Grotesque Beauty Books | Summaries & Audio

Rouge

by Mona Awad • 2023

Belle discovers the quest for perfect skin at a cliffside spa requires feeding a cult's hunger.

3.53

51k+

🌊 Gothic Seaside 💋 Beauty Cult 🩸 Body Horror

Rouge 89%

Belle discovers the quest for perfect skin at a cliffside spa requires feeding a cult's hunger.

by Mona Awad 2023

3.53

51k+ ratings

🌊 Gothic Seaside 💋 Beauty Cult 🩸 Body Horror

Pig Tales

by Marie Darrieussecq • 1998

A Paris salon girl sells allure until her body starts turning into a pig.

3.46

4k+

🩸 Feminist Body Horror 🐖 Grotesque Metamorphosis 💄 Beauty Industry Critique

Pig Tales 89%

A Paris salon girl sells allure until her body starts turning into a pig.

by Marie Darrieussecq 1998

3.46

4k+ ratings

🩸 Feminist Body Horror 🐖 Grotesque Metamorphosis 💄 Beauty Industry Critique

And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe

by Gwendolyn Kiste • 2017

Tales of women who birth birds, steal skin, and unmake the world with a smile.

4.29

600

🩸 Body Horror 🍎 Dark Fairy Tales 🐦‍⬛ Outsider Women

And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe Summary

And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe 89%

Tales of women who birth birds, steal skin, and unmake the world with a smile.

by Gwendolyn Kiste 2017

4.29

600 ratings

🩸 Body Horror 🍎 Dark Fairy Tales 🐦‍⬛ Outsider Women

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 88%

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

But Not Too Bold

by Hache Pueyo • 2022

She inherited the keys, the spiders, and a mistress whose brides all end up dead.

3.63

4k+

🏚️ Gothic Horror 🕷️ Monster Romance 💕 Sapphic Romance

But Not Too Bold 88%

She inherited the keys, the spiders, and a mistress whose brides all end up dead.

by Hache Pueyo 2022

3.63

4k+ ratings

🏚️ Gothic Horror 🕷️ Monster Romance 💕 Sapphic Romance

Angel Down

by Daniel Kraus • 2025

A WWI gravedigger finds an angel in No Man's Land; her gifts destroy whoever asks.

4.06

16k+

🖤 Literary Horror 🪖 World War I 😇 Wish Gone Wrong

Angel Down 88%

A WWI gravedigger finds an angel in No Man's Land; her gifts destroy whoever asks.

by Daniel Kraus 2025

4.06

16k+ ratings

🖤 Literary Horror 🪖 World War I 😇 Wish Gone Wrong

The Great God Pan

by Arthur Machen • 1890

A forbidden brain experiment yields a child who grows into a woman of inhuman, ruinous beauty.

3.67

17k+

🪐 Cosmic Horror 📜 Weird Fiction ⚗️ Forbidden Experiment

The Great God Pan 88%

A forbidden brain experiment yields a child who grows into a woman of inhuman, ruinous beauty.

by Arthur Machen 1890

3.67

17k+ ratings

🪐 Cosmic Horror 📜 Weird Fiction ⚗️ Forbidden Experiment

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 87%

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

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 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

The Knight and the Butcherbird

by Alix E. Harrow • 2025

Her wife became a demon to survive. Now a scarred knight has come to kill her.

3.99

13k+

🩸 Body Horror Fantasy 💔 Monstrous Lover 🏹 Lost Wife Quest

The Knight and the Butcherbird 87%

Her wife became a demon to survive. Now a scarred knight has come to kill her.

by Alix E. Harrow 2025

3.99

13k+ ratings

🩸 Body Horror Fantasy 💔 Monstrous Lover 🏹 Lost Wife Quest

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 87%

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

House of the Beast

by Michelle Wong • 2025

A slum girl gives her arm to a god and wakes a shadow lover hellbent on revenge.

3.84

6k+

🏰 Gothic Romantasy 🌹 Beauty And The Beast Retelling ⚔️ God-Touched Heroine

House of the Beast 87%

A slum girl gives her arm to a god and wakes a shadow lover hellbent on revenge.

by Michelle Wong 2025

3.84

6k+ ratings

🏰 Gothic Romantasy 🌹 Beauty And The Beast Retelling ⚔️ God-Touched Heroine

Thornhedge

by T. Kingfisher • 2023

A fairy's centuries-long vigil: the princess in the tower must never wake.

3.92

65k+

🧚 Subverted Fairy Tale 🌹 Sleeping Beauty Retelling 🐸 Changeling Protagonist

Thornhedge 87%

A fairy's centuries-long vigil: the princess in the tower must never wake.

by T. Kingfisher 2023

3.92

65k+ ratings

🧚 Subverted Fairy Tale 🌹 Sleeping Beauty Retelling 🐸 Changeling Protagonist

At Dark, I Become Loathsome

by Eric LaRocca • 2025

After his son vanished, he started burying strangers alive. His last client knows what happened.

3.20

5k+

🪦 Grief Horror 🩸 Transgressive Horror 🦴 Queer Body Horror

At Dark, I Become Loathsome 87%

After his son vanished, he started burying strangers alive. His last client knows what happened.

by Eric LaRocca 2025

3.20

5k+ ratings

🪦 Grief Horror 🩸 Transgressive Horror 🦴 Queer Body Horror

Her Body and Other Parties

by Carmen Maria Machado • 2017

Eight stories where misogyny is body horror: women fade, split, and haunt the lives they lost.

3.80

109k+

🫀 Body Horror ✂️ Feminist Horror 🏠 Queer Domesticity

Her Body and Other Parties 87%

Eight stories where misogyny is body horror: women fade, split, and haunt the lives they lost.

by Carmen Maria Machado 2017

3.80

109k+ ratings

🫀 Body Horror ✂️ Feminist Horror 🏠 Queer Domesticity

Walking Practice

by Dolki Min • 2022

To survive on Earth, an alien seduces and devours lovers, but the loneliness cannot be consumed.

3.55

7k+

🩸 Body Horror 📖 Literary Horror 🦎 Shapeshifter Horror

Walking Practice 87%

To survive on Earth, an alien seduces and devours lovers, but the loneliness cannot be consumed.

by Dolki Min 2022

3.55

7k+ ratings

🩸 Body Horror 📖 Literary Horror 🦎 Shapeshifter Horror

Chouette

by Claire Oshetsky • 2021

A cellist births an owl-baby. Her husband calls it a crisis; she calls it her child.

3.88

7k+

🪄 Magical Realism 📖 Literary Horror 🦉 Feral Child

Chouette 87%

A cellist births an owl-baby. Her husband calls it a crisis; she calls it her child.

by Claire Oshetsky 2021

3.88

7k+ ratings

🪄 Magical Realism 📖 Literary Horror 🦉 Feral Child

Fruit of the Flesh

by I.V. Ophelia • 2026

A ballerina weds a sculptor out of spite, but shared violence reveals appetites darker than love.

3.46

5k+

🖤 Marriage Of Convenience 🍖 Cannibal Desire 🔪 Morally Grey Couple

Fruit of the Flesh 87%

A ballerina weds a sculptor out of spite, but shared violence reveals appetites darker than love.

by I.V. Ophelia 2026

3.46

5k+ ratings

🖤 Marriage Of Convenience 🍖 Cannibal Desire 🔪 Morally Grey Couple

The Obscene Bird of Night

by José Donoso • 1970

Entering an aristocrat's world to steal a face, a poor teacher's son dissolves into silence and ash.

4.21

5k+

🕯️ Gothic Magical Realism 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🩸 Bodily Horror

The Obscene Bird of Night 87%

Entering an aristocrat's world to steal a face, a poor teacher's son dissolves into silence and ash.

by José Donoso 1970

4.21

5k+ ratings

🕯️ Gothic Magical Realism 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🩸 Bodily Horror

Eat the Ones You Love

by Sarah Maria Griffin • 2025

Broke and heartbroken, Shell takes a florist job in a dying mall where something sentient hungers.

3.46

8k+

🪴 Botanical Horror 🫀 Body Horror 🖤 Queer Horror

Eat the Ones You Love 87%

Broke and heartbroken, Shell takes a florist job in a dying mall where something sentient hungers.

by Sarah Maria Griffin 2025

3.46

8k+ ratings

🪴 Botanical Horror 🫀 Body Horror 🖤 Queer Horror

All Tommorows

by C.M. Kosemen • 2006

Humanity colonizes the stars, until godlike aliens reshape them into a galaxy of nightmares.

4.16

11k+

🧬 Speculative Evolution 🌌 Cosmic Horror 💀 Body Horror

All Tommorows 87%

Humanity colonizes the stars, until godlike aliens reshape them into a galaxy of nightmares.

by C.M. Kosemen 2006

4.16

11k+ ratings

🧬 Speculative Evolution 🌌 Cosmic Horror 💀 Body Horror

And the Sea Called Her Name

by Joe Hart • 2015

The sea took her mother. Now his wife is vanishing, and the tide is pulling her under.

3.73

429

🌀 Cosmic Horror 🌊 Coastal Gothic 💔 Doomed Marriage

And the Sea Called Her Name 87%

The sea took her mother. Now his wife is vanishing, and the tide is pulling her under.

by Joe Hart 2015

3.73

429 ratings

🌀 Cosmic Horror 🌊 Coastal Gothic 💔 Doomed Marriage

The Sleeper and the Spindle

by Neil Gaiman • 2013

A queen abandons her wedding, dons armor, and rides toward a sleeping plague that devours kingdoms.

3.87

54k+

🖤 Fairy Tale Subversion 🌑 Dark Fairy Tale ⚔️ Warrior Queen

The Sleeper and the Spindle 87%

A queen abandons her wedding, dons armor, and rides toward a sleeping plague that devours kingdoms.

by Neil Gaiman 2013

3.87

54k+ ratings

🖤 Fairy Tale Subversion 🌑 Dark Fairy Tale ⚔️ Warrior Queen

House of Hunger

by Alexis Henderson • 2022

Marion sells her blood to a northern countess, but the gothic estate hungers for far more.

3.63

25k+

🩸 Sapphic Gothic Horror 🌑 Dark Fairy Tale 💔 Dark Sapphic Romance

House of Hunger 87%

Marion sells her blood to a northern countess, but the gothic estate hungers for far more.

by Alexis Henderson 2022

3.63

25k+ ratings

🩸 Sapphic Gothic Horror 🌑 Dark Fairy Tale 💔 Dark Sapphic Romance

The Faire

by Kathryn Ann Kingsley • 2020

Bound to a hungry circus, she loves its beautiful monster. The ringmaster wants them dead.

4.34

3k+

🎪 Dark Carnival 🖤 Villain Love Interest 💕 Enemies To Lovers

The Faire 87%

Bound to a hungry circus, she loves its beautiful monster. The ringmaster wants them dead.

by Kathryn Ann Kingsley 2020

4.34

3k+ ratings

🎪 Dark Carnival 🖤 Villain Love Interest 💕 Enemies To Lovers

The Vegetarian

by Han Kang • 2007

A Seoul wife quits meat. Her family fights for her body. She has begun to leave it.

3.65

403k+

🩸 Body Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror ✊ Bodily Autonomy

The Vegetarian 87%

A Seoul wife quits meat. Her family fights for her body. She has begun to leave it.

by Han Kang 2007

3.65

403k+ ratings

🩸 Body Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror ✊ Bodily Autonomy

Wolf Worm

by T. Kingfisher • 2026

An illustrator draws parasites at a remote Southern mansion where the shed conceals a living secret.

4.11

15k+

🩸 Gothic Body Horror 📜 Historical Horror 🖤 Found Family

Wolf Worm 87%

An illustrator draws parasites at a remote Southern mansion where the shed conceals a living secret.

by T. Kingfisher 2026

4.11

15k+ ratings

🩸 Gothic Body Horror 📜 Historical Horror 🖤 Found Family

Dark Is When the Devil Comes

by Daisy Pearce • 2026

Locked in a cellar on cursed land, she must survive a captor who drills skulls to free demons.

3.69

2k+

🏚️ Modern Gothic 🔒 Captivity Horror 👭 Estranged Sisters

Dark Is When the Devil Comes 87%

Locked in a cellar on cursed land, she must survive a captor who drills skulls to free demons.

by Daisy Pearce 2026

3.69

2k+ ratings

🏚️ Modern Gothic 🔒 Captivity Horror 👭 Estranged Sisters

Someone You Can Build a Nest In

by John Wiswell • 2024

A flesh-eating shapeshifter falls in love with the daughter of the hunters who want her dead.

3.86

24k+

👹 Monster Romance 🫀 Body Horror 💕 Sapphic Love Story

Someone You Can Build a Nest In 87%

A flesh-eating shapeshifter falls in love with the daughter of the hunters who want her dead.

by John Wiswell 2024

3.86

24k+ ratings

👹 Monster Romance 🫀 Body Horror 💕 Sapphic Love Story

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 87%

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

Juniper & Thorn

by Ava Reid • 2022

A young witch, captive to her father's hunger, risks it all for a wounded ballet dancer.

3.62

29k+

🌲 Dark Fairy Tale 🧙‍♀️ Witch Sisters 🩸 Body Horror

Juniper & Thorn 86%

A young witch, captive to her father's hunger, risks it all for a wounded ballet dancer.

by Ava Reid 2022

3.62

29k+ ratings

🌲 Dark Fairy Tale 🧙‍♀️ Witch Sisters 🩸 Body Horror

Flawless

by Elise Hu • 2023

Korea's beauty industry perfected skincare and the feeling you will never stop fixing yourself.

4.04

3k+

🧴 Korean Beauty Culture 💄 Beauty Standards 👁️ Lookism

Flawless 86%

Korea's beauty industry perfected skincare and the feeling you will never stop fixing yourself.

by Elise Hu 2023

4.04

3k+ ratings

🧴 Korean Beauty Culture 💄 Beauty Standards 👁️ Lookism

The Scar

by China Miéville • 2002

Pirates capture a linguist and take her to a floating city chasing a tear in reality.

4.19

35k+

🏴‍☠️ Floating City 🌊 Nautical Fantasy 🦴 Body Horror

The Scar 86%

Pirates capture a linguist and take her to a floating city chasing a tear in reality.

by China Miéville 2002

4.19

35k+ ratings

🏴‍☠️ Floating City 🌊 Nautical Fantasy 🦴 Body Horror

La belleza de la Bestia

by Phavy Prieto • 2020

Her father's life costs Bella her freedom, and the scarred lord demands her complete submission.

3.94

1k+

🥀 Beauty And The Beast Trope 🔗 Captive Romance 🩹 Scarred Hero

La belleza de la Bestia 86%

Her father's life costs Bella her freedom, and the scarred lord demands her complete submission.

by Phavy Prieto 2020

3.94

1k+ ratings

🥀 Beauty And The Beast Trope 🔗 Captive Romance 🩹 Scarred Hero

Of Skulls of Shackles

by Kelly St. Clare • 2025

A stitched queen must conquer rival kings before the lover who sees all destroys her heart.

4.28

137

🏰 Gothic Romantasy 👑 Monster Politics ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers

Of Skulls of Shackles 86%

A stitched queen must conquer rival kings before the lover who sees all destroys her heart.

by Kelly St. Clare 2025

4.28

137 ratings

🏰 Gothic Romantasy 👑 Monster Politics ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers

The Cuck

by Aron Beauregard • 2022

Answering a risqué ad, two friends meet a voyeuristic old man whose gaze becomes a curse.

3.38

2k+

🩸 Extreme Horror 🦴 Body Horror 🦠 Parasitic Entity

The Cuck 86%

Answering a risqué ad, two friends meet a voyeuristic old man whose gaze becomes a curse.

by Aron Beauregard 2022

3.38

2k+ ratings

🩸 Extreme Horror 🦴 Body Horror 🦠 Parasitic Entity

The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories

by Franz Kafka • 1915

A traveling salesman wakes as a giant insect, and his family wants him gone.

4.09

21k+

🎭 Absurdist Fiction 🦗 Body Horror 💔 Caretaker Resentment

The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories Summary

The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories 86%

A traveling salesman wakes as a giant insect, and his family wants him gone.

by Franz Kafka 1915

4.09

21k+ ratings

🎭 Absurdist Fiction 🦗 Body Horror 💔 Caretaker Resentment

The Haar

by David Sodergren • 2022

Developers want her cottage. A sea creature offers her dead husband back, for blood.

4.02

36k+

🏚️ Folk Horror 🩸 Body Horror 🦑 Eldritch Horror

The Haar 86%

Developers want her cottage. A sea creature offers her dead husband back, for blood.

by David Sodergren 2022

4.02

36k+ ratings

🏚️ Folk Horror 🩸 Body Horror 🦑 Eldritch Horror

Cuentos desde Interior

by Melissa Albert • 2021

Dark fairy tales where blood opens doors, Death collects brides, and every wish leaves a scar.

4.00

8k+

🖤 Dark Fairy Tales 💪 Feminist Fairy Tales 💀 Bargains With Death

Cuentos desde Interior 86%

Dark fairy tales where blood opens doors, Death collects brides, and every wish leaves a scar.

by Melissa Albert 2021

4.00

8k+ ratings

🖤 Dark Fairy Tales 💪 Feminist Fairy Tales 💀 Bargains With Death

House of Roots and Ruin

by Erin A. Craig • 2023

A ghost-seeing painter falls for an heir in a manor of drugged candles and buried secrets.

4.11

21k+

🏚️ Gothic Manor 🌿 Botanical Horror 👻 Ghost-Seeing Heroine

House of Roots and Ruin 86%

A ghost-seeing painter falls for an heir in a manor of drugged candles and buried secrets.

by Erin A. Craig 2023

4.11

21k+ ratings

🏚️ Gothic Manor 🌿 Botanical Horror 👻 Ghost-Seeing Heroine

Boy Parts

by Eliza Clark • 2020

She photographs men at their most vulnerable. A gallery show sends her control spiraling.

3.71

85k+

🔥 Transgressive Fiction 🧠 Psychological Horror 👩‍🎤 Female Antihero

Boy Parts 86%

She photographs men at their most vulnerable. A gallery show sends her control spiraling.

by Eliza Clark 2020

3.71

85k+ ratings

🔥 Transgressive Fiction 🧠 Psychological Horror 👩‍🎤 Female Antihero

The Phantom of the Opera

by Gaston Leroux • 1910

At the Paris Opera, a phantom’s love turns deadly when his protégée falls for a vicomte.

3.96

281k+

🖤 Gothic Romance 🌹 Beauty And The Beast 💘 Obsessive Love

The Phantom of the Opera 86%

At the Paris Opera, a phantom’s love turns deadly when his protégée falls for a vicomte.

by Gaston Leroux 1910

3.96

281k+ ratings

🖤 Gothic Romance 🌹 Beauty And The Beast 💘 Obsessive Love

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 86%

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 Friend of the Family

by Dean Koontz • 2026

Bought as a toddler for a carnival freak show, she is freed by filmmakers who want a daughter.

4.27

12k+

🏠 Found Family 🎪 Carnival Freak Show 💫 Supernatural Healing

The Friend of the Family 86%

Bought as a toddler for a carnival freak show, she is freed by filmmakers who want a daughter.

by Dean Koontz 2026

4.27

12k+ ratings

🏠 Found Family 🎪 Carnival Freak Show 💫 Supernatural Healing

Smothermoss

by Alisa Alering • 2024

Two sisters draw monsters for protection while a killer stalks their Appalachian mountain.

3.43

5k+

🏔️ Appalachian Gothic 🌲 Folk Horror 👭 Sisters In Peril

Smothermoss 86%

Two sisters draw monsters for protection while a killer stalks their Appalachian mountain.

by Alisa Alering 2024

3.43

5k+ ratings

🏔️ Appalachian Gothic 🌲 Folk Horror 👭 Sisters In Peril

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 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

What Moves the Dead

by T. Kingfisher • 2022

A soldier returns to a decaying manor: her friends are dying, and the lake is learning.

3.84

146k+

🍄 Fungal Body Horror 🏚️ Crumbling Gothic Manor 📜 Poe Retelling

What Moves the Dead 86%

A soldier returns to a decaying manor: her friends are dying, and the lake is learning.

by T. Kingfisher 2022

3.84

146k+ ratings

🍄 Fungal Body Horror 🏚️ Crumbling Gothic Manor 📜 Poe Retelling

Reliquary

by Douglas Preston • 1997

When headless corpses surface in New York, the trail dives underground, where a mutant cult breeds.

4.04

51k+

🧬 Genetic Horror 🏚️ Underground Society 🦴 Body Horror

Reliquary 86%

When headless corpses surface in New York, the trail dives underground, where a mutant cult breeds.

by Douglas Preston 1997

4.04

51k+ ratings

🧬 Genetic Horror 🏚️ Underground Society 🦴 Body Horror

The Drowning Girl

by Caitlín R. Kiernan • 2012

A schizophrenic painter and her girlfriend shelter a roadside ghost who sings them toward drowning.

3.70

6k+

🖋️ Literary Horror 🏚️ Gothic New England 🌀 Unreliable Narrator

The Drowning Girl 86%

A schizophrenic painter and her girlfriend shelter a roadside ghost who sings them toward drowning.

by Caitlín R. Kiernan 2012

3.70

6k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Horror 🏚️ Gothic New England 🌀 Unreliable Narrator

Nestlings

by Nat Cassidy • 2023

A paraplegic mother wins a luxury apartment in a building that feeds on families like hers.

3.78

28k+

🩸 Postpartum Horror 🏢 Sentient Building 🦴 Body Horror

Nestlings 86%

A paraplegic mother wins a luxury apartment in a building that feeds on families like hers.

by Nat Cassidy 2023

3.78

28k+ ratings

🩸 Postpartum Horror 🏢 Sentient Building 🦴 Body Horror

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