6 best-selling queer books like The Nightmare Box and Other Stories by Cynthia Gómez

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The Nightmare Box and Other Stories

By: Cynthia Gómez

4.22

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

A young queer man finds love at a magical clothing shop—and the courage to stand up to the homophob…

If you liked the queer plot in The Nightmare Box and Other Stories by Cynthia Gómez , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar

1. The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain

By: Sofia Samatar

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Celebrated author Sofia Samatar presents a mystical, revolutionary space adventure for the exhauste… read more

Similar categories in Sofia Samatar's The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain book and Cynthia Gómez's The Nightmare Box and Other Stories

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fiction
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2. 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 Cynthia Gómez's The Nightmare Box and Other Stories

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

-Lee Mandelo, The Woods All Black

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3. 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

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and Cynthia Gómez's The Nightmare Box and Other Stories

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • horror
"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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4. The Night Guest

By: Hildur Knútsdóttir

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Hildur Knutsdottir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík … read more

Similar categories in Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest book and Cynthia Gómez's The Nightmare Box and Other Stories

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

By: Ananda Lima

3.52

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more

Similar categories in Ananda Lima's Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil book and Cynthia Gómez's The Nightmare Box and Other Stories

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
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6. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

Similar categories in Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part book and Cynthia Gómez's The Nightmare Box and Other Stories

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. American Rapture

By: C.J. Leede

4.51

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A virus is spreading across America, transforming the infected and making them feral with lust. Sop… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Leede's American Rapture book and Cynthia Gómez's The Nightmare Box and Other Stories

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. Compound Fracture

By: Andrew Joseph White

4.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White returns with a queer Appalachian thriller,… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's Compound Fracture book and Cynthia Gómez's The Nightmare Box and Other Stories

  • queer
  • fiction
  • horror
"There's a whole spectrum of reactions to coming out. Getting kicked out is one extreme–being accepted wholeheartedly is the other. But in the middle, there's this. The awkwardness, the refusals to ac…"

-Andrew Joseph White, Compound Fracture

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9. 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

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's I Was a Teenage Slasher book and Cynthia Gómez's The Nightmare Box and Other Stories

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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10. Evil in Me

By: Brom

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Evil in Me is bestselling author Brom's newest novel of possession, damnation, and rock-n-roll wher… read more

Similar categories in Brom's Evil in Me book and Cynthia Gómez's The Nightmare Box and Other Stories

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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11. 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

Similar categories in Gabino Iglesias's House of Bone and Rain book and Cynthia Gómez's The Nightmare Box and Other Stories

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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12. 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 Cynthia Gómez's The Nightmare Box and Other Stories

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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13. Planes Flying over a Monster: Essays

By: Daniel Saldaña París

3.54

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From one of Mexico’s most exciting young writers, a cosmopolitan and candid essay collection explor… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Saldaña París's Planes Flying over a Monster: Essays book and Cynthia Gómez's The Nightmare Box and Other Stories

"Tengo, más bien, una biblioteca fantasma: el recuerdo de los libros que podrían pertenecerme si los hubiera conservado."

-Daniel Saldaña París, Planes Flying over a Monster: Essays

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14. Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1)

By: Nathan Ballingrud

4.18

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Crypt of the Moon Spider is a dark and dreamy tale of horror, corruption, and identity spun into th… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) book and Cynthia Gómez's The Nightmare Box and Other Stories

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. Haunt Sweet Home

By: Sarah Pinsker

3.47

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

On the set of a kitschy reality TV show, staged scares transform into unnerving reality in this spo… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Pinsker's Haunt Sweet Home book and Cynthia Gómez's The Nightmare Box and Other Stories

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. Coup de Grâce

By: Sofia Ajram

3.94

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A mindbending and visceral experimental horror about a young man trapped in an infinite Montreal su… read more

Similar categories in Sofia Ajram's Coup de Grâce book and Cynthia Gómez's The Nightmare Box and Other Stories

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. 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

Similar categories in Danger Slater's Starlet book and Cynthia Gómez's The Nightmare Box and Other Stories

  • fiction
  • horror
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18. The Nightmare Box and Other Stories

By: Cynthia Gómez

4.22

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

A young queer man finds love at a magical clothing shop—and the courage to stand up to the homophob… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Gómez's The Nightmare Box and Other Stories book and Cynthia Gómez's The Nightmare Box and Other Stories

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister

19. The Bog Wife

By: Kay Chronister

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this atmospheric Appalachian gothic, the Haddesley siblings of West Virginia must unearth long-b… read more

Similar categories in Kay Chronister's The Bog Wife book and Cynthia Gómez's The Nightmare Box and Other Stories

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. Model Home

By: Rivers Solomon

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel. The… read more

Similar categories in Rivers Solomon's Model Home book and Cynthia Gómez's The Nightmare Box and Other Stories

  • adult
  • queer
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Hampton Heights: One Harrowing Night in the Most Haunted Neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by Dan Kois

21. Hampton Heights: One Harrowing Night in the Most Haunted Neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

By: Dan Kois

3.52

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

From the author of the Washington Post notable novel Vintage Contemporaries, something completely … read more

Similar categories in Dan Kois's Hampton Heights: One Harrowing Night in the Most Haunted Neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin book and Cynthia Gómez's The Nightmare Box and Other Stories

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror

20 Best fiction books like The Nightmare Box and Other Stories by Cynthia Gómez

Transform Your Habits

The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain

Sofia Samatar

3.94

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Lee Mandelo

3.81

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Chuck Tingle

4.29

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Hildur Knútsdóttir

3.67

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Cristina Rivera Garza

4.35

Transform Your Habits

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Elisa Gabbert

3.97

Transform Your Habits

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Annalee Newitz

3.99

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3.54

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