Recs if you like The Dead Take the A Train...

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

Works in the speculative, fantasy, science fiction, and horror genres by authors who are not cisgender! Two spirit, nonbinary, trans, genderfluid, and other gender diverse authors count!

Suggestions are always welcome! Co-authored books in any genre (i.e. books that were written by at least two authors, either listed under one pen name or credited individually).

Horror books by trans, Two Spirit, nonbinary, et al authors (may or may not include trans* characters).

Horror books featuring sapphic characters and relationships!

Corporate cruelty explored through Lovecraftian monsters. (Horror elements but not all books are strictly horror.)

Call me Ishmael for this is my white whale

What is it with queer people and cults?

A list of some of my favorite sapphic horror books

Natalie Naudus has narrated hundreds of audiobooks so bear with me as I try to get them all on this list!

what gab smolders read in 2025 as per her book talk video! horror + in tier order from most to least liked by her:

★ S TIER: from "night shoot" to "old country"

★ A TIER: from "what stalks the deep" to "listen to your sister"

★ B TIER: from "the long walk" to "the gathering"

★ C TIER: from "banquet for the damned" to "model home"

★ D TIER: from "3 streets" to "my darling dreadful thing"

★ F TIER: from "basilisk" to "survivor song"

personal tbr & recommendations

Few things are as made for a queer lense as the theme of body horror. Here, you will find motifs of your body changing against your will, of having society view your very being as monstrous and "other". Happy reading!

Horror books with black covers!

my horror rec list. yes all of them are queer

Sorry ghostface, scary books>scary movies

For readers who like their magic messy, their monsters mean, and their stories covered in blood.

So zombies (or ghouls) don’t seem scary to me until I start thinking about them and then they become the most terrifying thing ever.

So let’s read about them!

Suggestions welcome:)