Is your Book Club queer-friendly, with a love of dark speculative fiction? Want new books and fresh ideas? Read on!
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THE CROWS is more than a Gothic Horror with tentacles tale in a haunted house. If your book club wants to include more asexual representation, and likes books with genre-bending, character-driven stories, and especially if they have enjoyed books like David Barnett’s Withered Hill and Helen Oyeyemi’s White is For Witching, then this book is the next one to schedule. Suitable for adults.
THIRTEENTH is the book for you if your club is after an eldritch bildungsroman, a coming-of-rage tale, an occult horror from the monster’s perspective, or a contemporary family drama with tentacles and messy queer characters. If you’ve ever wanted an adult horror version of Encanto, with vibes of Hester Steel’s The Faceless Thing We Adore and Hailey Piper’s Worm trilogy, this is the absurd, violent, monstrous novel for your book club to sink their teeth into. Suitable for Adults.
THE DAY WE ATE GRANDAD is best read after THIRTEENTH, but has been read as a first introduction to the loose series, featuring an eldritch abomination protagonist with washed-up Lestat vibes, battling sobriety, depression, and a double break-up, while trying not to end the world. If your club enjoys dark, mature urban fantasy with secret monsterous worlds, and books like Lesser Known Monsters by Rory Michaelson, Benothinged by Alvar Theo, Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, and Robert Nye’s Merlin, then this is one for them.
YELEN & YELENA is the Dark Gothic Fantasy for your book club if you’re looking for a queer, dark, erotic and Gothic retelling of the Beauty and the Beast story. There are monster sex scenes, so put this on the list if your club wants to spice things up! If your club has tried and enjoyed Return the Rose by Joachim Heijndermans, Mexican Gothic by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia, and Dark Woods, Deep Water by Jelena Dunato, then go for this dark fantasy next.
