🩸 Body Horror Sacrifice

The body becomes the altar in these harrowing tales, where characters surrender flesh and form for something greater, blurring the line between devotion and destruction.

Playground

by Aron Beauregard • 2022

Parents strapped to chairs watch their kids crawl through a playground of grinders and saws.

3.43

20k+

🩸 Splatterpunk 🫀 Body Horror 🎲 Death Games 🔄 Cycle Of Abuse 💔 Parental Betrayal

Playground 89%

Parents strapped to chairs watch their kids crawl through a playground of grinders and saws.

by Aron Beauregard 2022

3.43

20k+ ratings

🩸 Splatterpunk 🫀 Body Horror 🎲 Death Games 🔄 Cycle Of Abuse 💔 Parental Betrayal

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 89%

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

Books of Blood

by Clive Barker • 1984

A con man who fakes séances is turned into a living page for the vengeful dead.

4.19

30k+

🩸 Body Horror 💀 Splatterpunk 📖 Literary Horror 🕯️ Ritual Sacrifice 🌃 Urban Horror

Books of Blood 89%

A con man who fakes séances is turned into a living page for the vengeful dead.

by Clive Barker 1984

4.19

30k+ ratings

🩸 Body Horror 💀 Splatterpunk 📖 Literary Horror 🕯️ Ritual Sacrifice 🌃 Urban Horror

On the Bitter Horizon

by Abe Moss • 2022

A teenage healer kidnapped to a cursed mountain discovers the expedition's real prize is her.

4.57

345

🖤 Cosmic Horror 🧙‍♀️ Witchy Horror 🫂 Found Family ⛰️ Expedition Gone Wrong 🩸 Hidden Lineage

On the Bitter Horizon 89%

A teenage healer kidnapped to a cursed mountain discovers the expedition's real prize is her.

by Abe Moss 2022

4.57

345 ratings

🖤 Cosmic Horror 🧙‍♀️ Witchy Horror 🫂 Found Family ⛰️ Expedition Gone Wrong 🩸 Hidden Lineage

Horror Movie

by Paul Tremblay • 2024

The mask from a cursed horror film never came off. Three decades later, they're filming again.

3.25

52k+

🎬 Metafictional Horror 🎥 Cursed Film 🎭 Cursed Object 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🦴 Body Horror

Horror Movie 88%

The mask from a cursed horror film never came off. Three decades later, they're filming again.

by Paul Tremblay 2024

3.25

52k+ ratings

🎬 Metafictional Horror 🎥 Cursed Film 🎭 Cursed Object 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🦴 Body Horror

Intercepts

by T.J. Payne • 2019

His secret prisoners are senseless, psychic, and screaming. His teenage daughter can hear them now.

4.09

40k+

🏛️ Government Horror 👻 Psychic Haunting 🩸 Body Horror 🛡️ Parental Sacrifice ⛏️ Underground Facility

Intercepts 88%

His secret prisoners are senseless, psychic, and screaming. His teenage daughter can hear them now.

by T.J. Payne 2019

4.09

40k+ ratings

🏛️ Government Horror 👻 Psychic Haunting 🩸 Body Horror 🛡️ Parental Sacrifice ⛏️ Underground Facility

Resurrection

by Nick Roberts • 2025

The evil a mother escaped was never truly banished: it was born inside her daughter.

4.38

2k+

⛪ Religious Horror 💔 Maternal Sacrifice 👧 Possessed Child 🔮 Family Curse 🖤 Bleak Horror

Resurrection 88%

The evil a mother escaped was never truly banished: it was born inside her daughter.

by Nick Roberts 2025

4.38

2k+ ratings

⛪ Religious Horror 💔 Maternal Sacrifice 👧 Possessed Child 🔮 Family Curse 🖤 Bleak Horror

Nona the Ninth

by Tamsyn Muir • 2022

An amnesiac child with a borrowed body has six months before the apocalypse inside her wakes.

4.33

57k+

🚀 Science Fantasy 🧠 Amnesiac Protagonist 🖤 Found Family 👥 Body Sharing 🥀 Tender Horror

Nona the Ninth 88%

An amnesiac child with a borrowed body has six months before the apocalypse inside her wakes.

by Tamsyn Muir 2022

4.33

57k+ ratings

🚀 Science Fantasy 🧠 Amnesiac Protagonist 🖤 Found Family 👥 Body Sharing 🥀 Tender Horror

Dreamcatcher

by Stephen King • 2001

Four friends' hunting trip turns deadly when they shelter a lost man carrying an alien parasite.

3.66

187k+

🩸 Body Horror 👽 Alien Possession 🧠 Telepathic Bond 🦠 Alien Parasite 👦 Childhood Friends

Dreamcatcher 88%

Four friends' hunting trip turns deadly when they shelter a lost man carrying an alien parasite.

by Stephen King 2001

3.66

187k+ ratings

🩸 Body Horror 👽 Alien Possession 🧠 Telepathic Bond 🦠 Alien Parasite 👦 Childhood Friends

Shy Girl

by Mia Ballard • 2025

She needs rent. He wants a dog. The collar locks. Seven years inside a cage.

3.82

3k+

🦷 Body Horror 📖 Literary Horror 🐺 Forced Transformation ⛓️ Captor Captive 🔪 Survivor's Revenge

Shy Girl 88%

She needs rent. He wants a dog. The collar locks. Seven years inside a cage.

by Mia Ballard 2025

3.82

3k+ ratings

🦷 Body Horror 📖 Literary Horror 🐺 Forced Transformation ⛓️ Captor Captive 🔪 Survivor's Revenge

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

by Harlan Ellison • 1967

An all-powerful AI has wiped out humanity, sparing five survivors only to torment them forever.

3.89

57k+

🤖 Sentient Ai Nightmare 👾 Classic Scifi Horror 🧠 Psychological Torture 🩸 Body Horror 🖤 Futile Sacrifice

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream 88%

An all-powerful AI has wiped out humanity, sparing five survivors only to torment them forever.

by Harlan Ellison 1967

3.89

57k+ ratings

🤖 Sentient Ai Nightmare 👾 Classic Scifi Horror 🧠 Psychological Torture 🩸 Body Horror 🖤 Futile Sacrifice

Full Brutal

by Kristopher Triana • 2018

When a cheerleader seduces her teacher, his shame becomes an addiction she'll kill to feed.

3.93

4k+

🩸 Splatterpunk 🦴 Body Horror 🍖 Cannibalism 🔪 Female Psychopath 🤰 Pregnancy Horror

Full Brutal 88%

When a cheerleader seduces her teacher, his shame becomes an addiction she'll kill to feed.

by Kristopher Triana 2018

3.93

4k+ ratings

🩸 Splatterpunk 🦴 Body Horror 🍖 Cannibalism 🔪 Female Psychopath 🤰 Pregnancy Horror

Suffer the Children

by Craig DiLouie • 2014

All children die at once, then return needing blood that only their parents can give.

3.98

12k+

🖤 Parental Horror 🧒 Undead Children 💔 Parental Desperation 🌑 Bleak Horror 🏠 Suburban Nightmare

Suffer the Children 88%

All children die at once, then return needing blood that only their parents can give.

by Craig DiLouie 2014

3.98

12k+ ratings

🖤 Parental Horror 🧒 Undead Children 💔 Parental Desperation 🌑 Bleak Horror 🏠 Suburban Nightmare

Symbiont

by Mira Grant • 2014

A tapeworm-human hybrid awakens to her true nature as a plague turns hosts into sleepwalkers.

3.71

8k+

🩸 Body Horror 🧬 Biopunk ⚠️ Scientific Hubris 🎭 Identity Crisis 👤 Body Snatchers

Symbiont 88%

A tapeworm-human hybrid awakens to her true nature as a plague turns hosts into sleepwalkers.

by Mira Grant 2014

3.71

8k+ ratings

🩸 Body Horror 🧬 Biopunk ⚠️ Scientific Hubris 🎭 Identity Crisis 👤 Body Snatchers

The Cuck

by Aron Beauregard • 2022

Answering a risqué ad, two friends meet a voyeuristic old man whose gaze becomes a curse.

3.38

2k+

🩸 Extreme Horror 🦴 Body Horror 🦠 Parasitic Entity 🧛 Sexual Curse 🏚️ Decrepit House

The Cuck 88%

Answering a risqué ad, two friends meet a voyeuristic old man whose gaze becomes a curse.

by Aron Beauregard 2022

3.38

2k+ ratings

🩸 Extreme Horror 🦴 Body Horror 🦠 Parasitic Entity 🧛 Sexual Curse 🏚️ Decrepit House

The Third Parent

by Elias Witherow • 2017

When a plastic-faced man becomes a family's third parent, the children learn what his smile costs.

3.88

1k+

🩸 Extreme Horror 💔 Childhood Trauma 🔒 Captivity Horror 🦴 Body Horror 🖤 Bleak Horror

The Third Parent 88%

When a plastic-faced man becomes a family's third parent, the children learn what his smile costs.

by Elias Witherow 2017

3.88

1k+ ratings

🩸 Extreme Horror 💔 Childhood Trauma 🔒 Captivity Horror 🦴 Body Horror 🖤 Bleak Horror

The Hellbound Heart

by Clive Barker • 1986

Her lover vanished solving a puzzle box. Blood she spills brings him back piece by piece.

4.08

70k+

🖤 Erotic Horror 🩸 Body Horror 🏚️ Haunted House 💔 Destructive Obsession 🔮 Forbidden Knowledge

The Hellbound Heart 88%

Her lover vanished solving a puzzle box. Blood she spills brings him back piece by piece.

by Clive Barker 1986

4.08

70k+ ratings

🖤 Erotic Horror 🩸 Body Horror 🏚️ Haunted House 💔 Destructive Obsession 🔮 Forbidden Knowledge

When Darkness Loves Us

by Elizabeth Engstrom • 1985

Trapped in caverns beneath her farm, a teenage bride raises a son born to the dark.

4.01

2k+

🕳️ Gothic Underground 🦴 Body Horror 🌑 Feral Child 🎭 Disfigured Protagonist 👻 Ambiguous Ghost

When Darkness Loves Us 88%

Trapped in caverns beneath her farm, a teenage bride raises a son born to the dark.

by Elizabeth Engstrom 1985

4.01

2k+ ratings

🕳️ Gothic Underground 🦴 Body Horror 🌑 Feral Child 🎭 Disfigured Protagonist 👻 Ambiguous Ghost

The Slob

by Aron Beauregard • 2019

A pregnant saleswoman enters a farmhouse, where a man forces her to clean his kills.

3.32

13k+

🩸 Splatterpunk ☠️ Extreme Horror 🦴 Body Horror 🍖 Cannibal Horror 🔪 Final Girl

The Slob 88%

A pregnant saleswoman enters a farmhouse, where a man forces her to clean his kills.

by Aron Beauregard 2019

3.32

13k+ ratings

🩸 Splatterpunk ☠️ Extreme Horror 🦴 Body Horror 🍖 Cannibal Horror 🔪 Final Girl

Cows

by Matthew Stokoe • 1998

Trapped by his mother, a man discovers a slaughterhouse where cows talk; killing is his only escape.

2.68

15k+

🩸 Splatterpunk 🫀 Body Horror 🖤 Maternal Abuse 🐄 Talking Animals 🥩 Slaughterhouse

Cows 88%

Trapped by his mother, a man discovers a slaughterhouse where cows talk; killing is his only escape.

by Matthew Stokoe 1998

2.68

15k+ ratings

🩸 Splatterpunk 🫀 Body Horror 🖤 Maternal Abuse 🐄 Talking Animals 🥩 Slaughterhouse

Sour Candy

by Kealan Patrick Burke • 2015

A Walmart candy aisle encounter costs a man his teeth, his girlfriend, and his reality.

3.59

26k+

🌌 Cosmic Horror 🦷 Body Horror 🧬 Parasitic Entity 😵 Reality Gaslighting 👔 Reluctant Father

Sour Candy 88%

A Walmart candy aisle encounter costs a man his teeth, his girlfriend, and his reality.

by Kealan Patrick Burke 2015

3.59

26k+ ratings

🌌 Cosmic Horror 🦷 Body Horror 🧬 Parasitic Entity 😵 Reality Gaslighting 👔 Reluctant Father

I Am Behind You

by John Ajvide Lindqvist • 2014

Campers wake to a world erased: no sun, no roads, only grass stretching forever.

3.36

5k+

🚪 Liminal Space 🧠 Psychological Horror 🌌 Cosmic Horror 👧 Inhuman Child 🩸 Body Horror

I Am Behind You 88%

Campers wake to a world erased: no sun, no roads, only grass stretching forever.

by John Ajvide Lindqvist 2014

3.36

5k+ ratings

🚪 Liminal Space 🧠 Psychological Horror 🌌 Cosmic Horror 👧 Inhuman Child 🩸 Body Horror

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 88%

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

Lapvona

by Ottessa Moshfegh • 2022

After killing the lord's son, a deformed boy is traded to a manor where cruelty wears silk.

3.54

104k+

🏰 Medieval Horror 🤢 Body Horror 🍖 Cannibalism 🎭 Dark Fable 🏡 Gothic Manor

Lapvona 88%

After killing the lord's son, a deformed boy is traded to a manor where cruelty wears silk.

by Ottessa Moshfegh 2022

3.54

104k+ ratings

🏰 Medieval Horror 🤢 Body Horror 🍖 Cannibalism 🎭 Dark Fable 🏡 Gothic Manor

Reliquary

by Douglas Preston • 1997

When headless corpses surface in New York, the trail dives underground, where a mutant cult breeds.

4.04

51k+

🧬 Genetic Horror 🏚️ Underground Society 🦴 Body Horror 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread 🎭 Corrupted Mentor

Reliquary 88%

When headless corpses surface in New York, the trail dives underground, where a mutant cult breeds.

by Douglas Preston 1997

4.04

51k+ ratings

🧬 Genetic Horror 🏚️ Underground Society 🦴 Body Horror 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread 🎭 Corrupted Mentor

Silverskin

by Caitee Cooper • 2023

A ghostly attack in Alaska tears open a gate, releasing demons that feast on human despair.

4.26

🌲 Folk Horror 🏔️ Wilderness Horror 🖤 Grief Horror 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 💔 Trauma Bonding

Silverskin 88%

A ghostly attack in Alaska tears open a gate, releasing demons that feast on human despair.

by Caitee Cooper 2023

4.26

97 ratings

🌲 Folk Horror 🏔️ Wilderness Horror 🖤 Grief Horror 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 💔 Trauma Bonding

This Book Is Full of Spiders

by David Wong • 2012

A slacker sees invisible spiders infect his neighbors, then the military quarantines the town.

4.26

35k+

🎭 Comic Horror 🕷️ Parasite Horror 🏚️ Quarantine Horror 🤪 Absurdist Horror 👁️ Unseen Threat

This Book Is Full of Spiders 88%

A slacker sees invisible spiders infect his neighbors, then the military quarantines the town.

by David Wong 2012

4.26

35k+ ratings

🎭 Comic Horror 🕷️ Parasite Horror 🏚️ Quarantine Horror 🤪 Absurdist Horror 👁️ Unseen Threat

The Bug Collector

by Wrath James White • 2024

He collects diseases like others collect stamps, but one infection has come back for revenge.

3.59

3k+

🩸 Extreme Horror 🦠 Body Horror 💢 Victim Turned Avenger ⛓️ Captor Captive Dynamic 🚫 Transgressive Fiction

The Bug Collector 88%

He collects diseases like others collect stamps, but one infection has come back for revenge.

by Wrath James White 2024

3.59

3k+ ratings

🩸 Extreme Horror 🦠 Body Horror 💢 Victim Turned Avenger ⛓️ Captor Captive Dynamic 🚫 Transgressive Fiction

They All Died Screaming

by Kristopher Triana • 2020

A plague of screams ends society, and a broken drunk faces the pig farm that made him a monster.

3.58

3k+

🩸 Splatterpunk 🔄 Victim To Predator 🔗 Cycle Of Abuse 🫀 Body Horror 🥩 Cannibalism Horror

They All Died Screaming 88%

A plague of screams ends society, and a broken drunk faces the pig farm that made him a monster.

by Kristopher Triana 2020

3.58

3k+ ratings

🩸 Splatterpunk 🔄 Victim To Predator 🔗 Cycle Of Abuse 🫀 Body Horror 🥩 Cannibalism Horror

There Is No Antimemetics Division

by qntm • 2020

Marion Wheeler runs a division nobody remembers, fighting a thought that kills anyone who grasps it.

4.10

29k+

👾 Cosmic Horror 📄 Bureaucratic Horror 🧠 Memory Erasure 💡 Idea Virus 🏛️ Secret Organization

There Is No Antimemetics Division Summary

There Is No Antimemetics Division 88%

Marion Wheeler runs a division nobody remembers, fighting a thought that kills anyone who grasps it.

by qntm 2020

4.10

29k+ ratings

👾 Cosmic Horror 📄 Bureaucratic Horror 🧠 Memory Erasure 💡 Idea Virus 🏛️ Secret Organization

Desperation

by Stephen King • 1996

Stranded in a ghost town, travelers discover their arresting officer is a vessel for ancient evil.

3.86

154k+

✝️ Religious Horror 👁️ Possession Horror ⛏️ Ancient Evil 🤝 Found Family 🏜️ Isolated Desert Town

Desperation 88%

Stranded in a ghost town, travelers discover their arresting officer is a vessel for ancient evil.

by Stephen King 1996

3.86

154k+ ratings

✝️ Religious Horror 👁️ Possession Horror ⛏️ Ancient Evil 🤝 Found Family 🏜️ Isolated Desert Town

The Beast You Are

by Paul Tremblay • 2023

An animal village sacrifices a child each generation. Two survivors plot to stop the beast.

3.33

3k+

🖋️ Literary Horror 🌾 Folk Horror 🌌 Cosmic Dread 🐾 Dark Fable 🗡️ Ritual Sacrifice

The Beast You Are 87%

An animal village sacrifices a child each generation. Two survivors plot to stop the beast.

by Paul Tremblay 2023

3.33

3k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Horror 🌾 Folk Horror 🌌 Cosmic Dread 🐾 Dark Fable 🗡️ Ritual Sacrifice

Trad Wife

by Saratoga Schaefer • 2026

A tradwife influencer's wish at a well brings a pregnancy that craves raw flesh.

3.84

11k+

🫀 Body Horror 🏠 Domestic Horror 📱 Social Media Satire 🕳️ Wish Gone Wrong 🤰 Monstrous Motherhood

Trad Wife 87%

A tradwife influencer's wish at a well brings a pregnancy that craves raw flesh.

by Saratoga Schaefer 2026

3.84

11k+ ratings

🫀 Body Horror 🏠 Domestic Horror 📱 Social Media Satire 🕳️ Wish Gone Wrong 🤰 Monstrous Motherhood

Tender Is the Flesh

by Agustina Bazterrica • 2017

He runs a human slaughterhouse. A live female arrives at his barn. He cannot kill her.

3.77

421k+

🥩 Cannibal Horror 🫀 Body Horror 😶 Complicit Protagonist 🏥 Clinical Horror 🔪 Slaughterhouse

Tender Is the Flesh 87%

He runs a human slaughterhouse. A live female arrives at his barn. He cannot kill her.

by Agustina Bazterrica 2017

3.77

421k+ ratings

🥩 Cannibal Horror 🫀 Body Horror 😶 Complicit Protagonist 🏥 Clinical Horror 🔪 Slaughterhouse

Angel Down

by Daniel Kraus • 2025

A WWI gravedigger finds an angel in No Man's Land; her gifts destroy whoever asks.

4.06

16k+

🖤 Literary Horror 🪖 World War I 😇 Wish Gone Wrong 🤝 Deadly Bargain ⛪ Religious Horror

Angel Down 87%

A WWI gravedigger finds an angel in No Man's Land; her gifts destroy whoever asks.

by Daniel Kraus 2025

4.06

16k+ ratings

🖤 Literary Horror 🪖 World War I 😇 Wish Gone Wrong 🤝 Deadly Bargain ⛪ Religious Horror

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

109k+

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

Her Body and Other Parties 87%

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

by Carmen Maria Machado 2017

3.80

109k+ ratings

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

Painter's Obsession

by Luna K. Wicked • 2025

Byron wakes chained underground. His captor faked his death, and suffering is the art.

4.32

2k+

👤 Captor Captive 💔 Trauma Bonding 🔄 Cycle Of Abuse 🩸 Body Horror 🔮 Unreliable Reality

Painter's Obsession 87%

Byron wakes chained underground. His captor faked his death, and suffering is the art.

by Luna K. Wicked 2025

4.32

2k+ ratings

👤 Captor Captive 💔 Trauma Bonding 🔄 Cycle Of Abuse 🩸 Body Horror 🔮 Unreliable Reality

SickER Bastards

by Matt Shaw • 2014

A man breaks free from a government cannibalism experiment and carries the appetite home.

3.81

924

🔞 Extreme Horror 🏚️ Captivity Horror 🧬 Engineered Plague 🫀 Body Horror 🧠 Unreliable Narrator

SickER Bastards 87%

A man breaks free from a government cannibalism experiment and carries the appetite home.

by Matt Shaw 2014

3.81

924 ratings

🔞 Extreme Horror 🏚️ Captivity Horror 🧬 Engineered Plague 🫀 Body Horror 🧠 Unreliable Narrator

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 87%

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

Thinner

by Richard Bachman • 1984

After an unpunished fatal accident, a Romani's touch triggers a wasting that no doctor can halt.

3.78

229k+

🦴 Body Horror 🧿 Supernatural Curse ⚖️ Guilty Protagonist 🧙 Folk Horror 📼 1980s Horror

Thinner 87%

After an unpunished fatal accident, a Romani's touch triggers a wasting that no doctor can halt.

by Richard Bachman 1984

3.78

229k+ ratings

🦴 Body Horror 🧿 Supernatural Curse ⚖️ Guilty Protagonist 🧙 Folk Horror 📼 1980s Horror

The Starving Saints

by Caitlin Starling • 2025

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 87%

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

Into the Dread Void

by Abe Moss • 2021

A foster child finds a family, only to watch a predatory light consume them from within.

4.10

1k+

🖤 Cosmic Horror 🌱 Coming Of Age Horror 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🤲 Empathic Abilities 🩸 Body Horror

Into the Dread Void 87%

A foster child finds a family, only to watch a predatory light consume them from within.

by Abe Moss 2021

4.10

1k+ ratings

🖤 Cosmic Horror 🌱 Coming Of Age Horror 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🤲 Empathic Abilities 🩸 Body Horror

Imaginary Friend

by Stephen Chbosky • 2019

Lost in the woods six days, a boy returns with a voice only he can hear.

3.55

62k+

✝️ Religious Horror 🏘️ Small-Town Horror 💕 Mother-Son Bond 🐍 Misunderstood Monster 👦 Child In Peril

Imaginary Friend 87%

Lost in the woods six days, a boy returns with a voice only he can hear.

by Stephen Chbosky 2019

3.55

62k+ ratings

✝️ Religious Horror 🏘️ Small-Town Horror 💕 Mother-Son Bond 🐍 Misunderstood Monster 👦 Child In Peril

The Haar

by David Sodergren • 2022

Developers want her cottage. A sea creature offers her dead husband back, for blood.

4.02

36k+

🏚️ Folk Horror 🩸 Body Horror 🦑 Eldritch Horror 👻 Supernatural Revenge 🖤 Monstrous Protector

The Haar 87%

Developers want her cottage. A sea creature offers her dead husband back, for blood.

by David Sodergren 2022

4.02

36k+ ratings

🏚️ Folk Horror 🩸 Body Horror 🦑 Eldritch Horror 👻 Supernatural Revenge 🖤 Monstrous Protector

Together We Rot

by Skyla Arndt • 2023

Her mother vanished into a church that sacrifices sons. The boy she loves is next.

3.50

6k+

🕯️ Cult Horror 🦋 Monstrous Transformation 💕 Friends To Lovers 🩸 Ritual Sacrifice 🌫️ Gothic Atmosphere

Together We Rot 87%

Her mother vanished into a church that sacrifices sons. The boy she loves is next.

by Skyla Arndt 2023

3.50

6k+ ratings

🕯️ Cult Horror 🦋 Monstrous Transformation 💕 Friends To Lovers 🩸 Ritual Sacrifice 🌫️ Gothic Atmosphere

The Queen

by Nick Cutter • 2024

Texts from her missing best friend lure a teen into a country club turned wasp hive.

3.53

8k+

🫀 Body Horror 🐝 Insect Horror 🧬 Genetic Engineering 🖤 Toxic Friendship 🔪 Revenge Narrative

The Queen 87%

Texts from her missing best friend lure a teen into a country club turned wasp hive.

by Nick Cutter 2024

3.53

8k+ ratings

🫀 Body Horror 🐝 Insect Horror 🧬 Genetic Engineering 🖤 Toxic Friendship 🔪 Revenge Narrative

Zola

by D.E. McCluskey • 2021

Her husband sold their son to the men at the bar. She has a bread knife.

3.32

3k+

🩸 Extreme Horror 🍖 Cannibalism 🦴 Body Horror 🏚️ Domestic Horror 🔗 Cycle Of Abuse

Zola 87%

Her husband sold their son to the men at the bar. She has a bread knife.

by D.E. McCluskey 2021

3.32

3k+ ratings

🩸 Extreme Horror 🍖 Cannibalism 🦴 Body Horror 🏚️ Domestic Horror 🔗 Cycle Of Abuse

And the Sea Called Her Name

by Joe Hart • 2015

The sea took her mother. Now his wife is vanishing, and the tide is pulling her under.

3.73

429

🌀 Cosmic Horror 🌊 Coastal Gothic 💔 Doomed Marriage 🐙 Body Transformation 🩸 Generational Curse

And the Sea Called Her Name 87%

The sea took her mother. Now his wife is vanishing, and the tide is pulling her under.

by Joe Hart 2015

3.73

429 ratings

🌀 Cosmic Horror 🌊 Coastal Gothic 💔 Doomed Marriage 🐙 Body Transformation 🩸 Generational Curse

Gloria

by Bentley Little • 2021

Her mother returns from the dead, unchanged since the 80s, but only Gloria recognizes her.

3.59

523

🖤 Supernatural Grief 🌐 Alternate Realities 👤 Malevolent Mother ⚰️ Unholy Resurrection 🛐 Cult Worship

Gloria 87%

Her mother returns from the dead, unchanged since the 80s, but only Gloria recognizes her.

by Bentley Little 2021

3.59

523 ratings

🖤 Supernatural Grief 🌐 Alternate Realities 👤 Malevolent Mother ⚰️ Unholy Resurrection 🛐 Cult Worship

Parasite

by Mira Grant • 2013

Her life-saving tapeworm is waking up. It wants control of her body and everyone else's.

3.68

19k+

🩸 Medical Body Horror 🦠 Parasitic Outbreak 🔍 Lost Identity 🏢 Corporate Cover-Up 🧬 Hybrid Consciousness

Parasite 87%

Her life-saving tapeworm is waking up. It wants control of her body and everyone else's.

by Mira Grant 2013

3.68

19k+ ratings

🩸 Medical Body Horror 🦠 Parasitic Outbreak 🔍 Lost Identity 🏢 Corporate Cover-Up 🧬 Hybrid Consciousness

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