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Negative Space
B.R. Yeager · 2020
"Like smoke off a collision between Dennis Cooper’s George Miles Cycle and Beyond The Black Rainbow, absorbing the energy of mind control, reincarnation, parallel universes, altered states, school shootings, obsession, suicidal ideation, and so much else, B.R. Yeager’s multi-valent voicing of drugged up, occult youth reveals fresh tunnels into the gray space between the body and the spirit, the living and the dead, providing a well-aimed shot in the arm for the world of conceptual contemporary horror."<br/>—Blake Butler, author of Three Hundred Million<br/><br/>“Ever wonder where teenage children go at night? Perhaps it’s best not knowing the answer. There’s something amiss in Kinsfield, a drab, boring city much like your own, except for the teenage suicide epidemic, stagnant, ineffectual parents, cultish behavior that borders on psychosis, and strings, strings everywhere. B.R. Yeager’s Negative Space is a hypnotic collage of message boards, memes, and ruined bodies twisting at the end of a rope. Most modern novels have lost all concept of magic. B.R. Yeager’s Negative Space is a stunning refutation of the quotidian.”<br/>—James Nulick, author of Haunted Girlfriend & Valencia
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · 2021

Geek Love A Novel
Katherine Dunn · 2002
<b>National Book Award Finalist <b>•</b> Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities—with the help of amphetamines, arsenic, and radioisotopes. <br><br><b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b><br><br></b>Their offspring include Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious—and dangerous—asset. <br><br> As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, <i>Geek Love</i> throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same.

2666
Roberto Bolaño · 2016
<p> <b>Imprescindible. Apocalíptica. Única.</b> </p> <p> <b>La novela que abrió el camino a seguir por la narrativa del siglo XXI.</b> </p> <p>La ciudad mexicana de Santa Teresa -trasunto de Ciudad Juárez- atrae como un imán a los protagonistas. Cuatro críticos literarios europeos viajan hasta Sonora tras las huellas del escritor desaparecido Benno von Archimboldi, cuya vida se refiere en la parte final de la novela. Allí conocerán a Amalfitano, el profesor universitario chileno que, junto con su hija, se establece en la ciudad, a la que también llegará el periodista estadounidense Oscar Fate para retransmitir un combate de boxeo. Pero el corazón del relato se encuentra en «La parte de los crímenes» donde, con la precisión de un bisturí, Bolaño narra los asesinatos de mujeres cometidos en Santa Teresa y las infructuosas investigaciones de la policía. En el epicentro del Mal, nada puede parar el horror.</p> <p>Con una fuerza arrolladora, en <i>2666 </i>Bolaño crea una obra magistral que rompe con todas las tendencias literarias conocidas y abre el camino a seguir por la narrativa del siglo XXI. Violencia e historia se entretejen con temas recurrentes en la obra del autor: la literatura, la búsqueda y la crónica de la realidad.</p> <p> <i> <b>2666</b> </i> <b> fue galardonada con los premios Ciudad de Barcelona, Salambó, National Critics Circle Award y Altazor, calificada como uno de los mejores libros de 2008 por</b> <i> <b> The New York Times,</b> </i> <b> elegida por 81 críticos y escritores de España y Latinoamérica como uno de los mejores libros en lengua castellana de los últimos 25 años y considerada el mejor libro en español de los últimos veinticinco años por </b> <i> <b>Babelia.</b> </i> </p> <p> <b>Críticas:</b> <br> «Una joya y la consagración del horror contemporáneo.» <br> Ana Trasobares, <i>Esquire </i> </p> <p> <br> «El relato más admirable del último cuarto de siglo. Quizá también lo sea del inmediatamente anterior y es muy posible que lo haya de ser del siguiente». <br> José-Carlos Mainer, <i>Babelia</i> </p> <p>«De Roberto Bolaño me gusta todo, sus grandes, inmensas novelas, pero también los relatos cortos». <br> Pedro Almodóvar</p> <p>«Una obra de un poder y una complejidad arrolladores. Un alegato final digno de un maestro». <br> <i>The Boston Globe</i> </p> <p>«Una meganovela detectivesca con fuertes indicios de presagios apocalípticos [con] personajes memorables cuyas historias, a caballo siempre entre la risa y el horror, abarcan dos continentes e incluyen, entre muchas otras cosas, un vertiginoso viaje por la historia europea del siglo XX, por las ruinas de una cultura en la que la literatura continúa siendo una tabla de salvación. Con la vida escurriéndose entre sus dedos, al escribir <i>2666 </i>Bolaño salvaba al mundo con sus palabras». <br> Rosa Martí, <i>Esquire</i> </p> <p>«La creación más audaz de Bolaño. Es valiente de una forma que pocas obras lo son: elimina de golpe la brecha entre lo divertido y lo solemne». <br> Henry Hitchings, <i> Financial Times</i> </p> <p>« <i>2666:</i> la consagración del horror contemporáneo. La literatura en estado puro». <br> Fernando Rodríguez Lafuente</p> <p>«Su obra más importante y una de las más grandes de la literatura contemporánea en lengua castellana». <br> J.A. Masoliver Ródenas, <i>La Vanguardia</i> </p> <p>« <i>2666</i> es la novela total, sin principio ni fin, el lugar de todos los vértigos y todas las paradojas, [...] donde se funden presente y pasado, la esperanza y la desesperanza y donde lo verdadero y lo falso se acercan tanto que llegan a confundir». <br> <i>Le Magazine Littéraire</i> </p> <p>«Narcos, corrupción, machismo y descripciones brutales de los hechos son las bases de esta sórdida y magistral novela». <br> Ana Trasobares, <i>Esquire</i> </p>

Demian: The Story of a Youth
Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann · 2011

Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
Camille Paglia · 1992

Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
Camille Paglia · 2017

Sexual Personae
Camille Paglia · 1990

African Religions and Philosophy
John S. Mbiti · 1970

Red Rabbit (Tom Clancy)
Tom Clancy · 2003

I Was A Teenage Slasher
Stephen Graham Jones · 2024

The Revels
Stacey Thomas · 2023

The Corner That Held Them
Sylvia Townsend Warner · 1972

Between Two Fires
Christopher Buehlman · 2012

Helpmeet
Naben Ruthnum · 2022

The Doloriad
Missouri Williams · 2022

Such Small Hands
Andrés Barba · 2017

Made for Love: A Novel
Alissa Nutting · 2017

Patricia Wants to Cuddle: A Novel
Samantha Allen · 2023

Paradise Logic
Sophie Kemp · 2025

Mood Swings
Frankie Barnet · 2024

The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov · 1994

Withered Hill
David Barnett · 2024

Pilgrim: A Medieval Horror
Mitchell Lüthi · 2023

HIS BLACK TONGUE: A Medieval Horror
Mitchell Luthi · 2021

Dead Girl Blues
David Sodergren · 2020
When a young woman dies in Willow Zulawski’s arms, it sets in motion a chain of events that will push her to the brink of madness.<br/><br/>A mysterious video is the only clue, but as Willow digs deeper into the murky world of snuff movies, those closest to her start turning up dead. Someone out there will stop at nothing to silence her.<br/><br/>After all, when killing is business, what’s one more dead body?<br/><br/>Part noir mystery, part violent slasher, Dead Girl Blues is the latest twisted shocker from David Sodergren, author of The Forgotten Island and Night Shoot.

The Haar: A Horror Novel
David Sodergren · 2022

Deliver Me
Elle Nash · 2023
“To read the work of Elle Nash is to be restored to faith in the wildness, wetness, and visceral power of contemporary American fiction. Deliver Me is a barbed liturgy of bugs, babies, meat, the gospel, women lusting women, women lusting men, and the human body. Get saved.” —MELISSA BRODER, author of Milk Fed, The Pisces, and Death Valley<br/>“...an explosive ending that will stun readers… Readers drawn to gritty character studies should take a look.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY<br/><br/>“Haunting and at times relentlessly cruel, this novel will keep readers guessing.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,000 chickens in a single shift.<br/><br/>The work is repetitive and brutal, with each stab and cut a punishment to her hands and joints, but Dee-Dee’s more concerned with what is happening inside her body. After a series of devastating miscarriages, Dee-Dee has found herself pregnant, and she is determined to carry this child to term. Dee-Dee fled the Pentecostal church years ago, but judgment follows her in the form of regular calls from her mother, whose raspy voice urges Dee-Dee to quit living in sin and marry her boyfriend Daddy, an underemployed ex-con with an insect fetish.<br/>With a child on the way, at long last Dee-Dee can bask in her mother’s and boyfriend’s newfound parturient attention. She will matter. She will be loved. She will be complete. When her charismatic friend Sloane reappears after a twenty-year absence, feeding her insecurities and awakening suppressed desires, Dee-Dee fears she will go back to living in the shadows. Neither the ultimate indignity of yet another miscarriage nor Sloane’s own pregnancy deters her: she must prepare for the baby’s arrival.

Girls Against God: A Novel
Jenny Hval · 2020

Paradise Rot: A Novel
Jenny Hval · 2018

House of Psychotic Women: Expanded Hardcover Edition: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films
Kier-La Janisse · 2022
In 2012, a book debuted that would go on to canonical status and usher in a new way of writing about film. Kier-La Janisse’s HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films that examines hundreds of films through a daringly personal lens. In this pioneering work, anecdotes and memories interweave with film history, criticism, trivia and confrontational imagery to create a reflective personal history and a consideration of female madness, both onscreen and off.<br/><br/>To mark its 10th anniversary, Kier-La Janisse and FAB Press have reteamed to produce an expanded edition the book, featuring new writing on 100 more films – many of which were inspired in part by the book itself – and hundreds of new images. This first pressing of the Expanded Edition has been issued as a large format hardcover.<br/><br/>Cinema is full of neurotic personalities, but few things are more transfixing than a woman losing her mind onscreen. Horror as a genre provides the most welcoming platform for these histrionics: crippling paranoia, desperate loneliness, masochistic death-wishes, dangerous obsessiveness, apocalyptic hysteria. Unlike her male counterpart - 'the eccentric' - the female neurotic lives a shamed existence, making these films those rare places where her destructive emotions get to play.<br/><br/>This sharply-designed book, including a 48-page full-colour section, is packed with 680 rare stills, posters, pressbooks and artwork throughout, that combine with family photos and artifacts to form a titillating sensory overload, with a filmography that traverses the acclaimed and the obscure in equal measure. Films covered include The Entity, The Corruption of Chris Miller, Singapore Sling, 3 Women, Toys Are Not for Children, Repulsion, Let's Scare Jessica to Death, The Haunting of Julia, Secret Ceremony, Cutting Moments, Out of the Blue, Mademoiselle, The Piano Teacher, Possession, Antichrist and hundreds more!

Goth: A History
Lol Tolhurst · 2023
The co-founder of The Cure and author of Cured delivers a fascinating deep dive into the dark romanticism of Goth music, a misunderstood genre and culture.<br/><br/>GOTH is an entertaining and engaging historical memoir, and a journey through Goth music and culture, exploring creative giants like The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, Joy Division, and many more great bands that offered a place of refuge for the misfits of the ‘80s and ever since. Written by Lol Tolhurst, co-founder of The Cure, this book offers a riveting retrospective of the genre’s iconic movers and shakers, infused with stories from Tolhurst’s personal trove of memories, as well as anecdotes about the musicians, magicians, and artists who made it all happen—the people, places, and things that made Goth an inevitable and enduring movement.<br/><br/>Starting with the Origins of Goth, Tolhurst explores early art and literature that inspired the genre and looks into the work of T.S Eliot, Edgar Allan Poe, Sylvia Plath, and Albert Camus, among others. He also outlines the path of Gothic Forebears and shows how many musicians played in punk bands before transitioning into Goth endeavors. Next, he introduces readers to the “Architects of Darkness”—Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division, and The Cure—the Godfathers of Goth who established the genre's roots. Following these early bands, Tolhurst discusses a group he calls the “Spiritual Alchemists,” consisting of bands like Depeche Mode, Cocteau Twins, and more, who helped the darkness expand into the culture. He also tracks the expansion of the genre overseas, from England to New York, Los Angeles, and beyond. Gothic fashion was an important part of the movement as well, and Tolhurst discusses the clothing that accompanied and complemented the music. Finally, Tolhurst examines the legacy of Goth music, and shows how its influence can still be seen to this day across music, film, TV, visual arts, social media, and more.<br/><br/>As thoughtful and thorough as it is utterly bewitching, GOTH is a timeless testament to why Goth matters—and why it always will.

Goddess of Filth
V Castro · 2021
<p><i>"Five of us sat in a circle doing our best to emulate the girls in </i>The Craft<i>, hoping to unleash some power to take us all away from our home to the place of our dreams. But we weren't witches. We were five Chicanas living in San Antonio, Texas, one year out of high school."</i></p><br><p>One hot summer night, best friends Lourdes, Fernanda, Ana, Perla, and Pauline hold a séance. It's all fun and games at first, but their tipsy laughter turns to terror when the flames burn straight through their prayer candles and Fernanda starts crawling toward her friends and chanting in Nahuatl, the language of their Aztec ancestors.</p><br><p>Over the next few weeks, shy, modest Fernanda starts acting strangely--smearing herself in black makeup, shredding her hands on rose thorns, sucking sin out of the mouths of the guilty. The local priest is convinced it's a demon, but Lourdes begins to suspect it's something else--something far more ancient and powerful.</p><br><p>As Father Moreno's obsession with Fernanda grows, Lourdes enlists the help of her "bruja Craft crew" and a professor, Dr. Camacho, to understand what is happening to her friend in this unholy tale of possession-gone-right.</p><br>

Acts of Desperation
Megan Nolan · 2022

The Sluts
Dennis Cooper · 2005

Erotism: Death and Sensuality
Georges Bataille · 1986

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
Larry Mitchell · 2019
<p><b><i>The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions</i> is a beloved queer utopian text</b> written by Larry Mitchell with lush illustrations by Ned Asta, published by Calamus Press in 1977. Part-fable, part-manifesto, the book takes place in Ramrod, an empire in decline, and introduces us to the communities of the faggots, the women, the queens, the queer men, and the women who love women who are surviving the ways and world of men. Cherished by many over the four decades since its publication, <i>The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions</i> offers a trenchant critique of capitalism, assimilation, and patriarchy that is deeply relevant today. This new edition will feature essays from performance artist Morgan Bassichis, who adapted the book to music with TM Davy in 2017 for a performance at the New Museum, and activist filmmaker Tourmaline.</p>

Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy (Studies in the History of Sexuality)
Judith C. Brown · 1986

The Hellbound Heart: A Novel
Clive Barker · 2009

Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy · 1992

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires: A Novel
Grady Hendrix · 2021

Exquisite Corpse
Poppy Z. Brite · 1997

Death Valley
Melissa Broder · 2023

Wounds
Nathan Ballingrud · 2019

We Come Bearing Curses
Zachariah Chamberlin · 2023
Nestled in primeval forests and misty valleys is the isolated community of Haven Shire. This quiet town holds a terrible secret that only the brothers Thatch know- this is where the world ends.<br>Born and raised in the shadows of Haven Shire, George and Phineas Thatch must face their past and worst fears and prevent cosmic horrors from invading our plane of reality.<br>Along with an eclectic team of misfits, they will put their lives on the line to stop a family of murdering cultists from summoning the apocalypse. Against an army of horrors from beyond the Veil, these unlikely heroes will use every weapon at their disposal. Even those that bear the curse of their past.<br>They just have to resolve their family trauma at the same time.

Body Art
Kristopher Triana, Blood Bound Books · 2020

The Prettiest Girl in the Grave
Kristopher Triana · 2023
From the author of international horror sensation <i>Gone to See the River Man</i> comes a new tale of terror that will drag you to the darkest corners of the soul. <p><i>Some girls are fearful, others are brave. One girl's a princess, the next one, a slave. But all girls are equal, when they're down in this cave, until just one is left standing-The Prettiest Girl in the Grave.</i> <p>It's only supposed to be a game. <p>When Bella, Celeste, and Rose meet with new friends at a graveyard in the woods, they soon realize they're unprepared for what's planned. At twenty, Aubrey is older than the high schoolers, and she knows of a secret game that's been played by local girls for decades. <p>It starts with personal questions, but quickly moves on to a test of courage as Aubrey guides them into an underground crypt. But even Aubrey doesn't know what they're really getting into. Bella's mother, Holly, may be the only one who does. <p>As a teen, Holly and her friends also played the game, and Holly barely survived. When she discovers her daughter has gone to the graveyard, she fears Bella will get lost in the mysterious catacombs just as she had . . . and face the same sinister forces. <p>As the girls search for a way out, Holly must return to the dreadful crypt she swore she'd never come back to, and finally face her own dark secrets. <p>"Triana's masterful, gripping storytelling will not let go."- <i>Scream Magazine</i>

Butcher & Blackbird: The Ruinous Love Trilogy
Brynne Weaver · 2024

Because You're Mine
Kristopher Triana

Full Brutal
Kristopher Triana · 2018

Lord of the Feast
Tim Waggoner · 2024

The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Donna Tartt · 2015

Fragile Animals
Genevieve Jagger · 2024

Sula
Toni Morrison · 2004

Heaven
Mieko Kawakami · 2021

Salt Fish Girl: A Novel
Larissa Lai · 2008

A Touch of Jen
Beth Morgan · 2021
A young couple's toxic Instagram crush spins out of control and unleashes a sinister creature in this twisted, viciously funny, "bananas good" debut. (Carmen Maria Machado)"Um, holy shit ... This novel will be the most fun you'll have this summer."--Emily Temple, Literary HubRemy and Alicia, a couple of insecure service workers, are not particularly happy together. But they are bound by a shared obsession with Jen, a beautiful former co-worker of Remy's who now seems to be following her bliss as a globe-trotting jewelry designer. In and outside the bedroom, Remy and Alicia's entire relationship revolves around fantasies of Jen, whose every Instagram caption, outfit, and new age mantra they know by heart. Imagine their confused excitement when they run into Jen, in the flesh, and she invites them on a surfing trip to the Hamptons with her wealthy boyfriend and their group. Once there, Remy and Alicia try (a little too hard) to fit into Jen's exalted social circle, but violent desire and class resentment bubble beneath the surface of this beachside paradise, threatening to erupt. As small disturbances escalate into outright horror, we find ourselves tumbling with Remy and Alicia into an uncanny alternate reality, one shaped by their most unspeakable, deviant, and intoxicating fantasies. Is this what "self-actualization" looks like?Part millennial social comedy, part psychedelic horror, and all wildly entertaining, A Touch of Jen is a sly, unflinching examination of the hidden drives that lurk just outside the frame of our carefully curated selves











