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Queer body horror:

Unique Book Recommendations

Here are a few unique books that you might love, featuring:

  1. Herculine by Grace Byron: an all Trans girls commune haunted by demons.
  2. The Reformatory by Tanarive Due: a segregated reform school and the evil inside.
  3. Wife Shaped Bodies by Laura Cranehill: the trad wives are sprouting mushrooms.
  4. A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft: a dark academia quest for a magic spring.
  5. Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell: a new world where all the white people have disappeared.
  6. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones: A Blackfeet vampire seeking vengeance.
  7. The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling: a medieval castle under siege and the cannibalistic fever dream that unfolds inside.
  8. What We Feed to the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri: a collection of compelling short stories all told from the perspectives of animals.
  9. After Love by Tanya Byrne: a fantastical lesbian love story that literally transcends death itself.
  10. Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris: a grief-stricken Indigenous artist who arrives at a cabin in a remote, swampy forest, before strange things start to happen.
  11. Fate's Bane by CL Clark: sword-wielding, star-crossed lovers from rival clans, inspired by Celtic folklore.
  12. As Many Souls as Stars by Natasha Siegel: a Faustian Bargain between a witch and a demon, and their game of cat-and-mouse that spans multiple lifetimes.
  13. A Feast for the Eyes by Alex Crespo: four teenagers hunting the local cryptid that feeds on secrets.
  14. They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran: a red algae bloom causes strange mutations in a small Louisiana town.
  15. The Seep by Chana Porter: a parasitic alien invasion that creates a strange utopia, and one woman's quest to stop its spread.
  16. The Gloaming by Kirsty Logan: a hungry sea, a family beset by grief, and a strange woman who climbs up from the water.

Happy reading!

Review: Hungerstone by Kat Dunn

I’ve always had the perhaps unpopular literary opinion that Le Fanu’s Carmilla beats Stoker’s Dracula by a country mile, and it’s not just because I like to see women get what they want. Written 25 years before Dracula, Carmilla is short, with an economy of language that makes the entire story feel like a single feverish dream. Both were written during an era of incredible social change and wrestled with ideas about modernity, class, and social order, feminine sexual agency, and moral purity.

Carmilla's arrival is a threat to the patriarchal status quo and to the carefully curated sterility of Lenore's life -- but this danger is ultimately imperative for Lenore's survival and liberation. The tone and pacing don't recreate but imply the original novel's sensory experience, enriching the narrative with a deep exploration of desire.