Genre Guide – Body Horror Part 2

A fractured sisterhood. A disturbing transformation. A desperate obsession. Abandoning the ruins of her stalled life after an ill-omened romance, Brooke flies to Vancouver to care for her estranged sister, Izzy, who is recovering from reproductive surgery. But Izzy’s rapidly decaying apartment building, its hallways stalked by an ominous crone known only as Medusa, offers little of the refuge Brooke craves.

After witnessing her mother’s untimely death as a child and her brother’s violent murder as a young teen, Vicaria is on a desperate quest to cure death.

On an ordinary afternoon, a woman witnesses her partner killed in the street. Time stands still. She lifts his body from the pavement, cradles him, takes him to their home, disinfects each inch of skin–and sits down to begin. As he witnesses his own funeral from beyond, their two voices–one living, the other dead–lament a lifetime of bone-grinding labor in a society that devours everyone whole. But the woman is no longer willing to bow to the law, to God, or to almighty mammon. In an act of love and rebellion, she transforms his body into her own, entombing him within her flesh so that he may live again.

In a world where a high testosterone level dooms people to become rage-motivated zombie monsters, a group of two trans women and a nonbinary person struggle to survive against TERF armies and feral humans.

This text is diseased. Proceed with caution. Married couple Celia and Martin are brutally attacked on their drive through the Irish countryside. The attack leaves Celia with a violent schism in her mind, seemingly existing in two places at once: one the ‘real’ world, the other a howling maelstrom of abstract monstrosity. Of her husband, there is no trace… until weeks later, when Martin is discovered in a hospital for rare and abnormal diseases, his body spliced together with that of an unknown woman. And they are very pregnant.

Murderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and enemies–their fates converge in an ominous and darkly beautiful web. Sinister forces collide with a host of desperate characters in this deeply harrowing collection of interwoven tales from Yoko Ogawa, a master of the macabre. Eerie, suspenseful, and wonderfully unsettling, ‘Revenge’ will haunt you until the very last page.

Karsh is the enigmatic entrepreneur behind a new tech package that allows bereaved relatives to view their loved ones’ decomposing remains. When his futuristic cemetery is vandalized, he begins to suspect a conspiracy is at work, forcing him to confront the trauma of–and mystery surrounding–the death of his beloved Becca.

Elisabeth Sparkle is a former A-lister fired from her fitness TV show by studio head Harvey. A new miracle drug promises it only takes one injection and she is reborn as the gorgeous, twentysomething Sue. The only catch is her body needs to alternate — one week as Sue, one week as Elisabeth — or else it could have disastrous effects.

In a decaying Appalachian landscape where hives of parasites offer shelter in exchange for corpses, trans man Crane embraces the safety they offer–until an unexpected pregnancy with his volatile partner Levi sparks a horrifying descent that threatens to unravel his fragile existence in this brutal world.