Hi all, I'm looking for books that would be considered horror but have a queer romantic subplot. I am not looking for something where queerness is the horror or a central point of the horror. I like Chuck Tingle's books, but I'm not looking for something where the horror happens because of queerness or characters are targeted because they are queer. Just a normal horror, but then also maybe a b plot of the horror bringing two characters together, something like that. I feel like all the horror I see that involves queerness has the queerness be directly related to the horror if that makes sense. I'm looking for something where maybe something horrible happens or there's a horror situation, and two characters become close as a result of that. Do you have any recommendations?
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*Plain Bad Heroines* by Emily M. Danforth. It’s a bit of a queer comedy-romance-gothic-horror-mystery-ish novel.
When Devils Sing by Xan Kaur
Night’s edge by Liz Kerin
*Wilder Girls* by Rory Power.
The book is set in a all-girls school, located on an island, which was put in a quarantine after a disease started to spread all over the world. The romance aspect is more of a subplot if I remember correctly. It was mostly good, but I thought the ending to be, personally, a tad underwhelming.
The Whyborne and Griffith series (beginning with “Widdershins”) by Jordan L Hawk—Lovecraftian horror with gay romance.
Would you be open to horror with non-romantic queer story elements/characters?
– Leech (Hiron Ennes) – Medical horror narrated by a parasitic hivemind which controls all doctors in the world. Some queer allegory by nonbinary author.
– Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir) – A horror scifi comedy about lesbian necromancers. Centers queer-platonic relationships.
– What Moves the Dead (T. Kingfisher) – Retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher, narrated by a culturally-specific “third gender” character.
– The Hollow Places (T. Kingfisher) – Portal horror following a messy straight woman with her fun stereotypical “gay best friend” companion.
– My Favorite Thing Is Monsters (Emil Ferris) – Graphic novel. Less horror story than horror-themed coming-of-age story.
– Many short stories by Sarah Pinsker.
Andrew Joseph White!
All of his books, really. They’re so so so good.
Someone you can build a nest in!
I didn’t find this book to be scary but there is some body horror/creature type stuff that makes me feel like it still may fit the bill. It’s beautifully written
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
Two I read this year and loved:
Monstrillio by Gerardo Samano Cordova- everyone in this book is gay, it’s about a couple whose son passes away and the mother cuts out a piece of his lung and it grows into a monster
Eat The Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin – sapphic horror/romance about an evil plant
Hazelthorn by CG Drews