6 Best queer books like Negative Space by B.R. Yeager

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Negative Space

By: B.R. Yeager

3.72

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope …

"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more than just the people trying to destroy us."

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still think and remember, and I wept and wept, wanting to be all the way gone."

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still think and remember, and I wept and wept, wanting to be all the way gone."

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally go to sleep. The woman buried beneath my candle won't let him. She props me up. Sits by my bed. She tells me my state isn't fixed; there is no rope binding my wrists; there is always a window to climb out of. She tells me I can save myself and find a place I love before the world dissolves. She stays, even when I turn cruel and out of phase. I learn to leave. I leave before he sets himself ablaze. The fire in his skin and hair. I can't see it but I know it's happening. I can't see it because I'm already so far away. I'm out of here now, forever."

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

If you liked the queer plot in Negative Space by B.R. Yeager , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Penpal

By: Dathan Auerbach

3.86

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

Penpal began as a series of short and interconnected stories posted on an online horror forum. Befo… read more

Similar categories in Dathan Auerbach's Penpal book and B.R. Yeager's Negative Space

  • dark
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"Sometimes forgetting is the gift that we give ourselves"

-Dathan Auerbach, Penpal

"Memories extend our lives backward through time, making them feel longer."

-Dathan Auerbach, Penpal

"Our loved ones pass away or simply leave our lives forever too soon, and we think to ourselves, “I wasn’t ready for you to leave. It just wasn’t time,"

-Dathan Auerbach, Penpal

"We want so badly to be happy – to live the kinds of lives that we always hoped we’d live – that we give gifts to ourselves by remembering things not as they were, but as we wish they were."

-Dathan Auerbach, Penpal

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2. The Sluts

By: Dennis Cooper

3.79

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and tol… read more

Similar categories in Dennis Cooper's The Sluts book and B.R. Yeager's Negative Space

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • dark
  • thriller
  • horror
  • queer
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3. The Marbled Swarm

By: Dennis Cooper

3.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Marbled Swarmis Dennis Cooper's most haunting work to date. In secret passageways, hidden rooms… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • dark
  • thriller
  • horror
  • queer
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4. Last Days

By: Brian Evenson , Peter Straub

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Intense and profoundly unsettling, Brian Evenson's Last Daysis a down-the-rabbit-hole detective nov… read more

Similar categories in Brian Evenson's Last Days book and B.R. Yeager's Negative Space

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. Visions

By: Troy James Weaver

4.26

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A hypnotic descent from childhood to adulthood. A boy sees angels, finds love, loses it, and become… read more

Similar categories in Troy James Weaver's Visions book and B.R. Yeager's Negative Space

  • fiction
  • horror

6. Left Hand

By: Paul Curran

4.13

Format: None pages,

"Left Hand is every reason why Paul Curran is one of the smartest, most daring, meticulous, violent… read more

Similar categories in Paul Curran's Left Hand book and B.R. Yeager's Negative Space

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. Between Two Fires

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village… read more

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  • paranormal
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"The only thing I say to God is my daughter's names; and it is not a prayer, it's a rebuke."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"He was being kissed now by his own mouth, not as lovers kiss, with tongues, but as true lovers kiss, sharing breath."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"A dark-haired little boy just in pants stood bewildered near the blaze, saying, as if there had been some mistake, "We live here. We live here."

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

"But it will be harder for you if you remember. Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another’s sake and not counting them. Love is loss of self, loss of other, and faith in the death…"

-Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

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8. The Fisherman

By: John Langan

3.91

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more

Similar categories in John Langan's The Fisherman book and B.R. Yeager's Negative Space

  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • fantasy
"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

9. Exquisite Corpse

By: Poppy Z. Brite

4.00

Format: 208 pages,

To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own de… read more

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10. The Cipher

By: Kathe Koja

3.54

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

Nicholas is a would-be poet and video-store clerk with a weeping hole in his hand - weeping not blo… read more

Similar categories in Kathe Koja's The Cipher book and B.R. Yeager's Negative Space

  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • fantasy
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11. A Short Stay in Hell

By: Steven L. Peck

4.22

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunite… read more

Similar categories in Steven L. Peck's A Short Stay in Hell book and B.R. Yeager's Negative Space

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what of it? After a billion years there is nothing left to say, and you wander apart, un…"

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

12. Father of Lies

By: Brian Evenson

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

At the urging of his wife, Provost Fochs reluctantly agrees to see a therapist, Dr. Feshtig. Throug… read more

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13. Maeve Fly

By: C.J. Leede

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award! A Bram Stoker and Splatterpunk Award Nominee! … read more

Similar categories in C.J. Leede's Maeve Fly book and B.R. Yeager's Negative Space

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • dark
  • thriller
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Inside my room, I turn on Billy Holiday. There are only two kinds of music in my world. Billy Holiday and Halloween songs."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason."

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

"I have tried the way of the misanthrope, the way of the deviant, the philosopher, the observer, the pretender. But there is one road I have not seriously considered walking down, have not permitted m…"

-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

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14. The Haar

By: David Sodergren

4.17

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

“I don’t fear death... but they do.” Muriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of… read more

Similar categories in David Sodergren's The Haar book and B.R. Yeager's Negative Space

  • paranormal
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. This Thing Between Us

By: Gus Moreno

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

It was Vera's idea to buy the Itza. The "world's most advanced smart speaker!" didn't interest Thia… read more

Similar categories in Gus Moreno's This Thing Between Us book and B.R. Yeager's Negative Space

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • horror
  • paranormal
"You were you and I was me and there was this thing between us."

-Gus Moreno, This Thing Between Us

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16. Intercepts

By: T.J. Payne

4.13

Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition

Joe works at a facility that performs human experimentation.His work just followed him home. The go… read more

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  • dark
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • horror
  • fantasy
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17. Gone to See the River Man

By: Kristopher Triana

3.67

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

Super fans. Groupies. Stalkers. These people will give anything for the idols they worship, be t… read more

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  • dark
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"That didn't matter, though. Her thoughts toward her were entirely justified. They'd always been there, but were suppressed by a guilt she'd now began to think she never should have felt in the first …"

-Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

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18. Bedlam

By: Charlene Elsby

4.30

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

"One of my favorite contemporary writers. Each of these vicious little stories is a perfect articul… read more

Similar categories in Charlene Elsby's Bedlam book and B.R. Yeager's Negative Space

  • fiction
  • horror
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19. The Laws of the Skies

By: Grégoire Courtois

3.39

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Twelve six-year-olds and their three adult chaperones head into the woods on a camping trip. None o… read more

Similar categories in Grégoire Courtois's The Laws of the Skies book and B.R. Yeager's Negative Space

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • dark
  • thriller
  • horror
  • fantasy
"because it was him and him alone she didn't want to disappoint."

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

"Was there nothing left in this world that was worth opening your eyes and fighting for?"

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

"Even he who deserves to die, who deserves to be killed, doesn't deserve to be killed like that."

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

"But she was in love, head over heels in love the way you are at age six, without knowing that this love would be as fleeting as it was powerful, and as powerful as it was secret, and misunderstood, a…"

-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies

Cover of Negative Space by B.R. Yeager

20. Negative Space

By: B.R. Yeager

3.72

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope … read more

Similar categories in B.R. Yeager's Negative Space book and B.R. Yeager's Negative Space

  • lgbt
  • lovecraftian
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • dark
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

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21. Maggie's Grave

By: David Sodergren

4.06

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

The small Scottish town of Auchenmullan is dead, and has been for years. It sits in the shadow of a… read more

Similar categories in David Sodergren's Maggie's Grave book and B.R. Yeager's Negative Space

  • dark
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • horror
  • paranormal
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22. They All Died Screaming

By: Kristopher Triana

3.64

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s called The Scream... Once you get it, you simply cannot stop screaming. You can’t eat or sleep… read more

Similar categories in Kristopher Triana's They All Died Screaming book and B.R. Yeager's Negative Space

  • dark
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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23. Bonding

By: Maggie Siebert

4.13

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

"Maggie understands that splatter for splatter's sake is boring. Psychopathy is boring. Coldness is… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Siebert's Bonding book and B.R. Yeager's Negative Space

  • lgbt
  • dark
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • horror
  • queer
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24. The World Below

By: David Peak

3.98

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Witches, LSD psychosis, and the slippery nature of truth. The World Below is about the limitless ho… read more

Similar categories in David Peak's The World Below book and B.R. Yeager's Negative Space

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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25. Terminal Park

By: Gary J. Shipley

3.63

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

“Shipley's Terminal Park pounds fiction into entirely new shapes. Disintegrating and blissful. High… read more

Similar categories in Gary J. Shipley's Terminal Park book and B.R. Yeager's Negative Space

  • dark
  • fiction
  • horror
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26. The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty

By: Charlene Elsby

3.86

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

"Explosive and propulsive, The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty proves Charlene Elsby to be a formidable tal… read more

Similar categories in Charlene Elsby's The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty book and B.R. Yeager's Negative Space

  • fiction
  • horror
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27. To Be Devoured

By: Sara Tantlinger

3.82

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

What does carrion taste like? Andi has to know. The vultures circling outside her home taunt and in… read more

Similar categories in Sara Tantlinger's To Be Devoured book and B.R. Yeager's Negative Space

  • lgbt
  • dark
  • horror
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • queer
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28. Stonefish

By: Scott R. Jones

3.72

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

A missing tech mogul... a jaded reporter... a damaged AI returned from a horrifying reality... and … read more

Similar categories in Scott R. Jones's Stonefish book and B.R. Yeager's Negative Space

  • lovecraftian
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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29. Your Dreams

By: Thomas Moore

4.52

Format: 106 pages, Paperback

“I’m so close to falling apart. Fuck it. Who isn’t?” Thomas Moore’s latest novel Your Dreams, th… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Moore's Your Dreams book and B.R. Yeager's Negative Space

  • fiction
Cover of So Beautiful and Elastic by Gary J.  Shipley

30. So Beautiful and Elastic

By: Gary J. Shipley

4.58

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

"Gary J. Shipley's So Beautiful and Elastic entwines elegant prose, blistering suspense, and art cr… read more

Similar categories in Gary J. Shipley's So Beautiful and Elastic book and B.R. Yeager's Negative Space

  • fiction
  • horror
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31. Flunker

By: Dennis Cooper

3.94

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

When Dennis Cooper decides to publish a new collection of short stories with Amphetamine Sulphate, … read more

Similar categories in Dennis Cooper's Flunker book and B.R. Yeager's Negative Space

  • fiction
  • queer

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