I'd love some book recs!

Preferences: not centered around a romance, not a part of a series, and I love intrigue, horror, unnerving things. I like when stories are scary enough to make my skin crawl.

Murderbot Diaries IS a series but it's a series of short stories and novellas (and one novel) and the main character is Asexual Agenda Aromatic Arguable Autistic and Absolutely Anxious. And also a Murderbot.

the elevator pitch is

"A SecUnit hacks its government module giving itself free will, thinks really hard about going on a murder spree but instead decides to pirate ten thousand hours of TV to watch while people think its charging its batteries. It does its best not to care about people but sometimes it does anyway and EVEN WORSE sometimes people care about IT"

now people think it has """real feelings""" and """deserves human rights""""

i'm only a little bit of the way into a canticle for leibowitz but it's v good so far and since it's an old scifi book u can get it at the library/through libby pretty easily

I'm not a huge reader but my fiance is and he gave the following recommendations:
T. Kingfisher - The Twisted Ones or The Hollow Places
Cathrynne R Valente - Palimpsest
Stephen Graham Jones - The Only Good Indians

wâfel : The man nailed it. I've read both Kingfisher and Jones.

I've read some Cat Valente and I recommend any of her books (I don't know the one Ian recommended though)

I will throw Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami on there

not as spooky but very good nonetheless

The Dry Salvages, by Caitlin R Kiernan. sci-fi horror in space

The Dry Salvages

CRK also has a lot of other good stuff in science fiction, gothnoir, dark urban fantasy, etc and frequently writes lgbt characters. lots and lots of short stories of varying genres. you might like to check out some of those, especially Bradbury Weather and Onion.

Joey says, "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream: The Story Collection is free on audible."