6 must-read short stories books like Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers! by Justin Hall

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Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers!

By: Justin Hall

3.73

Format: 276 pages, ebook

ENTER THE THEATER OF TERROR! Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers showcases a remarkable co…

If you liked the short stories plot in Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers! by Justin Hall , here is a list of 6 books like this:

1. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

By: Olivia Laing

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

An expertly crafted work of reportage, memoir and biography on the subject of loneliness told throu… read more

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2. Through the Woods

By: Emily Carroll

3.94

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

'It came from the woods. Most strange things do.' Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • short stories
  • comics
  • horror
"you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time... but the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once."

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

"Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time... But the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to …"

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

"But the worst kind of monster was the BURROWING KIND. The sort that crawled into you and made a home there. The sort you couldn't name, the sort you couldn't see. The monster that ate you alive from …"

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

"I married my love in the springtime, but by summer he'd locked me away. He'd murdered me dead by the autumn, & by winter I was naught but decay. It's cold where I am and so lonely, but in loneliness …"

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

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3. Gwendy's Magic Feather (The Button Box, #2)

By: Richard Chizmar

3.78

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

Something evil has swept into the small western Maine town of Castle Rock on the heels of the lates… read more

Similar categories in Richard Chizmar's Gwendy's Magic Feather (The Button Box, #2) book and Justin Hall's Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers!

  • horror
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4. 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

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  • horror
  • queer
  • lgbt
"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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5. Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.07

Format: 457 pages, Hardcover

Jade returns to the rural lake town of Proofrock the same day as convicted Indigenous serial killer… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2) book and Justin Hall's Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers!

  • horror
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6. A Scatter of Light

By: Malinda Lo

3.87

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Malinda Lo returns to the Bay Area with another masterful coming-of-queer-age … read more

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  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
"This is what I’ve learned: The art is greater than you and your feelings. You have to serve it. It is not you. Some people will never understand that, but you need to surround yourself with people wh…"

-Malinda Lo, A Scatter of Light

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7. Looking Glass Sound

By: Catriona Ward

3.49

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Looking Glass Sound is the newest twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, the interna… read more

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  • horror
"Potatoes make everything okay."

-Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

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8. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

By: Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"

-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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9. Carcoma

By: Layla Martínez

4.17

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Todas las casas guardan la historia de quienes las han habitado. Las paredes de esta casa perdida e… read more

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  • horror
"Solo había tenido un hombre, pero ya había sido suficiente. Cuando una está sola y es pobre no puede permitirse aprender la misma lección dos veces, esto también lo sabemos bien en esta casa."

-Layla Martínez, Carcoma

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10. The Liminal Zone (Junji Ito)

By: Junji Ito

3.98

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

What destiny awaits them after the screaming? After abruptly departing from a train in a small t… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • short stories
  • horror
  • comics
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11. Deserter

By: Junji Ito

3.99

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

AN EVER-INCREASING MALICE. A MIND-NUMBING TERROR. SEE THE SEEDS OF HORROR SOWN IN THIS COLLECTION O… read more

Similar categories in Junji Ito's Deserter book and Justin Hall's Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers!

  • graphic novels
  • short stories
  • horror
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12. Remina

By: Junji Ito

3.70

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

I MET REMINA'S EYE. An unknown planet emerges from inside a wormhole, and its discoverer, Dr. Og… read more

Similar categories in Junji Ito's Remina book and Justin Hall's Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers!

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • horror
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13. Bingo Love

By: Tee Franklin

3.93

Format: 92 pages, ebook

Bingo Love is a story of a same-sex romance that spans over 60 years. A chance meeting at church bi… read more

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  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • queer
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14. I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

By: Lucy Sante

3.70

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

“Reading this book is a joy... much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a st… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"(Although it is extremely exciting to have tits.)"

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

"I wanted to so badly to be a woman that I could not really understand anyone wanting anything else"

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

"It appeared that transitioning did not involve piling on additional stuff; rather it was a process of removal, dismantling the carapace of maleness that had kept me in its grip for so long."

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

"My secret poisoned my entire experience of life. There was never a moment when I didn't feel the acute shame of being me, even as I denied to myself that my secret had anything to do with it."

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

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15. Open Throat

By: Henry Hoke

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
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16. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

Similar categories in Justin Torres's Blackouts book and Justin Hall's Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers!

  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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17. Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H.

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

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18. On a Sunbeam

By: Tillie Walden

4.30

Format: 533 pages, Paperback

Throughout the deepest reaches of space, a crew rebuilds beautiful and broken-down structures, pain… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • queer
  • lgbt
"It's like the older you get the more you forget that you can change things."

-Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam

"I'm not dating the 12% of you that I understand, I'm dating 100% of you. Including all your secrets that I don't know."

-Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam

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19. The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.10

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious t… read more

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  • horror
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Bel's got a crush on NY1's Pat Kiernan, so he watches news every morning on the TV in the common area."

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"You said it yourself: New York is rude. We'll give you the shirt off our backs and our last subway card swipe if you're lost, but step to us with wild accusations about things that aren't our fault a…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"He twitches through Times Square, resisting the urge to gawk like a tourist, groaning in native-New-Yorker frustration when the tourists get in his way—but in an eyeblink he's at Fourteenth Street, h…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"He moves to stand on a nearby subway grate, through which he can hear a 1 train idling on the platform below. He spreads his hands to feel the gentle waft of warm, funky-smelling subway air along his…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

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20. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

By: Rachel Aviv

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more

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"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."

-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"

-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

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21. C'est comme ça que je disparais

By: Mirion Malle

4.32

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

« La première fois où j'ai eu le goût de mourir, j'avais genre euh 12 ans ? Mais ça compte pas, ça … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • lgbt
"Je suis vide, je ne ressens rien, juste du vide. Avoir le cœur brisé me manque. Être triste me manque."

-Mirion Malle, C'est comme ça que je disparais

"Je me sentais tellement vivante à ce moment-là, je crois. Maintenant, je ne me rappelle plus ce que ça fait d'être triste."

-Mirion Malle, C'est comme ça que je disparais

"Il continue sa vie, sans embûches, sans répercussions. Il m'a détruite et il a le droit de vivre une vie heureuse. Et moi, je suis brisée à tout jamais."

-Mirion Malle, C'est comme ça que je disparais

"J'aurais aimé... j'aurais tellement aimé profiter de ma vie. Profiter de ma vingtaine. Finir mon adolescence doucement. J'aurais voulu avoir ce droit-là."

-Mirion Malle, C'est comme ça que je disparais

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22. Quietly Hostile: Essays

By: Samantha Irby

3.70

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind… read more

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  • short stories
  • queer
  • lgbt
"[...] and my face is sore from smiling so hard in an effort to appear friendly and nonthreatening."

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I'm so embarrassed by everything all the time, humiliated even by the need to breathe air where other people can see me"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I want to push back against this idea that it's not real love if you're not passionately chattering at each other all the time, that it's just as valid (and romantic!) to know instinctively when to s…"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I lived in blissful solitude for a long time...and you learn a lot about yourself and what you require for life when it's just you that you have to think about...You can buy frozen fish sticks and ea…"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

Cover of Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon  Price

23. Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

By: Devon Price

4.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving in… read more

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  • queer
"Therapy that is focused on battling “irrational beliefs,"

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"Refusing to perform neurotypicality is a revolutionary act of disability justice. It's also a radical act of self-love."

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"Much of what we call maturity is a silly pantomime of independence and unfeeling, not a real quality of unbreakable strength."

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"We have to keep other people at arm's length, because letting them see our hyperfixations, meltdowns, obsessions, and outbursts could mean losing their respect. But locking ourselves away means we ca…"

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

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24. We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film

By: Tre’vell Anderson

4.44

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking look at the history of transgender representation in TV and film, by an of-the-mom… read more

Similar categories in Tre’vell Anderson's We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film book and Justin Hall's Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers!

  • queer
  • lgbt
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25. Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith

By: Grace Ellis

4.12

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith caught up in the longing … read more

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  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • queer
Cover of Friday, Book Two: On a Cold Winter's Night by Ed Brubaker

26. Friday, Book Two: On a Cold Winter's Night

By: Ed Brubaker

4.31

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

BOOK TWO is finally here! A young adult detective hero finally grows up in this second volume of th… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • horror
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27. The Call-Out

By: Cat Fitzpatrick

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A fast-paced, debut tragicomedy of manners written in verse about queer (mostly trans) women that i… read more

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  • queer lit
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Then Rod comes up, his glasses glistening. He doesn't remove them. He starts to sway. Is he high? - "Hello. Are you all listening? I'm glad so many of you are here today, Because as of now you're par…"

-Cat Fitzpatrick, The Call-Out

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28. Young Men in Love

By: Joe Glass

3.83

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Haphazard pirates, wayward ghosts, dashing knights, rampaging kaiju (and down-to-earth regular joes… read more

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  • gay
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • comics
  • queer
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29. No Filter and Other Lies

By: Crystal Maldonado

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

You should know, right now, that I'm a liar. They're usually little lies. Tiny lies. Baby lies… read more

Similar categories in Crystal Maldonado's No Filter and Other Lies book and Justin Hall's Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers!

  • queer
  • lgbt
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30. Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers!

By: Justin Hall

3.73

Format: 276 pages, ebook

ENTER THE THEATER OF TERROR! Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers showcases a remarkable co… read more

Similar categories in Justin Hall's Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers! book and Justin Hall's Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers!

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • anthologies
  • queer lit
  • short stories
  • comics
  • horror
  • queer
Cover of When I Came Out by Anne Mette Kærulf Lorentzen

31. When I Came Out

By: Anne Mette Kærulf Lorentzen

3.21

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A brave coming-out story of 40-something Louise, who, while married, realizes that she prefers wome… read more

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  • gay
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • queer

12 Top horror books like Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers! by Justin Hall

Transform Your Habits

Through the Woods

Emily Carroll

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Gwendy's Magic Feather (The Button Box, #2)

Richard Chizmar

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.07

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Transform Your Habits

Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score

Darwyn Cooke , Richard Stark

4.30

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Public Domain, Volume 1: Past Mistakes

Chip Zdarsky

3.94

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Do a Powerbomb!

Daniel Warren Johnson

4.52

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Jeff Lemire

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