11 must-read short stories books like The Goth House Experiment by S.J. Sindu

Cover of The Goth House Experiment by S.J. Sindu

The Goth House Experiment

By: S.J. Sindu

3.56

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

An uncanny and electric story collection from SJ Sindu, Lambda Literary finalist and Publishing Tri…

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1. 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 S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • 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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2. Stars in Your Eyes

By: Kacen Callender

3.80

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The National Book Award-winning author of  Felix Ever After  delivers a beautifully tender story of… read more

Similar categories in Kacen Callender's Stars in Your Eyes book and S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Dearborn by Ghassan Zeineddine

3. Dearborn

By: Ghassan Zeineddine

4.23

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine’s debut collection examines the diverse range and comp… read more

Similar categories in Ghassan Zeineddine's Dearborn book and S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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4. 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 S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • 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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5. Boys Weekend

By: Mattie Lubchansky

4.03

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning cartoonist and editor at The Nib, a hilarious trans-"final girl" horror grap… read more

Similar categories in Mattie Lubchansky's Boys Weekend book and S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
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6. The Hive and the Honey: Stories

By: Paul Yoon

3.75

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times , Time , and Literary Hub most-anticipated book of the fall. From the beloved a… read more

Similar categories in Paul Yoon's The Hive and the Honey: Stories book and S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • adult
  • anthologies
"We have this life, and then we become something else. Wouldn't you agree? You have had this life but soon, tomorrow, you will become someone else, with someone else. You mustn't be afraid of change l…"

-Paul Yoon, The Hive and the Honey: Stories

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7. Night Side of the River

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A captivating collection of ghost stories from “one of the most gifted writers working today” ( New… read more

Similar categories in Jeanette Winterson's Night Side of the River book and S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"That's the trouble with time. Never happens when it should."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"Nobody's looking at me. Nobody does look at middle-aged women."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"We're always roaming around in the past or the future. The present is a hard place to live."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"It's hard, you know, getting divorced.' Billy gave me a hug. 'Love is hard--whether you got it or you don't."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

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8. Brainwyrms

By: Alison Rumfitt

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more

Similar categories in Alison Rumfitt's Brainwyrms book and S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
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9. The Premonition

By: Banana Yoshimoto

3.43

Format: 133 pages, Hardcover

The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and he… read more

Similar categories in Banana Yoshimoto's The Premonition book and S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
"I'd never known a love before that could blot out the world around like this."

-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

"Later, for the first time in a very long time, I heard my aunt play the piano. Its tone was soft, and just like I remembered it. At the kitchen window one overcast afternoon, I watched its beautiful …"

-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

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10. Earthdivers, Vol. 1: Kill Columbus

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.66

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The New York Times–bestselling author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart Is a Chainsaw makes his… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's Earthdivers, Vol. 1: Kill Columbus book and S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor

11. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

By: Andrea Lawlor

3.87

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Lawlor's Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl book and S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

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12. 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 S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
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13. youthjuice

By: E.K. Sathue

3.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

American Psycho meets The Devil Wears Prada: outrageous body horror for the goop generation A 29… read more

Similar categories in E.K. Sathue's youthjuice book and S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. The Woods All Black

By: Lee Mandelo

3.81

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all … read more

Similar categories in Lee Mandelo's The Woods All Black book and S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Spill enough blood on it, and the earth was bound to go strange."

-Lee Mandelo, The Woods All Black

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15. Thirst

By: Marina Yuszczuk

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more

Similar categories in Marina Yuszczuk's Thirst book and S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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16. All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology

By: Circe Moskowitz

3.83

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the Dark. We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, … read more

Similar categories in Circe Moskowitz's All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology book and S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Allow Me to Introduce Myself by Onyi Nwabineli

17. Allow Me to Introduce Myself

By: Onyi Nwabineli

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Ever since she was a child, Anuri’s life was chronicled and monetized by her influencer stepmother.… read more

Similar categories in Onyi Nwabineli's Allow Me to Introduce Myself book and S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir by Ai Weiwei

18. Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir

By: Ai Weiwei

3.74

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this beautifully illustrated and deeply philosophical graphic memoir, legendary artist Ai Weiwei… read more

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19. Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

By: GennaRose Nethercott

3.76

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

From the author of the breakout fantasy novel Thistlefoot : a collection of dark fairytales and fra… read more

Similar categories in GennaRose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories book and S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • magical realism
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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20. A Season of Monstrous Conceptions

By: Lina Rather

3.70

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

Lina Rather's A Season of Monstrous Conceptions is an eldritch historical fantasy of midwifery, mon… read more

Similar categories in Lina Rather's A Season of Monstrous Conceptions book and S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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21. The Sea in You

By: Jessi Sheron

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

15-year-old Corinth was just trying to clean up the beach; she never expected to meet a mermaid, le… read more

Similar categories in Jessi Sheron's The Sea in You book and S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • lgbt
  • fantasy
  • queer
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22. My Fair Brady

By: Brian D. Kennedy

4.00

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

My Fair Lady meets the classic teen film She's All That in this charming and swoony new rom-com fro… read more

Similar categories in Brian D. Kennedy's My Fair Brady book and S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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23. The Z Word

By: Lindsay King-Miller

3.48

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

“Sexy, scathing, delightful, and intimately devastating.”—Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay King-Miller's The Z Word book and S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of The Goth House Experiment by S.J. Sindu

24. The Goth House Experiment

By: S.J. Sindu

3.56

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

An uncanny and electric story collection from SJ Sindu, Lambda Literary finalist and Publishing Tri… read more

Similar categories in S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment book and S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • audiobook
  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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25. Ponyboy

By: Eliot Duncan

3.64

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming. In t… read more

Similar categories in Eliot Duncan's Ponyboy book and S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • adult
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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26. The Album of Dr. Moreau

By: Daryl Gregory

3.99

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Daryl Gregory's The Album of Dr. Moreau combines the science fiction premise of the famous novel by… read more

Similar categories in Daryl Gregory's The Album of Dr. Moreau book and S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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27. Frankenstein

By: Junji Ito

4.01

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

The master of horror manga brings the world's greatest horror novel—Frankenstein—back to life. J… read more

Similar categories in Junji Ito's Frankenstein book and S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of No Edges: Swahili Stories by Sarah Coolidge

28. No Edges: Swahili Stories

By: Sarah Coolidge

3.87

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

Swahili is the future. The first collection of Swahili literature of its kind, No Edges: Swahili St… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Coolidge's No Edges: Swahili Stories book and S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
Cover of Beautiful Days: Stories by Zach  Williams

29. Beautiful Days: Stories

By: Zach Williams

3.61

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From New Yorker and Paris Review contributor and Wallace Stegner Fellow Zach Williams comes a stagg… read more

Similar categories in Zach Williams's Beautiful Days: Stories book and S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Unmothers by Leslie J. Anderson

30. The Unmothers

By: Leslie J. Anderson

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this emotionally raw and propulsive folk horror-mystery, a journalist goes to a small town and u… read more

Similar categories in Leslie J. Anderson's The Unmothers book and S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Bugsy & Other Stories by Rafael Frumkin

31. Bugsy & Other Stories

By: Rafael Frumkin

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A wildly imaginative story collection about sex, desire, queer identity, and the celebration of soc… read more

Similar categories in Rafael Frumkin's Bugsy & Other Stories book and S.J. Sindu's The Goth House Experiment

  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer

29 Best fiction books like The Goth House Experiment by S.J. Sindu

Transform Your Habits

Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle

3.94

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Stars in Your Eyes

Kacen Callender

3.80

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Dearborn

Ghassan Zeineddine

4.23

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Chlorine

Jade Song

3.72

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30 must-read fiction books like Allow Me to Introduce Myself by Onyi Nwabineli

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Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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A Broken People's Playlist

Chimeka Garricks

4.33

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América del Norte

Nicolás Medina Mora

3.90

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Chukwuebuka Ibeh

4.20

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