Books like Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
12 books with a reading profile close to Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth by Grant Morrison. Deep, inward-looking and open-ended; a moderate read.
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Black Hole
Also deep and inward-looking · 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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Geek Love
Also inward-looking and open-ended · 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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3
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
by Eric LaRocca
Also inward-looking and open-ended · 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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Our Wives Under the Sea
Also inward-looking · horror, literary
Miri’s wife, Leah, returns from a deep-sea research expedition that lasted months longer than scheduled.
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5
Paradise Rot
by Jenny Hval
Also deep and inward-looking · horror, literary
Jo, a Norwegian biology student, moves into a cavernous, converted brewery in an industrial English town.
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Cursed Bunny
by Bora Chung
Also deep and open-ended · 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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Fever Dream
Also deep and inward-looking · horror, literary
A woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural Argentine hospital, prompted by a young boy named David to recount the days leading up to her collapse.
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8
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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9
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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Lapvona
Also deep and open-ended · horror, literary
In the medieval fiefdom of Lapvona, a deformed boy named Marek survives a life of physical brutality and religious delusion.
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All's Well
by Mona Awad
Also inward-looking · horror, literary
Miranda Fitch is a theater professor suffering from chronic back pain that has derailed her acting career and isolated her from her skeptical colleagues.
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