I’m looking for books similar to The Necrophiliac by Gabrielle Wittkop. If anyone has read that, are there any books you’ve read that are similar to this style of writing/genre? I’m looking for something incredibly macabre and disturbing. I don’t want anything that comes across as edgy or trying too hard if that makes sense. This is my favourite short story, oddly enough, and I’m disappointed that it is so short.
I need more of this type of book, but there are few books I’ve come across that are as morally corrupt as this and are actually interesting to me.
Albeit this may be a picky reader type thing, I haven’t found a book quite like it. If there are any suggestions based off of this book, I’d really appreciate it. 🙂
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I have not read The Necrophiliac, but here’s some disturbing book recs:
* The Wasp Factory by Iain M. Banks. Having read a lot of other books by this author, and read an interview where the author talked about his goals in writing this, it totally flew over my head.
* A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. A classic, and there’s two versions: one, published in the UK, which is complete, and one, published in the US, with the final chapter removed.
* Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin. Contains explicit gore, sex, transphobia, and sexual violence. References the older short story [The Screwfly Solution](https://pseudopod.org/2014/08/22/pseudopod-400-the-screwfly-solution/) by James Tiptree Jr.
* Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder. Contains explicit gore and sex. Feminist Lovecraftian horror.
* The Rifters series by Peter Watts. Available as free ebooks [on the author’s website](https://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm)
Not as overtly disturbing, but I think they are still very good:
* The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley. One of the most creative uses of pregnancy horror I’ve ever read.
* Courtship Rite by Donald Kingsbury. Incredibly rich worldbuilding, but though it contains a lot of brutality and shocking things, it’s not a *morally corrupt* story, if that makes sense. There’s still internally consistent ideas of right and wrong, and most of the characters want to do what’s best for their society.