Books like 'Masters of Taboo Presents: Cannibalism, Digesting The Human Condition'
Readers who enjoyed Masters of Taboo Presents: Cannibalism, Digesting The Human Condition by Stephen Biro, Nigel Lata-Burston, Michael Simmons, Andrew Allen, Anthony Sant'Anselmo, Hart D. Fisher, Destiny West, Mitchell J. Hyman, Brian Harris & Bryan Jackson also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Alive by Courtney Konstantin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRafe Duncan has been working his family’s compound for years in the event of a global catastrophe-- and doomsday has finally arrived. Both he and Charlie Brewer work at a facility where secret government experiments are carried out, experiments that are classified even to them. Then the plague breaks loose, and hell arrives on earth... -
![The Nightmare King by Kat Blackthorne]()
The Nightmare King by Kat Blackthorne
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNightmare on Elm Street meets Tuck Everlasting in this psychological thriller with a spicy and hauntingly romantic twist A girl falls in love with the man in her nightmares. He meets her every night, spinning sweet words mixed with horrifying and steamy encounters... -
![Solitary by Alexander Gordon Smith]()
Solitary by Alexander Gordon Smith
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFurnace Prison ...Where death is the least of your worries.Escape is just the beginning ...We thought we’d made it, we thought we were free. But we should have known there was no way out of Furnace.All we did was slip deeper into the guts of the prison: into solitary confinement, where the real nightmares live - the warden, the Wheezers, and something much, much worse.The clock’s ticking... -
![The Siege by Michael Stephen Fuchs]()
The Siege by Michael Stephen Fuchs
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTHE BATTLE FOR THE GAP In the north, the collapsed section of the Wall is defended only by the decimated remains of 2 PARA. Even reinforced by Jameson and the exhausted Royal Marines of One Troop, it's a doomed delaying action at best - and the last choke point in the entire ZA faces an incoming tide of dead stretching to the ends of the Earth... THE RACE FOR THE CURE Finally united, Dr... -
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![The Isle of Blood by Rick Yancey]()
The Isle of Blood by Rick Yancey
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsWhen Dr. Warthrop goes hunting the "Holy Grail of Monstrumology" with his eager new assistant, Arkwright, he leaves Will Henry in New York. Finally, Will can enjoy something that always seemed out of reach: a normal life with a real family. But part of Will can't let go of Dr. Warthrop, and when Arkwright returns claiming that the doctor is dead, Will is devastated--and not convinced... -
![Undead Ultra by Camille Picott]()
Undead Ultra by Camille Picott
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUndead: a reanimated corpse with a craving for human flesh.Ultramarathon: any footrace longer than a traditional marathon (26.2 miles).For ultrarunners Kate and Frederico, a typical Saturday morning is spent pounding out a twenty- to thirty-mile “fun run.” It’s during one of their runs that an insidious illness descends upon northern California, turning humans into flesh-shredding zombies... -
![Still of Night by Jonathan Maberry]()
Still of Night by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe dead rose. We fell. But not everyone thinks the war for survival is over. Heroes rise in times of crisis, and STILL OF NIGHT tells their stories… DAHLIA -a bullied high school girl with a love for edged weapons goes from victim to powerful leader as the zombie apocalypse sweeps through her world... -
![Them Early Days - 2nd Prequel by Keith C. Blackmore]()
Them Early Days - 2nd Prequel by Keith C. Blackmore
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFood. Booze. Weapons. Armor. And any toilet paper he can find.It's been a rough time for Gus Berry. He barely survived the city of Annapolis as its population underwent a violent transformation, leaving everyone he knew or loved either dead or undead.Things aren't much better now, though. In fact, things might have become much worse... -
![Vigor Mortis: Book 2 by Natalie Maher]()
Vigor Mortis: Book 2 by Natalie Maher
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs Vita's humanity slowly drips away, monsters fallen from an island above spread throughout her home. While she fights fellow horrors outside the city's walls, her family suffers threats from within them. Yet surely, there's no problem enough power can't solve... and if there's one thing eating souls is good for, it's power... -
![Fallocaust by Quil Carter]()
Fallocaust by Quil Carter
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsOver two hundred and thirty years ago the Fallocaust happened, killing almost everything that lived and creating what is now known as the greywastes. A dead wasteland where cannibalism is a necessity, death your reality, and life before the radiation nothing but pictures in dog-eared magazines... -
![The Housemates by Iain Rob Wright]()
The Housemates by Iain Rob Wright
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTEN DAYS, TWELVE COMPETITORS, TWO MILLION POUNDS IN CASH.What at first appears to be a wonderful opportunity for Damien Banks turns out to be the worst nightmare he can imagine. Trapped inside a house with eleven strangers, and a booming voice known only as ‘The Landlord’ controlling his every move, Damien will be forced to compete not only for the money, but for his life... -
![Nightmare at 20,000 Feet by Richard Matheson, Stephen King]()
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet by Richard Matheson, Stephen King
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRemember that monster on the wing of the airplane? William Shatner saw it on The Twilight Zone, John Lithgow saw it in the movie-even Bart Simpson saw it. "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" is just one of many classic horror stories by Richard Matheson that have insinuated themselves into our collective imagination... -
![Outbreak Chaos by Boris Bacic]()
Outbreak Chaos by Boris Bacic
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHeld in captivity by an evil group, Heather must find a way to save her sister. She’ll learn the hard way that the group doesn’t let people leave without heavy consequences.After narrowly escaping death, James and Angela find refuge in Krista’s house. They think they’re safe for the night. They’re dead wrong, and they realize it too late when they hear scratching inside the closet... -
![A Dark Web of Monsters by J. Boote]()
A Dark Web of Monsters by J. Boote
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen a young girl, Angela, is kidnapped, everyone fears the worst; another serial killer stalks the streets of Bradwell. But they are wrong. Unfortunately for Angela, that would have been too easy. Because someone is using her to make sordid videos on the dark web and her suffering is what feeds their abhorrent minds. And she's not the only one... -
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![Contain by Saul W. Tanpepper]()
Contain by Saul W. Tanpepper
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey thought they were safe. They were wrong.CONTAIN (BUNKER 12 series pilot)Three years. That's how long Finnian Bolles has been hiding inside the impregnable walls of the hydroelectric complex known as Bunker 8. Three years, with enough resources to last him and the other thirty survivors three more...Categorized as:
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![Within the Woods by Tony Urban, Thomas Rode]()
Within the Woods by Tony Urban, Thomas Rode
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDon't go in the woods... For 12-year-old Garrett and his four best friends, the idyllic summer of 1989 crashes to a halt when Garrett's older brother vanishes. Something is very wrong in Sallow Creek, Pennsylvania. Something is turning their neighbors, their relatives, into unstoppable monstrosities... Monsters that are coming for the them... -
![In the Devil's Own Words by Elizabeth Wixley, E.M.G. Wixley]()
In the Devil's Own Words by Elizabeth Wixley, E.M.G. Wixley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNote: Alternate/new cover for ASIN# B00B8XQF66.Moving house has become a way of life for fifteen year old Isobel Miller; her father is an Army Major, her mother, a middle aged, pregnant, chain smoking alcholic! but the move to the village of Langham could be the straw that broke the camels back! To the truculent teenager it might as well have been to 'Timbuktu'... -
![Descent by Michaelbrent Collings]()
Descent by Michaelbrent Collings
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe dead will rise and the living will fall. The zombies have trapped them. Just a small band of survivors, alone in a building surrounded by hordes.Ken's family is shattered. His wife doesn't trust him. His son is gone. And his daughters... are changing.The survivors want to fight. To live. But some of them will not survive. Some will die - or worse. And the rest will find that the only way out... -
![Cemetery Dance by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child]()
Cemetery Dance by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsPendergast-the world's most enigmatic FBI Special Agent-returns to New York City to investigate a murderous cult.William Smithback Jr., a prominent New York Times reporter, was killed in a brutal attack in his Upper West Side apartment. His wife, Nora Kelly, an archeologist at the Museum of Natural History, was injured as well... -
![Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry]()
Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsWhen you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week there's either something wrong with your world or something wrong with your skills... and there's nothing wrong with Joe Ledger's skills. And that's both a good, and a bad thing... -
![The Boyfriend: Every Parents Worst Nightmare by D.E. McCluskey]()
The Boyfriend: Every Parents Worst Nightmare by D.E. McCluskey
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLisa Quinn has a boyfriend...Sean Knight.She is just 16 years old and he is her first. He's handsome and with his charm he wins over her usually overprotective parents.Yet there is a dark side to Sean.When Lisa's parents go away on vacation, Sean's dark side emerges and he viciously attacks her over a two-day period, sending pictures of his work to someone is calls Jay...Categorized as:
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![Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors by Adam Nevill]()
Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors by Adam Nevill
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA bestial face appears at windows in the night. In the big white house on the hill angels are said to appear. A forgotten tenant in an isolated building becomes addicted to milk. A strange goddess is worshipped by a home-invading disciple. The least remembered gods still haunt the oldest forests. Cannibalism occurs in high society at the end of the world... -
![His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood and Other Stories by Poppy Z. Brite]()
His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood and Other Stories by Poppy Z. Brite
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsContains four short stories from Swamp Foetus:His Mouth Will Taste of WormwoodThe Sixth SentinelCalcutta, Lord of NervesHow To Get Ahead in New... -
![Renegades by Michaelbrent Collings]()
Renegades by Michaelbrent Collings
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBeing alive just means you have more to lose. The zombies are changing. Growing faster. Stronger. Smarter. Working together to destroy all of humanity.Ken Strickland has found his family. But finding something and keeping it are two very different things.The survivors are bruised. They are broken. And they are about to find out that the worst monsters are among those they count as their friends... -
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![Thirty Scary Tales by Rayne Hall]()
Thirty Scary Tales by Rayne Hall
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThirty creepy, atmospheric horror stories by Rayne Hall.These stories are 'quiet' horror, not overly violent and gory, although there are some graphic moments. Please note: these stories have been previously published in magazines, e-zines and anthologies as well as in the Six Scary Tales collections.British English... -
![Full Moon by Matt Shaw]()
Full Moon by Matt Shaw
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPaul McCarron is a down-on-his-luck gambling man with a debt he cannot see past. Melissa Kazas is a stripper, working the poles and the clients in an effort to provide her daughter with a better life. Steve Grace is a coke-addicted businessman who has recently found himself "unemployed". Chris Minen is a homeless man with no where to go and nothing to lose... -
![If I Die Before I Wake: Tales of Karma and Fear by R.E. Sargent, Peter Rocha]()
If I Die Before I Wake: Tales of Karma and Fear by R.E. Sargent, Peter Rocha
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDon’t deny it. Your mind has dwelled for hours on the things you would do if your name was Karma. Malevolence towards those that wronged you festers and there is no relief—until now. Plunge headfirst into these sinister tales where karma finally takes control and vengeance is a dish that is best served hot... -
![Consumed by Matt Shaw]()
Consumed by Matt Shaw
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Six friends accept help from a friendly stranger, and his even friendlier family, it leads to one Hell of a dinner invitation they'll never forget - no matter how much they wished they could! A tasty new horror from the author who brought you "The 8TH", "The Cabin" and "Smile" - this book is not for the easily offended nor is it for people who don't appreciate shocks galore... -
![Pedo Island Bloodbath by Duncan Ralston]()
Pedo Island Bloodbath by Duncan Ralston
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsYou are cordially invited to join jet-setting financier/philanthropist Emory Jackman and his very special guests at the world's most exclusive party on Little Pearl Island! Everyone who's anyone wants to be seen at one of Emory Jackman's legendary parties, from royalty to politicians, tech billionaires to Instagram models.But something sinister is happening on Little Pearl... -
![Sick by Brett Battles]()
Sick by Brett Battles
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDaniel Ash wakes after midnight to the cry of his daughter. Just a bad dream, he thinks. She's had them before. Yet he can't help but worry when she cries out again as he pads down the hallway. Stepping through her doorway, he expects to find her sitting up in bed, frightened by a nightmare.But the nightmare is his. It's real. And it's just beginning...Something is burning Ash's daughter alive... -
![The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell]()
The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsZombies have infested a fallen America. A young girl named Temple is on the run. Haunted by her past and pursued by a killer, Temple is surrounded by death and danger, hoping to be set free.For twenty-five years, civilization has survived in meager enclaves, guarded against a plague of the dead. Temple wanders this blighted landscape, keeping to herself - and keeping her demons inside... -
![Sleepers by Jacqueline Druga]()
Sleepers by Jacqueline Druga
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA normal spring morning cascades into a nightmare world for Mera Stevens as 1.8 billion children simultaneously fall ill and then vanish from the face of the earth. Her son, Jeremy, is one of them.Increased natural disasters, onslaught of disease and other phenomena throws the world into chaos as it balances on the brink of extinction... -
![Darkbound by Michaelbrent Collings]()
Darkbound by Michaelbrent Collings
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe New York subway system has: 656 miles of track... 468 stations... 31 thousand turnstiles... and 1.64 BILLION fares yearly. For six of those fares, the trip is going to be one they will never forget. Six strangers will board a subway. But this subway is unlike the others. This subway doesn't take you where you want or where you need. It takes you where you fear. This subway...is DARKBOUND... -
![Stranger by Simon Clark]()
Stranger by Simon Clark
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe small town of Sullivan has barricaded itself against the outside world. It is one of the last enclaves of civilization and the residents are determined that their town remain free from the strange and terrifying plague that is sweeping the land—a plague that transforms ordinary people into murderous, bloodthirsty madmen. But the transformation is only the beginning... -
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![Wetbones by John Shirley]()
Wetbones by John Shirley
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA flesh-and-soul-devouring addiction runs rampant through the dark playground of the Hollywood elite Welcome to Los Angeles, where every addiction is encouraged… Struggling Hollywood screenwriter Tom Prentice can hardly believe that the emaciated and mutilated corpse lying on the morgue slab was once his ex-wife... -
![The Dead of Winter by Jack Night]()
The Dead of Winter by Jack Night
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor the Anderson family, Rockwell is the picture perfect small town. A wholesome place to start over. But as the autumn days begin turning to winter something is awakened deep within the woods. Something bent on revenge.Cut off from the rest of the world they must fight to stay alive as the haunting presence lays claim to Rockwell, exposing the dark secrets of the town that created it... -
![Raising Stony Mayhall by Daryl Gregory]()
Raising Stony Mayhall by Daryl Gregory
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn 1968, after the first zombie outbreak, Wanda Mayhall and her three young daughters discover the body of a teenage mother during a snowstorm. Wrapped in the woman’s arms is a baby, stone-cold, not breathing, and without a pulse. But then his eyes open and look up at Wanda — and he begins to move...Categorized as:
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![Impact by Adam Baker]()
Impact by Adam Baker
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe world is overrun by an unimaginable horror. The few surviving humans are scattered in tiny outposts across the world, hoping for reprieve - or death. Waiting on the runway of the abandoned Las Vegas airport sits the B-52 bomber Liberty Bell, revving up for its last, desperate mission. On board - five crew members and one 10-kiloton nuclear payload... -
![Lucretia and the Kroons by Victor LaValle]()
Lucretia and the Kroons by Victor LaValle
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLucretia’s best friend and upstairs neighbor Sunny—a sweet pitbull of a kid, even as she struggles with a mysterious illness—has gone missing... -
![Little Deaths: The Definitive Collection by John F.D. Taff, Josh Malerman]()
Little Deaths: The Definitive Collection by John F.D. Taff, Josh Malerman
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOPEN NEW DOORS TO ABSOLUTE TERROR.Five years ago, Bram Stoker Award-nominated author John F.D. Taff welcomed you into the darkest recesses of his mind. Today, he returns to where it all began...opening doors to new rooms of abject horror. Disturbing rooms. Darker rooms.Rooms where a farmer awakens to find a gigantic tentacle writhing in his fields... -
![The Beginning of the End by Manel Loureiro]()
The Beginning of the End by Manel Loureiro
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe dead rise...A mysterious incident in Russia, a blip buried in the news—it’s the only warning humanity receives that civilization will soon be destroyed by a single, voracious virus that creates monsters of men.Humanity fallsA lawyer, still grieving over the death of his young wife, begins to write as a form of therapy... -
![The Travelling Vampire Show by Richard Laymon]()
The Travelling Vampire Show by Richard Laymon
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsOn a hot August morning in 1963, the rural town of Grandville is covered with fliers announcing the coming of something extraordinary - a one-night-only performance of The Travelling Vampire Show, featuring Valeria, the only known vampire in captivity. For three local teenagers, it's a show they don't want to miss... -
![A Questionable Shape by Bennett Sims]()
A Questionable Shape by Bennett Sims
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"The smartest zombie novel since Colson Whitehead's Zone One."-Ron Charles, The Washington Post"A Questionable Shape presents the yang to the yin of Whitehead’s Zone One, with chess games, a dinner invitation, and even a romantic excursion. Echoes of [Thomas] Bernhard’s hammering circularity and [David Foster] Wallace’s bright mind that can’t stop making connections are both present... -
![The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon, Maciej Potulny]()
The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon, Maciej Potulny
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsWest Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter.Now, in present day, nineteen-year-old Ruthie lives in Sara's farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger sister... -
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![The Troop by Nick Cutter]()
The Troop by Nick Cutter
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsOnce a year, scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a three-day camping trip; a tradition as comforting and reliable as a good ghost story and a roaring bonfire...Categorized as:
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![Genesis by Michaelbrent Collings]()
Genesis by Michaelbrent Collings
Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsForget everything you think you know about zombies. In under 10 minutes, 99.9% of the world's population will be dead… or changed. Conversion is instant. Headshots just make them angry. And they’re getting smarter. Ken Strickland has made it through the first moments. But his family is still out there... -
![Juggernaut by Adam Baker]()
Juggernaut by Adam Baker
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTHEY SEARCHED FOR GOLD. THEY FOUND DEATH.Iraq 2005. Seven mercenaries hear an enticing rumor: somewhere, abandoned in the swirling desert sands, lies an abandoned Republican Guard convoy containing millions of pounds of Saddam's gold... -
![Zombie Tales: Primrose Court Apt. 205 by Robert DeCoteau]()
Zombie Tales: Primrose Court Apt. 205 by Robert DeCoteau
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTheodore Granger believes he’s cursed. He’s spent the last ten years locked away inside his apartment. But today is his day, the day he is to venture out into the world again. There is only one simple task on his agenda: walk one block, cross the street, and have a cup of coffee with his shrink. The only problem is, he chose the wrong day... -
![The Boy Who Couldn't Die by William Sleator]()
The Boy Who Couldn't Die by William Sleator
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen seventeen-year-old Ken's best friend Roger dies in a plane crash, Ken suddenly realizes that he too could die at any moment. Terrified, he seeks out a plump, middle-aged psychic named Cherie Buttercup, who grants him invulnerability from death in exchange for his soul. Eager to test his new powers, Ken talks his family into a vacation in the Caribbean, where he can swim with sharks...Categorized as:
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![Sick Bastards by Matt Shaw]()
Sick Bastards by Matt Shaw
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWARNING: THIS IS AN EXTREME HORROR NOVEL. There is gore. There is bad language. There are scenes of a sexual nature. But hidden underneath it all is also a chilling story. Please do not purchase this book if you are easily shocked, disgusted or offended. This book is not for you. A family will do anything to survive after a nuclear attack has left their world in ruins...
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