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Basically what it says on the label - surreal horror.
A blend of the nightmarish, grotesque, disturbed and maddening in all their theatrical colours.
The parameters for this list aren't terribly strict and most sub-genres are welcome as long as they have notable portions of dark surrealism*. Body horror, Hell, malformed reality, some sort of abomination haunting you from your peripheral vision, those sorts of things.
This includes but isn't limited to bizarro, surrealist writings and poetry, psychological horror, weird fiction and Lovecraftian, sci-fi horror, and some sorts of dark fantasy, magic realism and paranormal. Nonfiction ABOUT surreal horror, such as art or film books, are also allowed.
A blend of the nightmarish, grotesque, disturbed and maddening in all their theatrical colours.
The parameters for this list aren't terribly strict and most sub-genres are welcome as long as they have notable portions of dark surrealism*. Body horror, Hell, malformed reality, some sort of abomination haunting you from your peripheral vision, those sorts of things.
This includes but isn't limited to bizarro, surrealist writings and poetry, psychological horror, weird fiction and Lovecraftian, sci-fi horror, and some sorts of dark fantasy, magic realism and paranormal. Nonfiction ABOUT surreal horror, such as art or film books, are also allowed.
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Uzumaki
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
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Fragments of Horror
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House of Leaves
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Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
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At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
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The Hellbound Heart
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Hellstar Remina
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Tomie
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Teatro Grottesco
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Cursed Bunny
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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
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Hole Punch
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Garth Simmons (Goodreads Author)
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The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories
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後遺症ラジオ 1 [Kouishou Radio 1] (PTSD Radio, #1)
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The Cipher
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Kathe Koja (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 7,354 ratings
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Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
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Eric LaRocca (Goodreads Author)
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The Street of Crocodiles
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The Unyielding
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Where I Keep My Spoons
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Ben Fitts (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Songs of a Dead Dreamer
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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Panorama of Hell
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The Turn of the Screw
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My Birth and Other Regrets
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Ben Fitts (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Mexican Gothic
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 422,075 ratings
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Tell Me I’m Worthless
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Alison Rumfitt (Goodreads Author)
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Pim and Francie: The Golden Bear Days
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The Sun Down Motel
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Simone St. James (Goodreads Author)
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The Haunting of Maddy Clare
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Simone St. James (Goodreads Author)
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The Broken Girls
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Simone St. James (Goodreads Author)
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The Brains of Rats
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Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
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Gray Skies of Dismal Dreams
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Gerri R. Gray (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Make Me Feel Beautiful
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Jason Iannone (Goodreads Author)
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My Eyes Are Black Holes
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Logan Ryan Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 193 ratings
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Roots
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Alex Foster (Goodreads Author)
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The Dawn of Evil (The Wages of Sin, #5)
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L.E. Parker (Goodreads Author)
4.55 avg rating — 49 ratings
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不安の種 1 (Fuan no Tane, #1)
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Nameless
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Grant Morrison (Writer)
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The Night Sister
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Jennifer McMahon (Goodreads Author)
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Such a Pretty Smile
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Kristi DeMeester (Goodreads Author)
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Lapvona
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Below the Palmettos
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Thomas W. Brown (Goodreads Author)
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The Dream Factory
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Jon Vassa (Goodreads Author)
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I Saw Satan at the 7-Eleven
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Coup de Grâce
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Sofia Ajram (Goodreads Author)
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Sepia (Inzycht #2)
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Stijn Moreels (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Angela's Arm
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Roland Allnach (Goodreads Author)
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Pontypool Changes Everything
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Venous Hum
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Demons, Devils and Denizens of Hell: Volume 2
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P. Mattern (Goodreads Author)
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Highway 96’d
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Theodore Moracht (Goodreads Author)
3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Snail Eyes
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Roach Adams (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Enjoy Me
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Logan Ryan Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Winterwood
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The Birth of Death (The Wages of Sin, #4)
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L.E. Parker (Goodreads Author)
4.56 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Indigo (Inzycht, #1)
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Stijn Moreels (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Cannibals of Candyland
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Carlton Mellick III (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 1,598 ratings
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Western Palaces
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Logan Ryan Smith (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Fall of Innocence (The Wages of Sin, #3)
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L.E. Parker (Goodreads Author)
4.54 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Blood and Blasphemy
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Parasyte 1
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Ultra-Gash Inferno
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The Atrocity Exhibition
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The Vegetarian
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The Wrath of Truth (The Wages of Sin, #2)
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L.E. Parker (Goodreads Author)
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Graveyard Girls
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I Will Rot Without You
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The Devil's Advocate (The Wages of Sin, #1)
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L.E. Parker (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Deadman's Tome Cthulhu Christmas Special: Other Lovecraftian Yuletide Tales
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The New Flesh: A Literary Tribute to David Cronenberg
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Sam Richard (Goodreads Author)
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Care of Wooden Floors
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Stray Toasters
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Toplin
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Incarnate
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Dark Water
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Compulsory Games
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The Place
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Bad Brains
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Kathe Koja (Goodreads Author)
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Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories
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Anthony Shriek
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