26 Top queer books like Queer Little Nightmares by David Ly

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Queer Little Nightmares

By: David Ly

3.59

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer l…

If you liked the queer plot in Queer Little Nightmares by David Ly , here is a list of 26 books like this:

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1. She of the Mountains

By: Vivek Shraya , Raymond Biesinger

3.91

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Finalist, Lambda Literary Award In the beginning, there is no he. There is no she. Two cells make u… read more

Similar categories in Vivek Shraya's She of the Mountains book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • poetry
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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2. Camp Damascus

By: Chuck Tingle

3.94

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Camp Damascus book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

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3. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

By: Shane Hawk

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more

Similar categories in Shane Hawk's Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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4. Feed Them Silence

By: Lee Mandelo

3.52

Format: 105 pages, Hardcover

Lee Mandelo dives into the minds of wolves in Feed Them Silence, a novella of the near future.What … read more

Similar categories in Lee Mandelo's Feed Them Silence book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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5. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's The Salt Grows Heavy book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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6. Chlorine

By: Jade Song

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more

Similar categories in Jade Song's Chlorine book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

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7. Your Shadow Half Remains

By: Sunny Moraine

3.38

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

One look can kill. Riley has not seen a single human face in longer than she can reckon. No fac… read more

Similar categories in Sunny Moraine's Your Shadow Half Remains book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
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8. Out There Screaming

By: Jordan Peele

3.79

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Peele's Out There Screaming book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"

-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

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9. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • audiobook
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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10. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

By: Joe Vallese

4.18

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more

Similar categories in Joe Vallese's It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"

-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

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11. Patricia Wants to Cuddle

By: Samantha Allen

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The contestants of a reality television dating show compete for love—and their lives—in this pulse-… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Allen's Patricia Wants to Cuddle book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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12. Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

By: Agustina Bazterrica

3.14

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winnin… read more

Similar categories in Agustina Bazterrica's Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

"Outside the secure space of the circle, vulgarity accumulates. Ada loathes vulgarity because it's there that misery hides. She knows that misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral."

-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird

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13. Bloom

By: Delilah S. Dawson

3.90

Format: 203 pages, Hardcover

A sweet sapphic romance takes a deadly dark turn in this sharp-as-a-knife novella from the New York… read more

Similar categories in Delilah S. Dawson's Bloom book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
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14. Making Love with the Land: Essays

By: Joshua Whitehead

4.11

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more

Similar categories in Joshua Whitehead's Making Love with the Land: Essays book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

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15. Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

By: Nino Cipri

3.66

Format: 103 pages, Kindle Edition

MP3 CD Format Nino Cipri's Finna is a rambunctious, touching story that blends all the horrors the … read more

Similar categories in Nino Cipri's Finna (LitenVerse, #1) book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Getting lost for lack of a better option loses its appeal after a while."

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

"We're here to tell you what to do if a worm-hole opens up on your shift!"

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

"It was the most obnoxiously heterosexual thing Ava had seen since the last St. Patrick's Day parade."

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

"My boss, Tricia, always said tat we were a family. I should have realised she meant that I would have to put up with constant bullshit."

-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)

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16. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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17. Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path

By: Marcus McCann

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

An intimate look at one of culture’s most enduring taboos: public sex. Park Cruising takes a long l… read more

Similar categories in Marcus McCann's Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
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18. Earthdivers, Vol. 2: Ice Age

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.29

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Guest artists Riccardo Burchielli ( DMZ ), Patricio Delpeche, and Emily Scnall join Stephen Graham … read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's Earthdivers, Vol. 2: Ice Age book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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19. Queen of Teeth

By: Hailey Piper

3.83

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award Within forty-eight hours, Yaya Betancourt will go from discoveri… read more

Similar categories in Hailey Piper's Queen of Teeth book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
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20. Queer Little Nightmares

By: David Ly

3.59

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer l… read more

Similar categories in David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • audiobook
  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic by g. haron davis

21. Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic

By: g. haron davis

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of All Out and Cemetery Boys, this anthology claims a seat at the table of fantasy… read more

Similar categories in g. haron davis's Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"There is no shortage of people who want to hide the truth, dear Ari, and not a single one of them is of any consequence to me. In a decade, there will be another witch or wizard or magician or mundan…"

-g. haron davis, Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic

"She smiled at him a little sadly. 'What do you want, Ronan? Do you want them to suffer? Or do you want them to change? The truth was, he hadn't thought that far ahead 'It's easy to hurt people,' she …"

-g. haron davis, Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic

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22. Gay Girl Prayers

By: Emily R. Austin

4.10

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A collection of poetry reclaiming Catholic prayers and biblical passages to empower girls, women, a… read more

Similar categories in Emily R. Austin's Gay Girl Prayers book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • poetry
  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
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23. Your Body is Not Your Body

By: Alex Woodroe

4.10

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

EXTREME CONDITIONS DEMAND EXTREME RESPONSES. Over thirty creators from the Trans/Gender Nonconform… read more

Similar categories in Alex Woodroe's Your Body is Not Your Body book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
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24. Death's Country

By: R.M. Romero

3.84

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hadestown meets “Orpheus and Eurydice” when two Miami teens travel to the underworld to retrieve th… read more

Similar categories in R.M. Romero's Death's Country book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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25. Transmutation: Stories

By: Alex DiFrancesco

3.84

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Transgressive, transformative short stories that explore the margins of trans lives. Building on… read more

Similar categories in Alex DiFrancesco's Transmutation: Stories book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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26. Bird Suit

By: Sydney Hegele

4.48

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A tourist town folk tale of stifled ambition, love, loss, and the bird women who live beneath the l… read more

Similar categories in Sydney Hegele's Bird Suit book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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27. Transland: Consent, Kink, and Pleasure

By: Mx. Sly

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A memoir of transformation and self-discovery that explores fetish communities from a gender divers… read more

Similar categories in Mx. Sly's Transland: Consent, Kink, and Pleasure book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • audiobook
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28. A House Unsettled

By: Trynne Delaney

3.23

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

“Who built this house? Whose money? Whose blood?” Ghosts aren’t the only thing that can haunt a… read more

Similar categories in Trynne Delaney's A House Unsettled book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • horror
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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29. Why I Was Late

By: Charlie Petch

4.11

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 ReLit Award for Poetry With kitchen-table candour and empathy, Charlie Petch's d… read more

Similar categories in Charlie Petch's Why I Was Late book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • poetry
  • queer
  • lgbt
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30. Withered

By: A.G.A. Wilmot

3.67

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

A queer paranormal psychological horror novel, in the style of showrunner Mike Flannagan, showing t… read more

Similar categories in A.G.A. Wilmot's Withered book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
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31. Key Lime Sky

By: Al Hess

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

An alien invasion hits the town of Muddy Gap, but a disgruntled pie aficionado is the only one who … read more

Similar categories in Al Hess's Key Lime Sky book and David Ly's Queer Little Nightmares

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer

24 Best fiction books like Queer Little Nightmares by David Ly

Transform Your Habits

She of the Mountains

Vivek Shraya , Raymond Biesinger

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Shane Hawk

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Feed Them Silence

Lee Mandelo

3.52

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20 Best fiction books like Queen of Teeth by Hailey Piper

Transform Your Habits

Maeve Fly

C.J. Leede

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Everything the Darkness Eats

Eric LaRocca

2.78

Transform Your Habits

Nestlings

Nat Cassidy

3.86

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