Recs if you like The Monster of Elendhaven...

horror books with a queer focus, including queer stories and central characters

Books with obsessive and/or codependent queer relationships (relationship doesn't have to be canon but the vibes™ should be there)

Horror novellas under 200 pgs. Bite size scary reads for spooky season. These span the horror spectrum from psychological horror to gory, body horror to gothic ghosties and more. Let me know what else I should add!

Speculative (sci-fi, fantasy, horror etc.) novellas less than 200 pages long that are either standalone or read like a standalone story

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.

The real world horror is, of course, homophobia, but in these books we also have, you know, ghosts, monsters, eldritch beings perhaps 🤔 a slasher or two. Haunted houses. The usual suspects 😏

There are some absolutely fantastic sapphic horror lists, and some generally queer ones too, but I looked and I couldn’t find a specifically achillian one, so I figured I’d give it a go!

This is an achillean horror books lists.. i make this because i want more gays. This list is inspired by the list made by @Thehobbit ( Yes. I definitely did not read like 99% of these books so. Y'all can like.. recs me some.. please ) + This is also a reminder i should read horror more, because why not, and they're fun and and — I hope yall have fun with this list, please educate me if i picked non achillean books as I've stated i have not read most of these, i will be updating over time.

Call me Ishmael for this is my white whale

criteria: gay, armed

idek man. i love this genre and vibe though

For when attraction feels indistinguishable from vengeance. Achillean romances built on rivalry, old wounds, forbidden desire, obsession, political or familial loyalties, and the kind of hatred that has become far too intimate to be simple hate. Bonus points for princes, power imbalances, doomed devotion, and men who can’t decide whether they want to kiss each other or ruin each other’s lives.

Homophobia is scary, and not in the spooky movie haunted house kind of way, so to take our minds off of the horror of real life, I present the horror of fiction! I want to read about us running our asses away, final girling it to the end, and taking down the true enemy, capitalism! Erm, I mean, ghosts!

What it says on the tin

"As it ever was, so it will be again."

aka you know there's gotta be a river, there's gotta be some obscure and complicated folklore, there's gotta be some sort of myth/historical reference or retelling.

Uh Oh! Friend Clearly Not the Victim in Drama Being Described! (Suggestions welcome!)

Books that challenge reality in all the best ways! From SciFi and speculative fiction to horror and literature these books are true escapism. Most I have read and loved some I’m most definitely going to read. I’m sure not all will be for everyone and that’s ok! Just wanted to share a little weirdness 🤓

horror novels published in canada with a particular emphasis on Indigenous authors and indie press publications! I'm currently in a publishing program learning about how in danger the canadian publishing industry is and how rarely book reading in canada actually highlights our own authors so one could say this list is a cope and an attempt to add that to ways i'm diversifying my reading. obv disclaimer that canada is. yikes. but this is in the context of mainly american books being platformed

Quick speculative fiction reads (quick, like under 40,000 words).

I love Botanical Horror, but I also love Queer Stories. Surprisingly, there is a big overlap and if anyone else seeks to find books that fit both Sub-Genres, here is a (starter) list recommendations very welcome