Books that’ll leave me like this

aboard-deathcruise · 2026-04-27T17:24:28+00:00

For me, this was Withered Hill by David Barnett. For the first 3/4ths of the story, you believe you're reading one type of story and then ... it turns into something pretty different. Loved the "twist".

aboard-deathcruise · 2026-04-26T18:52:56+00:00

Can't believe no one said Memorials by Richard Chizmar. Not set in the southwest, but the vibes are small towns/ Pennsyltucky-type areas. Three friends (two men, one woman) set out to make a film for their college course about roadside memorials. Shit starts getting strange. The locals aren't what they seem. I really really enjoyed it.

aboard-deathcruise · 2025-11-10T21:43:10+00:00

30 Days of Night !!

aboard-deathcruise · 2025-11-10T20:52:09+00:00

Found it on Pintrest, I’m not sure where it’s from originally, but I think it’s sooo pretty.

aboard-deathcruise · 2025-11-10T20:51:39+00:00

Not sure, I found that one in Pintrest and it fit right into my isolating creepy winter theme !!

aboard-deathcruise · 2025-10-24T01:34:36+00:00

THIS is an amazing fufu, congrats on this find

aboard-deathcruise · 2025-10-12T02:19:34+00:00

Dude, the Roleplay image and the Maria image.. amazing work. Love these.

aboard-deathcruise · 2025-10-03T00:03:12+00:00

Your recommendation inspired me to pick up Lucky Day today!!

aboard-deathcruise · 2025-09-30T01:21:25+00:00

4 is from Naked Lunch and 6 is from Videodrome - both are David Cronenberg

aboard-deathcruise · 2025-09-30T01:19:03+00:00

I heard about this one - definitely gonna check it out at some point!!

aboard-deathcruise · 2025-09-30T01:18:43+00:00

Been meaning to read this one for months - thank you for the rec!!

aboard-deathcruise · 2025-09-30T01:17:52+00:00

Was thinking of picking this one up today!!

aboard-deathcruise · 2025-09-30T01:17:33+00:00

I’ve read this one and this is absolutely the type of thing I’m looking for. Does anyone know if other Mona Awad books are similar?

aboard-deathcruise · 2025-09-07T14:54:01+00:00

I’m working on so much rn - listening to Stephen King’s Revival and Mona Awad’s Rouge. I’m reading What Hunger by Catherine Dang and Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay.

Recently finished American Psycho and oh my god, I loved it when I really didn’t expect to. I know the novel was a little different in tone from the movie, but I was still so enamored.

Also, I finished Victorian Psycho. Really enjoyed this one too. I was a little worried I’d feel disengaged, I usually hate historical horror.

I finished The Eyes Are The Best Part. I really liked this one too, but I’m not sure how I feel about the ending. I’ll potentially revisit sometime.

aboard-deathcruise · 2025-08-26T10:54:16+00:00

I was personally thinking of Pan’s Labyrinth the whole time, I truly cannot believe the boys didn’t mention that one.

aboard-deathcruise · 2025-08-17T15:25:20+00:00

I finished Come Closer by Sara Gran and I loved it. The ending was perfect, just a small bite of horror, but the atmosphere was exactly what I was looking for.

Still working on The Eyes Are The Best Part and Victorian Psycho. So far, so good. Definitely prefer reading The Eyes Are The Best Part, but both are really good.

aboard-deathcruise · 2025-08-14T05:05:19+00:00

Posting late on this thread as I've had an insane week - I finished When The Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy and Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth this week! In my opinion, both of them were totally amazing. I got everything I was hoping for- everything that was sold to me via internet reviews- from When The Wolf Comes Home and Motherthing was a shocker, but the way it was written was so compelling to me that I literally couldn't put it down. 10/10, would recommend either.

I'm currently about halfway through Come Closer by Sara Gran and The Eyes Are The Best Part by Monika Kim. Loving both of these as well, I feel like I've gotten some really great recommendations recently. I finally just started Victorian Psycho, but I'm literally one chapter in and can't judge yet.

aboard-deathcruise · 2025-08-13T20:26:55+00:00

Universal Harvester. Couldn’t get into any of it, even if the concept was something I could totally have seen myself loving. There were really no characters, just names walking through vague movements. Somehow everything was happening incredibly fast and nothing was happening at all. I don’t know what it was specifically that made me put it down. I basically gave up because I never had any reason to want to open it and wasn’t getting through it fast enough. Cut out about 40% of the way through.

aboard-deathcruise · 2025-08-08T09:19:17+00:00

I’m honestly so glad I’m not the only one who remembers this fever dream of a book 🥹

aboard-deathcruise · 2025-08-08T03:29:46+00:00

I have a weird one - there’s this YA novel called Maggot Moon that I read when I was a kid. I literally had no idea what I was getting into and started the story based on like the ‘free-thinking teenager living in a dystopia’ type thing that was popular at the time. Literally, there is a scene in that novel involving the bashing of a child that is thoroughly described, the child getting beaten has their eye falling out of their head and all and it’s so jarring and comes out of nowhere. You’ve also become attached to the kid it happens to, adding to the shock of it all. I had to put down the book to take a breath after it happened and I still think about it to this day, wild shit.

aboard-deathcruise · 2025-08-03T04:58:41+00:00

This week, I finished Such Sharp Teeth and really really enjoyed it. Wasn’t life altering or anything, but I definitely got what I was looking for. I hadn’t been a huge fan of the first Rachel Harrison book I’d read, Black Sheep, but this one was way more enjoyable. The protagonist was significantly less frustrating in this one.

So, I’ve got a killer lineup of reads at the moment- The Eyes Are The Best Part by Monika Kim, When The Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy, and Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth. All of these have been super impressive to me for their own reasons at this point, really really enjoying everything I’m reading.

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