25 Recommended LGBTQ+ Horror Books

It’s June and Pride Month is here!

Pride Month is about celebrating and bringing visibility to LGBTQ+ people and recognising their contributions to LGBTQ+ rights and history. In publishing, LGBTQ+ books and stories were often overlooked due to censorship and lack of commercial backing. But representation matters to readers, and today we can see more visibility and acclaim for books with LGBTQ+ characters and themes. It’s important that the publishing industry takes steps to be more inclusive, which will hopefully reflect in the public’s reading choices as well.

So in celebration of Pride, I’ve compiled a list of horror books featuring LGBTQ+ characters. Enjoy!

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Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims
White Is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Cabin at The End of The World by Paul Tremblay
Into The Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
The Fear by Spencer Hamilton
Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite
The Moore House by Tony Tremblay
House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

Hollow Bones by B. Narr
Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo
The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez
Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

The Drowning Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
Rules For Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall
Wranglestone by Darren Charlton
Osgood As Gone by Cooper S. Beckett

Sacrament by Clive Barker
The Dead and The Dark by Courtney Gold
The Bright Lands by John Fram
The Worm and His Kings by Hailey Piper
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Have you read these books? Let me know what you think in the comments below!

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