Julia Armfield · 2024
- What it is
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It gets under your skin · it stays with you
- Genre
- Science fiction Literary Horror
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. Each card tells you why.
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If you're after something that gets under your skin, start here
Perdido Street Station
China Miéville · 2000
It gets under your skin · something bad in the air
Hike
Drew Magary · 2016
It gets under your skin · it closes in on you
Vita Nostra
Marina & Sergey Dyachenko · 2018
It ties your stomach in a knot · properly strange
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Franz Kafka · 1996
It ties your stomach in a knot · it leaves you short of breath
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The Fisherman
John Langan · 2016
It leaves you thinking · sadness on a low heat
Let the Right One In
John Ajvide Lindqvist · 2008
It leaves you thinking · a small story, told up close
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