Queer Retellings

Retellings of classics, fairy tales and myths with a queer twist

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created by VexMorbid

last updated August, 2026

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How To Survive This Fairytale

S. M. Hallow

A Whisper of Bells and Prayers: A Sapphic Hunchback of Notre Dame Retelling

C.C. González

Between Sun and Shadow

Laura Genn

Red and the Wolves: A Graphic Novel

Cherry Zong

Local Heavens

K.M. Fajardo

The Witch and the Huntress

Luna McNamara

Little Red Riding Hood

T.J. Rose

Don't Sleep with the Dead

Nghi Vo

Of Monsters and Mainframes

Barbara Truelove

Netherford Hall (Love in Netherford, #1)

Natania Barron

Zel

Amanda Meuwissen

This Princess Kills Monsters: The Misadventures of a Fairy-Tale Stepsister

Ry Herman

The Fiberglass Merman: An MM Fairytale Retelling Romcom

Aster Quinn

The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World

J.R. Dawson

The Shocking Experiments of Miss Mary Bennet

Melinda Taub

Her Wicked Roots

Tanya Pell

Cinder House

Freya Marske

The Other March Sisters

Linda Epstein

The Bone Way

Holly J. Underhill

Northranger

Rey Terciero

Rabbit Chase

Elizabeth LaPensée

Malice

Heather Walter

A Spindle Splintered

Alix E. Harrow

Strange Beasts

Susan J. Morris

Private Rites

Julia Armfield

Sleep Like Death

Kalynn Bayron

Escaping Mr. Rochester

L.L. McKinney

Angels Before Man

Rafael Nicolás

The Misadventures of an Amateur Naturalist (Celeste Rossan, #1)

Ceinwen Langley

Hungerstone

Kat Dunn

Comments

theodenreads

If you're looking for recs, Self-Made Boys by Anna-Marie McLemore is a Gatsby remix, and Ben Alderson's Darkmourn Universe is all gay retellings! The first one is inspired by Beauty and the Beast!

VexMorbidOP

Thank you for the recs! I'll be adding those to both this list and my tbr

WillowMae

Malice Heather Walter (Sleeping Beauty) Rabbit Chase by Elizabeth LaPensée (Alice in Wonderland) Northranger by Rey Terciero (Northanger Abbey)

VexMorbidOP

Thanks for the recs! They've been added

fawnxparty

I read a multitude of dreams a few months ago or something and I don’t remember there being a queer twist. Did I miss something?

VexMorbidOP

I haven’t read it yet, I’d just seen somewhere that is was. You could very well be right that it’s not

fawnxparty

Ooo thanks for the response! Just making sure I didn’t miss something somehow. I personally felt vibes with the FMC and her friend but they said it was totally platonic and the main love interests are two boys so that might have been miss info

VexMorbidOP

I appreciate the correction! I use a lot of outside information to beef up my lists so it’s good that you were able to catch an error

fawnxparty

^^ have fun with the list I’ll probably check some out sometime!