🎭 Satirical Horror

Stories that wield terror as social commentary, finding the monstrous lurking inside consumer culture, polite society, or institutional power. The laughs and the screams come from the same dark place.

Victorian Psycho

by Virginia Feito

A governess arrives at a Gothic manor with her father's razor and a family to destroy.

3.53

55k+

🕰️ Historical Horror 👻 Gothic Governess 🔪 Female Serial Killer ⚔️ Class Revenge 🌀 Unreliable Narrator

Victorian Psycho

A governess arrives at a Gothic manor with her father's razor and a family to destroy.

by Virginia Feito 2025

3.53

55k+ ratings

🕰️ Historical Horror 👻 Gothic Governess 🔪 Female Serial Killer ⚔️ Class Revenge 🌀 Unreliable Narrator

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis • 1991

A Wall Street banker's flawless exterior conceals a violent double life everyone refuses to see.

3.80

368k+

🖤 Transgressive Fiction 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 💼 Wealthy Sociopath 👤 Double Life 🏙️ 1980s Wall Street

American Psycho

A Wall Street banker's flawless exterior conceals a violent double life everyone refuses to see.

by Bret Easton Ellis 1991

3.80

368k+ ratings

🖤 Transgressive Fiction 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 💼 Wealthy Sociopath 👤 Double Life 🏙️ 1980s Wall Street

Lullaby

by Chuck Palahniuk • 2002

A lethal lullaby lets a reporter kill with a thought. He hunts every copy with a witch.

3.74

104k+

🔪 Transgressive Fiction 📖 Cursed Text 🚗 Road Trip To Hell 🖤 Morally Bankrupt Cast 😂 Dark Comedy

Lullaby

A lethal lullaby lets a reporter kill with a thought. He hunts every copy with a witch.

by Chuck Palahniuk 2002

3.74

104k+ ratings

🔪 Transgressive Fiction 📖 Cursed Text 🚗 Road Trip To Hell 🖤 Morally Bankrupt Cast 😂 Dark Comedy

Bury Your Gays

by Chuck Tingle • 2024

When a screenwriter won't kill his queer leads, the studio's AI sends his own monsters after him.

4.04

31k+

🪞 Metafictional Horror 🎬 Hollywood Horror 👹 Monsters Made Real 💔 Trauma As Monster 🫂 Found Family

Bury Your Gays

When a screenwriter won't kill his queer leads, the studio's AI sends his own monsters after him.

by Chuck Tingle 2024

4.04

31k+ ratings

🪞 Metafictional Horror 🎬 Hollywood Horror 👹 Monsters Made Real 💔 Trauma As Monster 🫂 Found Family

Slashtag

by Jon Cohn • 2023

Disgraced influencer joins a haunted hotel show to save her sister, but the horror isn't staged.

4.26

1k+

🩸 Splatterpunk Horror ☠️ Deadly Game 👻 Haunted Hotel 📱 Social Media Horror 🎥 Rigged Reality Tv

Slashtag

Disgraced influencer joins a haunted hotel show to save her sister, but the horror isn't staged.

by Jon Cohn 2023

4.26

1k+ ratings

🩸 Splatterpunk Horror ☠️ Deadly Game 👻 Haunted Hotel 📱 Social Media Horror 🎥 Rigged Reality Tv

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