Recs if you like A Certain Hunger...
books that feel like a cunty skinny cigarette
Exactly what it sounds like. Books you read that make other people question "who is this diva" or "good for her"
Weird Girl Fiction
An emergent subgrene by and about strange women on themes of female rage, sisterhood, hunger, attraction, beauty, motherhood, violence, and much more.
no stephen king in sight
are you sick of being recommended stephen king when you ask for a horror novel? have you picked up a book expected to be scared, but the scariest thing about it was a woman being needlessly tormented and gaslit? have you read 4627473 books about a man in a haunted house and need something different?
if so, this list is for you :)
a masterlist of horror by anyone who isn't a straight cis white man, started in 2022 and brought to pb in 2026.
girl dinner
books where women eat or think about eating other people
hungry women
these books use (literal) hunger as a political tool to speak to women’s oppression, repression and desire, whether through overt cannibal metaphor, speculative dispatches, or more subtle nuances of appetite in literary fiction. these women are hungry for something more, whether they’re allowed to act on it or not.
recommendations welcome!
the monstrous-feminine
in the first edition of ‘the monstrous-feminine’, barbara creed challenges the dominant representation of women in horror films as victims, arguing that patriarchal ideology constructs women as monstrous because of their sexuality (or lack thereof).
later, creed reinterprets the monstrous-feminine as a being who embraces her body and reclaims her otherness. in line with this contemporary vision, these are books which use horror to redefine notions of ‘womanhood’.
recommendations welcome!
I love it when women
...are unhinged, lonely, tortured, kooky, crazy, unmoored, yearning, plotting, stalking, monologuing, self-pitying, lost, etc.
assigned by frankie
almost every single book mentioned* on Frankie's Shelf youtube channel because their taste is wild and i love it.
updated as frankie posts. *mentioned as in the book is the focus of the video, listened in the description, or offhandedly said.
Weird Gurls Read Weird Horror
the gurls NEED to read horror books 💋 i wouldn’t say these are all horror but that’s left to the reader to make that assumption
weird girl lit
supporting women's rights and very very wrongs
night at the museum
books with a painting/artwork on the cover see the pinned comment for artwork details suggestions welcome 🚧this list is under construction🚧
Cover Porn: The Horror Edition
Horror books to read just for the aesthetic
girls just want to have rights
Feminine rage, female empowerment, emotional validation. Women supporting women. Men being men. Feminism. Feminist reads.
The ULTIMATE Horror Bibliography
girl eats boy 🥩 horrors about female cannibals
horror novels written by women about girls and women with deadly appetites. despite the title there is sapphic lit here i just liked the pun. these books focus on human cannibals, i.e. not supernatural monsters like vampires, werewolves, etc. is the cannibalism a metaphor for love? rage? sex? all of the above!
body-horror book recs
Dinner Party
“Before we begin, you must all be warned — nothing here is vegetarian.”
The intensity of the appetites and content in these books vary, check trigger warnings if needed.
For Fans of The Magnus Archives
“Make your statement, face your fear.”
A selection of books with vibes similar to the themes, narrative format, and generally eeriness of our favorite horror pod. Recommendations always welcome!
⚔️ Rise, Sisters - Female Rage and Power
Books about feminine power and rage. Inspiring, enraging, validating. Let us rise, my sisters.
Fungus Amungus
Books featuring spores, molds, and fungi. Suggestions welcome.
