When people talk about horror books, things that come to their minds are ghosts, vampires, witches, and monsters. But I do not consider them that horrifying because all these things are fictional. For me, extreme horror novels are ones, in which a sociopath is brutally killing his fellow beings. I think nothing is more horrible than a human being becoming a monster and violently torturing other humans to death.
Top 5 Extreme Horror Novels by R WK Clark
1. Box Office Butcher: Extreme Horror Novels
This is a mystery thriller, in which a serial killer is doing murders exactly the same way as in a new slasher movie. Surprisingly, this is kind of a joyride for him.
Box Office Butcher is a very terrifying story of a man Donovan Cannon who faced abuse by his mother his entire life till her death. Besides, he is a product of rape. As such, his mother despised the sight of him and made his life a living nightmare.
Now the Box Office Butcher is on a twisted confusing mission to take revenge for his mother’s rape, making it one of the most exciting extreme horror novels. Nevertheless, the psycho thinks that it was actually the rapist who made his mother the way she was.
The murderer has been planning to do something all these for years. As such, the release of ‘Smash Hit’ was merely the trigger that set everything in motion for him.
2. Brother’s Keeper
The Brother’s Keeper is a story of a fictional small town, Burdensville. Nevertheless, This town has some dark secrets. Besides, there are some violent murders going on around the town.
The story starts with a stranger coming to the small town of dark secrets and rash killers. The stranger tries to untangle the mystery of the town and that is how the story moves forward.
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What make this among the best extreme horror novels is the involvement of the police. There is negligence, coverup, and violent murders of young people. However, the cops do not have a direct engagement. Sheriff Robert Darby, who happens to be the law of the land has promised to keep secret and also that he will go to any terrible lengths to save face.
3. Mindless
This is another one of the most extreme horror novels by Clark filled with torture, violent and graphic scenes. Besides, it is the story of a sociopath, who is on the loose and is traumatizing the people of Baltimore, Maryland.
Melvin Frink was a medical student, interested in lobotomy procedures. However, his mother was high-handed since his childhood which resulted in a personality disorder in Melvin.
Similarly, Melvin has suffered a traumatic brain injury which further damages his personality. His mother’s constant oppressive dictatorship give rise to fury in Melvin and he became a psychotic and violent monster.
Melvin started abducting young and pretty girls, to torture them and make them his pet.
4. Retribution
It is a story of a nurse Marissa Thomas, who had been the subject of her mother’s abuse her entire childhood. Her mother has a mental condition called Munchausen syndrome by Proxy and she used to poison and torture Marissa to get attention. All those torments have left some deep-rooted depression in Marissa.
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Retribution turns out to be among the best extreme horror novels when Marissa becomes a pediatric nurse. Initially, she found a way to soothe all her depression and help little kids and it started giving her recognition.
This horror thriller book is not for the timid, it is a very disturbing and frightening because the victims are children.
5. Passing Through
It is a story of an ill-fated town, which has to go through blood and guts when a stranger was just passing through.
The stranger man comes to the cabin resort in Thompson Trail, just before the town is about to get hit by a record blizzard. However, the people tried to help him, unaware of the fact that he is a mass murderer.
When all the people are stuck is in their houses, due to a blizzard and when all the roads are impassible, this serial killer starts his game of blood and horror.
Similarly, this book is dark, and it is not for the faint hearts. It is quite gory and that is why I keep it in my list of extreme horror novels.
