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Beautifully Odd Novellas (under 200 pages!) 🖤
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items A curated escape into the strange and unforgettable. These short works are sharp, haunting, and just eccentric enough to jolt you out of any reading slump. They linger long after the last page, unsettling in the best way. Always check trigger warning...
(Gothic mystery)
A darkly playful tale about two sisters, an old house, and a small town that can’t stop staring. It’s eerie without ever raising its voice, like gossip whispered through lace curtains. If paranoia could wear pearls, it would smell li...
We Have Always Lived in the Castle~ 160 pages
(Psychological horror / eco-fiction)
A hallucinatory spiral where every word feels overheated and poisoned. You’ll question what’s real and what’s whispered through fever. Reading it is like being caught in a nightmare you half-remember from last sum...
Fever Dream~ 192 pages
(Literary horror / magical realism)
A girl literally swallows secrets buried under concrete and poverty. It’s raw, surreal, and uncomfortable in the way truth always is. Imagine gritty realism with a paranormal aftertaste.
Eartheater~ 160 pages
(Literary fiction / psychological drama)
Identity blurs as masks slip and performance becomes survival. The sentences are as sharp as broken glass, yet the story hums like a fever dream. Reading it feels like eavesdropping on someone’s second self.
In the Act~ 200 pages
(Surreal horror / gothic)
Bodies and stories splinter like rotten timber in this fragmented, uncanny narrative. It’s gothic rot with a surrealist pulse. Think haunted house, but the walls are inside you.
Woodworm~ 200 pages
(Literary fiction / dark comedy)
A deadpan celebration of routine, fluorescent lights, and the strange peace of fitting in... Kind of. It’s funny in a way that makes you slightly uneasy about your own habits. If beige could be rebellious, it would so...
Convenience Store Woman~ 176 pages
(Dystopian / speculative fiction)
A short, melancholic glimpse at a fragile future where age and youth are reversed. It’s tender and strange, with language pared down to bones. A dystopia told in whispers, not shouts.
The Emissary~ 138 pages
(Cosmic horror / dark fantasy)
Lovecraft’s monsters retold with sharper teeth and sharper politics. It’s eerie, violent, and slyly knowing. A gothic remix that turns the shadows back on themselves.
The Ballad of Black Tom~ 160 pages
(Historical fiction / experimental noir)
A drunken sailor stumbles through foggy memory, violence, and guilt. The language staggers like a body on a ship’s deck, both brutal and lyrical. It’s messy, magnetic, and uncomfortably alive.
McGlue~ 145 pages
(Literary fiction / surreal animal POV)
A story told through the eyes of a street-smart dog navigating human collapse. It’s sad, strange, and unexpectedly funny in the way dogs sometimes tilt their heads at our chaos. If loyalty could speak, it might...
Timbuktu~ 192 pages
(Historical fiction / Americana)
A man’s life flickers across the wide American frontier in spare, haunting strokes. It’s brief but heavy, like smoke settling after fire. Reading it feels like watching memory dissolve into landscape.
Train Dreams~ 128 pages
(Absurdist Fantasy / Dark Comedy)
A woman dies mid-conference and ends up trapped in a surreal Afterlife landscape, while her autistic teenage son drifts across the ocean. It’s disorienting, pitch-dark funny, and soaked in existential dread
Trip~ 160 pages
(Horror / Bizarre)
Starts off outright bizarre and only escalates from there with gross, wild, and deeply unsettling scenarios. Go in knowing nothing; it’s a disturbingly memorable shock in novella form.
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Speak
(Philosophical Horror)
A man finds himself in an infinite library. Hell is a maze of books too numerous to ever fully read. It’s a mind-bending, claustrophobic meditation on eternity and absurdity .
A Short Stay in Hell~ 112 pages