Recs if you like The Haunting of William Thorn...

books w/ full names in the title (mostly fiction)

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.

Is it bury your gays if they're all queer?

M/M hurt/comfort books - ones I’ve read plus ones recommended to me in the r/MM_RomanceBooks subreddit. Most of these have pretty intense hurt because that’s my jam

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!

...or however the poem goes.

horror romance reads (not dark romance) - the vibes are spooky and sweet.

Mostly gay books that are dark or bloody or both! (Not finished yet!)

We're teeing up your piles of summer reads with our quarterly romance roundup! As a reminder, we haven't read most of these books -- but they're the ones toppling our TBR! Books are sorted from June releases at the top of the list to September releases at the bottom.

Botanical, Southern and Just Plain Gothic Horror

Books about grieving loved ones. Main themes or death adjacent. Books that helped me through the grieving process. "I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us." —Joan Didion.

I'll never get to all of them, but that doesn't mean I'm not HYPED

Exciting books releasing in September of 2025!