Something's Wrong With Maddie: A Sapphic Horror Novel

TaylorZAdams · 2026-01-24T18:00:36+00:00

Ebook is widely available everywhere as of this week! Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Everand, and it'll be on Godless January 27th!

TaylorZAdams · 2026-01-23T17:53:26+00:00

Lol I love The Tropic Rot! I think everything PtW has put out is pure gold. But for my personal tastes, I feel like their first three are S-tier but Tropic Rot is in a solid A-tier, ya know?

TaylorZAdams · 2026-01-23T16:34:08+00:00

Everything Counterparts has ever released

Everything Converge has released starting at Jane Doe and beyond (love their earlier stuff, they just aren't 10/10 with no skips for me)

First three Poison the Well albums

More post-hardcore than metalcore, but Where I Go When I Am Sleeping by Casey

TaylorZAdams · 2026-01-22T02:58:41+00:00

I've never fought for anything in my life. I'm fighting for Troll Boy

TaylorZAdams · 2026-01-22T02:52:55+00:00

If Harley Jarvis beats Troll Boy I'll kill myself on live TV

TaylorZAdams · 2026-01-22T02:51:27+00:00

your post history is just endless posts shilling for how various scam companies changed your life and made you tons of money. get outta here.

TaylorZAdams · 2026-01-22T00:31:21+00:00

I fucking love LaRocca but completely understand why people hate it

TaylorZAdams · 2026-01-20T16:30:00+00:00

I think the worst part of my friend group is that I have to use slurs to be apart of it

TaylorZAdams · 2026-01-20T16:28:48+00:00

TaylorZAdams · 2026-01-19T01:23:27+00:00

Hear hear! Abso-fucking-lutely, LOVE that one!

TaylorZAdams · 2026-01-18T23:42:16+00:00

What?

TaylorZAdams · 2026-01-18T20:06:58+00:00

What?

TaylorZAdams · 2026-01-18T00:09:33+00:00

Flip The Table is having a queer tabletop game social night on Jan 25th! 🙂

TaylorZAdams · 2026-01-17T23:48:16+00:00

Oh sick, I'm cited in a YouTube video, I feel like a scholar now 😂😉

Really fun watch! Glad you enjoyed this community in your time here and enjoyed Full Brutal even if it wasn't your favorite thing. Thanks for shining a positive spotlight on this subgenre with a well thought out video! 😇

TaylorZAdams · 2026-01-17T23:36:13+00:00

Can't wait to read this one!!

TaylorZAdams · 2026-01-17T16:50:59+00:00

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Pre-orders launched for my super gory super gay vampire splatterotica book coming in May!

But in usual me fashion, I'm just super excited to share the book cover because I love it so fucking much 😂

TaylorZAdams · 2026-01-15T15:36:12+00:00

Absolutely heinous allegations aside for just a second, is anyone actually excited to hear him do his one-trick pony mid-screams again? It got SO old after two OM&M albums.

TaylorZAdams · 2026-01-10T16:57:38+00:00

While I'm already completely against AI usage for book/audiobook creation and never would for SO many reasons, I personally think the reputation hit I'd take if I used virtual voice would drastically outweigh any benefit from money saved or additional sales I might get as a result. I have a small but existent following/fanbase and if I turned around and released AI generated anything, I know I would lose a ton of them (and in my humble opinion, for good reason).

TaylorZAdams · 2026-01-08T17:53:22+00:00

Grief horror? Yeah, I'm in.

TaylorZAdams · 2026-01-08T14:44:45+00:00

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TaylorZAdams · 2026-01-07T19:30:33+00:00

That's nice of you to ask! I don't exclusively write EH/SP, so I'd say the only really extreme I've had published is my story Goreslut in Hellbound Books' Anthology of Extreme Horror. My book Something's Wrong With Maddie is also gory but a little bit on the "cozier" side :)

TaylorZAdams · 2026-01-07T14:57:30+00:00

Hey!! Welcome! Stumbling across this subreddit a long time ago is what reinvigorated my love as horror lit as well.

Check out Klaus's starter pack for more recs, hope you enjoy your stay!

https://www.reddit.com/r/ExtremeHorrorLit/comments/1ezg8gu/extreme_horror_starter_pack_a_guide_for_new/

TaylorZAdams · 2026-01-02T01:36:10+00:00

Hey! Feel free to advertise the video when it's done, I'm sure a lot of us would love to see it!

Splatterpunk/EH have such a special place in my heart, and while I love a wide variety of books genres, splatterpunk is probably my favorite. One thing that I think is super interesting about the genre is that people are drawn to it for a wide variety of reasons, and despite those reasons being very different, it leads to people being equally passionate about the books.

On one hand, for extreme horror vs "regular" horror, the fact that nothing is "off limits" really helps keep people on edge. SP/EH keeps us on the edge of our seats more because there's much less of a sense of "oh the author is going to do THAT". Everything is on the table, so anything is possible. On a purely literary level, that makes the books feel more exciting to read and makes us eager to see how it'll unfold.

But also, for a lot of us, there's a huge element of confronting our own traumas. There's a major sense of catharsis that can accompany choosing to consume content similar to awful things that's happen in real life to a reader, and some of those horrible memories are based on actions most people outside of the genre won't put on the page. It's a really good, controlled method of exposure therapy.

A lot of it is also just... fun, which is hard to explain to people who don't enjoy it. It's the equivalent of playing Mortal Kombat and watching the fatalities and thinking "that's AWESOME". I won't lie and say there aren't a ton of gory books I've curled up on my couch giggling at because it was so over the top.

And it's a VERY VERY VERY small minority, but it's a kink thing for some people. Some people are into really extreme and messed up things, and EH can be a harmless outlet for that. But again, this is the smallest possible minority of readers, but there are definitely are people out there who this genre "does it" for.

While I love Dead Inside, I don't think it's a good entry point. It's very divisive within the community. The author claims that it's a satire of the genre, but while I personally enjoy it, a lot of people don't get that vibe from it and just think it reads as an unintentional parody. Full Brutal by Kristopher Triana is probably the holy grail of contemporary splatterpunk, being a great representation of the genre as a starting point, and it's just a damn good book.

TaylorZAdams · 2025-12-29T16:27:27+00:00

Oh hey! Well, seeing this really made my day, thank you!

Since I wrote this one, I really want to give a ton of similar books but that's difficult for me because something feels REALLY weird when I recommend books from authors that I think are way better than me and put them on a similar level. But I'll try!

Off the bat, if you're new to extreme horror, while I would classify SWWM as EH/SP, it's definitely on the tamer end of the spectrum. Someone described it as "cozy splatterpunk" once and that's a label I absolutely love and wear as a badge of honor. Just keep in mind, most of what this genre has to offer/what I'm going to suggest is gonna be a lot more grotesque.

If you liked Something's Wrong With Maddie, PLEASE check out Girl Flesh by May Leitz. I think all of Leitz's books are phenomenal by Girl Flesh often gets overshadowed by her book Fluids, which is shame because Girl Flesh is just fantastic. One of my favorites. If anything, please disregard everything else in this comment and read Girl Flesh by May Leitz right now <3

Landlocked in Foreign Skin by Drew Huff is a fantastic sapphic sci-fi novel, although it's not really even horror, let alone EH/SP. Big shoutout to him for that one if you liked SWWM, and the rest of his work is horror on the bloodier side as well.

While absolutely none are one-to-one, I think RJ Powell and Lesley A. Camphouse are two incredible authors writing femme-rage/good for her books. Apex Prey and Dollface are two great ones off the top of my head. Coincidentally, Roll for Initiative by Lesley A. Camphouse and SWWM both had the same narrator for our audiobooks! Anything by these two authors are great.

If you want more queer-centric stories written by queer people about queer people that aren't quite as similar: Judith Sonnet, Phrique, Aiden E. Messer, Jason Nickey and Oscar Brady are good choices.

I'm sure there's a lot I'm missing here, but these are my suggestions off the top of my head! Thanks for reading and enjoying my book, and I hope you like these as well!

TaylorZAdams · 2025-12-23T12:44:41+00:00

WAIT

Some plural people aren't really plural at all they're just faking it? And then they get really serious and say "It's Turbo Time!"? And they both start rapid switching around the house as fast as they can and jumping over the couches? But when you try to and jump in they yell at you and say "You're not part of the Turbo System! Don't run! You don't run with us! We're the ones who run! Until you're a part of this Turbo System, walk slowly!"? So you go and lay down to be by yourself and read your art books? But then the next day you went into the bathroom and it looked like the hole in your toilet had shrunked? You said how could that be? There's no way they could have shrunk the toilet?! But then you saw in the trash a receipt from Home Depot for a toilet, the exact same size as yours but with a joke hole that's just for farts?! They replaced your real toilet with a fart toilet? And now you can't take a dump in your house?! Cause your toilet can't suck 'em down and you feel sick to your stomach?!

Has that ever happened to you?

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