15 best-selling queer books like Even the Worm Will Turn (The Worm and His Kings, #2) by Hailey Piper

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Even the Worm Will Turn (The Worm and His Kings, #2)

By: Hailey Piper

4.04

Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition

Four years after the events of The Worm and His Kings, Donna Ashton ekes out a life far removed fro…

If you liked the queer plot in Even the Worm Will Turn (The Worm and His Kings, #2) by Hailey Piper , here is a list of 15 books like this:

1. The Beauty

By: Aliya Whiteley

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Somewhere away from the cities and towns, a group of men and boys gather around the fire each night… read more

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2. Boys in the Valley

By: Philip Fracassi

4.18

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Her… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
" there is light all around me. There is light inside me. "

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"The sky is the color of stone, flat and hard in appearance, but brittle, as if it would crack like an eggshell - revealing black seams of the universe beyond - if struck hard enough. ."

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"We didn't hit it off like many others in similar situations....Instead, he and I sort of gravitated around each other, either friends nor foes, like the moons of a planet we had no interest in observ…"

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

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3. The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

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4. Everything the Darkness Eats

By: Eric LaRocca

2.78

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

An insidious darkness threatens to devastate a rural New England village when occult forces are co… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
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5. The Haunting of Velkwood

By: Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Bram Stoker Award­–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a chilling novel about three childhood… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • audiobook
"Because I'd prefer to live in a world with you in it."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"I understood something that Brett wouldn't admit - that we were talking about family. And family is the ultimate trap, it's something you carry with you for life; the people you come from and the mar…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"There were things that seemed so impossible when we were young, things I gave up on long ago even though they aren't impossible anymore. There's the world we lived in then and the world we live in no…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"It's always startling to see her... the way looks like a fever dream, like something not quite real. That valence of dark hair over her eyes, those lips always painted bright red as a pomegranate see…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

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6. 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

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • 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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7. A Botanical Daughter

By: Noah Medlock

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Mexican Gothic meets The Lie Tree by way of Oscar Wilde and Mary Shelley in this delightfully witty… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Grief can be a kind of exhaustion, after all."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"Gregor now knew in his soul that greatness came at a price, and true greatness is paid for by the hour."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"He had tried sculpting in other materials - in clay, marble, wood, and bronze - but corpses were the only medium that really sang under his fingers."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"Simon, what do you understand to be the nature of a soul?" he said suddenly. Simon was staring darkly into the endless distance. He didn't refocus his gaze to reply. "That part of us which cannot be …"

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

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8. The Remaking

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

3.24

Format: 305 pages, Paperback

Inspired by a true story, this supernatural thriller for fans of horror and true crime follows a ta… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"You men always try to tell our story. You men always get it wrong."

-Clay McLeod Chapman, The Remaking

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9. Crossroads

By: Laurel Hightower

3.91

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

How far would you go to bring back someone you love? When Chris's son dies in a tragic car cras… read more

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  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Exhausted, but not tired enough to escape the torturous loop of pain that awaited her inactive brain..."

-Laurel Hightower, Crossroads

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10. Along the River of Flesh (Gone to See the River Man, #2)

By: Kristopher Triana

3.96

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

Having escaped from prison, serial killer Edmund Cox returns to his hometown of Killen. Entering th… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
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11. The Beast You Are: Stories

By: Paul Tremblay

3.34

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of  The Pallbearers Club ,  A He… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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12. The Scourge Between Stars

By: Ness Brown

3.59

Format: 165 pages, Paperback

Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars is a tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a … read more

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  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Day of the Door

By: Laurel Hightower

4.13

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Once there were four Lasco siblings banded together against a world that failed to protect them. Bu… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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14. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

By: Eric LaRocca

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A brand-new collection of four intense, claustrophobic and terrifying horror tales from the Bram St… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
"The worst thing a person can do to you after they've hurt you is let you live."

-Eric LaRocca, This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances

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16. Heart, Haunt, Havoc (The Gideon Testaments, #1)

By: Freydís Moon

3.74

Format: 156 pages, Kindle Edition

Laced with romance, gothic imagery, Catholic mysticism, diaspora, and horror… When lonely transg… read more

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  • lgbt
  • novella
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Abandonment. Unfinished business. There was always something or someone that caused a house to want, to ache, to make itself known. There was always a reason for anger and lust and becoming lonesome"

-Freydís Moon, Heart, Haunt, Havoc (The Gideon Testaments, #1)

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17. Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies

By: John Langan

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A family’s Halloween haunted house becomes a conduit to something ancient and uncanny; a young man’… read more

Similar categories in John Langan's Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies book and Hailey Piper's Even the Worm Will Turn (The Worm and His Kings, #2)

  • lovecraftian
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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18. They Were Here Before Us: A Novella in Pieces

By: Eric LaRocca

3.59

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the viral sensation Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke comes They Were… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
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19. The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1)

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.66

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling authors Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey have teamed up to deliver a dark new story wi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Julie felt its hunger ripple eover her, listened: It was waiting for the city to die. It would wait forever. It did not need this to come to pass now. It was used to waiting. It knew, in the way of g…"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1)

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20. 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

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  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • 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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21. House of Rot

By: Danger Slater

3.78

Format: 125 pages, Kindle Edition

The pink mold growing on the walls isn’t the worst thing about Elenya and Myles’ brand new fixer up… read more

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  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
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22. 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

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • 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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23. The Bayou

By: Arden Powell

4.03

Format: 149 pages, Kindle Edition

"Eugene didn’t know if he believed in the devil beyond the wicked things people did of their own ac… read more

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  • lgbt
  • novella
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror by Sofia Ajram

24. Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror

By: Sofia Ajram

4.09

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

A manifestation of ecstasy, heartache, horror and suffering rendered in feverish lyrical prose. Ins… read more

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  • horror
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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25. Even the Worm Will Turn (The Worm and His Kings, #2)

By: Hailey Piper

4.04

Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition

Four years after the events of The Worm and His Kings, Donna Ashton ekes out a life far removed fro… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • lovecraftian
  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
  • queer
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26. I Was a Teenage Slasher

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.68

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story wi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
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27. Sleep Alone

By: J.A.W. McCarthy

3.83

Format: 135 pages, Kindle Edition

For the past six years, Ronnie has worked selling merch for a perpetually touring band. Late nights… read more

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  • lgbt
  • novella
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
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28. House of Bone and Rain

By: Gabino Iglesias

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the latest from Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE DEVIL TAKES YOU HOME… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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29. Cuckoo

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • audiobook
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30. Starlet

By: Danger Slater

4.47

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

FAME. FORTUNE. JELLYFISH. When an aspiring young actress accepts an invite to a fading A-lister'… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror

27 Best fiction books like Even the Worm Will Turn (The Worm and His Kings, #2) by Hailey Piper

Transform Your Habits

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Philip Fracassi

4.18

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The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

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Eric LaRocca

2.78

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4.00

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Martha Wells

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