Books like Tender Is the Flesh
In a world where a virus has made all animals toxic, a slaughterhouse worker processes the only remaining meat source: humans bred for consumption.
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Things We Lost in the Fire
Twelve stories set in and around Buenos Aires, where the disappeared of the dictatorship, abandoned houses, slum children and women who set themselves on fire make up a city that is haunted in plain sight.
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Twelve horror stories from Argentina where the dead don't stay dead, children vanish on purpose, and the gothic lurks in everyday Buenos Aires.
Haunted
Seventeen people answer an ad for a writers' retreat and lock themselves into an old theatre for three months, where they tell their worst stories and, to make better ones, set about sabotaging themselves.
Adjustment Day
A secret movement of disaffected young men carries out a coordinated day of killings against a list of elites and splits America into separate ethnic and sexual homelands.
Earthlings
As a girl, Natsuki believed a plush hedgehog from the planet Popinpobopia had given her magic powers, and her cousin Yuu believed he was an alien; as adults, unable to fit into the society she calls the Factory, they set out to escape it.
The Damnation Game
Marty Strauss, a gambler let out of prison on parole, is hired as bodyguard to Joseph Whitehead, a reclusive tycoon who once won a card game against a stranger in the ruins of postwar Warsaw and is now waiting for the stranger to come and collect.
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.
The Windup Girl
In a future Bangkok threatened by rising seas and engineered plagues, a Western calorie-company agent, an abandoned genetically engineered woman, a Chinese refugee and an incorruptible environmental enforcer are caught up in a struggle over the kingdom's seedbank.
The Hellbound Heart
Frank Cotton, a man who has tried every pleasure, solves an antique puzzle box that promises more and summons the beings called Cenobites, and later, when his brother Rory and Rory's wife Julia move into the house, Julia finds that Frank is not entirely gone.
Fever Dream
Amanda lies dying in a rural clinic while a boy named David presses her to remember what happened on her holiday in the Argentine countryside with her daughter, and what poisoned them.
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.
The Troop
Five fourteen-year-old Boy Scouts and their scoutmaster are camping on a remote island off Prince Edward Island when an emaciated stranger arrives carrying something that begins to get inside them, in Lord of the Flies crossed with body horror.