Body Horror

When Earth went silent, humanity did not die cleanly. It changed. In the ruins of orbit, a salvage crew boards a dead nursery station and finds the descendants of children abandoned in the dark. On a starving colony world, a buried alien signal begins repairing machines, organs, and broken bodies—but every miracle asks what must be surrendered in return. Beneath the red dust of Rath-9, a recovery team sent to certify a failed settlement discovers a living colony the company would rather erase than recognize. After Earth Went Silent collects three dark science fiction horror stories: The ...

Against all odds, former geneticist Benny White has survived the first Wave of the Game of Souls. But the rewards have come at a cost, and the games are far from over. New enemies have been introduced with eyes set on those calling the Blackstone Keep home. Not only do the contestants have to struggle against the Arketh-Takshi—a group of intergalactic vampiric pirates residing within scattered portals—but also with private outworlder factions whose motivations are anything but clear. Not to mention some threats that originate a little closer to home.

The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body Problem! WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL Over 1 million copies sold in North America “A mind-bending epic.”—The New York Times “War of the Worlds for the 21st century.”—The Wall Street Journal “Fascinating.”—TIME ...

In a small town suffocating under the oppressive heat of late summer, a single tick bite is the start of a terrifying change. When seventeen-year-old Leo develops a strange "summer flu," his mother assumes it's a passing illness . But as the fever smolders and the antibiotics fail, Leo’s energy bleeds away, replaced by a profound, unnatural stillness . He begins to watch the woods behind their house with a silent, patient focus, as if waiting for a curtain to rise. Soon, the whispers begin. A farmer sees a man missing for a year standing silently among a herd of deer at dusk . Teenagers ...

Max Baker, a 31-year-old accountant, finds himself in a desperate situation after killing a prostitute in his hotel room. ‘I lost control of myself,’ he says. ‘I couldn’t get the thought out of my head!’ Panicking and unable to dispose of the evidence by himself, he calls on his long-time friend John Kasper for help. Kasper is horrified and hesitant to help at first, but he can’t abandon his friend during his time of need. Max’s family and future are at stake. Together, they devise and execute one plan after another, hopelessly trying to hide Max’s crime...

Your body is supposed to be yours. Until it isn't. Twenty tales of flesh that betrays, bones that remember, and skin that holds secrets too terrible to speak. In these pages, the human form becomes the ultimate battleground between self and something far more sinister. A woman's reflection grows more real while she fades away. A fitness tracker begins optimizing its wearer without permission. A heart transplant recipient discovers the donor isn't quite dead. A mother's body produces nourishment that isn't meant for feeding. From medical procedures gone wrong to parasites that rewrite your ...

Whether for entertainment, under the guise of medicine, or to propel consumerism, heinous acts are perpetrated daily on women’s bodies. In Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes, award-winning journalist Anne Elizabeth Moore catalogs the global toll of capitalism on our physical autonomy. Weaving together unflinching research and surprising humor, these essays range from investigative—probing the Cambodian garment industry, the history of menstrual products, or the gender biases of patent law—to uncomfortably intimate.

Thirteen terrifying tales from the master of horror who created the nationally bestselling Necroscope series. The title story, "Fruiting Bodies," in which a small village slowly disappears, won the British Fantasy Award.

What if the worst thing in your life… was feeding on your time? Ben has always thought of himself as forgettable. Not a failure exactly—just someone drifting through life, surviving one distracted moment at a time. When a strange swelling appears on his lip, the doctor isn’t concerned. Probably nothing. But something is wrong. Ben keeps losing time. Minutes slip into hours. Memories blur. Thoughts appear that don’t feel like his own. And always—lurking just beneath awareness—there’s something else. A spider. He only remembers it when it wants him to. A disturbing blend of ...

"[Nesta] Cooper's narration is deliberately restrained... [Bethany C.] Morrow’s novel on the page is already intimate, but in audio it becomes something almost confessional." — Booklist The Body is a pulse-pounding supernatural horror story from bestselling author Bethany C. Morrow, where...

Alien visitors devastate a remote farm in Lovecraft’s first and best venture into science fiction.

The hospital was supposed to heal you. It had other plans. Twenty tales of surgeries that take more than they remove, donors who refuse to stay dead, and medical records that write themselves into flesh. In these pages, the operating room becomes a site of violation, and every procedure leaves something behind that wasn't in the consent forms. A burn survivor's grafted skin begins remembering a life she never lived. A surgeon's transplanted hands practice procedures while she sleeps. A transcriptionist discovers that typing a surgery makes it real. A patient's body produces something every ...

Nicolas Drakon, an incredibly snobby, drunkard PhD, finds himself trapped in a hospital with a creature born out of his own hatred and self-loathing. It feeds on his anger and begins a bloody rampage, leaving a trail leading right back to the academic. Drakon has to survive his extended hospital stay and try not to let the Om destroy him from the inside out.

An unsanctioned ultramarathon in the remote Pacific Northwest. One hundred miles of punishing terrain. A legion of elite runners. For professional athlete Maya, the legendary "Apostate's Run" is the ultimate test of endurance, a secret race she has trained her entire life to win. But the forest holds a secret darker than the trail. From the moment the race begins, a primal sense of dread descends. The runners are not just competitors; they are prey. A chilling scream cuts through the trees, and the race for the finish line becomes a desperate flight for survival. Something is hunting them...

Single gay mom Brigid always thought that cutting ties with her extremist Catholic family was the best thing she could have done for her daughter, Dylan—and for herself. But when Dylan starts having terrifying fits of unnatural violence, Brigid can’t shake her memories of a girl from her childhood who behaved the same way … until Brigid’s uncle, Father Angus, performed an exorcism. Convinced that her daughter is suffering from demonic possession, Brigid does the thing she told herself she’d never do: she goes home. 

The ground is no longer yours. When the world went silent, we thought it was a solar flare. We were wrong. It wasn't the sky falling—it was the earth waking up. Mick, a retired smokejumper, is trapped on a mountain ridge with his son and grandson. Below them, a charcoal-black cloud is swallowing towns whole. It doesn't kill you. It hollows you out. Miles away, Sloan is fighting to keep her family alive on a farm where the water has turned to black sludge and the neighbors have stopped speaking—except to whistle in a shifting, harmonic language. Now, two halves of a shattered family must...

The History of Body Horror Films: From Grotesque Origins to Modern Mutation is the ultimate guide for horror lovers, film students, and pop culture enthusiasts who want to dive deep into one of cinema’s most disturbing and thought-provoking subgenres. This comprehensive, 6000-word book explores the evolution of body horror movies from their eerie beginnings in early cinema to their grotesque peaks during the golden age of gore, all the way to their reemergence in today’s era of prestige horror. Discover how visionary directors like David Cronenberg, Shinya Tsukamoto, and Julia Ducournau...

In 2059, two vastly different groups of people portrayed by the compelling trio of Brendan Fraser (Academy Award winner), Luke Kirby (Emmy Award winner), and Vanessa Sears (Dora Award winner) undergo cryonic suspension. While their bodies are frozen, their minds, still active and awake, are uploaded into a massive quantum computer. The first group are all astronauts, about to leave Earth on a one-way interstellar colonization mission. The second group consists of convicted murderers and volunteers who elect to serve their sentences in a virtual-reality prison.

In the New Mexico town of Truth or Consequences, real-life serial killer David Parker Ray was a man with a Satanic mission – to ritually sacrifice sixty-six women in the name of his Lord and Master. In 1999, some sixty killings later, one of his intended victims managed to escape and he was apprehended and sentenced to 224 years in prison. His 'toy box,' where he had tortured and murdered the women, became a by-word for evil incarnate. In 2002, David Parker Ray died, six deaths short of his quota. Not long afterwards, in Cuchillo, a town fifteen miles outside Truth or Consequences, ...

Money fixes everything—until it owns you. A private biotech syndicate offers Marie unlimited funding and a line of “volunteers” to prove what her parasite can do. Adrienne’s endlessly growing, transplant-perfect tissue becomes the lab’s gold rush. Leena’s pain-numbing milk turns into a designer drug the night shift can’t quit. But every miracle has quotas, cameras, and a contract that makes bodies into inventory. As investors push for weaponized “reconstruction kits,” Marie must decide if she’s the scientist who cures… or the queen who feeds. High-heat biopunk erotica ...