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The owners of a failing travelling carnival breed their own attractions by dosing themselves with drugs and radiation during pregnancy, and their albino hunchbacked daughter tells what became of the family.
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Homesick for Another World
Stories of deeply unlovable Americans examining their own decay with uncomfortable clarity.
Survivor
The last surviving member of a death cult hijacks a jet and narrates his life into its black box as the plane runs out of fuel over the Australian outback.
The Tin Drum
A boy born with a scream that can shatter glass drums his way through the horrors of Nazi Germany, refusing to grow up in a world not worth being adult in.
A Feast of Snakes
In Mystic, Georgia, during the annual rattlesnake roundup, a former high school football star stuck with a liquor-store job and a broken marriage feels the weekend's frenzy pushing him towards violence.
Wise Blood
A young man in the rural American South is consumed by a grotesque religious vision, and the novel's dark comedy conceals a genuine theological horror.
The Day of the Locust
Tod Hackett, a young set designer at a Hollywood studio in the 1930s, falls for a would-be starlet and watches the bored, disappointed people who came to California to die turn ugly.
Lapvona
In a medieval village in a year of drought and famine, Marek, the abused, motherless son of the shepherd, is drawn by a violent accident into the household of the depraved lord Villiam, while the blind midwife Ina tends to forces the priest would rather not see.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Born in an eighteenth-century Paris fish market with no scent of his own and the keenest nose in France, Grenouille apprentices as a perfumer and begins killing young women to distill their smell.
The Sundial
The inhabitants of a decaying mansion become convinced the world will end and they will be the chosen survivors.
Bunny
A lonely MFA student at an elite New England university is pulled into a clique of rich, saccharine girls who host strange rituals.
The Wasp Factory
A teenager on a Scottish island constructs elaborate rituals of death from animal remains, and the revelation of his family's secret reframes everything.
Choke
Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout and sex addict, pays for his mother's care home by choking on purpose in restaurants and letting his rescuers send him money, until he learns something about his mother and himself.