Tag Archives: Body Horror

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist book cover

It is autumn 1981 when the inconceivable comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenage boy is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last—revenge for the bullying he endures at school, day after day.

But the murder is not the most important thing on his mind. A new girl has moved in next door—a girl who has never seen a Rubik’s Cube before, but who can solve it at once. There is something wrong with her, though, something odd. And she only comes out at night….

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Rape
  • Paedophilia
  • Blood and gore depiction
  • Dead bodies
  • Physical injuries
  • Scars
  • Emesis
  • Cancer mentioned
  • Death of a child
  • Murder
  • Fire
  • Animal cruelty
  • Bullying
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Wilder Girls by Rory Power

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

Wilder Girls by Rory Power book cover

It’s been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty’s life out from under her.

It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls don’t dare wander outside the school’s fence, where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Parental abandonment
  • Suicide, on-page
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Self-harm
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Body horror (theme)
  • Human experimentation
  • Physical injuries, including loss of limb & eyeball trauma
  • Needles
  • Hospital
  • Emesis
  • Nonconensualmedical treatment
  • Starvation
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a child
  • Death of a father
  • Death of a friend
  • Murder & attempted mass murder
  • Gun violence
  • Knife violence & stabbing
  • Hanging
  • Bombing mentioned
  • Kidnapping & captivity
  • Disappearance of a loved one
  • Chemical gassing
  • Animal death & dead bodies
  • Animal illness
  • Animal hunting
  • Death by an animal attack

Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power

Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power

Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power book cover

Ever since Margot was born, it’s been just her and her mother. No answers to Margot’s questions about what came before. No history to hold on to. No relative to speak of. Just the two of them, stuck in their run-down apartment, struggling to get along.

But that’s not enough for Margot. She wants a family. She wants a past. And she just found the key she needs to get it: A photograph, pointing her to a town called Phalene. Pointing her home. Only, when Margot gets there, it’s not what she bargained for. Margot’s mother left for a reason. But was it to hide her past? Or was it to protect Margot from what’s still there?

The only thing Margot knows for sure is there’s poison in their family tree, and their roots are dug so deeply into Phalene that now that she’s there, she might never escape. 

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Emotional parental abuse & gaslighting
  • Nonconsensual pregnancy
  • Blood and gore depiction
  • Body horror
  • Dead body
  • Emesis mentioned
  • Death of an infant, off-page
  • Gun violence, off-page
  • Fire

A Curse of Roses by Diana Pinguicha

A Curse of Roses by Diana Pinguicha

A Curse of Roses by Diana Pinguicha book cover

There’s a famine plaguing the land, and Princess Yzabel is wasting food simply by trying to eat. Before she can even swallow, her magic—her curse—has turned her meal into a bouquet. She’s on the verge of starving, which only reminds her that the people of Portugal have been enduring the same pain. If only it were possible to reverse her magic. Then she could turn flowers…into food.

Fatyan, a beautiful Enchanted Moura, is the only one who can help. But she is trapped by magical binds. She can teach Yzabel how to control her curse—if Yzabel sets her free with a kiss. As the King of Portugal’s betrothed, Yzabel would be committing treason, but what good is a king if his country has starved to death?

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Homomisia
  • Sexism
  • Sexual harassment
  • Ritualistic self-harm
  • Blood depiction
  • Body horror
  • Murder
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