🏷️ Body Horror
10 entries tagged with this trope
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 2020
1950s Mexico. Noemí investigates her cousin's disturbing letter from an isolated English mansion. What she finds involves fungus, family secrets, and body horror.
The Luminous Dead
Caitlin Starling · 2019
Gyre descends into dangerous caves wearing a suit controlled by a mysterious handler. But the caves hold more than geological treasures—something is hunting her.
The Troop
Nick Cutter · 2014
A Boy Scout troop on a remote island. A starving stranger arrives. What he carries will test them all. Lord of the Flies meets The Thing. Not for the squeamish.
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer · 2014
Four women enter Area X — a quarantined zone where nature has gone wrong. The biologist narrates. Something is changing them. Eco-horror that burrows into your brain.
The Troop
Nick Cutter · 2014
A boy scout troop on a remote island encounters a stranger who's infected with something. Lord of the Flies meets body horror. Do NOT read while eating.
The Troop
Nick Cutter · 2014
A scoutmaster and five boys on an island. A stranger arrives sick. Very sick. Lord of the Flies meets biological horror. Not for the squeamish.
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer · 2014
Four women enter Area X. The biologist documents what they find. Nature has been changed. So have they. Eco-horror that gets under your skin.
The Troop
Nick Cutter · 2014
Boy scout troop on an island. A stranger stumbles out of the woods, impossibly thin. Lord of the Flies meets body horror.
What Moves the Dead
T. Kingfisher · 2022
A retelling of Poe's 'Fall of the House of Usher.' Something is very wrong with the lake, the house, and Madeline. Fungal horror done beautifully.
Fever Dream
Samanta Schweblin · 2014
A woman is dying. A boy who may not be a boy walks her through her last memories. Short, devastating, and deeply strange. Will haunt you for weeks.