I loved The Troop, and generally love body horror and horror in general, and love ‘weird little books’. But a lot of ‘weird little books’ tend to be a bit metaphorical or are up for interpretation, or it was a dream the whole time etc etc.
I liked the troop because it was very disturbing but it made sense and had an ending that had a bit of ambiguity but it was in a cool mysterious way and not a ‘what the frick’ way.
Like I also read our wives under the sea and I liked the body horror but it made no sense to me and didn’t have much plot. The troop had definitive plot points, a beginning, middle, end.
Nothing against weird quirky subjective metaphorical books, I just don’t want one at this moment.
A book I also really loved was The Watchers. It’s about a group of people stuck in an Irish woodland inside a glass ‘coop’ with creatures watching them.
Elements I like: Body horror, not knowing who is infected/not knowing who is a monster, people trapped in a location
Elements I don’t want: Confusing, metaphorical, too literaturey/intelligent
TLDR I want a horror that is disturbing but also easily digestible
by Wise_Strawberry8005
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Under the Skin by Michael Faber
The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
Not technically Horror, but Dearly Devoted Dexter, 2nd book in the series has truly horrible, truly memorable body horror.