r/bodyhorror

Hey all, oddly specific question Im asking but does anyone know where I can find visual or written references for cave-dwelling body horror? Im looking specifically for concepts where humans or animals morph/deform after living in total darkness for generations (like Amorphous Shame from Mystery Flesh Pit), especially if its uncanny human/animal anatomy.

My main references right now is mostly Fear and Hunger but Ive hit a bottleneck. Any recommendations for games, movies, manga, art, anything is appreciated!!!

I’ve been working on a dark industrial biopunk novel called FOREKIND, and I’m trying to figure out whether the cover + concept communicate the body horror aspects clearly enough before I push harder on promotion.

The setting is an industrial civilization where human essence is harvested and used as fuel.

The protagonist, Jerrald Fissen, is a state executioner who extracts essence from the condemned. During a routine execution, he absorbs a biologically impossible payload that begins integrating with his body instead of entering the city’s circulation system.

From there the novel shifts into progressive biological corruption, unstable transformations, parasitic infrastructure, and a society built around engineered dependence on harvested human material.

The body horror is less “monster attacks” and more systemic/industrial transformation — flesh merging with machinery, identity destabilization, biological overload, altered perception, and bodies treated as infrastructure.

I’d genuinely appreciate feedback on whether the cover by artist + premise signal the right atmosphere to body horror readers, or whether it feels like it’s being marketed as something else.

(cover attached)