Misery
Stephen King
1987
Books with the “Body Horror” trope
Horror built on the gruesome transformation, invasion or destruction of the human body.
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Atmosphere and mood · Body Horror
Books with this trope
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
2020
Leviathan Wakes
James S. A. Corey
2011
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
1991
The Exorcist
William Peter Blatty
1971
Bunny
Mona Awad
2019
The Rook
Daniel O'Malley
2012
The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones
2020
The Island of Doctor Moreau
H. G. Wells
1896
Frankenstein in Baghdad
Ahmed Saadawi
2013
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
H. P. Lovecraft
1999
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
2014
The Troop
Nick Cutter
2014
What Moves the Dead
T. Kingfisher
2022
Ghost Eaters
Clay McLeod Chapman
2022
Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica
2017
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