8 must-read horror books like Unspeakable: A Queer Gothic Anthology by Celine Frohn

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Unspeakable: A Queer Gothic Anthology

By: Celine Frohn

4.03

Format: None pages, None

Unspeakable contains eighteen Gothic tales with uncanny twists and characters that creep under your…

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1. The Gilda Stories

By: Jewelle L. Gómez , Jewelle Gomez

3.60

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

The winner of two Lambda Literary Awards (fiction and science fiction) The Gilda Storiesis a very A… read more

Similar categories in Jewelle L. Gómez's The Gilda Stories book and Celine Frohn's Unspeakable: A Queer Gothic Anthology

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer

2. Swordspoint (Riverside, #1)

By: Ellen Kushner

3.91

Format: 385 pages,

The classic forerunner to The Fall of the Kings now with three bonus stories. Hailed by critics as … read more

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3. Peter Darling

By: Austin Chant

4.06

Format: 310 pages, ebook

The Lost Boys say that Peter Pan went back to England because of Wendy Darling, but Wendy is just a… read more

Similar categories in Austin Chant's Peter Darling book and Celine Frohn's Unspeakable: A Queer Gothic Anthology

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"A bad idea, he reflected, was better than no idea at all."

-Austin Chant, Peter Darling

"What was the point of being himself if he had to be alone?"

-Austin Chant, Peter Darling

"I always thought the only way to grow up was to be… her. I don't know what to do as me."

-Austin Chant, Peter Darling

"Thats the trick of growing up. Nothing stays the same." Hook sounded oddly sympathetic. "You see the faults in everything. Including yourself."

-Austin Chant, Peter Darling

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4. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

By: Malka Ann Older

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to the … read more

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  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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5. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

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  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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6. Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)

By: Nghi Vo

4.03

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorio… read more

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  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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7. 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 Celine Frohn's Unspeakable: A Queer Gothic Anthology

  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror by David T. Neal

8. The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror

By: David T. Neal

3.75

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror is a collection of nine short stories that h… read more

Similar categories in David T. Neal's The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror book and Celine Frohn's Unspeakable: A Queer Gothic Anthology

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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9. The Winter Duke

By: Claire Eliza Bartlett

3.52

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

An enchanted tale of intrigue where a duke's daughter is the only survivor of a magical curse. W… read more

Similar categories in Claire Eliza Bartlett's The Winter Duke book and Celine Frohn's Unspeakable: A Queer Gothic Anthology

  • queer
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Sometimes you must be brutal and unforgiving even to people you once considered friends"

-Claire Eliza Bartlett, The Winter Duke

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10. Thousand Autumns: Qian Qiu (Novel) Vol. 1

By: Meng Xi Shi

4.16

Format: 396 pages, Paperback

Shen Qiao is a devout Daoist priest who has spent his life honing his skills and spirit, leading hi… read more

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  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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11. Bitterthorn

By: Kat Dunn

3.92

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Blumwald is a town overshadowed by an ancient curse: in a sinister castle in the depths of the wild… read more

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  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"She was lost to me in a hundred little griefs I found anew each year"

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

"Loneliness can be something other people do to us, and something we do to ourselves."

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

"The hurtful truth of death was that it was as mundane as a meal uneaten, a cup knocked over."

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

"My mother was tidied away into her grave and my stepmother unpacked her things into her place. I found myself far from home without having travelled a metre."

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

Cover of Thousand Autumns: Qian Qiu (Novel) Vol. 2 by Meng Xi Shi

12. Thousand Autumns: Qian Qiu (Novel) Vol. 2

By: Meng Xi Shi

4.37

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A PAWN IN GRANDER GAMES As emperors, generals, and kings vie for dominance, martial sects mount… read more

Similar categories in Meng Xi Shi's Thousand Autumns: Qian Qiu (Novel) Vol. 2 book and Celine Frohn's Unspeakable: A Queer Gothic Anthology

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"The affairs of the past are like the waters flowing by: they cannot be returned."

-Meng Xi Shi, Thousand Autumns: Qian Qiu (Novel) Vol. 2

"For the ideals I pursue within my heart, I'd not regret a thousand deaths to die."

-Meng Xi Shi, Thousand Autumns: Qian Qiu (Novel) Vol. 2

"There are certain things in this world that a person must do, even if they know it's impossible."

-Meng Xi Shi, Thousand Autumns: Qian Qiu (Novel) Vol. 2

"To know the world, one must first know themselves. Then they must forget themselves. Once they forgot both the world and themselves, never again would they be moved by worldy gains and losses."

-Meng Xi Shi, Thousand Autumns: Qian Qiu (Novel) Vol. 2

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13. An Education in Malice

By: S.T. Gibson

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Sumptuous and addictive, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insat… read more

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's An Education in Malice book and Celine Frohn's Unspeakable: A Queer Gothic Anthology

  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Right and Wrong don't exist. They're fairy tales made up by priests and parents"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"I wasn't in the habit of confessing my sapphic proclivities as a sin, since I didn't consider them to be one, but my idolatry of Carmilla definitely counted as something worth confessing."

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"She kissed me with a martyr’s agonized desperation, like I was the only sword she ever wanted to fall on. I kissed her right back like the cutting edge of a blade, trying to inflict as much damage as…"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

"I was, I knew full well, a creature composed of strange desires. They'd always been with me, these hungers. As a child I played villain in every game of 'capture the princess,' tying my pretty playma…"

-S.T. Gibson, An Education in Malice

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14. And Then I Woke Up

By: Malcolm Devlin

3.48

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

In the tradition of Mira Grant and Stephen Graham Jones, Malcolm Devlin’s And Then I Woke Up is a c… read more

Similar categories in Malcolm Devlin's And Then I Woke Up book and Celine Frohn's Unspeakable: A Queer Gothic Anthology

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"We were monsters once, and although we are not anymore, we know we remain unforgiven."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

". . . it’s those differences — even the smallest and most trivial — that scare us the most."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

"Relationships aren't scientific, they're not mathematical. They're chaotic, abstract, irrational."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

"Macey once told me that the worst way a story can end is by someone waking up and realising everything that happened was only a dream."

-Malcolm Devlin, And Then I Woke Up

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15. High Times in the Low Parliament

By: Kelly Robson

3.23

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Kelly Robson is back with fairies, scribes, and many many kisses in High Times in the Low Parliamen… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Robson's High Times in the Low Parliament book and Celine Frohn's Unspeakable: A Queer Gothic Anthology

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc

16. Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

By: Amanda Leduc

4.09

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

In fairy tales, happy endings are the norm—as long as you're beautiful and walk on two legs. After … read more

Similar categories in Amanda Leduc's Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space book and Celine Frohn's Unspeakable: A Queer Gothic Anthology

  • adult
"...I am struck by how these pitiers unknowingly give voice to the deepest of truths: they cannot imagine this kind of life."

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

" It's so good of you to love them. The Beast, Shrek, the Ugly Duckling and eventual swan. The woman in the wheel chair, the main who wears the mask. I could never do that. And if you do it, that mean…"

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

"Most importantly, it's a message that assumes absolute and unrealistic able-bodiedness. No one with glasses. No crutches, no wheelchairs, no visible differences from girl to girl apart from the colou…"

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

"If society is used to not seeing disabled people in stories, society becomes used to not seeing disabled people in real life. If society is used to not seeing disabled people in real life, society wi…"

-Amanda Leduc, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

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17. Burning Roses (Hunting Monsters, #3)

By: S.L. Huang

3.70

Format: 156 pages, Hardcover

When Rosa (aka Red Riding Hood) and Hou Yi the Archer join forces to stop the deadly sunbirds from … read more

Similar categories in S.L. Huang's Burning Roses (Hunting Monsters, #3) book and Celine Frohn's Unspeakable: A Queer Gothic Anthology

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5) by Juno  Dawson

18. Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5)

By: Juno Dawson

3.76

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The next enchanting instalment of the sensational #1 SUNDAY TIMES bestselling HER MAJESTY’S ROYAL C… read more

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  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Unspeakable: A Queer Gothic Anthology by Celine Frohn

19. Unspeakable: A Queer Gothic Anthology

By: Celine Frohn

4.03

Format: None pages, None

Unspeakable contains eighteen Gothic tales with uncanny twists and characters that creep under your… read more

Similar categories in Celine Frohn's Unspeakable: A Queer Gothic Anthology book and Celine Frohn's Unspeakable: A Queer Gothic Anthology

  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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20. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Private Rites book and Celine Frohn's Unspeakable: A Queer Gothic Anthology

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

Cover of The Unwanted Guest (The Locked Tomb, #3.5) by Tamsyn Muir

21. The Unwanted Guest (The Locked Tomb, #3.5)

By: Tamsyn Muir

4.63

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Palamedes Sextus and Ianthe Tridentarius match wits on a dreamlike battlefield. read more

Similar categories in Tamsyn Muir's The Unwanted Guest (The Locked Tomb, #3.5) book and Celine Frohn's Unspeakable: A Queer Gothic Anthology

  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer

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The Gilda Stories

Jewelle L. Gómez , Jewelle Gomez

3.60

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4.06

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Malka Ann Older

4.01

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4.24

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Joe Vallese

4.18

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4.09

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