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Books like Smashed
A relentless descent into surreal nightmares where the mundane world is peeled back to reveal grotesque, inescapable horrors. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Smashed.
- dread-soaked
- claustrophobic
- surreal
- nightmarish
- 01
Shiver
Junji Ito
A masterclass in surreal terror that twists the mundane into meticulously drawn, inescapable nightmares.
- 02
Dissolving Classroom
Junji Ito
A grotesque and darkly comedic descent into the physical horrors of insincere apologies and societal decay.
- 03
Art of Junji Ito
Junji Itō
A mesmerizing descent into a master's nightmare sketchbook, where the grotesque and the beautiful become indistinguishable.
- 04
Goodnight Punpun, Vol. 7
Inio Asano
A suffocating, surreal freefall into the darkest depths of trauma and existential despair.
- 05
Through the Woods
Emily Carroll
A beautifully illustrated descent into the darkest, most unsettling corners of folklore where the monsters always win.
- 06
Harrow County, Vol. 1
Cullen Bunn
A lush, watercolor nightmare steeped in Southern Gothic folklore and the terrifying realization of who you truly are.
- 07
The Twisted Ones
T. Kingfisher
A deeply unsettling descent into backwoods terror, anchored by a fiercely relatable narrator and her very good dog.
- 08
Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1
James Tynion IV
A blood-spattered, dread-soaked descent into small-town horror where the only thing scarier than the monsters is the woman who hunts them.
- 09
Gideon Falls, Vol. 1
Jeff Lemire
A dizzying descent into rural dread and urban paranoia where the very architecture of reality begins to rot.
- 10
Endless Nights
Neil Gaiman
A kaleidoscopic journey through the cosmic forces that shape human existence, told through mythic vignettes and breathtaking art.
- 11
Gyo
Yuji Oniki and Alvin Lu
A surreal, stomach-churning descent into an apocalyptic nightmare where the ocean's rot spills onto land.
- 12
Poe
Gareth Hinds
A dread-soaked, visually striking descent into madness, murder, and tragic lost love.
