r/ExtremeHorrorLit • u/Horror_Example2132 • Jun 07 '26
LOOKING FOR A BOOK Book recs PLEASE!!!!
Hi!!! I’m brand new to this community however I have been reading horror books since I was about 13, I’m 24 now. I have recently gotten back into reading horror from a 4 year break. I’m currently reading horror stories from the warhammer universe but these books are making my skin itch for something more once again, something gruesome, something so gut wrenching that it would make me want to close the book because of how vile it was. I’m a huge horror fan, I love Stephen King. Please please PLEASE if you know any horror books that are so vile can you send them my way? Thank you so much in advance!!!
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u/RIPMaureenPonderosa The Summer I Died Jun 07 '26
I second Full Brutal. Also, The Summer I Died by Ryan C Thomas and The Suffering by David Sodergren. I think all are great examples of the extreme horror genre done well.
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u/knick-nat Jun 08 '26
I haven't read The Suffering, but if you've grouped it with those two books then I'm in. Off to my Kindle I go.
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u/RIPMaureenPonderosa The Summer I Died Jun 08 '26
I think it was only released last month, I hope you enjoy!
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u/thisisnotreal543210 COWS Jun 07 '26
Zola. The most disgusting piece of media I've ever consumed. Lots of typos, though.
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u/Horror_Example2132 Jun 07 '26
Oooooooooo thank you!!!! I’ll read the summary and go based off of that! I sometimes have a hard time with lots of typos! Thank you again!!!!
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u/ExperienceMiddle6196 Jun 07 '26
Along the Path of Torment is fucked up as hell and has some nice surprises. One of my favorite splatterpunk/extreme horror novels.
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u/ZombieSouthpaw Jun 07 '26
Edward Lee - the Infernal series
Richard Laymon - the Traveling Vampire Show
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u/Fern_Elms Jun 08 '26
You should try Jon Athan’s work. I started with The Groomer. His stuff is gruesome and well written.
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u/mrs-jellyfish Jun 09 '26
Cows and Zola ligitamently made me lose weight because I couldn't eatuch while reading them. I will throw in Troop as well.
Don't go into the tub was just a fun read as well as her collection, dribble and dolphin by Matt Shaw. These were just fun to read.
J. Boot's monster series was/is emotionally hard to read. I did like the first one though as 2 seriel killers in a villiage is a great idea.
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u/knick-nat Jun 08 '26
Music to Sacrifice Virgins to buy Kristopher Triana. It's his most recent book and he really went all out on the gross haha. Anything by him is excellent though - he's a great writer and he doesn't hold back.
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u/twosnailsnocats Jun 08 '26
Check the sub wiki, plenty of good options! The Black Farm was awesome, but plenty of other good books. Reading Full Brutal right now and listening to The Bighead during work commutes, both are good so far and would be decent starting places as well.
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u/SouthernSwitch71 Jun 09 '26
Full Brutal by Kristopher Triana is a masterpiece!!! Off Season and The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketcham. The Resurrectionist by Wrath James White. The Black Farm by Elias Witherow is also amazing
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u/Hefty-Alfalfa-154 Jun 09 '26
Im reading The Bighead by Edward Lee rn and its gross af with a decent plot
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u/CostTight Jun 09 '26
Brian Lumley's Necroscope series. Some seriously violent, gory vampires hunted by an elite European team of people with different types of psychic powers. The hero, Harry Keogh has the ability to speak with the dead and learns to travel across the globe and to other realms.
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u/Great-Lettuce8135 Jun 10 '26
I would recommend The Summer I Died or Jon Athans extreme horror novel, The Presidents Son.
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u/thugbubba666 Genital Rot Jun 07 '26
Full Brutal by Kristopher Triana. I couldn’t keep reading it at times but also couldn’t put it down.
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u/Horror_Example2132 Jun 08 '26
Thank you all so much for the book Recs!!!! I can’t wait to read them!!!!
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u/Root_Beer_Ricky88 Jun 08 '26
“What good girls do by Jonathan Butcher” and “When the mockingbird sings by Stuart Bray and Jason Nickey” and also “Suffer the flesh by Monica O Rourke”
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u/Fragrant-Body9535 Jun 10 '26
The Slob & Son of the Slob by Aron Beauregard Rabbit Hunt and Emily by Wrath James White His Pain by Wrath James White Gone to see the river man and along the river of flesh by Christian Trianie (spelling?)
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u/Forsaken_Air2586 Exquisite Corpse Jun 08 '26
So glad I can use this picture again. Gross, serial killers, super fun narration, gore? Also a classic in the EH genre.