You Weren't Meant to Be Human
$2.99
Price checked Oct 28. Prices change often, so confirm on Amazon before you buy.
Alien hives have taken root across rural Appalachia, offering desperate people a fresh start in exchange for loyalty and corpses. Gory sci-fi horror about identity and transformation.
Our take
Worm-cult body horror with a broken, beating heart
Crane is an autistic trans man in a near-future Appalachia where worm hives offer the lost a place to belong, at a price. Then he finds out he's pregnant, and everyone around him, human and otherwise, decides his body belongs to the hive. Critics gave it starred reviews for pairing truly stomach-turning gore with a tender, furious story about bodily autonomy, and readers keep singling out the messy pull between Crane and his abusive ex and an ending that goes all the way. We picked this one for horror readers who want an idea behind the splatter. Fair warning: this is the most extreme book on our list.
4 out of 5 from 1,080 Amazon ratings
