Recs if you like Red X...

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

Canadian authors writing books set in Canada.

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.

ownvoices books across genres by queer men/masc authors that feature queer men as main characters

disclaimer: this is all just based on my own research and may not always be 100% accurate to the author’s identity - feel free to comment any edits or suggestions!

Created from the list on Goodreads by Cybil and Sadie Hartmann (September 29, 2025)

horror novels that are actually quite deeply tender, threaded through with love (not only romantic)

I wish we could make communal lists, because this would be a helpful one to be able to ask others to contribute to

Books from all genres by queer Canadians or heavily centred on queer Canadian culture.

List of horror books (mostly 2000-2023) compiled by Sadie Hartmann, aka Mother Horror.