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Queer Horror Stories to Celebrate Mary Shelley’s Birthday!

Today, August 30th, is Frankenstein Day and Mary Shelley’s Birthday! To celebrate the first horror novel, we decided to ask our contributors about their favorite queer horror novels and ended up with 28 titles for a very spooky end of summer. Contributors to this list are: Shadaras, D.V. Morse, Nova Mason, Terra P. Waters, Rhosyn Goodfellow, Nina Waters, Meera S., Shea Sullivan, Owl Outerbridge, Sanne, Tris Lawrence, boneturtle and an anonymous contributor.

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

The Devourers by Indra Das

Into the Drowning Deep & Rolling in the Deep (Rolling in the Deep series) by Mira Grant

What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier series) by T. Kingfisher

Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea

Sixteen Souls by Rosie Talbot

The Honeys by Ryan La Sala

The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass

Kaleidoscope of Death by Xi Zi Xu

The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould

Alice Isn’t Dead by Joseph Fink

Squad by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

The Hills of Estrella Roja by Ashley Robin Franklin

The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles series) by Anne Rice

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Summer Hikaru Died by Mokumokuren

Pet Shop of Horrors by Matsuri Akino

Your Shadow Half Remains by Sunny Moraine

The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei

Make the Exorcist Fall in Love by Aruma Arima & Masuku Fukayama

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo

Fate/Stay Night by Type-Moon

Umineko When They Cry by Ryukishi07

Case 00: The Cannibal Boy from Sounding Stone

Welcome to Night Vale

The Silt Verses

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YEAHHHHHH HAPPY PRIDE YA'LL!!!!

(currently reading 2 queer graphic novels at once, in the first one, the protag is openly lesbian with a gf and her friend is in a gay relationship, and in the second one there is a gnc protag and a pan or polysexual protag, with an absolutely AMAZING WONDERFUL GREAT transmasc commander/general who binds and is trying to find hormones)

So i'm having a great time.

Happy Pride Month!!!

Looking for sapphic book recs with dope action

my r/suggestmeabook post got deleted cause I don't have any karma and I'm not really interested in getting any so can someone hook me up?

3 years & 2 days ago i watched love simon in theaters, and 2 days ago i finished reading simon vs the homo sapiens agenda, then tonight i watched love simon again since the first time i ever watched it.

theres something so beautiful in consuming an old piece of media that’ll make your mind revert back to the time you were first introduced to that media. it’s the way it makes you want to buy those halloween oreos with the orange filling because it makes you feel connected to the film by you casually referencing it. it’s the way you end up following the cast members on social media and look up to them, remembering that it all started because of one film you watched as a teen. it’s the way some of your favorite songs come from the movie’s soundtrack and you’ll listen to it from time to time but every now and then the specific scene it was played during will pop into your mind. to put it simply, nostalgia is beautiful. but if we’re going in depth, it’s the way rewatching one movie reverts you back to the first time you saw it, amongst reverting back to your other favorite shows at the time, and the friends you hung out with and the hobbies you had and the way your home life was and yourself. it’s you reliving the person you were during that time and not realizing how special it was gonna be years later. or maybe you did and your future self is thanking you for actually cherishing the moment.

nostalgia is a beautiful thing. 20gayteen was a treasurable year. love simon was great and simon vs the homo sapiens agenda was better at that. i’m glad i finally finished the book 3 yrs later and now look, i’m watching the second season of the movie’s spinoff series later this year. i’m so in love with being queer. the overall queerness of this all is a beautiful thing too. how fun to be nostalgic of your young queer self during an important year for queer media and an important year for your queer identity..

If you haven’t heard of it, the Clown in a Cornfield movie comes out this May!

I’ve mentioned Adam Cesare before. This YA slasher trilogy is my all-time favorite book series. Seriously, if you haven’t read it already, I recommend checking it out. And there’s high hopes for a fourth book next year.

Favorite book is currently book 2, which takes place during Halloween. Makes it the perfect October read.

fun game to play at the library: is it gay?

you look at the book title from the spine and pull it out if you think it'll be gay based on the title. then figure out if you're right from the cover or the blurb

Please recommend any book to read in 2025 please

I've decided to set a New Year’s resolution/challenge – I'm going to try to read more often (or rather read at all), and I would love to hear some book suggestions/recommendations.

All suggests and generes are welcome

Not strictly for the new year

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I need help renaming my story as it's prompted off of the title "white fang" which is already a very famous book

here's some bits in the book's: Frankensteinwhte type experiment gay romance between teen boys animal teeth car crash broken bones desperation

any like ideas on how to create a new title? (also yes my account is named after my writing because i really love it lol)

Thanks for the suggestion, @what-a-b3autiful-disaster. I loved the book. Also, if anyone wants to read a book about a AMAB non-binary teen’s story, read this book. I was able to buy it at a Barnes & Nobles.

Does anyone know of any books where the main character used to identify as male but now identifies as non-binary? Because I’m having some gender identity issues and I want to read about someone I could relate to.

my grandma reading TSH pt.2

Me: so what do you think about Francis?

Grandma: awww, he’s such a sad homosexual

As someone who has watched a few Arthurian adaptations, I was immediately intrigued by „Gwen & Art are not in love“ by Lex Croucher.

I mean ur telling me we get the Arthurian myths in combination with a medieval queer love story ?!

Even though I nowadays tend to have problems starting printed literature this one flew by and I finished reading in the span of a day and a bit.

To start not only is the story great but I’m also a big fan of the cover art <3

We get not only the exploration of the queer love stories between Gwen & Bridget and Art & Gabriel but also growing Friendships and some battle action fitting for the Middle Ages.

Next to the fighting it does also have some minor alcohol abuse and partly deals with death. And since it’s the Middle Ages and people just love hating other people, the mentions of queerness etc are not always positive.

Im personally a big fan of how all the relationships evolve and the people change :)

Spoilers for the plot of the book!

Little rant from me :|

Although it was a great read and I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it, I must admit that the typical plot of:

character a either did something accidentally wrong or is said to have done something wrong (although that’s false) and character b immediately believing that and now judging/having a grudge against/hating character a. Which then only confuses character a who doesn’t get any information from anyone around them to what they’re said to have done wrong and is jsut lost and hurt. Especially after things are jsut starting to look right between the characters.

It’s not that it is that unbelievable that it happens (it’s here and there) but more that sometimes it just annuls like every character growth the two or more characters had together and after there is never really a apology or an acknowledgment of this being hurtful to character a, since it jsut confirms taht character b would be easily able to believe this about character a. And my biggest fight with this trope is that the friend of always tend to just side with character b although they’re often both they’re friends or even character a‘s friends.

Luckily it’s not that big of a part on the book but it tends to really ick me when reading something which is really great.

Personally I just loved how Arthur helped both siblings more or less take some responsibility and self control for their own desires and life wishes. It was interesting to see the differences in how they acted around being queer, since they were raised very similar but oh so different.

Also just some special mention of my boy Sidney: he’s not only the most loyal person in the story but also is just a really amazing best friend to Arthur all while he also has his own little love story :)

It may be extremely simple but I loves the conversation Art and Sidney had about the pendant („it’s cold and black jsut like my heart“ „no, your heart is soft and yellow, like marzipan“😭)

Some other favourites of mine: we have a map of Camelot :), Bridget’s witch friend, the court magician, Excalibur nine 🙂‍↕️, everyone in the castle thinking Gwen and art were getting intimate, Gabriel’s more or less obsession with birds, background gay King Arthur/Lancelot, Agnes <3

Sometimes it was really frustrating how oblivious and sheltered Gwen was but seeing that she had not had any friends (not sure if it was explained) and also did not leave the castle, it seems realistic enough that she turned out like this. Still hard to read at a few instances. But I could definitely see how she and Gabriel are siblings as they both are really afraid of dancing out of line.

Also Arthur definitely had enough self loathing and alcohol issues for the both of them. Like, my guy, when are u sober. And also they both were immature when they were younger since they’re were children (duh) but also like how should gwen have known taht ur dad is a fcking ass (just my opinion )

I definitely do love all of the main cast so that is not meant to bash any one of them. They’re just realistic and all have flaws (although I’m not sure about Bridget she is pretty perfect :3 only female knight, noble ladies tend to fall in love with her, strong and capable, knows her boundaries (especially with not wanting to be treated like a secondary thought by her lovers)and she wields Excalibur nine) and good features. :)

Not always the biggest fan of open endings but I think here it does work well although I would have loved to see the speech and followed reaction 🤷🏻 maybe we would have seen Merlin and Morgana get back from their sabbatical hm

Spoiler ending here!

So I know it sounds negative at a few instances but do read the book it’s great. I think it’s a very easily enjoyable story that really pulls u in and makes u feel as part of the group. :))

Thsi is not eloquent or the best review in any way just me somehow bringing my feelings and thoughts to screen :) 🪼🪻

Attempting to redraw/revamp my favorite book covers.

Magics Pawn and the entire Last Herald-Mage trilogy has my entire heart and is now one of my favorite obscure queer fantasy books.

I read “Lost Souls” last summer and really enjoyed it. Ghost particularly stole my heart, so I had to make a little mood board for him.

"Have you ever wondered why people from all across the world have stories and paintings about dragons, all from the same time period. From Asia to Europe to Africa. These big lizards, some with fire breath, some with wings. It’s probably because they are real. There is no other explanation. But where are they, you might ask. Everywhere. And this is what would happen if they came back."

A small part of my book:

"...and Kyle just stood there, shock and hurt flowed through him. How was he supposed to react to that? He turned around to go back home but he heard the water move behind him. He turned back around and was met with Anthony’s sad face.

  “I’m sorry for my mother's behavior. I hope I can substitute her?” Kyle couldn’t help but smile.

  “I would actually prefer you to her.” A shy smile flew over his beautiful features. "

Me, Writertok completion open on my laptop and Writblr open on my phone

POV:

The hot merman love interest saves the protagonist from drowning but they hate each other.