Recs if you like Freakslaw...

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.

Weird, unusual, or taboo LGBTQ books that may make you slightly uncomfortable

Suggestions always welcome

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

Horror books with pink covers!

books who have the same style of covers; featuring bright hot or neon pink🩷 with neon yellow💛!

sadly, the default pagebound editions might not be the correct ones so you’ll have to look through the available editions. pagebound please let us choose</3

open to recs!

I love whimsy and books around a circus (or circus adjacent vibes like whimsical carnivals, festivals, etc)

weird girl lit

Summerween recs

Why read a cozy book, when instead you can feel unsettled while reading of another women’s journey through the horrors of life?

From a slow descent into madness, covering up murder for siblings, accidentally(?) joining a cult, to insurance fraud over taxidermy - this list covers it all!!

If you didn’t have mommy issues before, you will now.