Female Body Horror Books | Summaries & Audio

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 92%

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

Pig Tales

by Marie Darrieussecq • 1998

A Paris salon girl sells allure until her body starts turning into a pig.

3.46

4k+

🩸 Feminist Body Horror 🐖 Grotesque Metamorphosis 💄 Beauty Industry Critique 🏷️ Body Commodification 🚫 Societal Rejection

Pig Tales 91%

A Paris salon girl sells allure until her body starts turning into a pig.

by Marie Darrieussecq 1998

3.46

4k+ ratings

🩸 Feminist Body Horror 🐖 Grotesque Metamorphosis 💄 Beauty Industry Critique 🏷️ Body Commodification 🚫 Societal Rejection

Delicate Condition

by Danielle Valentine • 2023

After IVF, an actress discovers her pregnancy is being sabotaged by forces that aren't human.

3.63

20k+

🗡️ Feminist Horror 🦷 Body Horror 🏥 Medical Gaslighting 🧙‍♀️ Witch Coven 👶 Haunted Pregnancy

Delicate Condition 91%

After IVF, an actress discovers her pregnancy is being sabotaged by forces that aren't human.

by Danielle Valentine 2023

3.63

20k+ ratings

🗡️ Feminist Horror 🦷 Body Horror 🏥 Medical Gaslighting 🧙‍♀️ Witch Coven 👶 Haunted Pregnancy

Trad Wife

by Saratoga Schaefer • 2026

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

3.83

13k+

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

Trad Wife 90%

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

by Saratoga Schaefer 2026

3.83

13k+ ratings

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

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 90%

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

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! 90%

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

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 90%

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

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 90%

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

Goddess of Filth

by V. Castro • 2021

Five friends hold a séance. One wakes possessed by an Aztec goddess who feasts on sin.

3.58

10k+

🖤 Feminist Horror 🕯️ Possession Horror 🏛️ Mythological Horror 💀 Latinx Horror 🌿 Cultural Reclamation

Goddess of Filth 90%

Five friends hold a séance. One wakes possessed by an Aztec goddess who feasts on sin.

by V. Castro 2021

3.58

10k+ ratings

🖤 Feminist Horror 🕯️ Possession Horror 🏛️ Mythological Horror 💀 Latinx Horror 🌿 Cultural Reclamation

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 90%

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

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 90%

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

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 90%

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

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 90%

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 Eyes Are the Best Part

by Monika Kim • 2024

A Korean American student hungers for her mother's white boyfriend. Specifically, his blue eyes.

3.78

64k+

🖤 Feminist Horror 🔥 Female Rage 🍽️ Cannibal Horror 🏠 Domestic Horror 🦴 Body Horror

The Eyes Are the Best Part 90%

A Korean American student hungers for her mother's white boyfriend. Specifically, his blue eyes.

by Monika Kim 2024

3.78

64k+ ratings

🖤 Feminist Horror 🔥 Female Rage 🍽️ Cannibal Horror 🏠 Domestic Horror 🦴 Body 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 90%

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

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 90%

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

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

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 89%

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

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 89%

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

Nightbitch

by Rachel Yoder • 2021

A stay-at-home mom's transformation into a dog awakens a wildness she thought motherhood had erased.

3.42

89k+

😤 Maternal Rage 🐺 Animal Transformation 🩸 Body Horror 🏡 Suburban Discontent 🖤 Dark Comedy

Nightbitch 89%

A stay-at-home mom's transformation into a dog awakens a wildness she thought motherhood had erased.

by Rachel Yoder 2021

3.42

89k+ ratings

😤 Maternal Rage 🐺 Animal Transformation 🩸 Body Horror 🏡 Suburban Discontent 🖤 Dark Comedy

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

The Lamb

by Lucy Rose • 2025

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 89%

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

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 89%

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

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 89%

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

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 89%

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

Hungerstone

by Kat Dunn • 2025

Her husband is poisoning her. The stranger from the moor offers a darker hunger.

3.90

40k+

🩸 Sapphic Vampires 🗡️ Feminist Horror 🕯️ Victorian Gothic 🦴 Body Horror 💍 Toxic Marriage

Hungerstone 89%

Her husband is poisoning her. The stranger from the moor offers a darker hunger.

by Kat Dunn 2025

3.90

40k+ ratings

🩸 Sapphic Vampires 🗡️ Feminist Horror 🕯️ Victorian Gothic 🦴 Body Horror 💍 Toxic Marriage

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 89%

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

Girl in a Rabbit Hole

by R.J. Law • 2021

A geneticist refuses a shadowy offer, and within days her entire life is surgically erased.

3.50

1k+

🧬 Genetic Horror 👁️ Paranoid Thriller 🏛️ Shadow Government 💪 Superhuman Transformation 🔪 Female Vengeance

Girl in a Rabbit Hole 89%

A geneticist refuses a shadowy offer, and within days her entire life is surgically erased.

by R.J. Law 2021

3.50

1k+ ratings

🧬 Genetic Horror 👁️ Paranoid Thriller 🏛️ Shadow Government 💪 Superhuman Transformation 🔪 Female Vengeance

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

Chouette

by Claire Oshetsky • 2021

A cellist births an owl-baby. Her husband calls it a crisis; she calls it her child.

3.88

7k+

🪄 Magical Realism 📖 Literary Horror 🦉 Feral Child 🩸 Body Horror 🌑 Dark Motherhood

Chouette 89%

A cellist births an owl-baby. Her husband calls it a crisis; she calls it her child.

by Claire Oshetsky 2021

3.88

7k+ ratings

🪄 Magical Realism 📖 Literary Horror 🦉 Feral Child 🩸 Body Horror 🌑 Dark Motherhood

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 89%

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

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 89%

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

Where I End

by Sophie White • 2022

Bound to her decaying mother on a bleak island, she craves the visiting artist and her newborn.

3.83

6k+

🌊 Irish Gothic 🦴 Body Horror ✒️ Literary Horror 🖤 Toxic Motherhood 🌀 Unreliable Narrator

Where I End 89%

Bound to her decaying mother on a bleak island, she craves the visiting artist and her newborn.

by Sophie White 2022

3.83

6k+ ratings

🌊 Irish Gothic 🦴 Body Horror ✒️ Literary Horror 🖤 Toxic Motherhood 🌀 Unreliable Narrator

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

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

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 89%

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

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 89%

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

Dark Sisters

by Kristi DeMeester • 2025

In her father's megachurch, purity is law. In the woods, something older and hungrier waits.

3.81

6k+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🖤 Feminist Horror 🩸 Generational Curse 🗡️ Blood Magic ⛪ Purity Culture

Dark Sisters 89%

In her father's megachurch, purity is law. In the woods, something older and hungrier waits.

by Kristi DeMeester 2025

3.81

6k+ ratings

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🖤 Feminist Horror 🩸 Generational Curse 🗡️ Blood Magic ⛪ Purity Culture

William

by Mason Coile • 2024

An agoraphobic man's AI traps his pregnant wife in a house that kills on Halloween.

3.48

18k+

🖥️ AI Horror ⚡ Creator Vs Creation 🏠 Trapped In A House 🧠 Fabricated Memories 👻 Possession Horror

William 89%

An agoraphobic man's AI traps his pregnant wife in a house that kills on Halloween.

by Mason Coile 2024

3.48

18k+ ratings

🖥️ AI Horror ⚡ Creator Vs Creation 🏠 Trapped In A House 🧠 Fabricated Memories 👻 Possession Horror

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 89%

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

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 89%

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

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 89%

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

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 88%

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

All's Well

by Mona Awad • 2021

After a drink with three strangers, a director's chronic pain vanishes, and everyone else suffers.

3.74

37k+

😈 Deal With The Devil 🩸 Body Horror 🎭 Theatre Setting 🤥 Unreliable Narrator 🦉 Dark Academia

All's Well 88%

After a drink with three strangers, a director's chronic pain vanishes, and everyone else suffers.

by Mona Awad 2021

3.74

37k+ ratings

😈 Deal With The Devil 🩸 Body Horror 🎭 Theatre Setting 🤥 Unreliable Narrator 🦉 Dark Academia

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

Stag Dance

by Torrey Peters • 2025

Forcibly injected, a trans woman becomes the first carrier of a gender-collapsing plague.

3.83

13k+

🧪 Gender Contagion 🌲 Queer Frontier 🩸 Body Horror 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Sisterhood 🎭 Fetish And Fantasy

Stag Dance 88%

Forcibly injected, a trans woman becomes the first carrier of a gender-collapsing plague.

by Torrey Peters 2025

3.83

13k+ ratings

🧪 Gender Contagion 🌲 Queer Frontier 🩸 Body Horror 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Sisterhood 🎭 Fetish And Fantasy

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

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

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The Graceview Patient 88%

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

by Caitlin Starling 2025

3.45

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Black Flame

by Gretchen Felker-Martin • 2025

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

3.54

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Black Flame 88%

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

by Gretchen Felker-Martin 2025

3.54

4k+ ratings

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The Unworthy

by Agustina Bazterrica • 2023

A servant in a torture convent falls for a stranger fire will not touch.

3.60

52k+

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The Unworthy 88%

A servant in a torture convent falls for a stranger fire will not touch.

by Agustina Bazterrica 2023

3.60

52k+ ratings

🛐 Religious Dystopia 🌿 Eco Horror 🖤 Sapphic Horror 🩸 Body Horror ✍️ Lyrical Horror

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