Gay ghost books
It is already late October, and splashed all across social media are carefully curated pictures of fall: heated coffee, cozy sweaters, and twinkling fairy lights. But it’s also the time to get into good ol’ fashioned spooky Halloween mode &#; be it binging on all the artsy A24 horror movies or getting ready to slip into an ingeniously crafted (or should we declare, crafty!) costume. While us desis aren’t big on celebrating Halloween per tradition (and often create space for Diwali instead), it never hurts to curl up with a wonderfully spooky guide on an autumn night and lose yourself to it. In this listicle, I bring to you 7 horror fiction books that are written by, or centre on, queer people and their experiences with the supernatural and the uncanny.
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
To prove himself as a worthy brujo (practitioner of magic) to his Latinx family, Yadriel performs a complex ritual in the hope of contacting and releasing the spirit of his murdered cousin. However, the ghost he summons is actually Julian Diaz, the school’s resident bad boy, and Julian is
Queer Ghost Stories for Halloween
It&#;s spooky season, so we picked out six books featuring ghosts and hauntings to share from our LGBTQ+ library. These books will be in our window display through the end of October , so come by and check one out! Our LGBTQ+ library features over queer-authored or queer-subject books.
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An Honest Ghost
A novel by Rick Whitaker
Rick Whitaker&#;s debut novel, An Sincere Ghost, consists entirely of sentences appropriated from over books. Whitaker limited himself to using words per book (in accordance with Fair Use); never taking two sentences together; and never making any changes, even to punctuation. An index includes all attributions. The experience of acknowledging each sentence as literary artifact, combined with the imagined accretion of books that built An Truthful Ghost, deftly mirrors the burgeoning nostalgia in the narrator’s voice and, most fittingly, in the alert reader’s heart.
A Wild Sea
By Rebecca Montague
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I have a gentle spot for ghosts. I see them as a re-emergence of that which has been repressed, their hauntings as a return of the past, either in quiet encroaching or in vicious invasion into the present. So restored, the exiled can be either re-integrated or banished, suppressed again. It can also, as it sometimes happens with queer things, and the word itself, be reclaimed. My relationship with the idea of reclaiming is somewhat uneasy because, at least on the surface, it rests on a history of violence that becomes definitionally inescapable: to recast something as benign or even empowering, you first need to contain been abused with it. The reclamation is a disarming, a transfer of the weapon from the hands of the oppressor into the hands of the oppressed, where it can, hopefully, be put to better use. The idea is enticing, if vaguely alarming. Ghosts function similarly in making the invisible visible; holding on to the violence done to them, they gravity a reckoning.
Domestic violence, especially in lgbtq+ relationships, has been historically such an invisible thing—threatening,
I’m continuing the Halloween theme this month by recommending some queer books about ghosts—but that doesn’t necessarily mean horror. I’m fascinated by the way ghosts can be used in stories to mean all sorts of things. There are the usual hauntings, but ghosts don’t own to be the thing that goes bump in the night. They can be the hero of the story or even the love interest. (Looking at you, Cemetery Boys.)
So, for this round-up of queer ghost stories, I tried to represent a range of ghosts. We have a ghost main character, controlling ghosts, a ghost co-worker, a ghost sanctuary, ghost animals, and ghosts as grief.
If you were hoping for queer horror books with vengeful spirits, though, we have lots more lists of queer horror. Inspect out these queer haunted horror novels, haunted home books, YA horror, gothics, and more. In the meantime, here are seven queer ghost stories about ghosts of all kinds. (Okay, “ghost” has officially lost all meaning.)
Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens
Four hundred years ago, Blanca died at fourteen years old after a doomed love affair