Like Being Killed
10 best books like Like Being Killed (Ellen Miller): Geek Love, Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 1, Cat's Eye, Zombie, Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines, Candy, The Hanged Man, The Luckiest Girl in the World, Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 2., Uzumaki: Spiral Into Horror, Vol. 3
| Author | Katherine Dunn |
| ISBN | 0375713344 |
Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out—with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes—to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There’s Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of...
Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 1
| Author | Junji Ito |
| ISBN | 1569317143 |
Can a comic--a horror manga, in this case--creep you out or even scare you? You know movies can do it, such as Psycho or Halloween. Stephen King can do it. I like some of Joe Hill's work such as Locke and Key, and that works to unsettle me, but this is different, atmospheric, black and white. . . and creepy,...
| Author | Margaret Atwood |
| ISBN | 0385491026 |
Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship,...
| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
| ISBN | 0452275008 |
I HATED this book! It was excellently written and it did what it was supposed to do...it scared the crap out of me. This is a character study of a social deviant. I don't want to spoil this for anyone who reads it, so I won't give away the ending, but definitely not something you read while lying on the beach...
Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines
| Author | Nic Sheff |
| ISBN | 1416913629 |
The story that inspired the major motion picture Beautiful Boy featuring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet.
This New York Times bestselling memoir of a young man’s addiction to methamphetamine tells a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of the road from relapse to recovery.
Nic...
| Author | Luke Davies |
| ISBN | 0345423879 |
"Candy is beside me, drenched in sweat. She's breathing gently, long slow breaths. I imagine her soul going in and out: wanting to leave, wanting to come back, wanting to leave, wanting to come back. The day will soon harden into what we need to do. But for now we have each other. . . ."
He met Candy...
| Author | Francesca Lia Block |
| ISBN | 0064408329 |
After the death of her father, Laurel is haunted by a legacy of family secrets, hidden shame, and shattered glass. Immersing herself in the heady rhythms of a city that is like something wild, caged, and pacing, Laurel tries to lose herself. But when she runs away from the past, she discovers a passion...
The Luckiest Girl in the World
| Author | Steven Levenkron |
| ISBN | 0140266259 |
Just looking at Katie Roskova, you'd think she had it all: she was pretty, popular, an A-student at an exclusive private school, and on her way to becoming a champion figure skater. But there was another Katie, the one she hid from the world, who was having trouble dealing with the mounting pressures of...
Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 2.
| Author | Junji Ito |
| ISBN | 1591160332 |
A sleepy town on the coast of Japan is under quiet, deadly siege, not by a person or group but by a primeval spiral shape whose victims include both parents of Shuichi Saito. In this second volume of the saga, Shuichi's girlfriend Kirie becomes further involved in the town's terrible secret when schoolmates...
Uzumaki: Spiral Into Horror, Vol. 3
| Author | Junji Ito |
| ISBN | 1591160480 |
Kurozu-cho, a fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is haunted by a recurring pattern: a spiral manifesting itself in increasingly terrifying ways. In this third and final volume, the town is cut off from the outside by devastating hurricanes. Kirie, her boyfriend Shuichi, and the other desperate survivors...
"Dagon" is the second story of the writer H.P.Lovecraft, written in 1917 and published ,for the first time, in 1919. The work takes its title from the mythological God Dagon, and tells a disturbing story, happened years before to a man with the obsession of suicide. Before throwing himself from the window...
How to Make Friends with the Dark
| Author | Kathleen Glasgow |
| ISBN | 1101934751 |
Here is what happens when your mother dies.
It’s the brightest day of summer and it’s dark outside. It’s dark in your house, dark in your room, and dark in your heart. You feel like the darkness is going to split you apart.
That’s how it feels for Tiger. It’s always been Tiger...
"The Tomb" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft written in June 1917 and first published in the March 1922 issue of The Vagrant. It is the first work of fiction that Lovecraft wrote as an adult.
"The Tomb" tells of Jervas Dudley, a self-confessed day-dreamer. While still a child, he discovers the...
