If you're feeling sick and helpless at the never-ending stream of horrific images and videos coming out of Palestine right now, you're not alone. But if you want to actually do something about it but have no idea where to start, there are ways to contribute
A bookish community for the unhinged, the literary, and the culturally weird. I started Sick Sad Lit as a space to explore the books and ideas that get under our skin: unreliable narrators, female rage, unsettling and unhinged stories. Now, we’re taking that conversation off the page and into
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book recommendations
Translated tales of rage, desire, dissociation, and descent.
book recommendations
A masterlist of every disturbing, dazzling, and darkly funny title mentioned on the Sick Sad Lit podcast.
Podcast
From Buenos Aires to folklore and rebellion—inside the gothic world of a literary horror icon.
Podcast
From Natural Beauty to Immaculate Conception, we talk about fiction, friendship, and the power of art to say the unspeakable.
Podcast and online magazine for readers and fans of dark, unhinged fiction.
A conversation about fiction rooted in truth, the complexities of motherhood, and finding rhythm in the writing process.
A conversation on Dorn’s latest novel, her writing process, queer literature, and how scent, identity, and power collide in fiction.
A Conversation on Unruly Women, Rural Horror, and Literary Risk
How dark fiction, emotional labor, and surreal storytelling help make sense of a broken world.
From Manhunt to Cuckoo, we explore the power of horror literature to challenge readers — and why the best fiction often comes from the margins.
From satirical romance to horror as protest, Chuck Tingle talks identity, absurdity, and the radical act of love.
The Sick Sad Lit podcast is a space for complicated characters, experimental form, and authors who aren’t afraid to get weird — or honest.
Maybe I hate it here???
In honour of Kendrick Lamar we are telling the honest truth.
The ultimate goth icon with a penchant for the paranormal.
And why we're about to see a whole lot more of it across literature, film and television.
Because if these protagonists can make it through life, so can you.