😨 Fear And The Body

The somatic landscape of anxiety — racing hearts, clenched muscles, shallow breath — and how fear lives not just in the mind but in the flesh.

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 89%

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

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 89%

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

Nestlings

by Nat Cassidy • 2023

A paraplegic mother wins a luxury apartment in a building that feeds on families like hers.

3.78

28k+

🩸 Postpartum Horror 🏢 Sentient Building 🦴 Body Horror 🏚️ Gothic Apartment 🕷️ Parasitic Colony

Nestlings 89%

A paraplegic mother wins a luxury apartment in a building that feeds on families like hers.

by Nat Cassidy 2023

3.78

28k+ ratings

🩸 Postpartum Horror 🏢 Sentient Building 🦴 Body Horror 🏚️ Gothic Apartment 🕷️ Parasitic Colony

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 89%

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

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 89%

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

When the Wolf Comes Home

by Nat Cassidy • 2025

A waitress takes in a boy whose terror becomes real. A wolf is already at the door.

4.06

37k+

📚 Literary Horror 👹 Fear Made Flesh 🛡️ Reluctant Guardian 🔪 Monstrous Parent 🖤 Bleak Horror

When the Wolf Comes Home 89%

A waitress takes in a boy whose terror becomes real. A wolf is already at the door.

by Nat Cassidy 2025

4.06

37k+ ratings

📚 Literary Horror 👹 Fear Made Flesh 🛡️ Reluctant Guardian 🔪 Monstrous Parent 🖤 Bleak Horror

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 89%

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

How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live

by Missy Vineyard • 2007

Posture is fixed not by effort, but by stopping the habits you cannot feel.

3.88

211

🏛️ Alexander Technique 🧠 Mind-Body Connection 🔄 Unconscious Habits 🗺️ Body Awareness 📚 Somatic Education

How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live Summary

How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live 89%

Posture is fixed not by effort, but by stopping the habits you cannot feel.

by Missy Vineyard 2007

3.88

211 ratings

🏛️ Alexander Technique 🧠 Mind-Body Connection 🔄 Unconscious Habits 🗺️ Body Awareness 📚 Somatic Education

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 89%

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

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 89%

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

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 89%

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

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 88%

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

Nothing Tastes as Good

by Luke Dumas • 2026

After a weight-loss trial, he gets the body he craved and a hunger for human flesh.

3.77

9k+

🧬 Body Horror 🫣 Unreliable Narrator 🖤 Dark Satire 💊 Wellness Gone Wrong 📱 Social Media Culture

Nothing Tastes as Good 88%

After a weight-loss trial, he gets the body he craved and a hunger for human flesh.

by Luke Dumas 2026

3.77

9k+ ratings

🧬 Body Horror 🫣 Unreliable Narrator 🖤 Dark Satire 💊 Wellness Gone Wrong 📱 Social Media Culture

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 88%

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

The Vegetarian

by Han Kang • 2007

A Seoul wife quits meat. Her family fights for her body. She has begun to leave it.

3.65

403k+

🩸 Body Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror ✊ Bodily Autonomy 🎨 Artistic Obsession 🥗 Food Refusal

The Vegetarian 88%

A Seoul wife quits meat. Her family fights for her body. She has begun to leave it.

by Han Kang 2007

3.65

403k+ ratings

🩸 Body Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror ✊ Bodily Autonomy 🎨 Artistic Obsession 🥗 Food Refusal

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

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

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 88%

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

Rouge

by Mona Awad • 2023

Belle discovers the quest for perfect skin at a cliffside spa requires feeding a cult's hunger.

3.53

51k+

🌊 Gothic Seaside 💋 Beauty Cult 🩸 Body Horror 🌀 Fractured Psyche 📖 Fairy Tale Horror

Rouge 88%

Belle discovers the quest for perfect skin at a cliffside spa requires feeding a cult's hunger.

by Mona Awad 2023

3.53

51k+ ratings

🌊 Gothic Seaside 💋 Beauty Cult 🩸 Body Horror 🌀 Fractured Psyche 📖 Fairy Tale Horror

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

Daphne

by Josh Malerman • 2022

Think of her, you die. A basketball star with severe anxiety can't control her thoughts.

3.37

6k+

🧠 Psychological Horror 🌃 Urban Legend 😰 Anxiety As Horror 💀 Fear Made Flesh 🏚️ Small-Town Secrets

Daphne 88%

Think of her, you die. A basketball star with severe anxiety can't control her thoughts.

by Josh Malerman 2022

3.37

6k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Horror 🌃 Urban Legend 😰 Anxiety As Horror 💀 Fear Made Flesh 🏚️ Small-Town Secrets

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 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 88%

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

Dark Is When the Devil Comes

by Daisy Pearce • 2026

Locked in a cellar on cursed land, she must survive a captor who drills skulls to free demons.

3.69

2k+

🏚️ Modern Gothic 🔒 Captivity Horror 👭 Estranged Sisters 👹 Monstrous Double 🦴 Body Horror

Dark Is When the Devil Comes 88%

Locked in a cellar on cursed land, she must survive a captor who drills skulls to free demons.

by Daisy Pearce 2026

3.69

2k+ ratings

🏚️ Modern Gothic 🔒 Captivity Horror 👭 Estranged Sisters 👹 Monstrous Double 🦴 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

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 88%

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

The Pilo Family Circus

by Will Elliott • 2009

A clown drags a man into a nightmarish circus where face paint awakens his inner monster.

3.81

4k+

🤡 Evil Clowns 🎪 Circus Horror 👤 Split Identity 🧠 Psychological Horror 🌑 Dark Fantasy

The Pilo Family Circus 88%

A clown drags a man into a nightmarish circus where face paint awakens his inner monster.

by Will Elliott 2009

3.81

4k+ ratings

🤡 Evil Clowns 🎪 Circus Horror 👤 Split Identity 🧠 Psychological Horror 🌑 Dark Fantasy

Walking Practice

by Dolki Min • 2022

To survive on Earth, an alien seduces and devours lovers, but the loneliness cannot be consumed.

3.55

7k+

🩸 Body Horror 📖 Literary Horror 🦎 Shapeshifter Horror 🎭 Gender As Performance 💀 Monstrous Desire

Walking Practice 88%

To survive on Earth, an alien seduces and devours lovers, but the loneliness cannot be consumed.

by Dolki Min 2022

3.55

7k+ ratings

🩸 Body Horror 📖 Literary Horror 🦎 Shapeshifter Horror 🎭 Gender As Performance 💀 Monstrous Desire

Hemlock Island

by Kelley Armstrong • 2023

Blood-smeared walls pull her back to a private island where the dead refuse to rest.

3.44

13k+

🏚️ Modern Gothic 🔒 Locked Room Mystery 🏝️ Isolated Island 🌲 Haunted Landscape 👻 Cursed Inheritance

Hemlock Island 88%

Blood-smeared walls pull her back to a private island where the dead refuse to rest.

by Kelley Armstrong 2023

3.44

13k+ ratings

🏚️ Modern Gothic 🔒 Locked Room Mystery 🏝️ Isolated Island 🌲 Haunted Landscape 👻 Cursed Inheritance

The Seven Visitations of Sydney Burgess

by Andy Marino • 2021

An intruder dies in her home. She remembers nothing. The presence stirring inside her is ravenous.

3.04

2k+

🧠 Psychological Horror 🩸 Body Horror 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 🦠 Infected Protagonist 🏠 Suburban Horror

The Seven Visitations of Sydney Burgess Summary

The Seven Visitations of Sydney Burgess 88%

An intruder dies in her home. She remembers nothing. The presence stirring inside her is ravenous.

by Andy Marino 2021

3.04

2k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Horror 🩸 Body Horror 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 🦠 Infected Protagonist 🏠 Suburban Horror

The Graceview Patient

by Caitlin Starling • 2025

A desperate patient enters an experimental hospital where the building hungers.

3.45

3k+

🏥 Hospital Horror 🫀 Body Horror 🩺 Medical Gaslighting 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🧪 Medical Experimentation

The Graceview Patient 88%

A desperate patient enters an experimental hospital where the building hungers.

by Caitlin Starling 2025

3.45

3k+ ratings

🏥 Hospital Horror 🫀 Body Horror 🩺 Medical Gaslighting 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🧪 Medical Experimentation

Things We Lost in the Fire

by Mariana Enriquez • 2016

Argentine gothic tales: women set themselves ablaze, children vanish, and the dead surface.

4.03

65k+

📖 Literary Horror 🏚️ Latin American Gothic 🦴 Body Horror 🔥 Women's Rage 👧 Girlhood And Danger

Things We Lost in the Fire 88%

Argentine gothic tales: women set themselves ablaze, children vanish, and the dead surface.

by Mariana Enriquez 2016

4.03

65k+ ratings

📖 Literary Horror 🏚️ Latin American Gothic 🦴 Body Horror 🔥 Women's Rage 👧 Girlhood And Danger

Bellevue

by Robin Cook • 2024

Bellevue's ghosts kill a young surgeon's patients, demanding he answer for his ancestors' crimes.

3.36

5k+

🏥 Medical Horror 👻 Haunted Hospital 🔗 Ancestral Guilt 🧠 Psychological Horror 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread

Bellevue 88%

Bellevue's ghosts kill a young surgeon's patients, demanding he answer for his ancestors' crimes.

by Robin Cook 2024

3.36

5k+ ratings

🏥 Medical Horror 👻 Haunted Hospital 🔗 Ancestral Guilt 🧠 Psychological Horror 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread

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

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 88%

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

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 88%

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

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 88%

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

Last to Leave the Room

by Caitlin Starling • 2023

A physicist under a sinking city discovers an impossible door in her basement. It opens.

3.52

3k+

🖤 Psychological Horror 🚪 Doppelganger Horror 🧠 Unreliable Narrator 💀 Identity Dissolution 🏚️ Claustrophobic Dread

Last to Leave the Room 88%

A physicist under a sinking city discovers an impossible door in her basement. It opens.

by Caitlin Starling 2023

3.52

3k+ ratings

🖤 Psychological Horror 🚪 Doppelganger Horror 🧠 Unreliable Narrator 💀 Identity Dissolution 🏚️ Claustrophobic Dread

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

Woom

by Duncan Ralston • 2016

A motel room. A hired woman. Confessions that turn a body into a doorway.

3.23

38k+

🩸 Extreme Horror 🦴 Body Horror ⚠️ Transgressive Fiction 🔗 Cycle Of Trauma 🏨 Roadside Motel

Woom 88%

A motel room. A hired woman. Confessions that turn a body into a doorway.

by Duncan Ralston 2016

3.23

38k+ ratings

🩸 Extreme Horror 🦴 Body Horror ⚠️ Transgressive Fiction 🔗 Cycle Of Trauma 🏨 Roadside Motel

The Vile Thing We Created

by Robert P. Ottone • 2023

Their baby never cries. The walls are breathing. Something ancient has been waiting for this child.

3.56

760

🫄 Postpartum Horror 🌌 Cosmic Horror 🕯️ Occult Pregnancy 👁️ Uncanny Child 💫 Unreliable Reality

The Vile Thing We Created 88%

Their baby never cries. The walls are breathing. Something ancient has been waiting for this child.

by Robert P. Ottone 2023

3.56

760 ratings

🫄 Postpartum Horror 🌌 Cosmic Horror 🕯️ Occult Pregnancy 👁️ Uncanny Child 💫 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 88%

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 Anomaly

by Michael Rutger • 2018

A YouTuber awakens an ancient machine in a Grand Canyon cave, trapping his crew with monsters.

3.77

13k+

🦴 Archaeological Horror ⚙️ Ancient Technology 🩸 Survival Horror 🕳️ Cave Survival 🧬 Body Horror

The Anomaly 88%

A YouTuber awakens an ancient machine in a Grand Canyon cave, trapping his crew with monsters.

by Michael Rutger 2018

3.77

13k+ ratings

🦴 Archaeological Horror ⚙️ Ancient Technology 🩸 Survival Horror 🕳️ Cave Survival 🧬 Body Horror

And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe

by Gwendolyn Kiste • 2017

Tales of women who birth birds, steal skin, and unmake the world with a smile.

4.29

600

🩸 Body Horror 🍎 Dark Fairy Tales 🐦‍⬛ Outsider Women 🫀 Queer Desire 👻 Ghostly Revenge

And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe Summary

And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe 88%

Tales of women who birth birds, steal skin, and unmake the world with a smile.

by Gwendolyn Kiste 2017

4.29

600 ratings

🩸 Body Horror 🍎 Dark Fairy Tales 🐦‍⬛ Outsider Women 🫀 Queer Desire 👻 Ghostly Revenge

Relic

by Douglas Preston • 1995

Beneath a New York museum, a creature surgically removes brains. The gala opens tonight.

4.05

116k+

🦎 Creature Feature 🧬 Science Horror 📋 Institutional Cover-Up 🌿 Lost Expedition 🏛️ Museum Labyrinth

Relic 88%

Beneath a New York museum, a creature surgically removes brains. The gala opens tonight.

by Douglas Preston 1995

4.05

116k+ ratings

🦎 Creature Feature 🧬 Science Horror 📋 Institutional Cover-Up 🌿 Lost Expedition 🏛️ Museum Labyrinth

The Troop

by Nick Cutter • 2014

A remote scout trip turns lethal when a starving man brings a parasite eating from within.

3.83

129k+

🦠 Body Horror 🏕️ Survival Horror 🏝️ Trapped On An Island 🧫 Contagion Horror 👦 Boys In Peril

The Troop 87%

A remote scout trip turns lethal when a starving man brings a parasite eating from within.

by Nick Cutter 2014

3.83

129k+ ratings

🦠 Body Horror 🏕️ Survival Horror 🏝️ Trapped On An Island 🧫 Contagion Horror 👦 Boys In Peril

The Unseen

by Ania Ahlborn • 2025

A grieving mother fosters a mute boy discovered in her garden. Then the disappearances begin.

3.36

4k+

🌌 Cosmic Horror 👽 Alien Abduction 🫀 Body Horror 🧚 Changeling 🔁 Generational Trauma

The Unseen 87%

A grieving mother fosters a mute boy discovered in her garden. Then the disappearances begin.

by Ania Ahlborn 2025

3.36

4k+ ratings

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

4.02

36k+

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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

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A small-town librarian opens a bullied student's lethal file and must never be alone.

3.63

3k+

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13 Months Haunted 87%

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by Jimmy Juliano 2025

3.63

3k+ ratings

💻 Tech Horror 🎬 Cursed Media 🦠 Viral Curse 🕯️ Isolated Outcast 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond

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+

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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

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