short horror book recommendations 2022 | extreme horror, splatterpunk and everything in between! 

So glad you went into your disclaimer the way you did. When I order from Amazon I see all kinds of reviews where they give it 1 star because “how could someone write something like this, absolutely disgusting, gore p*rn” blah blah like yeah sweetie that is what you sign up for when you read it. But I hate that they give it one star when they chose to go in. I think it might put people off it if they base their reviews on what they choose, which sucks for these authors!

I am currently reading "The Woom" and its excellent writing, so far I like it. "Gone to see the River Man" is one of the best shorter horror books I have read recently. It is SOOOOO good

I love how you separated out subgenres!!! I definitely am not super into extreme horror, but love like speculative, gothic and idk, like, regular horror? I definitely want to try Eric Larocca so i preordered that bind-up that is coming out in September ❤️

“i don’t wanna recommend this book. i really don’t.” lmao *adds to tbr*

Loving all the dark extreme horror recs and content lately Hailey

adding all of these to my tbr ✨ *thank you* ✨

Im glad I found this! I was looking for my next read and now I have a whole reading list 😊

i’m sorry for spamming i truly am but how do you not have a mil subs already i’m confused your content is grade A

Extreme horror represent!!! Loving your videos and I'm totally gonna take your recs!!

I was reading we need to do something after a sleepless night while waiting for a friend in a cafe. I was so tired and sleepy so at some point I thought that I’m going crazy just like the characters in the book. Weird experience but I loved it

Nice recs, The Summer I died and Survivor are classics of the genre like The Girl next door, Urban Gothic and Header. Woom and Kin are very good also The Troop was excellent.

I’m really enjoying your videos and I like that you put little trigger warnings throughout

These are fantastic novella recs. So many I haven't read yet 🖤

Obsessed with this list! Total perfection. I still need to pick up The Slob!

The Slob is one of my fav extreme horror books!! All of Aron’s books are amazing

I loved Tender is the Flesh!

Some great recommendations ☺️

Please let us know which are available as audiobooks.

Great recommendations! Cows its a book I'll never read 🤣 I heard someone describing an eating scene on the book and I literally gagged so loud 🤣🤣🤣 , nope not for me lol.

Just finished For the Sake Of 1 and 2. The most extreme horror I have ever read.

Any explanation or clarification on differences between Extreme Horror and Splatterpunk? Are they synonymous?

I just need something short and fast so it will keep my attention

I like intensely suspenseful audiobooks but not gorey

Thank you so much for covering For the Sake Of! I'm happy to be among a great resurgence of extreme fale authors! Definitely look up Rayne Havok, Regina Watts, and Paula D. Ashe for other women writing some NASTY stuff! And For the Sake Of 3 is in the works, and it's already looking to be even more disgusting than the first two!

Reading The Slob Now

Yo what is up subscribed 😎🖤

Surprised you enjoyed reading the slob after prior comments made about male writing female characters in other similar, and even sometimes tamer books? Did you enjoy the writing on female characters like Vera in The Slob? Anything problematic, or just the ending?

I agree with being irked by people who rate books badly for doing what it's supposed to do! If you don't like it then that's fine. I just read 'For the sake of" and disliked it, personally. I gave it 2 stars. But certainly not because of the extreme aspects of it! I appreciate those a lot and it would have been rated higher because of those aspects if I didnt dislike other parts of it! On the same note I have literally seen someone give a witch series 1 star because "It was too witchy" lol.

I accidentally picked up an extreme horror book thinking it was a generic slasher and boy was I not prepared...

We Need to do Something was AMAZING

Haven’t read it but Poppy z. Bright is an lgbt+ author. You may wish to review them? I loved COWS because I liked the set up at the end. The beginning was so revolting. First books that made me grit my teeth and pull back - "oh hell noo, no,no nooooooo" Unfortunately the bit with the girlfriend was predictable because of the genera. I was expecting it.

Need For the Sake of 👀

You should definitely check out "White Trash" By Stuart Bray. Very, very, disturbing!!!

I made a RU-vid video about cows and lord it was a trip

I’m the opposite I love paranormal horror

Oh my god damn. You had to mention Cows, eh? Forgot about that awful thing. Blech.

hi hailey just ur local stalker here to say that i wanna be like u when i grow up and i still need to read pretty girls xo

It’s a shame how bad We Need to do Something was as a film.

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Here's my issue with trans authors : I already know too much about the author. Just write a good story. If the story is well written and spooky enough then I'll read it. I'll like it. Why do I need to know if the author is trans or a POC or a woman or anything else? The point of horror is the horror. I saw the new Jordan Peele on audible and I was tempted to check it out, but the summary as well as reviews were just all about how politically necessary a book of its type is. Why? Why do I need to care about representation or politics when I pick up a horror book? If the book inspires me to think about those things that's great but I would prefer if the major selling point were how good the horror is. How bleak, scary, creepy etc. That's why I'm reading horror. Social justice issues are part of our lives and so can absolutely be included in a good horror story but am I ultimately reading the book to be preached at or am I reading it to feel scared?

Grat vid. I agree on a lot of those. Gotta strongly disagree on Night of the Mannequins, though. I like Stephen Graham Jones' writing, but I've seldom hated a book more than this one. Just hated the stinknin' damn guts out of it. There was no logic, even to the main character's insanity, and the ideas were just so stupid they were insulting - kaiju-sized mannequins & the motivation to murder people... it was just junk from the get-go. Just an awful, awful book. Jones always has a dumb idea or two (I liked The Only Good Indians, but the monster playing one-on-one basketball was just idiotic) but they seemed to all be dumped together in this book. I'm going to have to be careful just buying everything he writes from now on, because if he has books like Night of the Mannequins in him, I don't want to be wasting my money.

Night of the mannequins was one of the worst books I’ve ever read. Seriously disappointed