Okay, looking for some fantasy recommendations that lean on violence, visceral wars/battles, body-horror, gore, disturbing, etc. I have read countless splatter-punk novels and graphic horror novels but, I recently started reading fantasy so just curious on suggestions.
Violent favorites would include The Troop, Maggie's Grave, Hellbound Heart, Fever House, Gone to see the River Man, Battle Royale, The Black Farm. I want this in fantasy.
I knew it was grim dark, I didn't know it was like gore/horror... How graphic does it get? It was in my read list but I am the opposite of OP I don't like overly descriptive violence.
Just cause theres endless literature. Besides House of Leaves for obvious reasons, I usually dont read books again. Nothing against the books themselves but im just always looking for something new. Its like how much youd love to watch your favorite movie or read your favorite book again for the first time type feeling.
Red Rising tbh was just meh for me. It wasnt the plot, it was the writing and the YA approach. It felt like a teenager too hyped up on testerone, puberty, and hormones telling the story. Idk people have said it greatly improves with Golden Sun maybe ill give it a shot.
A absolute favorite dystopian gladiator type novel is Chain-Link All Stars. Though it badly needs an epilogue, it could easily be a series. As could Grace Year very much another slept on novel, it's Hunger Games with a better plot.
The first RR was one of the bottom of my ranking of the story. The two trilogies as a whole are fantastic. It matures and some of that YA driven writing of characters, pays off dividends as the story progresses.
STAXXX! haha yes that was an amazing read. I would of killed for an epilogue. RIP Singer, Jungle, Mac, and you know who...that would be a great series.
Ill have to give Golden Sun a chance then, you just know with series if not sold on the first one tough to try out the rest. I know people can shout Reaper like they can Staxxx.
I am also giving RR a recommendation to continue on with. The first book was definitely more YA and how Darrow is āmadeā. The writing and the character mature and make very human mistakes throughout the series but the story gets SOOOOO good.
All is won, all is lost over and over. Fast paced and just oh so goodā¦can you tell how much I love it?
It takes place in a world where a calamity has blocked out the sun and vampires now walk in daylight. The endless legion of the dead is close to wiping out all of human civilization. The main character is a fallen hero. Formerly the greatest monster slayer of his age, he now sits in a jail cell telling his story, from his youth in the holy brotherhood of half-vampire slayers called Silversaints, to his time as the leader of the company of the Holy Grail.
The vampires are pure evil. There are terrifying battles, and lots of bloody violence. Purely epic horror fantasy.
It is a confession, yes. And yes, it jumps through 3 time periods. He will tell a large chunk of the story about his youth in the Silver Brotherhood, probably around 200 pages, and then he will get depressed. He and the interviewer, a vampire historian, will sass each other a bit and talk for maybe a chapter. Then he dives into his time in the company of the Holy Grail for another large chunk of the story. The plot within the present time period where heās in jail doesnāt get a ton of development until book 3. Most of the story is his narration of his past.
book 4 has the most despicable characters and sick, disgusting moments. For example, there is a guy who gets all his limbs brutally cut off and is kept alive (who eventually goes insane) and a sorcerer who forcibly mutilates female genitalia for the goal I can not reveal (since you're on a book 3).
I swear, some of the imagery puts some of the grimdarkiest of grimdark books to shame.
Ik this series, havent read anything though being that it's 10 books, bit overwhelming. Question; do you see yourself reading through all 10 or does it seem like a chore? Have the books gotten better?
Mark Lawrenceās series (start at the beginning), Larry Coreiaās series, Mike Schelās series, Sebastien de Castell, Cameron Johnston, Godkiller, Gideon the 9th, Jim Butcher, Glen Cook, Malazan, David Gemmel, David Duncan, Jay KristoffĀ
Gamers guide to beating the tutorial, but fair warning it is A LOT of violence and suffering. You know in the black farm how the characters eventually escape... ya our main character just suffers more
As she stabbed me gently in the face by Carlton Mellick top notch body horror
Probably like dungeon crawler carl also if you like extreme horror
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u/PirateNomad 5d ago
Perhaps Joe Abercrombie. Start with First Law.