Recs if you like Waif...
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.
Horror in < 200 pages
Horror books with a page count of 200 pages or less.
Before we started defining novellas by word count, they were defined as being any book less than 200 pages. Source: my Analysis of Short Stories & Literature professor in community college. I loved that class. But he loved James Joyce. So, ymmv, I guess.
Weird and Unhinged Women 2.0
All sorts of stories about all sorts of women and girls.
This is a genre-agnostic mega-list of weird girl* fiction expanding on an original list by @yarnandbooks (no longer being updated). You can view the original list here: (link) /// As a nonbinary person, I take as broad a view as possible of the "girl" in "weird girl*", hence the asterisk.
Wide open for recommendations!
Gay Through Literature
my attempt at collecting queer books so our history doesn't become lost + to hopefully interest others within it too.
*please note I'd love recommendations on works i may have missed!!
Weird and Unhinged Women
All sorts of stories about all sorts of women. Mostly litfic, some horror.
Small Press "Weird Girl Lit"
Small press or indie published books that fit the category of weird girl literature
💜 yarnandbooks
Weird Women Horror
"Weird girl literature" with different flavours of horror elements
💜 yarnandbooks
Weird Women Quick Reads
Books in the "weird girl literature" genre with 200 pages or less
💜 yarnandbooks
JUST ONE BITE ! ── short horrors.
A list of horror , thriller and suspense books with 200 pages or less for readers in need of small doses of spooks to get through their days.
PossessedByHorror's BookTube
A list of books Sarah Hawkinson (aka PossessedByHorror on YT) has reviewed/talked about on her channel! Excludes DNFs. You can see her book videos here!
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