Queer Horror

Sparkles and shines as bright as the Las Vegas strip! Lucky Day fearlessly explores existence, absurdity, and love as only Chuck Tingle can do it. It will shock, thrill, and unlock new fears never even dreamt of. This is Tingle at his strangest and bloodiest.
—CJ Leede, author of American Rapture

A briny, rotting ode to the things we must become to survive and the things we yearn to become when the surviving is over. In elegant, atmospheric prose, Trang Thanh Tran peels back layers of salty skin and sea foam to expose the truth: even when we are wrong, even when we are monstrous, we are whole.
—Courtney Gould, author of The Dead and the Dark

A brutal, brilliant story of motherhood, memory, and religion, deviously simple and terribly clever. King-Miller has become one of my must-read authors.
—Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt

Tingle has recently enjoyed mainstream success with his horror novels, including last year's Camp Damascus. With Bury Your Gays, Tingle proves once again to be the king of queer horror-comedy. His larger than life la la land personalities and truly terrifying creatures are a match made in hell. If you've ever been burned by the tragic death of a queer character you loved (Tara *sob*) this book is the vindication you need.
—Esmé, Firestorm Collective member

I tore through this book the way this Texas suburb tears into the Maxwell family: ferociously. If you've read a book by Rivers Solomon you know how their prose has a way of getting its teeth in you, and Model Home is no different.
—Esmé, Firestorm Collective member

I've never felt grateful that I never learned how to whistle, until now! This hair-raising anthology showcases some of our favorite authors writing in the horror and dark fiction spaces, including Cherie Dimaline, Rebecca Roanhorse, and Tiffany Morris.
—Esmé, Firestorm Collective member

Patricia Wants To Cuddle juxtaposes campy cryptid horror against the backdrop of a dating competition show. It is a combination so unexpected yet SO delicious you'll never watch The Bachelor the same way again!
—Esmé, Firestorm Collective member

Sexy, slimy, and deeply wrong, Silicone God will make you utter 'oh god' with every possible inflection!
—Esmé, Firestorm Collective member

Earthy and dreamlike, "Root Rot" by Saskia Nislow traverses the mycelial webs within a family, poking discomfitingly at the sticky allures of belonging to a 'we.'
—Esmé, Firestorm Collective member

White is for Witching is a haunted house story, a loose retelling of the infamous lesbian vampire novel, Carmilla, and a sharp exploration of the nationalism and white-supremacy that seep through generations of white women, hungry for the blood of the 'other.' Read this in tandem with Model Home by Rivers Solomon for an extra deep mind-fuck!
—Esmé, Firestorm Collective member

On the first page we learn that Mi'kmaq artist Rita Francis has vanished during her artist residency in a remote cabin in the wetlands, leaving behind only her most inspired work yet. Each chapter begins with a gallery's description of her vivid mixed medium creations depicting unsettling images of dark figures embedded in scenes of ecological collapse. Green Fuse Burning reflects on, and is itself an example of, the ways we document global horrors such as climate change and grieve personal and cultural loss.
—Esmé, Firestorm Collective member

Setting is everything in this slow-building nightmare on the high-seas. A whaling ship suggests chilling imagery right off the bat, but it is Nahil's mastery of atmosphere that cements the feeling of inescapable doom. You'll taste the salt on your lips and feel the dread in your own belly in this perfect marriage of ecological and queer horror.
—Esmé, Firestorm Collective member