when you're looking to be extremely unsettled! this list contains books that will make you laugh, then cry, then cringe, then nervous laugh, then stare at the wall and think about life. you are WELCOME!
Sections
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Weird short stories
People are the worst
Hauntings
Not of this world
Strange appetites
Weird short stories
When you like your weird in 15 pages or less
Bite-size short stories that pack a punch
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories a book by Mariana Enriquez and Megan McDowell
Short stories that look into our deepest wants
Gods of Want: Stories a book by K-Ming Chang
Your family drama won't seem so wild after this
Dead Relatives - Dead Ink Books
People are the worst
Probably won't be discussing these books around the water cooler
A toxic relationship develops between a teacher & her favorite student
Pet a book by Catherine Chidgey
a bartender and freelance photographer has a dark streak
Boy Parts a book by Eliza Clark
If you've got a little religious trauma
Pew a book by Catherine Lacey
Hauntings
Ever get the feeling you're being followed?
A family in the rust belt is haunted by a curse surrounding stolen gold
Song of Solomon a book by Toni Morrison
a group of friends is haunted by their past-- the ghost of deer they once hunted
The Only Good Indians a book by Stephen Graham Jones
3 friends visit an abandoned building in college and are haunted by it long after
Tell Me I'm Worthless a book by Alison Rumfitt
Not of this world
Things that go bump in the night
if you followed the submarine drama, you'll love this
Our Wives Under the Sea a book by Julia Armfield
lesbian vigilantes fight racist monsters
Ring Shout a book by P. Djèlí Clark
an exchange student in london moves into a shared house & the house takes on (literally) a life of its own
Paradise Rot a book by Jenny Hval and Marjam Idriss
Strange appetites
Anyone in the mood for something weird?
an unfulfilled housewife becomes a dog at night
Nightbitch a book by Rachel Yoder
A food critic has a unique appetite for her former boyfriends
A Certain Hunger a book by Chelsea G Summers
cousins create a fantasy world to escape their trauma
Earthlings a book by Sayaka Murata and Ginny Tapley Takemori
A world where cannibalism is legal
Tender Is the Flesh a book by Agustina Bazterrica and Sarah Moses
Notice how Sayaka Murata is on this list twice
Life Ceremony: Stories a book by Sayaka Murata and Ginny Tapley Takemori
Fresh take on the vampire trope.. this girl is HUNGRY
Woman, Eating: A Literary Vampire Novel a book by Claire Kohda