Suggest me a bizarre or unusual/unique/unhinged book
I am currently waiting for the Pisces by Melissa Broder to show up because it is some deep story that results in the protagonist fucking a merman. Anyway, are there any other books that fall under this type?
‘The Vorrh’ by Brian Catling. Totally unhinged. Starts with one of the main characters making a bow and arrow from the bones and sinew of his deceased wife and only gets weirder from there. The next two book in the series ‘The Erstwhile’ and ‘The Cloven’ are equally if not more unhinged. Loved that series.
RIP B. Catling
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Maybe “The Chosen and the Beautiful” by Nghi Vo?
“The Shape of Water” by Daniel Kraus and Guillermo del Toro.
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The Doloriad by Missouri Williams, easily the most bizarre and unhinged book I’ve ever read
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i cannot stress this enough: read ‘a choir of ill children’. it’s swamp witch / sweltering southern gothic but not even full gothic just fucking weird and bizarre and one of a kind. i can’t sell it you well bc idfk how to even describe it right. the main protagonist has three brothers all melded into one form, there’s a preacher’s son gone insane, a witch-type creature who descends upon the main protag in a very nsfw way at one point, and a child that iirc was found on a sacrificial stone that becomes important. there’s also a SWAMP CARNIVAL !!!!! anyways. pick it up. lmk what u think bc im dying to talk to someone who’s read it.
eta: goodreads no spoiler summary // A Choir of Ill Children is the startling story of Kingdom Come, a decaying, swamp backwater that draws the lost, ill-fated, and damned.
Since his mother’s disappearance and his father’s suicide, Thomas has cared for his three brothers—conjoined triplets with separate bodies but one shared brain—and the town’s only industry, the Mill.
Because of his family’s prominence, Thomas is feared and respected by the superstitious swamp folk. Granny witches cast hexes while Thomas’s childhood sweetheart drifts through his life like a vengeful ghost and his best friend, a reverend suffering from the power of tongues, is overcome with this curse as he tries to warn of impending menace. All Thomas learns is that “the carnival is coming.”
Torn by responsibility and rage, Thomas must face his tormented past as well as the mysterious forces surging toward the town he loves and despises.
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‘The Vorrh’ by Brian Catling. Totally unhinged. Starts with one of the main characters making a bow and arrow from the bones and sinew of his deceased wife and only gets weirder from there. The next two book in the series ‘The Erstwhile’ and ‘The Cloven’ are equally if not more unhinged. Loved that series.
RIP B. Catling
Maybe “The Chosen and the Beautiful” by Nghi Vo?
“The Shape of Water” by Daniel Kraus and Guillermo del Toro.
The Doloriad by Missouri Williams, easily the most bizarre and unhinged book I’ve ever read
i cannot stress this enough: read ‘a choir of ill children’. it’s swamp witch / sweltering southern gothic but not even full gothic just fucking weird and bizarre and one of a kind. i can’t sell it you well bc idfk how to even describe it right. the main protagonist has three brothers all melded into one form, there’s a preacher’s son gone insane, a witch-type creature who descends upon the main protag in a very nsfw way at one point, and a child that iirc was found on a sacrificial stone that becomes important. there’s also a SWAMP CARNIVAL !!!!! anyways. pick it up. lmk what u think bc im dying to talk to someone who’s read it.
eta: goodreads no spoiler summary // A Choir of Ill Children is the startling story of Kingdom Come, a decaying, swamp backwater that draws the lost, ill-fated, and damned.
Since his mother’s disappearance and his father’s suicide, Thomas has cared for his three brothers—conjoined triplets with separate bodies but one shared brain—and the town’s only industry, the Mill.
Because of his family’s prominence, Thomas is feared and respected by the superstitious swamp folk. Granny witches cast hexes while Thomas’s childhood sweetheart drifts through his life like a vengeful ghost and his best friend, a reverend suffering from the power of tongues, is overcome with this curse as he tries to warn of impending menace. All Thomas learns is that “the carnival is coming.”
Torn by responsibility and rage, Thomas must face his tormented past as well as the mysterious forces surging toward the town he loves and despises.