'Oh well,' I thought, 'I'll have to miss this part'. I was doing some chores, my phone playing the book on the side, and I'd walked slightly too far away from it to hear it properly and I was relieved. But I will draw a line at cruelty to animals, especially when that cruelty is described with a kind of gluttonous glee that truly distressed me. I'm not easily perturbed by gore or violence. TRIGGER WARNING - SPOILERS - READER DISCRETION REQUIRED All things considered, I was at about a 4 out of 10 on the ick scale.īut what pushed me over the edge was when that same hyper-gross use of language was applied to other incredibly unsettling scenes. Shocking levels of suffering.Īnd yet, I was dealing ok with it. Visceral descriptions of human bodies contorted and emaciated in ways I could never have imagined.

Here's the thing: I knew 'The Troop' by Nick Cutter was going to be a bit grim, and from the off it didn't disappoint. All credit to the narrator though, Corey Brill was, for want of a better word… Brill! With 28 narrated titles to their name it’s no surprise. And if you want to add an extra layer to the ick, listen to it on audiobook. Something about this kind of horror hits different when it's written into a book. Things like 'Hostel' could be classed as 'body horror' and I've watched those many times over. It's a term I knew the definition of but didn't realise there was a name to put to that ugly face. These violations may manifest through aberrant sex, mutations, mutilation, zombification, gratuitous violence, disease, or unnatural movements of the body.” - Wikipedia “Body horror or biological horror is a subgenre of horror that intentionally showcases grotesque or psychologically disturbing violations of the human body. There has to be a line though, right? And up until now I hadn't found mine. I'm not a squeamish reader and I don't shy away from the darker sides of fiction. Please check out the book description on Goodreads here, as well as community reviews to decide whether or not it is something you are comfortable with. A/N: This post discusses horror fiction and elements of horror fiction that may make some people uncomfortable, or could be triggering.

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