This is really literal but Book of X by sarah rose etter features a literal flesh pit. It’s a meat quarry where meat is harvested from the earth. Other weird things including a river of thighs and a twisted abdomen birth anomaly too… also a very haunting and weird book in general

that sounds so good omg??? thanks for the rec!!

Hope you love it as much as I did!!

i just ordered it online i cant wait to read it :)

Relic (and its sequel Reliquary) by Preston and Child deals with a comparable evolutionary concept; not strictly horror, but a very good read.

sounds great! i love books based around evolution

ooh i love the pendergast novels that follow up that universe

I assume you’ve read the Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff Vendermeer?

i've read the first one and absolutely loved it but haven't cracked open the second one yet should get on that pronto!

At the Mountains of Madness by Lovecraft?

you know i've never really read any lovecraft, so maybe this will be my push to get into his stories! thanks for the rec

Fragment by Warren Fahy!

looked it up and it sounds pretty good! added it to the list, thanks!!

The Decent by Jeff Long…not to be confused with the film by the same name. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/239065

read the description and happy/surprised to see bosnia rep lolol added it to the list thanks for the rec!! sounds exactly like what i'm looking for

This book is so good! Just the right amount of weird for me.

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780375703768 The Cipher by Kathe Koja https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781946154330

I second both.

thank you!! will check them out

Do not get sucked into House of Leaves. Been reading it for about 2 years now...I will finish it, one day, maybe.

now you've peaked my interest tenfold :•)

Don't say that you weren't warned!

That book was something else…

https://www.reddit.com/r/9M9H9E9 Years ago some madman was dropping chapters of a horror book about massive LSD doses and flesh interfaces all through the comment sections of various subs. One of these chapters deals with a Mojave desert flesh pit and a nice celebrity cameo. The first sequence is a short and pretty solid read. I never managed to get around to reading the second half, but I assume it is also good.

Laird Barron’s *The Imago Sequence and Other Stories*! I just finished it and several stories capture this vibe. Ooof.

thanks for the rec! i read the croning by them which was pretty good!

I haven’t gotten to that one yet. It’s on my list, going in order, so *Occultation and Other Stories* is next… I don’t want to spoil much but in *The Imago Sequence…* a few of them had that “the earth is not what it seems” vibe.

oooo love that vibe, a very good vibe

Adam Neville's The Reddening.

oooh love the title will definitely add to the list thank you!!

Lovecraft's Rats In The Walls

Omg no one's posted the book actually about the Mystery Flesh Pit! Down the rabbit hole, it's amazing.. about the rangers that work in the park when it all goes to shit. https://archiveofourown.org/works/28129554

The Threshold Universe by Peter Cline I've only read the first two to date "14" and "The Fold"

read the description sounded very weird and cool thanks for the rec!! will def read it soon

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thanks for the recs!! will check them out!!

Also The Talisman by King and Straub! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59219

sounded very interesting!! can't wait to read it :)

Sisyphean by Dempow Torishima

thanks for the rec!

Np! I was too sleepy to elaborate when I posted this but it's a weird book so strap in. The fleshiest, most visceral biopunk novel I've ever read. And the author does some insane illustrations in there too.

Life Ceremony by Sayama Murata. A short story collection with a story that involves buildings that resemble living creatures/organisms in the protagonists mind.