10 Psychological Novels Guaranted To Mess With Your Mind

6. Geek Love By Katherine Dunn

Travelling carnivals, body mutation, a family of home-made freaks and a long-lost daughter with a tail: what more could you want from a novel. Geek Love, while not a scary book and often funny and lovely in parts, is one you'll go back to time and again to reread the strangest parts (of which there are many). The book is split into two time eras, one about the childhood of hunchback midget albino Oly and her family as they travel America as a freak show, while the second is about Oly keeping an eye on her daughter (who doesn't know her mother even exists). The book is freakishly graphic at times, and portrays the typical American family in the most back-to-front way imaginable. Here is a couple who mutate their children during pregnancy using various drugs and radioactive materials to alter the genes of their children in order to make money. While some of the characters are likeable, most are pitied or hated. You'll have a lot of new opinions by the time you finish the book - it shows how far humans could go to push against the definition of what is beautiful and what is not.