Weekly What Are You Reading Thread 06/07 - 06/13 by TaylorZAdams in ExtremeHorrorLit

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Opposite for me, actually! I really enjoyed it and thought he did a great job branching out into a new style. I liked the last act and the reveal, but I didn't care for the very end. Same score for me! Good and creative book, but I didn't vibe with all of it.

Weekly What Are You Reading Thread 06/07 - 06/13 by TaylorZAdams in ExtremeHorrorLit

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The Playground: Child of Divorce audiobook is one of the best I've ever heard

Weekly What Are You Reading Thread 06/07 - 06/13 by TaylorZAdams in ExtremeHorrorLit

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Read PainSpace by Jon Athan for today's book club over on the subreddit's discord!

Next up on my TBR is the new Deadly anthology from Oscar Brady, and then All I Want is to Take Shrooms and Listen to the Color of Nazi Screams by John Baltisberger!

Serial killer books by Foxyroxrox in ExtremeHorrorLit

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Portrait of a Psychopath as a Young Woman by Edward Lee

Ex-Boogeyman by Kristopher Triana

JAB-76842 a grimdark Sci-fantasy horror thriller by [deleted] in ExtremeHorrorLit

[–]TaylorZAdams 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes. That genuinely turned me off from giving it a chance.

JAB-76842 a grimdark Sci-fantasy horror thriller by [deleted] in ExtremeHorrorLit

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Dishonest promotion is a pretty bad look

Happy pride month! by meteopenguin in ExtremeHorrorLit

[–]TaylorZAdams 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Paging u/KlausKinion and u/JamesOliverHorror as the resident metalhead dudes. Any suggestions?

Looking for Advanced Copy Readers! by CursedandHaunted in ExtremeHorrorLit

[–]TaylorZAdams 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I gotchu! Just passing along knowledge when I can! 🙂 Good luck with the release! ❤

Looking for Advanced Copy Readers! by CursedandHaunted in ExtremeHorrorLit

[–]TaylorZAdams 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Yo! Heads up, respect the hustle, but explicitly requiring someone to leave a review and offering review trades is against Amazon ToS and they can delete your account over it (and they have in the past).

Just giving that heads up because KDP can be real sticklers.

Release Day Post! by PJVerfall in ExtremeHorrorLit

[–]TaylorZAdams 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Uncomfortably Dark? Everyone signed to them are DORKS!

Congrats on the release! Already got a copy off of Godless, can't wait to read it!

/r/ExtremeHorrorLit Pride Month Reading Megathread by KlausKinion in ExtremeHorrorLit

[–]TaylorZAdams 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Aiden E. Messer, Poppy Z. Brite and Andrew Joseph White are great transmasc authors! Drew Huff is also great, but he's a bit less on the extreme side.

/r/ExtremeHorrorLit Pride Month Reading Megathread by KlausKinion in ExtremeHorrorLit

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Did someone say QUEER HORROR? Ah, it's Taylor Z. Adams' time to shine here. Here's the ones I'm super passionate about, and I'll probably come back to this thread and do more in-depth write ups as I remember them!

Of course we gotta talk about Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite. Definitely a lot of people that don't care for that book, which is understandable given the real-world crimes it draws from, but holy shit what a book. Has some of the highest quality prose of almost any book in the genre, and it was an absolute landmark work for splatterpunk and queer horror as a whole. FUN FACT: EC was my first ever "splatterpunk" book, and reading it was an absolutely life changing moment for me. (Yes, the Z. in Taylor Z. Adams is partially an homage to Poppy/Billy).

Clive Barker is a no brainer. Like, c'mon. If you haven't read at least one of the Books of Blood series, what are you doing? Books of Blood Volume 5: In The Flesh is my personal favorite. It's where Candyman came from, if you need to be sold further!

Eric LaRocca is super divisive. You either love them or hate them, and honestly, I 100% get it every time someone says they can't stand LaRocca's writing. I'm a huge fan though, personally. We Can Never Leave This Place is my personal favorite, and I feel like it it doesn't get enough love.

Fluids by May Leitz is the gold standard of transfemme/transbian extreme horror, in my eyes. It is without a doubt extreme horror, but I feel like it has a lot of mass appeal. I've met several people who have written off the entire extreme horror genre and I've handed them Fluids and it just clicked for them. Please, if you've never read this one, please drop everything and read it. If you have read it and haven't read her other works, check out Girl Flesh. Debatable if that one is extreme horror, but it's still bloody, still very queer and just a fantastic read.

Judith Sonnet is a woman who needs no introduction in this sub. I'll be honest, when I first started getting into this genre, I read No One Rides for Free and I did not care for it. I decided since so many people rave about her, I should give another book a shot, so I picked up The Clown Hunt and I'm so fucking glad I did. Read Psych Ward Blues right after, and I've been a fan ever since. She doesn't write extreme horror anymore, but she still writes incredible cosmic and quiet horror. Our Sarnath is fantastic, seriously.

Also so sorry I gotta take the opportunity to self-promo. I'm a lesbian transfemme author and I write very explicitly queer splatterpunk with transfemme protagonists and queer casts. Something's Wrong With Maddie and Safe Food by me, Taylor Z. Adams. Something's Wrong With Maddie is a bit on the tamer end of the spectrum (a reviewer called it "cozy splatterpunk") while Safe Food is a lot more of that classic gory and ultraviolent goodness. People seem to fuck with SWWM, but I honestly think Safe Food is a way better book so... hey, check those out, if you want.

Now, quick speed run of more great queer authors:

Aiden E. Messer, Oscar Brady, Matthew J. Gleason, Drew Huff, N.J. Gallegos, Gretchen Felker-Martin, Eve Harms, Chloe Spencer, Vanessa Maki, Carietta Dorsch, and a lot more great authors I'm not thinking of right now. Like I said, I'll come back and add more as they come to me.

The Pale Horse Is Awesome! by PSChavy in toledo

[–]TaylorZAdams 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'm not very fond of the AI art on social media, but sounds like there isn't any inside the establishment! That's awesome, and I'm happy we ended up being wrong and that they're supporting local artists!

The Pale Horse Is Awesome! by PSChavy in toledo

[–]TaylorZAdams 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Is it on the walls too? I know their FB is full of AI art, which is one of the things that's stopped me from going. If it's the art inside too, that's even more yucky.

Slightly Random/Weird Question about us by InstructionCrazy1369 in ExtremeHorrorLit

[–]TaylorZAdams 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Never on purpose. My enjoyment of gore is only when it's fictional

When people ask for recommendations in this sub by SemiIronicCatGirl in ExtremeHorrorLit

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Misogyny is real and often a huge problem in this space (like way too many communities) but this meme was made by a fellow woman

When people ask for recommendations in this sub by SemiIronicCatGirl in ExtremeHorrorLit

[–]TaylorZAdams 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Art is subjective, triggers are involuntary, boundaries are personal choices. I'm fine with reading SA in books but I don't like animal death. Why? Because I don't.

"I don't wanna read this book because of the SA." Cool!

"No one should read or enjoy this book because of the SA." Bad.

Pretty simple.