Recs if you like Waif...

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 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.

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!!

All sorts of stories about all sorts of women. Mostly litfic, some horror.

"Weird girl literature" with different flavours of horror elements

💜 yarnandbooks

Small press or indie published books that fit the category of weird girl literature

💜 yarnandbooks

Books in the "weird girl literature" genre with 200 pages or less

💜 yarnandbooks

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.