The Black Farm

Pros

• The closest examples I've read are The Black Farm by Elias Witherow and Hellraiser by Clive Barker. They both capture that feeling of a horrifying afterlife
• I really think The Black Farm by Elias Witherow nailed all three elements. The pacing was strong, the premise was interesting, and the world-building felt incredibly well done. The brutality also felt earned and served the story rather t...
• It’s pretty gory imo but the black farm by Elias Witherow was a good read!
• The Black Farm by Witherow made me feel the weirdest and I thought about that book a shit load during and after I read it.
• I loved all of these, but would like them to be scarier, I am excited to read playground, brother, and other pretty “dark” horror novels, but I often see the same 5 recommended over and over. [List includes: the black farm]

Cons

• in the Black Farm it’s a ridiculous idea that suicidal people deserve torture, but it’s an unfairness born of creators that don’t know what category to put those souls in.
• I think I continued to read it out of disbelief at how bad it was.
• Parent context: Mary Sue Extreme as the main character: you are telling me that no one has been able to topple the heirarchy of the farm until this guy showed up and was angry enough to bring it all down with hate and an axe? No stakes....
• I thought the guy was pretty good at like, bombastically fucked up gore and violence, but had no idea what he was talking about regarding suicide.
• What I liked: - the behavioral extremity of the world and it's inhabitants, the weirdness of it, how just vile the whole place felt. Disliked: - lack of professional editing, the actions of the characters are so repetitive and act as...