An ant infestation after finding a corpse forces her to confront her family's secrets and a ritual.

by Gemma Amor 2025

3.71

3k+ ratings

🌾 Folk Horror 🤢 Body Horror 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Sapphic Horror 🔥 Feminine Rage 🔄 Unreliable Narrator

The Rotting Room

by Viggy Parr Hampton

A young nun at a remote abbey discovers the Sisters sell the dead as bottled grace.

3.39

2k+

🛐 Religious Horror 👹 Demonic Possession ⛪ Corrupt Clergy 🔥 Gaslighting 🩸 Female Body Horror

The Rotting Room 92%

A young nun at a remote abbey discovers the Sisters sell the dead as bottled grace.

by Viggy Parr Hampton 2025

3.39

2k+ ratings

🛐 Religious Horror 👹 Demonic Possession ⛪ Corrupt Clergy 🔥 Gaslighting 🩸 Female Body Horror

Black Flame

by Gretchen Felker-Martin • 2025

Restoring a cursed Nazi film, a queer archivist discovers the footage wants to inhabit her.

3.54

4k+

🎞️ Cursed Film Horror 🩸 Queer Body Horror 📼 Archival Horror 💀 Nazi Occult 📖 Literary Horror

Black Flame 92%

Restoring a cursed Nazi film, a queer archivist discovers the footage wants to inhabit her.

by Gretchen Felker-Martin 2025

3.54

4k+ ratings

🎞️ Cursed Film Horror 🩸 Queer Body Horror 📼 Archival Horror 💀 Nazi Occult 📖 Literary Horror

Season of Fear

by Emily Cooper • 2025

A girl born fearless threatens an ancient bargain: her village's safety, paid for in women's terror.

4.03

740

🏚️ Folk Horror 🌲 Dark Fairy Tale 🌳 Forbidden Forest 🔥 Sapphic Slow Burn 💕 Found Family

Season of Fear 92%

A girl born fearless threatens an ancient bargain: her village's safety, paid for in women's terror.

by Emily Cooper 2025

4.03

740 ratings

🏚️ Folk Horror 🌲 Dark Fairy Tale 🌳 Forbidden Forest 🔥 Sapphic Slow Burn 💕 Found Family

Inspection

by Josh Malerman • 2019

Raised in isolation, twenty-four boys have never heard the word girl. Then one appears.

3.48

9k+

🧠 Psychological Horror 🔬 Dystopian Experiment 📖 Forbidden Knowledge 🏫 Childhood Indoctrination 🔒 Cult-Like Control

Inspection 92%

Raised in isolation, twenty-four boys have never heard the word girl. Then one appears.

by Josh Malerman 2019

3.48

9k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Horror 🔬 Dystopian Experiment 📖 Forbidden Knowledge 🏫 Childhood Indoctrination 🔒 Cult-Like Control

Such a Pretty Smile

by Kristi DeMeester • 2022

A classmate's murder awakens an ancient hunger in Lila. Her mother has felt that hunger before.

3.34

6k+

🖤 Literary Horror 🌿 Southern Gothic 🩸 Generational Trauma 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond 🔥 Female Rage

Such a Pretty Smile 91%

A classmate's murder awakens an ancient hunger in Lila. Her mother has felt that hunger before.

by Kristi DeMeester 2022

3.34

6k+ ratings

🖤 Literary Horror 🌿 Southern Gothic 🩸 Generational Trauma 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond 🔥 Female Rage

Girl in the Creek

by Wendy N. Wagner • 2025

In Faraday, women vanish. A travel writer hunts for her missing brother in the hungry woods.

3.20

2k+

🍄 Fungal Horror 🌱 Eco Horror 🔍 Missing Women 🫂 Found Family 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Romance

Girl in the Creek 91%

In Faraday, women vanish. A travel writer hunts for her missing brother in the hungry woods.

by Wendy N. Wagner 2025

3.20

2k+ ratings

🍄 Fungal Horror 🌱 Eco Horror 🔍 Missing Women 🫂 Found Family 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Romance

Bone of My Bone

by Johanna van Veen • 2026

Bavaria, 1635: a peasant and a nun flee war with a wish-granting skull. The dead pursue.

3.79

2k+

🐐 Folk Horror 🖤 Sapphic Horror 😈 Deal With The Devil 🏚️ Gothic Horror ⚔️ Thirty Years War

Bone of My Bone 91%

Bavaria, 1635: a peasant and a nun flee war with a wish-granting skull. The dead pursue.

by Johanna van Veen 2026

3.79

2k+ ratings

🐐 Folk Horror 🖤 Sapphic Horror 😈 Deal With The Devil 🏚️ Gothic Horror ⚔️ Thirty Years War

The Lamb

by Lucy Rose

Her cannibal mother found love. Now Margot is the dinner they plan to share.

3.75

51k+

🍖 Cannibal Horror 🖤 Toxic Mother Daughter 💋 Sapphic Horror 🌾 Rural Gothic 🦴 Body Horror

The Lamb 92%

Her cannibal mother found love. Now Margot is the dinner they plan to share.

by Lucy Rose 2025

3.75

51k+ ratings

🍖 Cannibal Horror 🖤 Toxic Mother Daughter 💋 Sapphic Horror 🌾 Rural Gothic 🦴 Body Horror

Jawbone

by Mónica Ojeda • 2022

A teacher kidnaps a girl. Her best friend's invented god already demands blood.

3.66

16k+

🏛️ Dark Academia 🖥️ Creepypasta Horror 💔 Toxic Female Friendship 💋 Sapphic Obsession 👩‍👧 Maternal Horror

Jawbone 93%

A teacher kidnaps a girl. Her best friend's invented god already demands blood.

by Mónica Ojeda 2022

3.66

16k+ ratings

🏛️ Dark Academia 🖥️ Creepypasta Horror 💔 Toxic Female Friendship 💋 Sapphic Obsession 👩‍👧 Maternal Horror

Our Wives Under the Sea

by Julia Armfield • 2022

Her wife made it back from the ocean floor, but something else surfaced with her.

3.68

134k+

🖤 Literary Horror 🦴 Body Horror 💧 Grief As Horror 💔 Doomed Lovers 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread

Our Wives Under the Sea 92%

Her wife made it back from the ocean floor, but something else surfaced with her.

by Julia Armfield 2022

3.68

134k+ ratings

🖤 Literary Horror 🦴 Body Horror 💧 Grief As Horror 💔 Doomed Lovers 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread

What Moves the Dead

by T. Kingfisher • 2022

A soldier returns to a decaying manor: her friends are dying, and the lake is learning.

3.84

146k+

🍄 Fungal Body Horror 🏚️ Crumbling Gothic Manor 📜 Poe Retelling 🏳️‍⚧️ Non-Binary Protagonist 🔬 Amateur Investigation

What Moves the Dead 91%

A soldier returns to a decaying manor: her friends are dying, and the lake is learning.

by T. Kingfisher 2022

3.84

146k+ ratings

🍄 Fungal Body Horror 🏚️ Crumbling Gothic Manor 📜 Poe Retelling 🏳️‍⚧️ Non-Binary Protagonist 🔬 Amateur Investigation

Hide

by Kiersten White • 2022

Fourteen strangers play hide-and-seek in a derelict amusement park. The park is the seeker.

3.31

44k+

🎮 Death Game 🐺 Creature Horror 🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Horror 💕 Found Family 🔮 Generational Curse

Hide 91%

Fourteen strangers play hide-and-seek in a derelict amusement park. The park is the seeker.

by Kiersten White 2022

3.31

44k+ ratings

🎮 Death Game 🐺 Creature Horror 🏳️‍🌈 Sapphic Horror 💕 Found Family 🔮 Generational Curse

Where Echoes Die

by Courtney Gould • 2023

A grieving sister traces her mother's obsession to a desert town whose miracle cure devours memory.

3.57

2k+

🧠 Psychological Horror 🏘️ Eerie Small Town 💔 Grieving Sisters 🧩 Erased Memories 🔥 Sapphic Romance

Where Echoes Die 91%

A grieving sister traces her mother's obsession to a desert town whose miracle cure devours memory.

by Courtney Gould 2023

3.57

2k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Horror 🏘️ Eerie Small Town 💔 Grieving Sisters 🧩 Erased Memories 🔥 Sapphic Romance

The Knight and the Butcherbird

by Alix E. Harrow • 2025

Her wife became a demon to survive. Now a scarred knight has come to kill her.

3.99

13k+

🩸 Body Horror Fantasy 💔 Monstrous Lover 🏹 Lost Wife Quest 🌿 Rural Apocalypse 🦴 Monstrous Transformation

The Knight and the Butcherbird 91%

Her wife became a demon to survive. Now a scarred knight has come to kill her.

by Alix E. Harrow 2025

3.99

13k+ ratings

🩸 Body Horror Fantasy 💔 Monstrous Lover 🏹 Lost Wife Quest 🌿 Rural Apocalypse 🦴 Monstrous Transformation

Lost in the Garden

by Adam S. Leslie • 2024

The dead walk a scorched English village. When her friend vanishes into Almanby, Heather follows.

3.50

4k+

🏚️ Folk Horror 🌀 Surreal Horror 💔 Sapphic Longing 🌿 Feral Youth 🕯️ Quiet Dread

Lost in the Garden 91%

The dead walk a scorched English village. When her friend vanishes into Almanby, Heather follows.

by Adam S. Leslie 2024

3.50

4k+ ratings

🏚️ Folk Horror 🌀 Surreal Horror 💔 Sapphic Longing 🌿 Feral Youth 🕯️ Quiet Dread

Lucky Day

by Chuck Tingle • 2025

On the day probability collapsed, fish rained from the sky. The cosmic wound never healed.

3.80

13k+

🕳️ Cosmic Horror 🐒 Absurdist Horror 🖤 Queer Horror 👩‍👧 Mother Wound 🌑 Existential Dread

Lucky Day 91%

On the day probability collapsed, fish rained from the sky. The cosmic wound never healed.

by Chuck Tingle 2025

3.80

13k+ ratings

🕳️ Cosmic Horror 🐒 Absurdist Horror 🖤 Queer Horror 👩‍👧 Mother Wound 🌑 Existential Dread

Immaculate Conception

by Ling Ling Huang • 2025

A scholarship student's obsession with a genius classmate turns monstrous inside a shared mind.

3.89

13k+

🎨 Art World Horror 📚 Literary Dystopia 🖤 Toxic Female Friendship 🖼️ Artist And Muse 💰 Class Divide

Immaculate Conception 92%

A scholarship student's obsession with a genius classmate turns monstrous inside a shared mind.

by Ling Ling Huang 2025

3.89

13k+ ratings

🎨 Art World Horror 📚 Literary Dystopia 🖤 Toxic Female Friendship 🖼️ Artist And Muse 💰 Class Divide

The Library at Hellebore

by Cassandra Khaw • 2025

A magic school devours its students. Locked in the library, survivors learn only one leaves alive.

3.07

7k+

📚 Dark Academia 🩸 Body Horror 🫂 Found Family 💔 Sapphic Longing 🕯️ Gothic Dread

The Library at Hellebore 92%

A magic school devours its students. Locked in the library, survivors learn only one leaves alive.

by Cassandra Khaw 2025

3.07

7k+ ratings

📚 Dark Academia 🩸 Body Horror 🫂 Found Family 💔 Sapphic Longing 🕯️ Gothic Dread

The Starving Saints

by Caitlin Starling

A starving castle. Four saints with impossible bounty. The feast consumes its faithful from within.

3.58

23k+

🏰 Medieval Horror 🦴 Body Horror ⛪ Religious Horror 🖤 Queer Horror 🏚️ Besieged Castle

The Starving Saints 92%

A starving castle. Four saints with impossible bounty. The feast consumes its faithful from within.

by Caitlin Starling 2025

3.58

23k+ ratings

🏰 Medieval Horror 🦴 Body Horror ⛪ Religious Horror 🖤 Queer Horror 🏚️ Besieged Castle

The Honeys

by Ryan La Sala • 2022

When his twin attacks him and dies, Mars infiltrates the camp clique that claimed her.

3.79

21k+

🏕️ Camp Horror 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Horror ✨ Genderfluid Lead 💔 Twin Grief 🐝 Secretive Clique

The Honeys 91%

When his twin attacks him and dies, Mars infiltrates the camp clique that claimed her.

by Ryan La Sala 2022

3.79

21k+ ratings

🏕️ Camp Horror 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Horror ✨ Genderfluid Lead 💔 Twin Grief 🐝 Secretive Clique

Blood on Her Tongue

by Johanna van Veen • 2025

A desperate letter summons her to a remote estate where a bog body stirs a hunger.

3.79

21k+

📜 Epistolary Horror 👯 Twin Horror 🧬 Changeling Myth 🩸 Body Horror 🌿 Bog Setting

Blood on Her Tongue 91%

A desperate letter summons her to a remote estate where a bog body stirs a hunger.

by Johanna van Veen 2025

3.79

21k+ ratings

📜 Epistolary Horror 👯 Twin Horror 🧬 Changeling Myth 🩸 Body Horror 🌿 Bog Setting

Moon of the Crusted Snow

by Waubgeshig Rice • 2018

The power fails in a remote Anishinaabe community. A stranger arrives. The cities have fallen.

3.82

46k+

🖤 Literary Horror 🌾 Indigenous Futurism 😈 Charismatic Outsider 📉 Slow Burn Collapse ❄️ Atmospheric Winter

Moon of the Crusted Snow 91%

The power fails in a remote Anishinaabe community. A stranger arrives. The cities have fallen.

by Waubgeshig Rice 2018

3.82

46k+ ratings

🖤 Literary Horror 🌾 Indigenous Futurism 😈 Charismatic Outsider 📉 Slow Burn Collapse ❄️ Atmospheric Winter

Sick Bastards

by Matt Shaw • 2014

A memoryless family cannibalizes strangers to survive, until one learns the apocalypse was faked.

3.54

4k+

💀 Extreme Horror 🥩 Cannibalism Horror 🩸 Body Horror 🖤 Incestuous Family 🧪 Government Experiment

Sick Bastards 91%

A memoryless family cannibalizes strangers to survive, until one learns the apocalypse was faked.

by Matt Shaw 2014

3.54

4k+ ratings

💀 Extreme Horror 🥩 Cannibalism Horror 🩸 Body Horror 🖤 Incestuous Family 🧪 Government Experiment

Borne

by Jeff Vandermeer • 2017

A scavenger raises a biotech creature in a ruined city: her child, and a weapon.

3.93

42k+

🧬 Biotech Apocalypse 🌿 Weird Ecology 👩‍👧 Reluctant Motherhood 👾 Monster As Child 🧠 Unreliable Memory

Borne 91%

A scavenger raises a biotech creature in a ruined city: her child, and a weapon.

by Jeff Vandermeer 2017

3.93

42k+ ratings

🧬 Biotech Apocalypse 🌿 Weird Ecology 👩‍👧 Reluctant Motherhood 👾 Monster As Child 🧠 Unreliable Memory

The Ghost Woods

by C.J. Cooke • 2022

A decaying Scottish manor hides unwed mothers and a curse of living rot that consumes them all.

3.91

9k+

🏚️ Folk Horror 🏰 Gothic Manor 🍄 Fungal Body Horror 👥 Found Family 🌈 Queer Love Story

The Ghost Woods 91%

A decaying Scottish manor hides unwed mothers and a curse of living rot that consumes them all.

by C.J. Cooke 2022

3.91

9k+ ratings

🏚️ Folk Horror 🏰 Gothic Manor 🍄 Fungal Body Horror 👥 Found Family 🌈 Queer Love Story

Dark Is When the Devil Comes

by Daisy Pearce

A rural farmhouse. A locked cellar. And the parasitic twin she thought surgeons removed decades ago.

3.67

2k+

🍄 Fungal Horror 💀 Body Horror 👭 Estranged Sisters 🔒 Captivity Horror 🩸 Folk Horror

Dark Is When the Devil Comes 91%

A rural farmhouse. A locked cellar. And the parasitic twin she thought surgeons removed decades ago.

by Daisy Pearce 2026

3.67

2k+ ratings

🍄 Fungal Horror 💀 Body Horror 👭 Estranged Sisters 🔒 Captivity Horror 🩸 Folk Horror

Fable for the End of the World

by Ava Reid • 2025

A teenage taxidermist, chosen as prey for a televised hunt, discovers her killer is as trapped.

3.66

15k+

🎯 Televised Death Match 🏢 Corporate Dystopia 💘 Enemies To Lovers 🌈 Forbidden Queer Love 🧠 Erased Memories

Fable for the End of the World 92%

A teenage taxidermist, chosen as prey for a televised hunt, discovers her killer is as trapped.

by Ava Reid 2025

3.66

15k+ ratings

🎯 Televised Death Match 🏢 Corporate Dystopia 💘 Enemies To Lovers 🌈 Forbidden Queer Love 🧠 Erased Memories

We Are Always Tender With Our Dead

by Eric LaRocca • 2025

After a massacre a boy patrols unburied corpses in a town where grief becomes ritual

3.30

2k+

🖋️ Literary Horror 🐦‍⬛ Cursed Town 🩸 Body Horror 🌈 Queer Horror 🔪 Small Town Cruelty

We Are Always Tender With Our Dead Summary

We Are Always Tender With Our Dead 92%

After a massacre a boy patrols unburied corpses in a town where grief becomes ritual

by Eric LaRocca 2025

3.30

2k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Horror 🐦‍⬛ Cursed Town 🩸 Body Horror 🌈 Queer Horror 🔪 Small Town Cruelty

Oryx and Crake

by Margaret Atwood • 2003

A plague ends the world, and one man must guard the flawless new humans his friend made.

4.00

290k+

🧬 Genetic Engineering 🧪 Mad Scientist 🫀 Engineered Humans 🛡️ Reluctant Guardian 🏢 Corporate Dystopia

Oryx and Crake 91%

A plague ends the world, and one man must guard the flawless new humans his friend made.

by Margaret Atwood 2003

4.00

290k+ ratings

🧬 Genetic Engineering 🧪 Mad Scientist 🫀 Engineered Humans 🛡️ Reluctant Guardian 🏢 Corporate Dystopia

Parable of the Sower

by Octavia E. Butler • 1993

An empathic teen invents a faith of change and leads a band through a scorched California.

4.19

274k+

🌍 Afrofuturism 🌡️ Climate Dystopia 🫂 Found Family 🧭 Survival Journey 🤔 Philosophical Sf

Parable of the Sower 91%

An empathic teen invents a faith of change and leads a band through a scorched California.

by Octavia E. Butler 1993

4.19

274k+ ratings

🌍 Afrofuturism 🌡️ Climate Dystopia 🫂 Found Family 🧭 Survival Journey 🤔 Philosophical Sf

Olor a hormiga

by Júlia Peró • 2024

An elderly recluse, her talking cat, and the young caregiver who proves desire outlives dignity.

3.86

3k+

🖋️ Literary Horror 🦴 Body Horror 🐱 Talking Cat 🤥 Unreliable Narrator 💔 Age Gap Relationship

Olor a hormiga 91%

An elderly recluse, her talking cat, and the young caregiver who proves desire outlives dignity.

by Júlia Peró 2024

3.86

3k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Horror 🦴 Body Horror 🐱 Talking Cat 🤥 Unreliable Narrator 💔 Age Gap Relationship

Ripe

by Sarah Rose Etter • 2023

Her only constant is a black hole. At a Silicon Valley startup, it begins to feed.

3.58

34k+

🖥️ Tech Dystopia 🏢 Corporate Alienation 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Trauma 🩺 Bodily Autonomy 💼 Toxic Workplace

Ripe 91%

Her only constant is a black hole. At a Silicon Valley startup, it begins to feed.

by Sarah Rose Etter 2023

3.58

34k+ ratings

🖥️ Tech Dystopia 🏢 Corporate Alienation 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Trauma 🩺 Bodily Autonomy 💼 Toxic Workplace

Eat the Ones You Love

by Sarah Maria Griffin • 2025

Broke and heartbroken, Shell takes a florist job in a dying mall where something sentient hungers.

3.46

8k+

🪴 Botanical Horror 🫀 Body Horror 🖤 Queer Horror 🌿 Sentient Plant 💔 Toxic Sapphic Love

Eat the Ones You Love 92%

Broke and heartbroken, Shell takes a florist job in a dying mall where something sentient hungers.

by Sarah Maria Griffin 2025

3.46

8k+ ratings

🪴 Botanical Horror 🫀 Body Horror 🖤 Queer Horror 🌿 Sentient Plant 💔 Toxic Sapphic Love

At Dark, I Become Loathsome

by Eric LaRocca • 2025

After his son vanished, he started burying strangers alive. His last client knows what happened.

3.20

5k+

🪦 Grief Horror 🩸 Transgressive Horror 🦴 Queer Body Horror 🪞 Self-Loathing Narrator 🔩 Body Modification

At Dark, I Become Loathsome 92%

After his son vanished, he started burying strangers alive. His last client knows what happened.

by Eric LaRocca 2025

3.20

5k+ ratings

🪦 Grief Horror 🩸 Transgressive Horror 🦴 Queer Body Horror 🪞 Self-Loathing Narrator 🔩 Body Modification

The Bewitching

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

A grad student researching a forgotten horror writer wakes a witch, and she's the next course.

3.81

46k+

🕯️ Academic Gothic 🌲 Folk Horror 💔 Saphic Yearning 📜 Found Manuscript 🔮 Generational Curse

The Bewitching 91%

A grad student researching a forgotten horror writer wakes a witch, and she's the next course.

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2025

3.81

46k+ ratings

🕯️ Academic Gothic 🌲 Folk Horror 💔 Saphic Yearning 📜 Found Manuscript 🔮 Generational Curse

The Temptation of Charlotte North

by Camilla Bruce • 2026

A willful girl on a remote island embraces a dark spirit, trading obedience for power.

3.57

267

🖤 Feminist Horror 🌊 Gothic Seaside 🔥 Female Rage 💔 Forbidden Desire 👻 Demonic Possession

The Temptation of Charlotte North Summary

The Temptation of Charlotte North 91%

A willful girl on a remote island embraces a dark spirit, trading obedience for power.

by Camilla Bruce 2026

3.57

267 ratings

🖤 Feminist Horror 🌊 Gothic Seaside 🔥 Female Rage 💔 Forbidden Desire 👻 Demonic Possession

Withered Hill

by David Barnett • 2024

A London woman wakes trapped in a village of masks, old rites, and no way back.

4.04

4k+

🐗 Folk Horror 🪞 DoppelgäNger 🌿 Nature's Revenge 🖤 Sapphic Horror 😰 Slow Dread

Withered Hill 91%

A London woman wakes trapped in a village of masks, old rites, and no way back.

by David Barnett 2024

4.04

4k+ ratings

🐗 Folk Horror 🪞 DoppelgäNger 🌿 Nature's Revenge 🖤 Sapphic Horror 😰 Slow Dread

The Writing Retreat

by Julia Bartz • 2023

An exclusive writing retreat in a remote mansion becomes a paranoid, drug-fueled fight for survival.

3.41

76k+

✒️ Writing Retreat 👁️ Toxic Mentorship 📜 Stolen Manuscript ⚔️ Sapphic Rivalry 🩸 Survival Horror

The Writing Retreat 91%

An exclusive writing retreat in a remote mansion becomes a paranoid, drug-fueled fight for survival.

by Julia Bartz 2023

3.41

76k+ ratings

✒️ Writing Retreat 👁️ Toxic Mentorship 📜 Stolen Manuscript ⚔️ Sapphic Rivalry 🩸 Survival Horror

Someone You Can Build a Nest In

by John Wiswell • 2024

A flesh-eating shapeshifter falls in love with the daughter of the hunters who want her dead.

3.86

24k+

👹 Monster Romance 🫀 Body Horror 💕 Sapphic Love Story 🏠 Found Family 💔 Generational Trauma

Someone You Can Build a Nest In 91%

A flesh-eating shapeshifter falls in love with the daughter of the hunters who want her dead.

by John Wiswell 2024

3.86

24k+ ratings

👹 Monster Romance 🫀 Body Horror 💕 Sapphic Love Story 🏠 Found Family 💔 Generational Trauma

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