Books like Uzumaki
In the small coastal town of Kurouzu-cho, teenager Kirie Goshima watches her neighbours become obsessed with spirals, starting with her boyfriend's father, as the pattern takes hold of the town in ever stranger and more horrible ways.
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Cursed Bunny
Korean stories that mix folklore, body horror and capitalist dread: a cursed lamp shaped like a rabbit, a head that rises out of a toilet, a woman whose body turns strange, all told with a sly, deadpan cruelty.
Black Hole
In the Seattle suburbs in the mid-1970s a sexually transmitted disease called the bug is spreading among teenagers, leaving each with a different mutation, and two high-school students, Chris and Keith, are drawn into the woods where the infected hide.
Audition
A widowed Tokyo film producer holds a fake casting audition to find a second wife, and the quiet young woman he picks turns out to have a basement and a wire saw.
John Dies at the End
Two slackers in an unnamed Midwestern town take a street drug called soy sauce that lets them see the monsters hiding in plain sight, and now the monsters can see them too.
The Deep
As a plague of forgetting spreads around the world, a substance found eight miles down in the Mariana Trench may cure it, and the veterinarian Luke Nelson is sent down to the research station there, where his estranged brother has stopped answering.
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.
The Strange Library
A boy who stops at the library after school to borrow books on Ottoman tax collection is led to a reading room in the basement, where an old man locks him in and orders him to memorise them.
Boys Weekend
A trans woman returns to a bachelor-party weekend on a floating libertarian Las Vegas and finds the bros have signed on to something more than cocaine and yachts.
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.
Revival
Jamie Morton is six in 1962 when Charles Jacobs, a young minister fascinated by electricity, arrives in his Maine town, and their paths keep crossing over the next fifty years.
Mexican Gothic
In 1950s Mexico a glamorous socialite travels to a decaying mountain mansion after her newly married cousin writes that her English husband's family is poisoning her, and finds the house has designs of its own.
Hex
The people of Black Spring, a town in the Hudson Valley, live with a seventeenth-century witch whose eyes and mouth are sewn shut and who appears wherever she likes; they cannot stay away for long and must keep her secret, until some teenagers decide to film her.