Books like Are You Loathsome Tonight?
12 books with a reading profile close to Are You Loathsome Tonight? by Poppy Z. Brite. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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Haunted
horror, literary
Twenty-three people answer an ad for a writers' retreat in an abandoned theater, expecting a quiet place to work.
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Our Wives Under the Sea
horror, literary
Miri’s wife, Leah, returns from a deep-sea research expedition that lasted months longer than scheduled.
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Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
by Eric LaRocca
horror, literary
Two women, Agnes and Ashley, meet in an online chat room in the early 2000s and begin an intense correspondence.
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Cursed Bunny
by Bora Chung
horror, literary
Bora Chung's collection of Korean short fiction brings together stories that mix horror, science fiction and fairy-tale cruelty.
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Lullaby
horror, literary
Carl Streator is a newspaper reporter writing about sudden infant deaths when he notices that each of the babies had a copy of the same book of poems, which includes a lullaby from an African culling song.
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Revenge
by Yōko Ogawa
horror, literary
This collection of eleven interlocking short stories functions as a macabre jigsaw puzzle set in contemporary Japan.
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Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
horror, literary
On April Fools' Day, the inmates of Arkham Asylum seize control of the facility and demand that Batman join them inside.
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Geek Love
horror, literary
Aloysius Binewski and his wife Crystal Lil deliberately breed a family of human oddities by ingesting toxic chemicals and radioactive isotopes during pregnancy.
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Black Hole
horror, literary
Set in the suburbs of Seattle during the mid-1970s, this graphic novel depicts a group of teenagers who contract a sexually transmitted plague known as the Bug.
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Paradise Rot
by Jenny Hval
horror, literary
Jo, a Norwegian biology student, moves into a cavernous, converted brewery in an industrial English town.
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Exquisite Corpse
horror, literary
Andrew Compton, a British serial killer who escapes a life sentence by faking his own death, arrives in New Orleans to resume his search for the perfect victim.
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