Great New Queer Horror To Read This Fall

They Drown Our Daughters by Katrina Monroe

Meredith’s puerility location of Cape Disappointment is supposedly haunted. It seems to Meredith the washed up tourer municipality is much haunted by disappointment than malevolent spirits. But erstwhile she returns determination with her girl aft an acrimonious divorce, her mother, suffering from the aboriginal stages of Alzheimer’s, is definite idiosyncratic is watching them, trying to scope retired to Meredith’s girl conscionable arsenic it has each pistillate successful their enactment for generations.

Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda, translated by Sarah Booker

Fernanda and Annelise, 2 champion friends from the Delta Bilingual Academy, were erstwhile inseparable. The girls were similar reflector images of 1 another. So however bash they upwind up estranged and Fernanda held hostage by a erstwhile teacher who was obsessed with impersonating her ain mother? The schoolyard rituals and perilous secrets they kept led them to this moment, arsenic they tread a good enactment betwixt tendency and fear.

Dead Flip by Sara Farizan

The writer of Here to Stay and Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel is backmost with a 90s YA fearfulness caller for the ages. Former champion friends who grew isolated aft the disappearance of their different friend, Sam, are thrown backmost unneurotic erstwhile helium reappears arsenic the aforesaid 12-year aged who went missing 5 years ago. Now, Cori and Maz indispensable hunt for answers astir what happened to their person each those years ago, each of them uncovering secrets astir each different that they’ve kept hidden implicit the years. But the information of what happened to Sam whitethorn beryllium the astir horrifying of all.

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These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall

When Helen Vaughan receives an inheritance alongside an ultimatum from her estranged grandfather, she’s not definite what to think. But if she tin unrecorded 1 twelvemonth astatine her family’s ancestral location astatine Harrowstone Hall, the location volition beryllium hers on with her grandfather’s money. The lone mode she’ll marque it done the twelvemonth is by uncovering the house’s — and her family’s — secrets. But the much she learns, the much she wonders however she tin perchance stay.

Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey

Sarah Gailey’s newest caller explores the ties that hindrance a household and the acheronian past of home. When Vera returns to her puerility home, a location filled with memories of dormant bodies, it’s lone due to the fact that her parent is dying. In summation to Vera, her parent has invited successful an creator who’s stripping the location of its macabre past 1 plank astatine a time. But is helium the 1 leaving notes for Vera successful her father’s handwriting? And if not, who — oregon what — other mightiness beryllium staying with them successful this location of haunted memories and horrors?

House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson

An advertisement calling for a “bloodmaid of exceptional taste” offers a young miss successful the slums the accidental for a amended life, adjacent if it means her affluent employers volition portion her blood. For Marion, it seems a worthy trade. But erstwhile she becomes the newest bloodmaid astatine the notorious House of Hunger, she finds herself swept into a satellite of debauchery and hedonistic pleasures wherever bloodmaids spell missing successful the night. And if Marion can’t fig retired the caller rules of this crippled of feline and rodent fast, she whitethorn go different 1 of them.

Our Shadows Have Claws edited by Yamile Saied Méndez and Amparo Ortiz

These Latin American monster stories edited by the authors of Furia and Blazewrath Games diagnostic immoderate of Latine mythology’s astir memorable monsters, from goblins to brujas and vampires. Not each of the stories are queer, but respective are. These stories are cleanable for each the monster lovers retired there.

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

This novella based connected the Edgar Allan Poe abbreviated story, “The Fall of the House of Usher” follows a worker coming to an aged friend’s assistance lone to observe that thing unusual and sinister is taking spot successful the distant countryside of Ruritania wherever the Usher’s live. Something is sidesplitting Madeline Usher, but she’s not the lone one: nightmarish animals infected with fungal growths roam the hills and Madeline’s member Roderick acts astir arsenic strangely arsenic she does. What has befallen the Ushers, and volition Alex Easton beryllium capable to find answers and permission earlier being consumed by it, too?

Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado

Don’t fto the screen fool you: this YA publication is fearfulness done and through. The Bronx has been plagued by unexplainable disappearances for the past year, but it’s not until her crush Charlize’s relative becomes 1 of them that Raquel decides to instrumentality matters into her ain hands. Soon, Raquel and Charlize observe that these disappearances whitethorn beryllium tied to a sinister municipality fable called the Echo Game. And if they privation to prevention their location and the radical they love, they’re going to person to play — and win.

Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry edited by David Ly and Daniel Zomparelli

This anthology features monsters some aged and caller reimagined done a queer lens, celebrating the ideas and identities truthful often stigmatized and feared successful monster literature. The stories and poems are filled with kaiju and revenants and creatures from mythology pushed to the margins that LGBTQ radical cognize truthful good and, this time, fixed their clip to shine.