Seeking: Surreal terror that keeps getting stranger and nails the ending.

Cosmic horror, weird-lit, swords and sorcery, cyberpunk, sci-fi. I don’t care. Just want it extremely weird and terrifying with an ending that doesn’t whimper out.

Stuff I love: Communion, Transformation, Rendezvous with Rama, Childhood’s End, Ship of Fools, Three Body Problem, Blindsight, Borne, Veniss Underground, Annihilation, A Short Stay in Hell, The House on the Borderland, The Jaunt, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, The Last Question, The Butcher of the Forest.

Despite their captivating prose and fairly intriguing stories early on, stuff like The Last Astronaut, Eversion, Diamond Dogs, The Killing Star, A Lush and Seething Hell, and The Troop all became too repetitious, tedious, predictable, and the endings either petered out or were too little too late for me. They just didn’t go there, ya know?

I’m looking for something like the aforementioned novels at the top that get weirder and weirder, darker and darker. The revelations; strange, uncanny, and mind melty. 

Not a fan of body-horror. Does nothing for me, especially stuff like The Troop. Not a fan of how Last Astronaut (still good, btw) started introducing the alien worm creatures in the third act. It all of a sudden turns the ineffable strangeness corny and tangible. On the same note, Killing Star was fantastic, I just found the aliens goofy and it took me out. Or how Alastair Reynolds does almost nothing with The Edifice or the Blood Spire in Eversion or Diamond Dogs (also both good otherwise). Don’t want to spoil any specific work, but also the twist ending where it was just a greedy evil guy all along pulling the strings. Just take all that intrigue and throw it out the window, I guess.

What have ya got that’s weird, dark, and mysterious and just keeps leaning deeper into that?