Fabian is having a bad morning.
Not the kind of bad morning that starts with burnt toast or a missed bus. The kind that starts with a cold shower, a half-remembered night, and two corpses in his apartment.
Calling the police seems impossible.
Handling the problem himself seems worse.
And as the fallout spreads, the question stops being who did what and becomes: what kind of world makes this feel inevitable?
The Corpse Problem is a Dark Humor Books style novel with a near-future weird fiction edge. You could say it’s more like a psychological Dark Comedy about people who keep making the world worse while trying to survive the mess they already made.
You may enjoy The Corpse Problem if you like:
Weird Books With Dark Humor
Dark Humor Books With Absurd Characters
Adult fiction with grotesque comedy
Stories that begin with a terrible problem and keep escalating
Fiction that laughs at bodies, systems, families, and human denial
A Psychological Humor Book that pushes past good taste
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The book includes recipes for cooking placentas.
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