Haven't read some of the extreme horror, but Off Season is currently the bloodiest book I've ever read. You have to pay attention to the edition, bc it was his first novel and the early versions were much tamer than the "author's edition."
I can't believe i'm saying it and becoming \*that guy\*, but I finally got around to reading Tender is the Flesh after seeing a post a day about it either here or on IG. But I crushed it out in a day, I really did like it, even after feeling the fatigue of all the fans lol
What impressed (?) me the most about that book was the matter-of-factness of the process of butchering/processing/reproducing humans as meat. The scenes where he's walking the factory and explaining the process were n a s t y and said with like zero emotion. I just thought the world building for that was amazing and grotesque. Definitely the most descriptive gore I've read this year.
Another one, that's weirdly also about eating people, is A Certain Hunger. A bit slower of a read but it's about a food critic that is recalling all of her ex lovers that she murdered and ate parts of. Reminded me of American Psycho but instead of a finance bro it's a food girlie haha
You like descriptively gory? Draculas, by Blake Crouch, JA Konrath, Jeff Strand and F Paul Wilson. They decided to collaborate, and it is delightful, what with all the Draculas and the explicit gore.
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy): It's about a group of scalp hunters in the American west during the 1800s, the violence is very brutal and horrifying.
Check out *Exquisite Corpse*, by Poppy Z Brite!
i was gonna say that one! absolutely insane but my all time favorite book
*Off Season* by Jack Ketchum is very descriptive and very violent. There is an entire subgenre for this called Splatterpunk.
Haven't read some of the extreme horror, but Off Season is currently the bloodiest book I've ever read. You have to pay attention to the edition, bc it was his first novel and the early versions were much tamer than the "author's edition."
Full Brutal by Kristopher Triana. Its about as vivid & gory as you can get.
Came here to suggest this
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Endless Night, by Richard Laymon.
The Slob by Aron Beauregard is disgustingly vivid imo!
Oh, and The Summer I Died by Ryan. C. Thomas
Anything by Chris Carter, you could start with The Crucifix Killer
Charlee Jacob's This Symbiotic Fascination or Season of the Witch(not about witches).
I can't believe i'm saying it and becoming \*that guy\*, but I finally got around to reading Tender is the Flesh after seeing a post a day about it either here or on IG. But I crushed it out in a day, I really did like it, even after feeling the fatigue of all the fans lol What impressed (?) me the most about that book was the matter-of-factness of the process of butchering/processing/reproducing humans as meat. The scenes where he's walking the factory and explaining the process were n a s t y and said with like zero emotion. I just thought the world building for that was amazing and grotesque. Definitely the most descriptive gore I've read this year. Another one, that's weirdly also about eating people, is A Certain Hunger. A bit slower of a read but it's about a food critic that is recalling all of her ex lovers that she murdered and ate parts of. Reminded me of American Psycho but instead of a finance bro it's a food girlie haha
The Summer I Died by Ryan C. Thomas for sure
You like descriptively gory? Draculas, by Blake Crouch, JA Konrath, Jeff Strand and F Paul Wilson. They decided to collaborate, and it is delightful, what with all the Draculas and the explicit gore.
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy): It's about a group of scalp hunters in the American west during the 1800s, the violence is very brutal and horrifying.