Queer your digital bookshelf event. The first event will be on 16th – 17th March when you will be able to get a digital copy of any of these books for 0.99c. Brought to you by the Queer Horror book group on facebook and lots of amazing authors. Click on the cover images for more information or to buy the books.
By Hayley Anderton (British)
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lesbian, gay, bisexual, non binary and asexual characters in the series.
About The Book:
The virus has arrived.
A deadly virus that destroys humanity.
A virus that replaces the living with creatures that crave human flesh.
As the human race dwindles, an unlikely group of young survivors battle against the odds to stay alive and avoid joining the ranks of the undead.
Follow Cassie as she desperately searches for her brother; Heidi as she tries to cope with the consequences of her actions; and Ginge as she takes on a new role of keeping everyone alive.
Lives will be lost.
The army of the dead will keep on growing.
Welcome to the apocalypse.
đQueer Elements:
ace MC, lesbian MC, bi MC.
About The Book:
A thief.
A cage fighter.
A soldier.
Only the strongest will survive.
Three girls are trying to get by in a world not made for them. Overpopulation has destroyed Britain as we know it, leaving behind poverty, barren lands and a new age of radical politics. Raven, Riley and Karissa have been set up to fail from the start, dealt the worst cards in the pack, but they’ve made it this far.
But when the government announces their solution to the problem, things go from bad to worse. Suddenly, the girls are left with no option, but to find a new way to survive in a hostile world. Will they be the last women standing, or will the last girls on Earth be crushed under its weight?
đQueer Elements:
lesbian couple.
About The Book:
Levi had a rough start to life, but it doesn’t get much rougher than landing yourself in the zombie apocalypse.
He just wants to get his head down and finish community service, but when fast-moving zombies start filling the streets and the darkest side of humanity is unveiled, he discovers that survival is about more than just staying alive.
Misfits meets 28 Days Later in this zombie apocalypse thriller.
By Sandra Bassett (American)
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written by queer author, story of two platonic men who develop a relationship around finding a monster in the basement, story of a person who feels their identity is exposed when a same sex person brings illicit feelings out of them.
About The Book:
Two men with an unconventional relationship and a lust for hunting discover a monster in their basement. A VW Bug trapped in the wrong time forces a man to face his inner demons. A woman stands on a ledge, ready to let go and end it all, as the earth draws life up out of the ocean for the first time and marvels at its own creation. Don’t miss these stories and other stories of dark and strange occurrences. ent.
By Matt Converse (French/Dutch Living in The US)
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All queer characters and gay sex.
About The Book:
He’s pleasing to the eye, but deadly to the touch. Gable is just playing dress up for San Franciscoâs S&M leather fair, but Leather Head isnât playing. Desire can be deadly.
By L. Andrew Cooper with Maeva Wunn (American)
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The book is narrated alternately by someone who is nonbinary and asexual and someone who is trans and gay; the book is about LGBTQ+ people being targeted for “correction” in a near-future dystopia
About The Book:
HC3, the Hightower Course Correction Center, ârecruitsâ LGBTQ+ people to participate in a program that will help them get the jobs they need to survive in the dystopic conditions of AMCONS City, center of a post-American territory run by a fascistic military. All they have to do is adopt cisgender, heterosexual identities. Ash, who is black, non-binary, and asexual, meets Aubrey, a white, trans, gay man, at a job fair where they face rejection after rejection⌠until they get recruited. They wind up in a converted slaughterhouse where the people in charge use brutal conditioning methods as well as the ghastliest forms of torture and murder imaginable to âhelpâ newly recruited prisoners. #1 Amazon bestselling horror writer L. Andrew Cooper and superlative dark poet Maeva Wunn team up to deliver a fast-paced, horrific ride into the depths of human depravity as Ash and Aubrey tell their tale. While the terrors are intense, characters propel the story: Ash and Aubrey form a core of friends within the program who resist and, eventually, learn to fight back.
By A.L. Davidson (American)
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The main characters are gay (Noland) and bisexual (Judah), the entire novella is focused on them mending and fixing their relationship, so it is a heavily queer relationship-centered narrative. Noland is also a Type 1 Diabetic, so it has disability rep, too!
About The Book:
The bones are piling up, Judah… While traveling across the country on a much needed vacation, Noland and Judah Calhoun stop to appreciate the scenic views of the Appalachian wilderness. To shield themselves from the less-than-friendly locals as they rest from their long journey, Judah parks their RV in the middle of a clearing well off the beaten path. A concerning storm rolls in overhead, shifting the sky to a sickly green that drowns out the night sky with a thunderous roar… Waking the next morning to discover the wheels of their RV have sunk deep into the saturated ground, Judah steps outside to assess the situation. Within seconds, his flesh is set alight as the unnatural rain begins to eat away at his hand. The storm rapidly consumes the skin and sinew of living creatures, turning the once peaceful clearing into a boneyard. Stranded and unable to leave the supernatural tempest, Judah and Noland must weather the storm together, facing not only the horrors of nature, but their own personal demons they refused to acknowledge for far too long. All the while, the bones start to pile up… Book Name: The Tale of the Cypress Southpaw Queer Elements: The main couple consists of a transmasc non-binary protagonist and their husband who has his career/image impacted by his partner’s transition, and his war with his own toxic masculinity to love them through it despite the challenges it has on his career. I’ve had several non-binary beta readers with cisgendered partners who have told me they felt seen and related to this story in their own journeys. Blurb: Cypress “Southpaw” Malone is a seemingly unstoppable force, toppling every opponent who dares to step foot in the ring with effortless ease. As he struggles to maintain his image not only due to the current political climate, but his partner’s recent transition, Cy begins to feel the creeping weight of retirement looming on the horizon. When his partner, Florian, discovers illegal substances in Cy’s possession and strange plant life begin breaking through the champion’s gums, the couple soon finds themselves wrapped up in a dangerous and twisted web of deceit, greed, identity, and nature that will forever uproot their lives.
By Matt Doyle (Irish/British)
đQueer Elements:
In the primary cast, we have a MM couple and a lesbian.
About The Book:
When Coulroptopiaâthe worldâs only circus where the performers are all animatronic clownsâcomes to your town, you know youâre in for a show like no other. From the knife-throwing of The Juggla to the attempts to tame the monstrous Boozle, thereâs something for everyone. But when an accidental power outage sees the mechanical monstrosities loaded with a new, murderous AI, the screams turn from awe to fear. Now, a man on the run, a happy couple, and a handful of staff members are fighting just to survive the night. So, sit back and enjoy the thrills, chills, and blood spills as these killer clowns take you through a mascot horror tale where death just became part of the show.”
đQueer Elements:
The two leads are a MM couple.
About The Book:
Tony Cork and Benny Marks were âThe Princes of UK Paranormal Television.â Then, while investigating an urban legend for their 2015 Christmas Special, the couple found themselves torn apart by tragedy. Told through a series of blog posts written by the fans that loved them, this is Tony and Bennyâs story. Three murders over three days, the same time every year. These were the final days of the paranormal investigative show, SurReality.
By Kaos Emslie (American)
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A main character on the Ace spectrum
About The Book:
Something dark lives in the walls… When nineteen-year-old poet Jack Miller brings Charlotte “Charlie” Duvall–a twenty-one-year-old exotic dancer he meets in a bar–to his Victorian home because of dreams she’s been having, all the fated pieces fall together. An Eldritch being has been unearthed… Shadows are alive and corruption grows… Darkness whispers… The Void is hungry and demands blood…
By Heather Farrell (American)
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About The Book:
Trigger Warnings: Extreme violence. The Y-Siccum virus has taken the lives of all humans containing the Y chromosome, including Johanna’s husband and son. Humanity has begun adapting to the new reality, but Johanna struggles with acceptance. Lost in her grief and animosity, she begins to unravel. Johanna believes she is chosen to put the fear of God back in the hearts of her community. She begins murdering local lesbians (slackies). A local detective grows suspicious of Johanna since she is the last known person to see the victims alive. Can she hide behind her affable Christian façade? Or will she be stopped? Will justice be served?
By David-Jack Fletcher (Australian)
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Protagonist is a gay veteran
About The Book:
A returned soldier with PTSD finds himself working as a driver for an old army buddy. His first night doesnât go to plan when he starts to see signs. Signs in the license plates, orders meant just for him. A secret mission. And heâll do anything for the mission…
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Protagonists are a married gay couple; the story explores themes of surrogacy and the painful wait for a baby when you are a same-sex couple
About The Book:
2023 Bookstagram Winner for LGBTQ+ Novel of the Year An abandoned motel. A woman flees an unknown danger, taking refuge in a motel. She is never seen again. A mad scientist. A geneticist stretches the boundaries of nature. His experiments, once human, are now something else. Something new. Something hungry. The couple. Michael and his husband Geoff have lost something precious. Their search takes them to a motel. What they find there will reveal a cruelty neither knew existed. And creatures beyond imagination. Welcome to Raven’s Creek.
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Gay protagonists with romance and also some closeted homosexuality throughout history
About The Book:
Readers Beware: This book is completely true. The murders. The spilled blood. The incident in the bathtub… When Harry Peck kills a chicken, he never expects the scratching under the floorboards. Or the awful clucking coming from the darkness. As the haunting gets worse, it becomes clear what the chicken wants. It wants Harry dead. It wants his soul. Can the mysterious Vegan Shaman save Harry? Or will his soul be devoured like … well, chicken? Inspired by classic horror, this book explores the totally true history of animal hauntings and will make you think twice about eating meat… and then make you hungry for it.
By Mark Allan Gunnells (American)
đQueer Elements:
The short story collection contains several stories with queer characters
About The Book:
Haunted Places and other Stories is a collection of short, queer, horror fiction. Gunnells explores the range of ways peopleâand placesâcan be haunted, and uses this theme to challenge assumptions of queerness. He broaches some very real topics that, in themselves, haunting contemporary Americans, and continues to act as a clear, loud, and proud, queer voice in horror fiction.
By Chisto Healy (Irish/Italian/American)
đQueer Elements:
Several queer characters leading this sapphic novel
About The Book:
Sarah, an Asian-American college student moves into Sunnycrest Apartments because itâs a rare, affordable place. Strange things show up in her closet that donât belong to her. Stranger still, they seem to come from the past. With the help of her psychiatrist, the girl sheâs dating, and the quirky gay boy she met at a restaurant, Sarah realizes that her closet is actually a gateway to another time. Another world. A place where the same apartment belonged to the boyfriend of the final murder victim of a notorious serial killer that was never caught. Sometimes the doorway takes her to another floor in the building, to the apartment the girl herselfâReginaâlived in on the 11th floor, the apartment where the murder actually happened, but it always takes her to 1987. The two people connected to her through the gateway in her closet are the owners of the initials carved into the tree out in front of Sunnycrest. Sarahâs girlfriend, Felicia, has been at Sunnycrest longer and helps her to understand that the whole building is haunted. There is something strange about the place they live. The dead are everywhere and some of them are dangerous. The living are not to be trusted, either. Sarah gets drawn in further and canât let go. She wants to understand what Reginaâs spirit is trying to tell her, what she needs, and how to turn her closet back into a closet. One thing she needs to remember though, is that there is a killer in 1987. Can he still hurt her? Is any of it even real? Where will the gateway in Apartment 8 actually lead her?
By Chisto Healy, Michael R. Collins, Erica Summers
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Three tales featuring bisexual leads
About The Book:
Three novellas, each answering the same prompt: Melissa comes running out of a grocery store covered in blood… The Survivor A detective meets his match in this extreme body horror novella when body parts start appearing on the streets of New York. A serial killer is on the loose, can the detective reveal their identity before more lives are lost? Nothing is Hidden, Only Unseen The staff at Price Slashers face otherworldly creatures in this extreme cosmic novella, where nothing is as it seems. Exploring a deadly dimension, the staff are faced with their own fears. Are their fears really what’s killing them, though, or is something far more sinister at play? Those Baby Blues In this extreme psychological novella, a new mother suffers from a recently-diagnosed mental illness, convinced her newborn is evil. As she and her sister shop for groceries, she uncovers hidden messages around the store. Is it all in her mind, or must she put an end to things once and for all?
By Adam Andrews Johnson (American)
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A large cast of queer characters who form a found family throughout the series. Thereâs an older gay couple. There are lesbian, asexual, transgender, and nonbinary characters. Thereâs also a whole gaggle of drag queens in my Mantis series! 
In my Hyperspace book, a gay pleasure android (mandroid) and a human man fall in love and go on a crazy adventure with some lesbians. and thereâs a boatload of DRAG! My books do not contain any erotica.
About The Book:
Imagine a world where a small percentage of people started developing superpowers, but unlike in movies and comics, they are vulnerable. By murdering them, smashing open their heads, and eating their brains, any unpowered person can steal powers for themselves. The series starts with a woman escaping from a cult; she makes her way to a city and meets one of these powered individuals. Upon realizing who sheâs encountered, she is determined to protect this person, and so my books are really a family story where a bunch of queer characters come together and try to stay alive in this crazy world where some people are hunting other people.
đQueer Elements:
A large cast of queer characters who form a found family throughout the series. Thereâs an older gay couple. There are lesbian, asexual, transgender, and nonbinary characters. Thereâs also a whole gaggle of drag queens in my Mantis series! In my Hyperspace book, a gay pleasure android (mandroid) and a human man fall in love and go on a crazy adventure with some lesbians. and thereâs a boatload of DRAG! My books do not contain any erotica.
About The Book:
Imagine a world where a small percentage of people started developing superpowers, but unlike in movies and comics, they are vulnerable. By murdering them, smashing open their heads, and eating their brains, any unpowered person can steal powers for themselves. The series starts with a woman escaping from a cult; she makes her way to a city and meets one of these powered individuals. Upon realizing who sheâs encountered, she is determined to protect this person, and so my books are really a family story where a bunch of queer characters come together and try to stay alive in this crazy world where some people are hunting other people.
đQueer Elements:
A large cast of queer characters who form a found family throughout the series. Thereâs an older gay couple. There are lesbian, asexual, transgender, and nonbinary characters. Thereâs also a whole gaggle of drag queens in my Mantis series! In my Hyperspace book, a gay pleasure android (mandroid) and a human man fall in love and go on a crazy adventure with some lesbians. and thereâs a boatload of DRAG! My books do not contain any erotica.
About The Book:
Imagine a world where a small percentage of people started developing superpowers, but unlike in movies and comics, they are vulnerable. By murdering them, smashing open their heads, and eating their brains, any unpowered person can steal powers for themselves. The series starts with a woman escaping from a cult; she makes her way to a city and meets one of these powered individuals. Upon realizing who sheâs encountered, she is determined to protect this person, and so my books are really a family story where a bunch of queer characters come together and try to stay alive in this crazy world where some people are hunting other people.
đQueer Elements:
A large cast of queer characters who form a found family throughout the series. Thereâs an older gay couple. There are lesbian, asexual, transgender, and nonbinary characters. Thereâs also a whole gaggle of drag queens in my Mantis series! In my Hyperspace book, a gay pleasure android (mandroid) and a human man fall in love and go on a crazy adventure with some lesbians. and thereâs a boatload of DRAG! My books do not contain any erotica.
About The Book:
Imagine a world where a small percentage of people started developing superpowers, but unlike in movies and comics, they are vulnerable. By murdering them, smashing open their heads, and eating their brains, any unpowered person can steal powers for themselves. The series starts with a woman escaping from a cult; she makes her way to a city and meets one of these powered individuals. Upon realizing who sheâs encountered, she is determined to protect this person, and so my books are really a family story where a bunch of queer characters come together and try to stay alive in this crazy world where some people are hunting other people.
đQueer Elements:
A large cast of queer characters who form a found family throughout the series. Thereâs an older gay couple. There are lesbian, asexual, transgender, and nonbinary characters. Thereâs also a whole gaggle of drag queens in my Mantis series! In my Hyperspace book, a gay pleasure android (mandroid) and a human man fall in love and go on a crazy adventure with some lesbians. and thereâs a boatload of DRAG! My books do not contain any erotica.
About The Book:
The mandroid and his lover leave the gay reverse-harem in space where they have spent the past several years, but just as their relationship begins, it is sent into chaos. They take part in a rebel uprising, deal with pirates, and are attached traveling through hyperspace. The two of them discover a secret prison and an anomalous wormhole. Lots of drag queens!
By Kevin J Kennedy (British) multiple LGBTQ+ authors
đQueer Elements:
LGBTQ+ authors and characters
About The Book:
Kennedyâs Horror Collection series continues with book fifteen. Once again, he has collected stories from authors from all over the world, and this time they have been selected specifically from the LGBTQIA+ community. As always, only the best made the cut, and have been gathered here for your reading pleasure. Sit back, relax, and get ready for some of the best scary stories you will read this year.
By Amanda Leanne (American)
đQueer Elements:
Deliberately ambiguous characters
About The Book:
Growing up in the swamps of Florida teaches you a lot of things through experience, and many of those experiences leave people staring at me with horrified faces while I laugh at my nostalgic stories of my childhood. Now, dear reader, I will share those stories with you.
Each chapter begins by telling a legitimate story that occurred in my life, or the lives of those close to me, and then it changes, shifts, and delves into the world of beasts, monsters, ghosts, and other nightmares draped in Spanish Moss and hiding amongst the palmettos of my imagination.
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Trans characters and deliberately ambiguous characters
About The Book:
Dreams are but our brains reflecting what they have seen, experienced, and imagined. These images can be distorted, reversed, warped, and deformed into something terrifying. Delve into stories born from nightmares and contorted into journeys dark and fearsome, the corrupt dreams of a darkened mind.
đQueer Elements:
Deliberately ambiguous characters
About The Book:
Shadows are often benign, nothing to truly fear, and yet our minds create from them. We see them twist and form into something sinister, something eerie, something that makes our skin crawl or our heart race. As the fog manipulates the landscape, so does it change the shadows. With our minds, we further pull from the blurry images and a tale is formed. From vengeful women to those that welcome death to haunting moments, these stories are a mixed bag of random dark tales from the mind of Amanda Leanne. Written over the past decade, this is a small compilation of stories pulled from the shadows in the fog.
By Cyan LeBlanc (American)
đQueer Elements:
Lesbian protagonists.
About The Book:
What if you were hired as a ghostwriter to pen your own death sequence? Struggling writer Arianta Collins receives the offer of a lifetime: ghostwriting for horror novelist Katherine Bishop. Excited by the prospect of honing her craft and learning from the best, Arianta accepts the invitation and travels to Katherine’s secluded farmhouse in southeast Texas. As Arianta delves deeper into her new job, she begins to experience some unsettling and vivid dreams that blur the line between reality and fiction, becoming more and more immersed in the world of Katherine’s twisted tales. Soon, she can’t shake the feeling she’s becoming the protagonist of her own horror story. Caught in a nightmarish mix of sexual tension, deception, and horror, Arianta must choose between her own sanity or the job of a lifetime. “Dying To Meat You” is a graphic, stomach-churning horror novella that will leave you hungry for more.
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All lesbian characters.
About The Book:
When a new female presidency took over the country, a ray of hope shined on the nation… until her true colors emerged and they were not red, orange, yellow, green, blue, or purple. With the over-population in the prisons, the ladies with non-violent records were promised a second chance. That’s only if they can stay alive long enough to see the light at the end if the tunnel. Cyan LeBlanc’s mixes Battle Royale with Orange Is The New Black in this high-seas death match where women are pitted against each other for one hour. If they survive the game, they are free… or are they?
đQueer Elements:
All lesbian characters.
About The Book:
Do you dare jump into the world of Cyan LeBlanc with a tasty LGBTQ+ horror novel that will make your toes curl and your heart ache for this Sapphic serial killer? “The
Taste of
Women” is twisted tale of sexual hunger and a womanâs hunt for her next meal. LeBlancâs disturbing novel explores a dark journey of human depravity and morality in this journey of temptation and survival.
By E.M. McConnell (British living in Germany)
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m/m love affair,
About The Book:
Dr Rebecca Carter has three days to finalise her research in Rivers Hospital, formerly the asylum. But patients whisper of The Shadow Man and secrets. 72 Hours is all she has left. I’m a Brit, living in Germany!
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m/m love affair,
About The Book:
A Gothic Horror about a sentient and feral bookshop, with four protagonists who seek knowledge and power. But payment will always be due.
By Shauna McEleney (Irish)
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Awake in the Night centres around a lesbian couple, Jess and Nicole, as they move into their new home. Turns out, they are not alone. The story is told in dual timeline, 1955 and 2018. There are queer characters in both timelines and the author is gay
About The Book:
Jessica and Nicole think theyâve finally found their dream house by the sea in the West of Ireland. 17 Montpellier Street has history, character⌠and so many rooms you could easily lose your way, if you donât tread carefully. It has memories, too – so many memories. The new owners havenât learned them yet. But the girls who lived there decades before, when the church used Montpellier Street to hide away its secrets – theyâve never forgotten. The ones who survived, anyway. Montpellier Street remembers every one of the horrors those girls suffered at the hands of the priests, nuns and doctors who should have been their carers. And Jess and Nicole⌠theyâre about to start reliving them, night after night. Sleep may never come easily again.
By Aiden E. Messer (Swiss)
đQueer Elements:
gay main characters in love, (probably) repressed gay villain, non binary secondary character
About The Book:
Colin Fern’s life is perfect. He has a wonderful group of friends, he’s studying at an art school to pursue his dream job, and he’s about to ask the man he loves out on a date But everything collapses the day he gets assaulted. He must now find a way to try and piece his life back together. And maybe take revenge on his abuser.
đQueer Elements:
Non binary MC, gay/bi MCs
About The Book:
Every five years, twenty young adults are selected to participate in the Days of Dreams, an event celebrating Nile Corp. and the Company-Nation. If they survive, they will be rewarded with a place in the wonderful city of Tomorrow, and their families will be safe from need, but the fewer the survivors, the greater the reward. Tam wants to protect Alfie, their boyfriend, at all costs. Akira wants a better life for her family. Oliver wants to make the world a fairer place. Lisa wants to be free to choose her destiny. Jacob just wants to survive. Their lives are now linked, whether they like it or not. Will they help each other, isolate themselves, or kill each other? What will motivate their choices?
đQueer Elements:
Bi male main character, gay secondary character, trans man tertiary character, lesbian villain, poly relationship
About The Book:
In the aftermath of an apocalyptic event that sets the world ablaze, Caleb and Nivitha find themselves thrown into a harsh, unforgiving new reality. They must face their fears, adapt to the dangers of their environment, and decide whether to trust others or isolate themselves. Caleb, social by nature, quickly makes a new group of friends among the survivors. Nivitha, determined to protect her younger sister Asha, guards herself against the remaining humans, regarding them as potential threats. They both soon learn just how cruel this new world can be. Between murder, torture and hunger, uncertainty is the only constant
đQueer Elements:
Aro-ace male mc, lesbian MC
About The Book:
This book contains improper use of body parts, cruel and unusual punishments, queer friendships, and general mayhem. Read at your own risks.
By Katie Oslow (American)
đQueer Elements:
Protagonists are Gender swapped and then engage in M/M and F/F sex
About The Book:
When four students sneak into an abandoned house for a prank, the resident spirit decides to play a prank of his own. Placing each victim in the body of the object of their fantasy, they must live out their desire if they ever hope to change back.
By T C Parker (British)
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Lesbian MC, f/f relationship
About The Book:
Rage. Bea has it – more than ever, since her husband left her. Lou has it – has it in spades, since she lost her job and her flat and had to move back in with her parents. And whoeverâs been murdering and mutilating the men whose bodies keep mounting up in Bea and Louâs city – theyâve got it, too. But when Bea moves to The Gates, an exclusive new estate with a strange and troubled history, and Louâs interest in the murders leads her right to Beaâs door, the two women find the lines between nightmare and reality, history and myth and sanity and madness blurring around them – and a primeval entity born from the chaos of creation with her own appetite for rage rising up to meet them from the ground below. She sees them. And sheâs hungry.
đQueer Elements:
Lesbian MCs, trans man MC, f/f relationships, religious homophobia, dead (and eviscerated) homophobes and transphobes
About The Book:
Thereâs a storm brewing in Gallow: angry parents, protests at the school, a new priest up at the church with some very clear ideas on sin⌠and an unfamiliar face in the cottage on the edges of the village, carving sculptures out of skin and bone. Itâs a powder keg. Even before the protestors start disappearing⌠Jodie doesnât want trouble – just to be left alone to raise her son in peace. Tanya wants more God and less wickedness in her own sonâs studies. Tara wants to leave her complicated past behind her, if only it would let her go. And all Jonas wants is to get some work done – and if he can make peace with his father while heâs at it, then so much the better. But the woman in the cottage and the priest up at the church – they have very different goals in mind. And Jodie and Tanya, Tara and Jonas⌠theyâre about to get caught in the crossfire. With a Foreword by Stephanie Ellis, author of Paused and The Five Turns of the Wheel “Hummingbird is the kind of novel labyrinth where the unexpected lurks around every corner. Parker’s mosaic holds layer upon layer of gripping characters and supernatural tricks in a Pulp Fiction-esque horror show, where a monster’s only weakness is another kind of monster. Immediately engrossing.” — Hailey Piper, author of The Worm & His Kings
đQueer Elements:
Lesbian MCs, f/f relationship
About The Book:
A remote island. A group of prisoners. And an evil as old as time. Robin didnât mean to break the law. Didnât know at first what law sheâd broken. And now sheâs on her way to Salt Rock – a new-model prison for a new kind of criminal, way out in the remote Northern Isles of Scotland. On Salt Rock, she’ll meet other prisoners like her â men and women from all over the world, spirited away from the lives they knew for crimes they didnât know they were committing. She’ll uncover the complex web of conspiracy that connects them all, confronting some of the darkness of her own past in the process. And she’ll come face to face, finally, with an evil as old as the land itself. Itâs hell in those waters. â¨â¨”It takes something quite unusual and spectacular in order to discover a horror you haven’t yet encountered. Parker managed to succeed with this, and drew me into the mythos. I won’t tell you what that something is, you’ll have to read the book to find out. But it’s worth the wait” (Scream Magazine)
Each chapter begins by telling a legitimate story that occurred in my life, or the lives of those close to me, and then it changes, shifts, and delves into the world of beasts, monsters, ghosts, and other nightmares draped in Spanish Moss and hiding amongst the palmettos of my imagination.
đQueer Elements:
Lesbian MC, f/f relationships
About The Book:
She doesnât know where sheâs been, these last few years, or how she came by the scars that mark her body. She can barely remember who she is, a lot of the time. But Sasha knows Salvation Spring, the tiny nowhere town out in the middle of the desert that calls to her in dreams and haunts her waking life. Getting there is hard. But what sheâll find there – and what the place will ask of her – will be much, much harder. Because the Spring isnât what it seems – far from it. And neither, for that matter, is Sasha. Not by a long way.
By Carlos E. Rivera (Costa Rican)
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Explores a hidden gay relationship and male sexual assault
About The Book:
WHAT YOU WHISPER, WHAT YOU HIDE, WHAT YOU FEAR⌠THE TOWN KNOWS. Thirty years ago, Freddie Parham did the unthinkable. In the depths of the infamous Vanek House, he sacrificed six lives to unknown dark forces. Now an inmate at a mental health facility, Freddie has become the servant of Martha Lange, the leader of a dark, local cult. Bringing to life the monstrosities Freddie paints on his canvas, he sets out to perform the Ritual of the Four Nights, which will awaken the entity sleeping beneath the town of White Harbor. Elsewhere in town, Peter Lange and his friends are gathered at a local bar, when a mysterious figure from their past puts the group in mortal danger. They must uncover where the key to it all lies. Is it in their experiences inside the Vanek House? In the âsafe placeâ where two of the group began a secret love affair? In the crawlspace beneath Peterâs home, where his greatest fears still live? An inexplicable blackout devours White Harbor. The blue moon rises. The First Night has begun. The first of four nights to awaken God and remake the world.
đQueer Elements:
Contains a trans character in the 1960s
About The Book:
A room is not a house. A house is not a home. But a door…a door can be the world. Summer 1968: When the Albright family move into a century-old house in the small town of White Harbor, they have dreams of settling in and starting a family business. But thereâs something off about their new home. A locked door in the second floor of the Vanek House. What exists behind it might turn those dreams into nightmares. Some doors are meant to remain lockedâŚ
đQueer Elements:
The novel explores the trauma that leads people to stay closeted, as well as many other queer themes around, among other things, abandonment and loneliness
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ALL TOWNS HAVE SECRETS An unseen evil is growing deep beneath the isolated seaside town of White Harbor, which an insidious cult worships as their God. For centuries, it has fed on the inner darkness of its people, their nightmares, and their secrets, forming the almost tangible collective mind the locals call âBlight Harborâ. Only one person can speak directly to the townâs God: Martha Lange, an Alzheimerâs patient in the townâs hospice. The Faithful call her âMotherâ. She is the messenger of God, and she has proclaimed itâs time for His awakening. When Peter, Marthaâs estranged son, returns to White Harbor after a personal loss, heâs unaware that his arrival will act as a catalyst for a dark omen, and God has promised Mother a reward for her service. As supernatural events, disappearances, and horrors shake White Harbor over the course of three nights, Peter Lange and a group of townspeople swallowed up in these events must desperately find answers in the townâs history of death and tragedy. The source of the cult, and the true nature of âBlight Harborâ must be uncovered, because the final ritual is underway, and the most prominent phrase in the cultâs unearthly tongue translates to: âGod will feed.â
By Bethany Russo (British)
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Conversations of gender, sexuality and one F2F relationship
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The Zoo
Billie’s grandad loved to tell stories, although that was all Billie thought they were. Stories. Fairy tales. To her surprise, after her grandad’s death, she finds out one of those stories was true. Her grandad owned a zoo and now that zoo is hers.
With the help of Charlie, Billie needs to decide whether she is capable of bringing the now abandoned zoo back to its former glory.
The Aquarium
After months of feeling isolated in the four walls of her house, all Connie wants is a day trip to the beach, where she can visit the aquarium with her husband and son.
It was meant to be a nice day, a well-deserved break, but little did Connie know that she’d end up murdering a person.
Fright Night at the Wild Place
Cassandra joins her friends for a Fright Night event, which includes a spooky bear trail. Assuming it is all fake, Cassandra finds her night turned upside down when the whole event is more personalised to her than she could have ever imagined.
Birdland
A trip to Birdland, the perfect place for all those bird lovers! Penguins, owls, the lot. So what would you do if it seemed like you were the only person not seeing birds behind the cages, but something, or someone, else?
By April Jane Rowan (From England Living in Sweden)
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gay relationships and a queer normative fantasy world
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Every youth of Elbridge remembers their Floris, the holy ceremony where their teeth are pulled out with pliers. It marks their ascension into adulthood and their right to have new porcelain teeth, ones that are embedded with magic, that grant the ability to make wishes.
Angora’s Floris will be upon the banks of the Eldwen river, the communal ceremony befitting his station. However he longs to remember his ceremony for the splendour of the Bethel, wreathed in candle light, drooping flowers and holy hymns.
Seeking to fulfil his dream leaves him the victim of violence and an outcast from society, living on its fringes until a chance meeting brings him to the heart of the Masters Guild, the place teeth are made. Learning secrets he never thought heâd be privy too, he eventually discovers the dark cost of their tradition.
Beneath A Bethel is a dark horror fantasy, set in a harsh, snow-covered city that hides its brutality with pageantry.
Harry, a disgraced jockey, stumbles upon a Kelpie and seeks to bind him, intending to use him to regain his former glory at horse racing. He is dancing a dangerous waltz however as Kelpies are a sly and deadly folk, his actions bringing him steadily closer to a grave at the bottom of a lake.
Mabel, a grieving wife abandoned by her husband, searches for her young son, Peter, who was stolen by the Fair Folk, simply wanting to bring her family together again. She makes a bargain with a knight from Lovelorn, entrusting her quest to him, all the while fearful that his word cannot be trusted.
Unbeknownst to them, their paths run parallel. They struggle to navigate the unbalanced and crumbling kingdom, while being opposed by creatures they thought resided only in fables. Can they play by the strange rules of the Fair Folk and win their freedom, or are they fated to lose themselves within the trees?
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gay relationships and a queer normative fantasy world
About The Book:
In Victorian England, within the sprawling countryside, a small village borders Lovelorn, a crystal kingdom inhabited by the Fair Folk that masquerades as a dense wood. Two unsuspecting mortals stray into the depths of this hidden world.
Harry, a disgraced jockey, stumbles upon a Kelpie and seeks to bind him, intending to use him to regain his former glory at horse racing. He is dancing a dangerous waltz however as Kelpies are a sly and deadly folk, his actions bringing him steadily closer to a grave at the bottom of a lake.
Mabel, a grieving wife abandoned by her husband, searches for her young son, Peter, who was stolen by the Fair Folk, simply wanting to bring her family together again. She makes a bargain with a knight from Lovelorn, entrusting her quest to him, all the while fearful that his word cannot be trusted.
Unbeknownst to them, their paths run parallel. They struggle to navigate the unbalanced and crumbling kingdom, while being opposed by creatures they thought resided only in fables. Can they play by the strange rules of the Fair Folk and win their freedom, or are they fated to lose themselves within the trees?
By Stephanie Sanders-Jacob (American)
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Lesbian protagonists
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When Harriet moves to Bentwood to teach gifted students, her new life doesn’t go as planned. Between her haunted rental and her oddball neighbor, Lucy-who literally won’t go awayâHarriet is left questioning her own sanity. The beautiful Kelsey, whom she meets at the farmers market, offers the distraction she needs. Well, that, and the town’s Multi-Level Marketing (MLM)âor pyramidâscheme. The enigmatic group of women selling wellness in the form of Serenitea, with their perfect hair, flawless skin, and piercing eyes. She is drawn to the tea, the wellness, the tranquilityâŚ.. So what if she has to sell a few bags of tea? You have a new descendant. Sinking deeper into Serenitea, Harriet can’t stop drinking the tea. She keeps getting emails about new descendantsâwhatever the hell that meansâand the gym teacher, Harold, is giving serious pervy vibes. Even Lucy joins the MIM despite claiming the women are vampires. None of that matters, though, because Serenitea makes her feel..well. Tranquil. Until Lucy disappears and Harriet’s world begins to crumble. Is Serenitea really a bunch of beautiful vampires? So what if they are? How far will Harriet go for tranquility? Are you well?
By L. E. Scott (American)
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MC’s twin sister is in a sapphic marriage, she and her wife play an important role in the story.
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Anabel’s abusive husband Mark died five years ago in an accident, or did he? When Anabel starts having flashes of a reality where he’s still alive, she’ll have to face the possibility that nothing she believes is real and ask the most important question of all: what really happened on the night of Mark’s accident?
By L. B. Shimairaâ(Dutch)
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Bi & pan characters, polyam
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A queer, slow-burn erotic gothic horror novel about rediscovering yourself after traumaâwith kinky, blood-drinking immortals and polyamory. Lord Deminas is known to be cruel. Yet, he’s rather protective of Meya, his new chambermaid, and punishes anyone who dares hurt her. Servants regularly vanish, and with the Lord now drinking her blood, Meya and her paramour need to avoid the same happening to either of them.
By Alan Shivers (Belgian)
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Lesbian MC, sapphic relationship
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An homage to 90s slashers, “Europea Halls” focuses on 6 teenage girls from around Europe who go to a prestigious boarding school in Brussels. When they get stalked by a masked killer, will they outsmart the slasher tropes or is the killer one step ahead?
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Lesbian MC, sapphic relationship. Aroace MC
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When the survivors of the Europea Halls massacre take a much-needed trip to Budapest, it appears as if things are finally looking up. However, when one of their new friends gets brutally slaughtered, it seems the past is hunting them down. A summer slasher tale with PTSD awareness, queer & aroace representation.
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Lesbian MCs Aroace MC Aromantic character
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In the closing chapter of the trilogy, the survivors are forced to move back to Brussels and step back into Europea Halls just in time for the Third Act bloodfest. It always goes back to the beginning.
By Katherine Silva (American)
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There are two important characters in the main group (Richard and Ash) who are a gay couple.
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A woman tries to survive an apocalyptic forest overtaking the world while being haunted by the memory of her dead partner.
By Elton Skelter (British)
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Queer protagonists in every story
About The Book:
From the author of ‘Life Support’ and ‘F**k You, Mary Sue’ comes a brand new collection of 13 queer horror stories. From body horror, supernatural, to sci-fi and psychological, there’s something here for everyone. Featuring a mix of brand new, unread stories and reprints from some of Horror’s most gruesome anthologies. ChuckleF**ker Enough Rope to Hang âEm X is for XXX_Partyboi69 Fad Flatliner Notes (lyrics) Not a Competition Elliotâs Body Our Door is Always Open Glasgow Grin Why We Canât Have Nice Things All Eyes On Me Cost of Living Wetwork
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Queer protagonists in every story
About The Book:
They are the final ones, the last person standing. The offer is cash, and all they have to do is go on film to talk about how it happened. How they made it. In a refurbished Frat House where a tragedy once occurred, eight survivors spill their guts about the slayings they lived through. But for Elliot Hardy, it’s his chance to confront his past. Plagued with traumatic amnesia and unable to remember anything about the night of the Phi Kappa Delta Massacre, Elliot is looking to draw the memory of that night back and finally make peace with it. But there is something dark inside the house, moving through the shadows unseen except the watchful gaze of the cameras. The final folk survived once, but can they cheat death a second time, or will it finally claim its prize? From the author of Life Support and Next of Kin comes a slasher throwback to the golden days of the horror classics, where it’s not just about what you’ve done but who’s watching you do it. Uncovering the buried secrets will make the difference between life and death.
By Chloe Spencer (American)
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Sapphic revenge story turned romance
About The Book:
After suffering a savage assault in a bathroom as a girl, Gertie meets the man of her dreams. Her trauma soon vanishes as they begin to build a life together. However, with the sudden death of her beloved Jack, and the return of her school bullyâBeaâyears later, Gertie’s long-buried trauma bubbles to the surface. All the think is one thing: Revenge. Inserting herself into Bea’s life, nobody is safeânot her parents, not her children. Hell, not even the PTA members of her daughter’s high school. Starting a sordid romance with Bea in a bid to destroy her life from the inside out, Gertie soon learns revenge is messier than she thought. BUT A GIRLâS GOTTA DO WHAT A GIRL’S GOTTA DO.
By Erica Summers (American)
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Author and Main character are openly bisexual.
About The Book:
Chain-smoking bisexual, Mantis, finds herself amid a demon apocalypse. With the book of Revelations unfurling before her very eyes, she recruits a reformed prostitute, a bubbly stripper, and a hopelessly smitten DJ to try to stop the biblical event in its tracks. Can the uproarious crew of misfit degenerates save the world before it’s destroyed?
Locked and loaded with sinister creatures, twisted villains, violent action, and a horny heroine with the charm of a rabid wolverine, Mantis will take you on a hilarious, blood-soaked road trip through the bowels of America’s deep south and drop you on the doorstep of the Devil.
From the demented author of Vanity Kills & Bad God’s Tower comes a profane, blood-soaked, laugh-out-loud novel full of guts, gore, and good times. A religious, comedic-horror blend of Dogma and From Dusk Til Dawn recommended for fans of Chuck Wendig and Christopher Moore.
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Author is bisexual and two of the supporting characters are gay.
About The Book:
Haunted by his tragic past, Jack LeBlanc, a heavily-scarred introvert, finds himself volunteering for the clinical trial of a miraculous new tissue-regeneration drug, nicknamed Obsidian. Jack and the other lab rats soon discover that the medication is not what was promised.
Theyâre about to find out the hard way that the pills have nightmarish consequences and that Jackâs pained conscience isnât the only thing with teeth.
With every pill taken, one thing becomes more clear: the path to perfection will be paved with gore.
From the Author that brought you Bad God’s Tower, DERAILED, and Mantis comes a monstrous body horror that will have you turning pages while your skin crawls. Based loosely on Summers’ 2020 feature film, Obsidian, this tale will have you questioning the side-effects of every pill you take.
Theyâre about to find out the hard way that the pills have nightmarish consequences and that Jackâs pained conscience isnât the only thing with teeth.
With every pill taken, one thing becomes more clear: the path to perfection will be paved with gore.
Locked and loaded with sinister creatures, twisted villains, violent action, and a horny heroine with the charm of a rabid wolverine, Mantis will take you on a hilarious, blood-soaked road trip through the bowels of America’s deep south and drop you on the doorstep of the Devil.
From the demented author of Vanity Kills & Bad God’s Tower comes a profane, blood-soaked, laugh-out-loud novel full of guts, gore, and good times. A religious, comedic-horror blend of Dogma and From Dusk Til Dawn recommended for fans of Chuck Wendig and Christopher Moore.
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Main character, Garrett, is a gay man.
About The Book:
Garrett was an ordinary New Yorker, appeasing annoying neighbors and paying over-inflated rent for a dumpy apartment in Hellâs Kitchen. That is… until the larvae hatched. As the end of the year draws near, Garrett unleashes his violent wrath upon the city of Manhattan. NYPD officers Luca Han and Mel Tredo are on a mission to find the depraved lunatic before he can kill again. Can they capture the homicidal madman in the surging sea of potential victims before the ball drops in Times Square?
By Anthony Taylor (American)
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LGBTQ Lead w/ Queer Supporting Characters
About The Book:
A vacation in Wears Valley turns deadly as their past secrets resurface.
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LGBTQ Lead w/ Queer Supporting Characters
About The Book:
On the anniversary of the Wears Valley massacre, the survivors fight for their lives as the Adams return for retribution. Nationality: American
By Carmilla Voiez (British)
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Bisexual protagonists
About The Book:
Satori would do anything for Star except let her go. When she ends their relationship, he summons a demon to win her back, but the demon, Lilith, has other plans. They are drawn into a magical and violent struggle for survival when Star falls for Lilith and discovers the depths of her own depravity. Can he destroy the demon before it is too late? The Starblood Trilogy is a heady mix of horror and fantasy with bisexual protagonists. Clive Barkerâs Imajica meets Emily BrontĂŤâs Wuthering Heights, set in the Gothic subculture in Britain.
By Cat Voleur (American)
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Lesbian protagonists
About The Book:
The world has ended. Now what? When Bea wakes to discover she and her lover, Evian, are still alive after the apocalypse, things seem too good to be true. Soon, she begins to suspect they are. The more concerns she voices about their survival on an island paradise, the easier their lives become. Her attempts to ask questions are met by disinterest and anger from her partner. Why can she not remember key details about her life before coming to the island? Why is she seeing and hearing things that arenât there? How well does she really know Evian? As suspicion and distrust continue to mount, Bea realizes the apocalypse was the least of her worries. But is there a way off the island, and is paradise really Hell?
By Steve Westenra (Canadian, Born In England )
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A bisexual male protagonist, a gay male protagonist, lesbian and bisexual side characters. It’s just super super queer all around and set on an island populated by queer people.
About The Book:
Tyler Kyle doesnât believe in monsters. A washed-up thirty-year-old actor and reluctant cryptid investigator, Tyler is used to playing the Scully to his best friend Joshâs Mulder on their stupidly popular YouTube channel. But when Tyler receives previously unseen footage of the B movie bombshell mother who abandoned him eighteen years agoâfootage linked to an isolated island in the Canadian wildernessâthe mystery is one conspiracy heâs determined to investigate. The fact that following the scent gives Tyler an excuse to run away from the âstraightâ Josh, whom he drunkenly made out with, is just the cherry on the shit sundae. But Echo Island isnât what it seems. Its eerily scenic veneer hides a twisted secret buried in its roots as a gay conversion camp, and as Tyler retraces his motherâs footsteps, he discovers a supernatural connection between the residents and the islandâone they seem to think Tyler and his mother share. Even worse, the footage of Tylerâs mom came from someone on the islandâa stalker whose obsessive fascination with both Tyler and Josh is about to make Tyler wish he hadnât gone this one alone. Puppeteered by his stalker, searching for his mother, and debating whether itâs possible to queerbait yourself, Tyler comes to realize that it doesnât matter so much whether you believe in monsters, if they believe in you. THE ERSTWHILE TYLER KYLE is an adult horror comedy for fans of GHOST FILES, BUZZFEED UNSOLVED, and TWIN PEAKS.
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Features an ace-spectrum MC of ambiguous queer gender (a lot is ambiguous in this book because it’s set in a period/culture without a vocabulary for a lot of things), a gay male protagonist, a lesbian protagonist, a bisexual male protagonist, a trans woman side character, a trans/intersex male side character, etc.
About The Book:
The great city of Qemassen is at a crossroads. A powerful empire from beyond the ocean threatens to reignite a centuries-old feud. A slave rebellion brews in the tangled labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city streets. And Crown Prince Ashtaroth, the city’s supposed saviour, is considered unfit to rule even by those closest to him. When the high priest burns one of the royal children alive as a desperate offering to the city’s absentee gods, it destroys the fragile peace within Qemassen’s scheming first family. Seeking revenge for the death of her child, Ashtaroth’s mother calls on a powerful demon named Lilit. But Lilit cannot be trusted. Her cruel machinations pit brother against sister and father against daughter, laying waste to Ashtaroth’s family. Then Lilit approaches Ashtaroth with a demonic pact of his own-one that could save his people and his home. But between war from without and a revolution erupting within, even a demon may not be enough to keep Qemassen standing. Set in a secondary world based on the conflict between Ancient Carthage and Rome, The Wings of Ashtaroth is a sprawling, multi-POV epic fantasy, full of queerness, political intrigue, and demons.
By Heather Wohl and Aurora Alba (American)
đQueer Elements:
Authors identify as bisexual and the leading lady in the story is a bisexual as well.
About The Book:
How much coin would it take to send your own kin to the dungeons? With a bounty dangling over his sibling’s head, Brutus must bring his ever-elusive brother, Otis, to justice for some much-needed reward money. On his mysterious pursuit, he finds himself thrust in the middle of Wyl Isle’s Brute Fest, a violent festival where black eyes and vicious brawls are revered and celebrated. He soon becomes enraptured by a stunning beauty, Violet. Captivated by the wild world around him, and Violet’s unusual talents, Brutus must soon make an impossible choice between love, money, and family. Sure to quench your thirst for adventure, Call of the Wyl is a brand new fantasy standalone novella (with a hint of paranormal romance) set in the Isle of Destoria. Brought to you by the author of From Ashes and Desdemona in Embers (the first two novels of the acclaimed Illuminator Saga) and co-written by romance author, Aurora Alba (Author of the Man Maid contemporary romance series) Note: You do not have to read the other books of the series to enjoy Call of the Wyl, however, if you have, you will find a treasure trove of hidden references and backstory to some existing characters you’ve come to know and enjoy.
Queer Horror Books 