Call me a monster? Have it your way đ¤ˇââď¸ Queer characters who become something wild, feral, misunderstood--and maybe also a literal creature.
Suggestions welcome!
created by kmbezner
last updated September, 2026
Thirst
Marina Yuszczuk
She Came from the Swamp
Darva Green
Eat the Ones You Love
Sarah Maria Griffin
Herculine
Grace Byron
Your Beloved Remains
Quinn Connor
Hungerstone
Kat Dunn
Make Me Better
Sarah Gailey
How to Get a Girlfriend (When You're a Terrifying Monster) (Monster Girlfriend, #1)
Marie Cardno
Someone You Can Build a Nest In
John Wiswell
I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me
Jamison Shea
Our Wives Under the Sea
Julia Armfield
Gideon the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
The Corruption of Hollis Brown
K. Ancrum
The Transition
Logan-Ashley Kisner
Hell Followed With Us
Andrew Joseph White
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girlâs Confabulous Memoir
Kai Cheng Thom
Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales
Melanie Gillman
The Traitor Baru Cormorant
Seth Dickinson
The Skin You're In: A Collection of Horror Comics
Ashley Robin Franklin
This is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar
When Among Crows
Veronica Roth
Pluralities
Avi Silver
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Victoria Schwab
Black Flame
Gretchen Felker-Martin
The Z Word
Lindsay King-Miller
The Library at Hellebore
Cassandra Khaw
A Treachery of Swans
A.B. Poranek
Chlorine
Jade Song
The Bewitching
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame
Neon Yang
You did a wonderful job on this list!
Thank you! This has been such a common theme for me lately so I'm still adding as I come across more books that fit :)
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