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Her Body and Other Parties

by Carmen Maria Machado • 2017

Eight stories where misogyny is body horror: women fade, split, and haunt the lives they lost.

3.80

100k+

🫀 Body Horror ✂️ Feminist Horror 🏠 Queer Domesticity ✊ Bodily Autonomy 🧠 Trauma And The Body

Her Body and Other Parties

Eight stories where misogyny is body horror: women fade, split, and haunt the lives they lost.

by Carmen Maria Machado 2017 248 pages

3.80

100k+ ratings

🫀 Body Horror ✂️ Feminist Horror 🏠 Queer Domesticity ✊ Bodily Autonomy 🧠 Trauma And The Body

Remember Me

by Christopher Pike • 1989

Four stories down. Now a ghost. Finding the killer is easy compared to facing her guilt.

4.03

13k+

👻 Teen Ghost Stories 🔍 Paranormal Mystery 💀 Ghost Protagonist ✨ Afterlife Fiction 🕊️ Forgiveness Arc

Remember Me

Four stories down. Now a ghost. Finding the killer is easy compared to facing her guilt.

by Christopher Pike 1989 272 pages

4.03

13k+ ratings

👻 Teen Ghost Stories 🔍 Paranormal Mystery 💀 Ghost Protagonist ✨ Afterlife Fiction 🕊️ Forgiveness Arc

The William Hope Hodgson Megapack

by William Hope Hodgson • 2014

Before Lovecraft, one writer filled the sea with cosmic terrors and the dark with ritual wards.

4.18

🌌 Cosmic Horror 🌊 Maritime Horror 👁️ Weird Fiction 🌀 Dimensional Rifts 🧫 Biological Horror

The William Hope Hodgson Megapack

Before Lovecraft, one writer filled the sea with cosmic terrors and the dark with ritual wards.

by William Hope Hodgson 2014 917 pages

4.18

72 ratings

🌌 Cosmic Horror 🌊 Maritime Horror 👁️ Weird Fiction 🌀 Dimensional Rifts 🧫 Biological Horror

The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane

by Robert E. Howard • 2004

A Puritan avenger hunts tyrants and monsters across a world where courage is a literal weapon.

4.04

6k+

🗡️ Sword And Sorcery 🌑 Dark Fantasy 📜 Pulp Fantasy 🦇 Gothic Horror 🧟 Occult Detective

The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane

A Puritan avenger hunts tyrants and monsters across a world where courage is a literal weapon.

by Robert E. Howard 2004 414 pages

4.04

6k+ ratings

🗡️ Sword And Sorcery 🌑 Dark Fantasy 📜 Pulp Fantasy 🦇 Gothic Horror 🧟 Occult Detective

Our Hideous Progeny

by C.E. McGill • 2023

Frankenstein's great-niece stitches life from fossils, but rivals will kill to steal her creation.

3.90

9k+

🧟 Frankenstein Retelling 🔬 Victorian Women In Science ⚡ Scientific Hubris 🦴 Monstrous Creation 🏠 Found Family

Our Hideous Progeny

Frankenstein's great-niece stitches life from fossils, but rivals will kill to steal her creation.

by C.E. McGill 2023 400 pages

3.90

9k+ ratings

🧟 Frankenstein Retelling 🔬 Victorian Women In Science ⚡ Scientific Hubris 🦴 Monstrous Creation 🏠 Found Family

The House on Sunflower Lane

by Gwenna McAllis • 2026

A mother moves into a farmhouse where every family before hers has lost a daughter.

4.29

335

🌀 Generational Curse 🏚️ Southern Gothic 👧 Child Sees Ghosts 🏠 House As Predator 🕯️ Folk Magic Cleansing

The House on Sunflower Lane

A mother moves into a farmhouse where every family before hers has lost a daughter.

by Gwenna McAllis 2026 435 pages

4.29

335 ratings

🌀 Generational Curse 🏚️ Southern Gothic 👧 Child Sees Ghosts 🏠 House As Predator 🕯️ Folk Magic Cleansing

Happy Hour in Hell

by Tad Williams • 2013

An angel descends into Hell to rescue his demon lover from a Grand Duke's clutches.

3.68

4k+

🕵️ Angel Noir 🏢 Hell Bureaucracy 💔 Forbidden Love 🔥 Journey Through Hell 🔍 Supernatural Detective

Happy Hour in Hell

An angel descends into Hell to rescue his demon lover from a Grand Duke's clutches.

by Tad Williams 2013 400 pages

3.68

4k+ ratings

🕵️ Angel Noir 🏢 Hell Bureaucracy 💔 Forbidden Love 🔥 Journey Through Hell 🔍 Supernatural Detective

Home Before Dark

by Riley Sager • 2020

A renovator inherits her father's notorious house and learns what his ghost story really covered up.

4.04

300k+

🏚️ Haunted House Mystery 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🏰 Gothic Mansion 🔀 Twist Ending 🏘️ Small Town Secrets

Home Before Dark

A renovator inherits her father's notorious house and learns what his ghost story really covered up.

by Riley Sager 2020

4.04

300k+ ratings

🏚️ Haunted House Mystery 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🏰 Gothic Mansion 🔀 Twist Ending 🏘️ Small Town Secrets

Spring Harvest

by Rektok Ross • 2024

A college road trip ends in a vampire siege at a remote Oregon music festival.

3.58

1k+

🩸 Survival Horror 🧛 Vampire Siege 💕 Vampire Romance 🏘️ Small Town Horror 👑 Reluctant Leader

Spring Harvest

A college road trip ends in a vampire siege at a remote Oregon music festival.

by Rektok Ross 2024 328 pages

3.58

1k+ ratings

🩸 Survival Horror 🧛 Vampire Siege 💕 Vampire Romance 🏘️ Small Town Horror 👑 Reluctant Leader

Pew

by Catherine Lacey • 2020

A silent stranger tests a Southern town's charity as its forgiveness ritual looms.

3.69

13k+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🤐 Silent Protagonist 🎭 Ambiguous Identity 🌫️ Quiet Dread 📖 Literary Parable

Pew

A silent stranger tests a Southern town's charity as its forgiveness ritual looms.

by Catherine Lacey 2020 224 pages

3.69

13k+ ratings

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🤐 Silent Protagonist 🎭 Ambiguous Identity 🌫️ Quiet Dread 📖 Literary Parable

The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1 by Howard, Robert E.. (Del Rey,2007) [Paperback]

by Robert E. Howard • 2007

Cimmerian steel, cosmic dread, and frontier comedy: the essential Howard collected in one volume.

4.23

500+

🗡️ Sword And Sorcery 🌌 Cosmic Horror 🐙 Lovecraftian 📖 Pulp Adventure 👻 Ancient Evils

The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1 by Howard, Robert E.. (Del Rey,2007) [Paperback]

Cimmerian steel, cosmic dread, and frontier comedy: the essential Howard collected in one volume.

by Robert E. Howard 2007

4.23

500+ ratings

🗡️ Sword And Sorcery 🌌 Cosmic Horror 🐙 Lovecraftian 📖 Pulp Adventure 👻 Ancient Evils

Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch

by Codie Crowley • 2024

A murdered teen claws from a river into a mansion where ghosts know who killed her.

3.65

8k+

👻 Ghost Revenge Story 🫂 Ghostly Found Family 🔥 Feminist Rage 🏔️ Small Town Secrets 🖤 Darkly Humorous

Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch

A murdered teen claws from a river into a mansion where ghosts know who killed her.

by Codie Crowley 2024 304 pages

3.65

8k+ ratings

👻 Ghost Revenge Story 🫂 Ghostly Found Family 🔥 Feminist Rage 🏔️ Small Town Secrets 🖤 Darkly Humorous

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski • 2000

A photojournalist's home defies physics: inside, an impossible dark labyrinth grows and shifts.

4.09

200k+

🗞️ Found Manuscript 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🏚️ Shifting Labyrinth 🏠 Cursed House 💀 Doomed Explorers

House of Leaves

A photojournalist's home defies physics: inside, an impossible dark labyrinth grows and shifts.

by Mark Z. Danielewski 2000 709 pages

4.09

200k+ ratings

🗞️ Found Manuscript 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🏚️ Shifting Labyrinth 🏠 Cursed House 💀 Doomed Explorers

Paranoia

by Shirley Jackson • 2015

A stranger's hat, a fork's grudge: how Shirley Jackson turned daily unease into lasting horror.

4.05

4k+

✍️ Writing Craft 📝 Literary Essays 🏠 Domestic Life 📚 Author Memoirs 🪞 Domestic Uncanny

Paranoia

A stranger's hat, a fork's grudge: how Shirley Jackson turned daily unease into lasting horror.

by Shirley Jackson 2015 205 pages

4.05

4k+ ratings

✍️ Writing Craft 📝 Literary Essays 🏠 Domestic Life 📚 Author Memoirs 🪞 Domestic Uncanny

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