Im not really into that splatterpunk stuff because I find it a little try hard mostly and it doesn’t have any real affect on me psychologically and don’t even necessarily want a horror book, but just something that’s gonna leave me feeling a little uneasy and uncomfortable. Thank u!
Edit: Basically, I wanna be subtly mindf*cked in an intelligent way without all the excess horror.
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Do you know about Paul Tremblay?
A book that always stuck with me is The Green Mile. It’s written very well and there’s a couple particular moments that are uncomfortable — it’s the book I wish I could reread for the first time all over again.
I recently read *A Face Like Glass by Frances Hardinge.*
It is surprisingly horrifying for a YA book. It blends dystopian fantasy, scifi, and a bit of horror. Lots of the book covers assassination attempts, ways of torture, gore in a few places. It’s not meant to be angst horror, but because of the plot’s nature it really left me slightly unsettled. It’s a standalone and I can guarantee you a happy ending, but some of the in between details were disturbing to me as an adult, so I can’t imagine reading this as a preteen and not being a bit terrified.
Shirley Jackson – The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Iain Banks – The Wasp Factory
House of leaves by danielewski. Very unsettling book
House of Leaves isn’t violent but I slammed it shut and threw it across the room at one point because I got too freaked out.
Strange Beasts of China – Yan Ge
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Luminous Dead
Coraline. Or The Ocean at The End of The Lane. Both by Neil Gaiman. Both are ‘urban fantasy’, meaning they could feasibly take place in the world we live in, which to me gives them a certain extra edge of mindfuck