9 best-selling short stories books like Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying by Steve Berman

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Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying

By: Steve Berman

3.78

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In Berman's newest short story collection, the phrase "you are what you eat" is taken to heart; the…

If you liked the short stories plot in Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying by Steve Berman , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Drawing Blood

By: Poppy Z. Brite

3.44

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

Escaping from his North Carolina home after his father murders their family and commits suicide, Tr… read more

Similar categories in Poppy Z. Brite's Drawing Blood book and Steve Berman's Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying

  • horror
  • fiction
  • lgbt

2. The Girl Next Door

By: Jack Ketchum

3.76

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Suburbia. Shady, tree-lined streets, well-tended lawns and cozy homes. A nice, quiet place to grow … read more

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3. 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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  • 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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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
  • fiction
  • 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. Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell

By: Nathan Ballingrud

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A gripping collection of six stories of terror—including the novella “The Visible Filth,” the basis… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell book and Steve Berman's Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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6. Beneath a Pale Sky

By: Philip Fracassi

4.19

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Beneath a Pale Sky collects eight stories of horror, including two original novelettes, that will t… read more

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's Beneath a Pale Sky book and Steve Berman's Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • horror
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7. Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives

By: Adam Cesare

3.87

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Set a year after the first book, it looks at how the surviving characters are dealing with fame and… read more

Similar categories in Adam Cesare's Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives book and Steve Berman's Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying

  • horror
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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8. I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.44

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our he… read more

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World book and Steve Berman's Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying

  • lgbt
"When you live in a community of queers, anarchists, & activists, crisis is the baseline and stability an outlier."

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"Models of justice that centre punishment do not prevent abuse but only react to it, and they don't offer a pathway toward healing for either perpetrators or survivors. Nor do they acknowledge the dua…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"That in a loving place, I am able to hear a friend disagree with me and know that they still care for me. That I can receive their advice and know that I don't have to follow it. That there is enough…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"Transition is a fundamental right that all trans people, of all ages, should have access to. But I believe that transition, ideally, should be offered to us as one option of many for bodily autonomy …"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

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9. Fluids

By: May Leitz

3.43

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

A woman, desperate for companionship. Another woman desperate for acceptance. Love and obsession qu… read more

Similar categories in May Leitz's Fluids book and Steve Berman's Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying

  • horror
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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10. Manhunt

By: Gretchen Felker-Martin

3.54

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Y: The Last Man meets The Girl With All the Gifts in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt, an explosive… read more

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  • horror
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"It was actually good that the world had ended, because now no one could make her play Settlers of Catan."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"Later, she thought, in a moment of terrible clarity, each of us will tell herself the other was the one who pulled the trigger."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"But I think mostly I just wanted her to … make me real, the way you’re real when the beautiful people look at you, and talk to you, and let you fuck them."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"He pressed a kiss to the crown of her head and she let him hold her close among the falling leaves and relished the illusion that, if only for a little while, she was safe."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

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11. 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

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's They Were Here Before Us: A Novella in Pieces book and Steve Berman's Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying

  • horror
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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12. The Night Stockers

By: Kristopher Triana

3.82

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

The employees of the Freshway grocery store aren’t too happy about having to do an overnight shift,… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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13. The Book of Queer Saints: Volume I

By: Mae Murray

4.00

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

The Book of Queer Saints Volume I returns in this revised and updated collector's edition, featurin… read more

Similar categories in Mae Murray's The Book of Queer Saints: Volume I book and Steve Berman's Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying

  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. Inside Out

By: Lor Gislason

3.88

Format: None pages, ebook

INSIDE OUT is an over-the-top tribute to the goopy, grimy and gross horror of the 1980s. After a my… read more

Similar categories in Lor Gislason's Inside Out book and Steve Berman's Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying

  • fiction
  • horror
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15. What I Want To Talk About: How Autistic Interests Shape A Life

By: Pete Wharmby

4.45

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

This book isn't a memoir. It is a love letter to the phenomenon of autistic hyperfixation.' In W… read more

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16. Convulsive

By: Joe Koch

4.35

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

New museums birth atrocity in every flex: fifteen horror stories of religion, abuse, desire, and ge… read more

Similar categories in Joe Koch's Convulsive book and Steve Berman's Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying

  • horror
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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17. American Scholar

By: Patrick E. Horrigan

3.92

Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition

James Fitzgerald likes his life the way it is. He has a stable academic career teaching American li… read more

Similar categories in Patrick E. Horrigan's American Scholar book and Steve Berman's Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying

  • fiction
  • lgbt
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18. Next of Kin

By: Elton Skelter

4.57

Format: 159 pages, Kindle Edition

Even the worst of us need someone to come home to. And Jacob Mallory is the worst of all. Jake, a t… read more

Similar categories in Elton Skelter's Next of Kin book and Steve Berman's Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying

  • horror
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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19. Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying

By: Steve Berman

3.78

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In Berman's newest short story collection, the phrase "you are what you eat" is taken to heart; the… read more

Similar categories in Steve Berman's Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying book and Steve Berman's Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying

  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. ROTGUT (ROTGUTVERSE)

By: H.S. Wolfe

3.86

Format: 79 pages, Kindle Edition

All I want to do is play drums in Cluster Headache, but I can’t even get that right. Between my on-… read more

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  • horror
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21. One Man's Trash

By: Ryan Vance

4.67

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

A thoroughly postmodern monster finds kinship in mutability and endurance. A restaurant critic meet… read more

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22. Lost in the Archives

By: E. Saxey

4.50

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

Stories as historical oddities, some set in parallel pasts, and others are excursions into the daun… read more

Similar categories in E. Saxey's Lost in the Archives book and Steve Berman's Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying

  • short stories
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23. Invaginies

By: Joe Koch

4.25

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

The Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author returns with a new collection of literary horror and wei… read more

Similar categories in Joe Koch's Invaginies book and Steve Berman's Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying

  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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24. Noose

By: Brennan LaFaro

4.26

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

It's been fifteen years since Noose Holcomb perpetrated the Buzzard's Edge Train Robbery of 1872, l… read more

Similar categories in Brennan LaFaro's Noose book and Steve Berman's Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying

  • horror
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25. A Voice Calling

By: Christopher Barzak

3.93

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

But is the house truly haunted? Of course the house is haunted. Button House has stood for gene… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Barzak's A Voice Calling book and Steve Berman's Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying

  • horror
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26. Bazumel

By: Chris Bonner

4.71

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Elijah is a shepherd on the verge of blindness. Like everyone else, he's heard rumors of a man trav… read more

Similar categories in Chris Bonner's Bazumel book and Steve Berman's Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying

  • horror
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27. Changes in the Land

By: Matthew Cheney

4.20

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

The cycle of life is the cycle of death. In life is our death, in death our life. In our life is th… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Cheney's Changes in the Land book and Steve Berman's Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying

  • horror
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28. Monstrous Alterations

By: Christopher Barzak

4.43

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

In this new collection from Shirley Jackson Award winning author Christopher Barzak, discover stori… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Barzak's Monstrous Alterations book and Steve Berman's Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying

  • horror
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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29. A Scout Is Brave

By: Will Ludwigsen

4.50

Format: 134 pages, Kindle Edition

In the summer of 1963, Bud Castillo moved with his family from busy Queens, NY, to the bleak town o… read more

Similar categories in Will Ludwigsen's A Scout Is Brave book and Steve Berman's Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying

  • horror
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30. Brute: Stories of Dark Desire, Masculinity, & Rough Trade

By: Berman Steve

4.20

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

What happens when we go looking for trouble? Delights or dismay? Many horror stories and films, as … read more

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