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😈 Cruelty And Evil

Unflinching explorations of malice in its purest forms — what drives people to inflict suffering, and what it means to confront darkness without flinching.
Playground
by Aron Beauregard • 2022
Parents strapped to chairs watch their kids crawl through a playground of grinders and saws.
3.43
20k+
🩸 Splatterpunk🫀 Body Horror🎲 Death Games
Playground Summary
Playground 88%
Parents strapped to chairs watch their kids crawl through a playground of grinders and saws.
by Aron Beauregard 2022
3.43
20k+ ratings
🩸 Splatterpunk🫀 Body Horror🎲 Death Games
Order of Assassins
by Colin Wilson • 1972
Violence as self-fulfillment: how stagnation and passivity breed the modern assassin.
3.69
64
🧠 Criminal Psychology🔍 Psychological True Crime💭 Existential Psychology
Order of Assassins Summary
Order of Assassins 88%
Violence as self-fulfillment: how stagnation and passivity breed the modern assassin.
by Colin Wilson 1972
3.69
64 ratings
🧠 Criminal Psychology🔍 Psychological True Crime💭 Existential Psychology
Anatomía del mal
by Jordi Wild • 2024
Eight crimes pull apart evil: trauma, group pressure, misogyny, and the mask of ordinary life.
3.42
884
🧠 Criminal Psychology😈 Nature Of Evil🧒 Childhood Trauma
Anatomía del mal Summary
Anatomía del mal 88%
Eight crimes pull apart evil: trauma, group pressure, misogyny, and the mask of ordinary life.
by Jordi Wild 2024
3.42
884 ratings
🧠 Criminal Psychology😈 Nature Of Evil🧒 Childhood Trauma
The Third Parent
by Elias Witherow • 2017
When a plastic-faced man becomes a family's third parent, the children learn what his smile costs.
3.88
1k+
🩸 Extreme Horror💔 Childhood Trauma🔒 Captivity Horror
The Third Parent Summary
The Third Parent 87%
When a plastic-faced man becomes a family's third parent, the children learn what his smile costs.
by Elias Witherow 2017
3.88
1k+ ratings
🩸 Extreme Horror💔 Childhood Trauma🔒 Captivity Horror
Full Brutal
by Kristopher Triana • 2018
When a cheerleader seduces her teacher, his shame becomes an addiction she'll kill to feed.
3.93
4k+
🩸 Splatterpunk🦴 Body Horror🍖 Cannibalism
Full Brutal Summary
Full Brutal 87%
When a cheerleader seduces her teacher, his shame becomes an addiction she'll kill to feed.
by Kristopher Triana 2018
3.93
4k+ ratings
🩸 Splatterpunk🦴 Body Horror🍖 Cannibalism
The Bug Collector
by Wrath James White • 2024
He collects diseases like others collect stamps, but one infection has come back for revenge.
3.59
3k+
🩸 Extreme Horror🦠 Body Horror💢 Victim Turned Avenger
The Bug Collector Summary
The Bug Collector 87%
He collects diseases like others collect stamps, but one infection has come back for revenge.
by Wrath James White 2024
3.59
3k+ ratings
🩸 Extreme Horror🦠 Body Horror💢 Victim Turned Avenger
The Devil's Best Trick
by Randall Sullivan • 2024
After an exorcism in Bosnia, a journalist meets a man in Rome he's certain isn't human.
3.07
889
🧐 Problem Of Evil😈 History Of The Devil🕵️ Satanic Panic
The Devil's Best Trick Summary
The Devil's Best Trick 87%
After an exorcism in Bosnia, a journalist meets a man in Rome he's certain isn't human.
by Randall Sullivan 2024
3.07
889 ratings
🧐 Problem Of Evil😈 History Of The Devil🕵️ Satanic Panic
Evil
by Julia Shaw • 2019
Why normal people do terrible things, and why calling them evil makes everything worse.
3.57
4k+
🕊️ Moral Psychology💀 Human Cruelty🎭 Dehumanization
Evil Summary
Evil 87%
Why normal people do terrible things, and why calling them evil makes everything worse.
by Julia Shaw 2019
3.57
4k+ ratings
🕊️ Moral Psychology💀 Human Cruelty🎭 Dehumanization
Yellow
by Aron Beauregard • 2021
When a thug threatens his store and wife, a meek man finds the monster within.
3.77
2k+
🩸 Extreme Horror🔪 Revenge Quest⚖️ Vigilante Justice
Yellow Summary
Yellow 87%
When a thug threatens his store and wife, a meek man finds the monster within.
by Aron Beauregard 2021
3.77
2k+ ratings
🩸 Extreme Horror🔪 Revenge Quest⚖️ Vigilante Justice
Cows
by Matthew Stokoe • 1998
Trapped by his mother, a man discovers a slaughterhouse where cows talk; killing is his only escape.
2.68
15k+
🩸 Splatterpunk🫀 Body Horror🖤 Maternal Abuse
Cows Summary
Cows 87%
Trapped by his mother, a man discovers a slaughterhouse where cows talk; killing is his only escape.
by Matthew Stokoe 1998
2.68
15k+ ratings
🩸 Splatterpunk🫀 Body Horror🖤 Maternal Abuse
Eichmann in Jerusalem
by Hannah Arendt • 1963
The Holocaust needed no monsters: careerism and stock phrases were enough. Evil is deeply ordinary.
4.20
34k+
🏛️ Political Philosophy⚖️ War Crimes Trials⛓️ Totalitarianism
Eichmann in Jerusalem Summary
Eichmann in Jerusalem 87%
The Holocaust needed no monsters: careerism and stock phrases were enough. Evil is deeply ordinary.
by Hannah Arendt 1963
4.20
34k+ ratings
🏛️ Political Philosophy⚖️ War Crimes Trials⛓️ Totalitarianism
Less Than Human
by David Livingstone Smith • 2011
Your brain can reclassify a human group as a nonhuman species. That shift makes genocide possible.
3.88
784
🐀 Dehumanization💀 Genocide Studies🧠 Moral Psychology
Less Than Human Summary
Less Than Human 87%
Your brain can reclassify a human group as a nonhuman species. That shift makes genocide possible.
by David Livingstone Smith 2011
3.88
784 ratings
🐀 Dehumanization💀 Genocide Studies🧠 Moral Psychology
Comandante ad Auschwitz
by Rudolf Höss • 1951
His kids played happily feet from the gas chambers. The Auschwitz commandant's own words.
3.85
4k+
🕯️ Holocaust Perpetrators🌍 Genocide Studies🏠 Banality Of Evil
Comandante ad Auschwitz Summary
Comandante ad Auschwitz 87%
His kids played happily feet from the gas chambers. The Auschwitz commandant's own words.
by Rudolf Höss 1951
3.85
4k+ ratings
🕯️ Holocaust Perpetrators🌍 Genocide Studies🏠 Banality Of Evil
Zola
by D.E. McCluskey • 2021
Her husband sold their son to the men at the bar. She has a bread knife.
3.32
3k+
🩸 Extreme Horror🍖 Cannibalism🦴 Body Horror
Zola Summary
Zola 87%
Her husband sold their son to the men at the bar. She has a bread knife.
by D.E. McCluskey 2021
3.32
3k+ ratings
🩸 Extreme Horror🍖 Cannibalism🦴 Body Horror
Political Ponerology
by Andrew M. Lobaczewski • 2007
A small, conscienceless minority drives tyranny; your belief in fairness is their greatest weapon.
4.06
398
🏛️ Totalitarian Regimes🧠 Psychopathy And Power🔬 Clinical Study Of Evil
Political Ponerology Summary
Political Ponerology 87%
A small, conscienceless minority drives tyranny; your belief in fairness is their greatest weapon.
by Andrew M. Lobaczewski 2007
4.06
398 ratings
🏛️ Totalitarian Regimes🧠 Psychopathy And Power🔬 Clinical Study Of Evil
The Girl Next Door
by Jack Ketchum • 1989
In 1950s suburbia, a boy watches his neighbors slowly destroy the orphan girl next door.
3.91
58k+
🩸 Extreme Horror🏘️ Suburban Horror👁️ Bystander Guilt
The Girl Next Door Summary
The Girl Next Door 87%
In 1950s suburbia, a boy watches his neighbors slowly destroy the orphan girl next door.
by Jack Ketchum 1989
3.91
58k+ ratings
🩸 Extreme Horror🏘️ Suburban Horror👁️ Bystander Guilt
Woom
by Duncan Ralston • 2016
A motel room. A hired woman. Confessions that turn a body into a doorway.
3.23
38k+
🩸 Extreme Horror🦴 Body Horror⚠️ Transgressive Fiction
Woom Summary
Woom 87%
A motel room. A hired woman. Confessions that turn a body into a doorway.
by Duncan Ralston 2016
3.23
38k+ ratings
🩸 Extreme Horror🦴 Body Horror⚠️ Transgressive Fiction
The Dark Sides of Empathy
by Fritz Breithaupt • 2019
Empathy can fuel cruelty: the more we feel another's pain, the more we enjoy inflicting it.
3.63
59
📚 Empathy Studies🧭 Moral Psychology🕳️ Dark Empathy
The Dark Sides of Empathy Summary
The Dark Sides of Empathy 87%
Empathy can fuel cruelty: the more we feel another's pain, the more we enjoy inflicting it.
by Fritz Breithaupt 2019
3.63
59 ratings
📚 Empathy Studies🧭 Moral Psychology🕳️ Dark Empathy
Sick Bastards
by Matt Shaw • 2014
A memoryless family cannibalizes strangers to survive, until one learns the apocalypse was faked.
3.54
4k+
💀 Extreme Horror🥩 Cannibalism Horror🩸 Body Horror
Sick Bastards Summary
Sick Bastards 87%
A memoryless family cannibalizes strangers to survive, until one learns the apocalypse was faked.
by Matt Shaw 2014
3.54
4k+ ratings
💀 Extreme Horror🥩 Cannibalism Horror🩸 Body Horror
The Nazi Doctors
by Robert Jay Lifton • 1986
Nazi doctors killed to heal the race. A psychologist reveals the mechanism that enabled it.
4.12
4k+
🕯️ Holocaust Studies🧠 Perpetrator Psychology📋 Medical Ethics
The Nazi Doctors Summary
The Nazi Doctors 87%
Nazi doctors killed to heal the race. A psychologist reveals the mechanism that enabled it.
by Robert Jay Lifton 1986
4.12
4k+ ratings
🕯️ Holocaust Studies🧠 Perpetrator Psychology📋 Medical Ethics
The Slob
by Aron Beauregard • 2019
A pregnant saleswoman enters a farmhouse, where a man forces her to clean his kills.
3.32
13k+
🩸 Splatterpunk☠️ Extreme Horror🦴 Body Horror
The Slob Summary
The Slob 86%
A pregnant saleswoman enters a farmhouse, where a man forces her to clean his kills.
by Aron Beauregard 2019
3.32
13k+ ratings
🩸 Splatterpunk☠️ Extreme Horror🦴 Body Horror
Bad Men Do what Good Men Dream
by Robert I. Simon • 1996
The monsters in the news are not a different species: they are you, minus restraint.
3.77
230
🧠 Forensic Psychiatry🔍 Criminal Psychology💔 Empathy Deficits
Bad Men Do what Good Men Dream Summary
Bad Men Do what Good Men Dream 86%
The monsters in the news are not a different species: they are you, minus restraint.
by Robert I. Simon 1996
3.77
230 ratings
🧠 Forensic Psychiatry🔍 Criminal Psychology💔 Empathy Deficits
On Human Nature
by Arthur Schopenhauer • 1851
Character is fixed, free will is a lie, and cruelty is our default. Only compassion redeems.
3.96
759
🌑 Philosophical Pessimism⚖️ Moral Philosophy⛓️ Determinism
On Human Nature Summary
On Human Nature 86%
Character is fixed, free will is a lie, and cruelty is our default. Only compassion redeems.
by Arthur Schopenhauer 1851
3.96
759 ratings
🌑 Philosophical Pessimism⚖️ Moral Philosophy⛓️ Determinism
The Pilo Family Circus
by Will Elliott • 2009
A clown drags a man into a nightmarish circus where face paint awakens his inner monster.
3.81
4k+
🤡 Evil Clowns🎪 Circus Horror👤 Split Identity
The Pilo Family Circus Summary
The Pilo Family Circus 86%
A clown drags a man into a nightmarish circus where face paint awakens his inner monster.
by Will Elliott 2009
3.81
4k+ ratings
🤡 Evil Clowns🎪 Circus Horror👤 Split Identity
Come Knocking
by Mike Bockoven • 2025
An immersive theater show about hell becomes a massacre when online trolls infiltrate the audience.
3.76
975
🎙️ Oral History Horror🎭 Theater Horror💻 Internet Radicalization
Come Knocking Summary
Come Knocking 86%
An immersive theater show about hell becomes a massacre when online trolls infiltrate the audience.
by Mike Bockoven 2025
3.76
975 ratings
🎙️ Oral History Horror🎭 Theater Horror💻 Internet Radicalization
Lapvona
by Ottessa Moshfegh • 2022
After killing the lord's son, a deformed boy is traded to a manor where cruelty wears silk.
3.54
104k+
🏰 Medieval Horror🤢 Body Horror🍖 Cannibalism
Lapvona Summary
Lapvona 86%
After killing the lord's son, a deformed boy is traded to a manor where cruelty wears silk.
by Ottessa Moshfegh 2022
3.54
104k+ ratings
🏰 Medieval Horror🤢 Body Horror🍖 Cannibalism
The Science of Evil
by Simon Baron-Cohen • 2011
Zero empathy produces both cruelty and extraordinary systems. The neuroscience behind the split.
3.77
7k+
🧠 Empathy Research🧬 Social Neuroscience👥 Theory Of Mind
The Science of Evil Summary
The Science of Evil 86%
Zero empathy produces both cruelty and extraordinary systems. The neuroscience behind the split.
by Simon Baron-Cohen 2011
3.77
7k+ ratings
🧠 Empathy Research🧬 Social Neuroscience👥 Theory Of Mind
No One Rides For Free
by Judith Sonnet • 2022
A stranger takes a family hostage on a desert road and feeds on their suffering.
2.71
16k+
🩸 Splatterpunk🦴 Body Horror👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family In Peril
No One Rides For Free Summary
No One Rides For Free 86%
A stranger takes a family hostage on a desert road and feeds on their suffering.
by Judith Sonnet 2022
2.71
16k+ ratings
🩸 Splatterpunk🦴 Body Horror👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family In Peril
22 Cells in Nuremberg
by Douglas M. Kelley • 2026
Rorschach tests at Nuremberg: twenty-two Nazis, no madness, only ordinary men with unchecked power.
4.42
236
🏛️ Nazi Germany⚖️ Nuremberg Trials🧠 Psychology Of Evil
22 Cells in Nuremberg Summary
22 Cells in Nuremberg 86%
Rorschach tests at Nuremberg: twenty-two Nazis, no madness, only ordinary men with unchecked power.
by Douglas M. Kelley 2026
4.42
236 ratings
🏛️ Nazi Germany⚖️ Nuremberg Trials🧠 Psychology Of Evil
No Service
by Krista Turner Clark • 2026
A couple's backwoods camping trip turns deadly when four strangers invite them to a bonfire.
3.78
1k+
🪓 Backwoods Horror🖤 Erotic Horror🍖 Cannibal Cult
No Service Summary
No Service 86%
A couple's backwoods camping trip turns deadly when four strangers invite them to a bonfire.
by Krista Turner Clark 2026
3.78
1k+ ratings
🪓 Backwoods Horror🖤 Erotic Horror🍖 Cannibal Cult
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
by Cormac McCarthy • 1985
A runaway joins scalp hunters in the desert, where a hairless judge preaches war as the only truth.
4.15
227k+
🤠 Literary Western🕴️ Enigmatic Villain✝️ Fallen Priest
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West Summary
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West 86%
A runaway joins scalp hunters in the desert, where a hairless judge preaches war as the only truth.
by Cormac McCarthy 1985
4.15
227k+ ratings
🤠 Literary Western🕴️ Enigmatic Villain✝️ Fallen Priest
The Best New True Crime Stories
by Mitzi Szereto • 2020
A German village, a cannibal forum, and the volunteer who agreed to be eaten.
3.29
340
🏘️ Small Town Crime🧠 Criminal Psychology🌐 Internet Subcultures
The Best New True Crime Stories Summary
The Best New True Crime Stories 86%
A German village, a cannibal forum, and the volunteer who agreed to be eaten.
by Mitzi Szereto 2020
3.29
340 ratings
🏘️ Small Town Crime🧠 Criminal Psychology🌐 Internet Subcultures
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
by Thomas Ligotti • 2011
Nature's worst mistake was making you self-aware. The only logical response is to stop reproducing.
4.01
10k+
🖤 Philosophical Pessimism🚫 Antinatalism🧠 Consciousness Studies
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race Summary
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race 86%
Nature's worst mistake was making you self-aware. The only logical response is to stop reproducing.
by Thomas Ligotti 2011
4.01
10k+ ratings
🖤 Philosophical Pessimism🚫 Antinatalism🧠 Consciousness Studies
SickER Bastards
by Matt Shaw • 2014
A man breaks free from a government cannibalism experiment and carries the appetite home.
3.81
924
🔞 Extreme Horror🏚️ Captivity Horror🧬 Engineered Plague
SickER Bastards Summary
SickER Bastards 86%
A man breaks free from a government cannibalism experiment and carries the appetite home.
by Matt Shaw 2014
3.81
924 ratings
🔞 Extreme Horror🏚️ Captivity Horror🧬 Engineered Plague
Hannibal
by Thomas Harris • 1999
A disgraced FBI agent becomes bait in a billionaire's grotesque plan to capture Hannibal Lecter.
3.82
118k+
🔪 Cannibal Horror🧠 Psychological Manipulation🎯 Revenge Thriller
Hannibal Summary
Hannibal 86%
A disgraced FBI agent becomes bait in a billionaire's grotesque plan to capture Hannibal Lecter.
by Thomas Harris 1999
3.82
118k+ ratings
🔪 Cannibal Horror🧠 Psychological Manipulation🎯 Revenge Thriller
Aliss
by Patrick Senécal • 2000
She flees the suburbs and tumbles into a Montreal underworld ruled by a Red Queen.
4.33
11k+
🌀 Wonderland Retelling🔪 Extreme Horror⚡ Transgressive Fiction
Aliss Summary
Aliss 86%
She flees the suburbs and tumbles into a Montreal underworld ruled by a Red Queen.
by Patrick Senécal 2000
4.33
11k+ ratings
🌀 Wonderland Retelling🔪 Extreme Horror⚡ Transgressive Fiction
Painter's Obsession
by Luna K. Wicked • 2025
Byron wakes chained underground. His captor faked his death, and suffering is the art.
4.32
2k+
👤 Captor Captive💔 Trauma Bonding🔄 Cycle Of Abuse
Painter's Obsession Summary
Painter's Obsession 86%
Byron wakes chained underground. His captor faked his death, and suffering is the art.
by Luna K. Wicked 2025
4.32
2k+ ratings
👤 Captor Captive💔 Trauma Bonding🔄 Cycle Of Abuse
The Psychopath Whisperer
by Kent A. Kiehl • 2014
Psychopaths share a brain deficit visible by childhood, discovered inside prison with a mobile MRI.
4.07
4k+
🏛️ Forensic Psychology🧠 Neurocriminology🎭 Antisocial Personality
The Psychopath Whisperer Summary
The Psychopath Whisperer 86%
Psychopaths share a brain deficit visible by childhood, discovered inside prison with a mobile MRI.
by Kent A. Kiehl 2014
4.07
4k+ ratings
🏛️ Forensic Psychology🧠 Neurocriminology🎭 Antisocial Personality
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
by Harlan Ellison • 1967
An all-powerful AI has wiped out humanity, sparing five survivors only to torment them forever.
3.89
57k+
🤖 Sentient Ai Nightmare👾 Classic Scifi Horror🧠 Psychological Torture
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream Summary
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream 86%
An all-powerful AI has wiped out humanity, sparing five survivors only to torment them forever.
by Harlan Ellison 1967
3.89
57k+ ratings
🤖 Sentient Ai Nightmare👾 Classic Scifi Horror🧠 Psychological Torture
The Gates of Janus
by Ian Brady • 2001
From prison, the Moors Murderer argues morality is rigged, and his own crimes are the proof.
3.61
511
🧠 Criminal Psychology🔪 Serial Murder🎭 Offender Profiling
The Gates of Janus Summary
The Gates of Janus 86%
From prison, the Moors Murderer argues morality is rigged, and his own crimes are the proof.
by Ian Brady 2001
3.61
511 ratings
🧠 Criminal Psychology🔪 Serial Murder🎭 Offender Profiling
The Least of All Possible Evils
by Eyal Weizman • 2012
When humanitarian law calculates acceptable civilian deaths, it also makes them thinkable.
4.19
224
🩸 Aid And Complicity🤷 Lesser Evil Logic📊 Proportionality In War
The Least of All Possible Evils Summary
The Least of All Possible Evils 86%
When humanitarian law calculates acceptable civilian deaths, it also makes them thinkable.
by Eyal Weizman 2012
4.19
224 ratings
🩸 Aid And Complicity🤷 Lesser Evil Logic📊 Proportionality In War
When Darkness Loves Us
by Elizabeth Engstrom • 1985
Trapped in caverns beneath her farm, a teenage bride raises a son born to the dark.
4.01
2k+
🕳️ Gothic Underground🦴 Body Horror🌑 Feral Child
When Darkness Loves Us Summary
When Darkness Loves Us 86%
Trapped in caverns beneath her farm, a teenage bride raises a son born to the dark.
by Elizabeth Engstrom 1985
4.01
2k+ ratings
🕳️ Gothic Underground🦴 Body Horror🌑 Feral Child
Satan's Affair
by H.D. Carlton • 2021
A traveling haunted house hides a woman who executes predators. Her only friends may not exist.
3.71
156k+
🌀 Unreliable Narrator🔪 Serial Killer Pov💀 Extreme Horror
Satan's Affair Summary
Satan's Affair 86%
A traveling haunted house hides a woman who executes predators. Her only friends may not exist.
by H.D. Carlton 2021
3.71
156k+ ratings
🌀 Unreliable Narrator🔪 Serial Killer Pov💀 Extreme Horror
They All Died Screaming
by Kristopher Triana • 2020
A plague of screams ends society, and a broken drunk faces the pig farm that made him a monster.
3.58
3k+
🩸 Splatterpunk🔄 Victim To Predator🔗 Cycle Of Abuse
They All Died Screaming Summary
They All Died Screaming 86%
A plague of screams ends society, and a broken drunk faces the pig farm that made him a monster.
by Kristopher Triana 2020
3.58
3k+ ratings
🩸 Splatterpunk🔄 Victim To Predator🔗 Cycle Of Abuse
God, Freedom, and Evil
by Alvin Plantinga • 1973
Why an all-powerful God cannot create a world of free, flawless creatures.
4.04
1k+
🧠 Philosophy Of Religion✝️ Theodicy🕊️ Free Will Defense
God, Freedom, and Evil Summary
God, Freedom, and Evil 86%
Why an all-powerful God cannot create a world of free, flawless creatures.
by Alvin Plantinga 1973
4.04
1k+ ratings
🧠 Philosophy Of Religion✝️ Theodicy🕊️ Free Will Defense
The Painted Bird
by Jerzy Kosiński • 1965
Sent to the countryside to escape the Nazis, a dark-haired boy finds the peasants are deadlier.
3.90
29k+
👁️ Persecuted Outsider🤐 Mute Protagonist🩸 Unflinching Brutality
The Painted Bird Summary
The Painted Bird 86%
Sent to the countryside to escape the Nazis, a dark-haired boy finds the peasants are deadlier.
by Jerzy Kosiński 1965
3.90
29k+ ratings
👁️ Persecuted Outsider🤐 Mute Protagonist🩸 Unflinching Brutality
Pure Murder
by Corey Mitchell • 2008
Two girls, one shortcut, six boys. What happened in that Houston park rewrote Texas law.
3.97
1k+
🩸 Gang Violence⚖️ Juvenile Justice🗣️ Victims' Rights
Pure Murder Summary
Pure Murder 86%
Two girls, one shortcut, six boys. What happened in that Houston park rewrote Texas law.
by Corey Mitchell 2008
3.97
1k+ ratings
🩸 Gang Violence⚖️ Juvenile Justice🗣️ Victims' Rights
Cari Mora
by Thomas Harris • 2019
A Colombian survivor works at Escobar's Miami mansion while a trafficker hunts the gold beneath it.
2.83
12k+
🍃 Narco Thriller🪖 Former Child Soldier💰 Treasure Hunt Thriller
Cari Mora Summary
Cari Mora 86%
A Colombian survivor works at Escobar's Miami mansion while a trafficker hunts the gold beneath it.
by Thomas Harris 2019
2.83
12k+ ratings
🍃 Narco Thriller🪖 Former Child Soldier💰 Treasure Hunt Thriller
Hollow Wrath
by Jodie King • 2025
A woman left for dead wakes in a nightmare carnival and becomes a mute killer's possession.
4.44
3k+
🎪 Dark Carnival Romance⛓️ Captor Captive🔪 Touch Her And Die
Hollow Wrath Summary
Hollow Wrath 86%
A woman left for dead wakes in a nightmare carnival and becomes a mute killer's possession.
by Jodie King 2025
4.44
3k+ ratings
🎪 Dark Carnival Romance⛓️ Captor Captive🔪 Touch Her And Die
God
by Dan Barker • 2016
Twenty million dead in a flood, children dashed on rocks: the Bible's God, read plainly.
3.90
838
📖 Biblical Criticism⚡ Divine Violence📚 Bible As Literature
God Summary
God 86%
Twenty million dead in a flood, children dashed on rocks: the Bible's God, read plainly.
by Dan Barker 2016
3.90
838 ratings
📖 Biblical Criticism⚡ Divine Violence📚 Bible As Literature
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