Books like Swamp Thing, Vol. 3: The Curse
12 books with a reading profile close to Swamp Thing, Vol. 3: The Curse by Alan Moore. Deep; 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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Jitterbug Perfume
by Tom Robbins
entertainment, literary
Alobar, an eighth-century king who refuses to die, escapes his ritual execution and begins an odyssey across centuries alongside a clever peasant girl named Kudra.
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Cursed Bunny
by Bora Chung
Also deep · 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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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
by Tom Robbins
entertainment, literary
Sissy Hankshaw is born with enormously oversized thumbs, a biological anomaly she utilizes to become the greatest hitchhiker in the United States.
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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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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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Swamp Thing, Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing
by Alan Moore
horror, entertainment
When writer Alan Moore took over the title in 1983, he restructured the protagonist’s origin through a biological revelation.
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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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Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
Also deep · 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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Tender Is the Flesh
Also deep · horror, literary
In a world where a sudden virus renders all animal meat lethal, governments legalize "special meat": the breeding and slaughter of humans for systemic consumption.
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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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