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Lesbian Horror Books by Title |
Here's a list of horror novels that have queer content in them. Books that are not overly 'horrific' but contain supernatural creatures in them may be listed in the Queer Vampire, Queer Werewolf or Queer Ghost books.
These are the items that have been found, a general description, and the general rating by the fans. (note: the ratings shows not only how good the story is, but also how well the horror or creatures are portrayed, and openly queer it is. A really good non-gay item might score very low).
This page focuses on all lesbian horror items.
For a page that shows all orientations, please go here
| Title | Author | Description | Year | Rating |
100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories  
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Robert Weinberg | The writers represented in this collection have imagined ingenious new means of vampire disposal, envisioned vampires interfacing with computers and piloting time machines, and even proposed more than a few reasons why people might want to be a vampire--or at least have one as a close friend. |
1995 | A |
Bending The Landscape : Horror 
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Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel | Volume II of the award-winning collection of gay and lesbian short fiction exploring the horror genre. |
2001 | A |
Chilling Tales of Terror and the Supernatural 
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Patty G. Henderson | A collection of GLBT horror 'flash fiction,' stories under 1000 words. |
2008 | A |
| Closet Monsters: Zombied Out and Tales of Gothrotica
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Daniel W. Kelly | Several short stories, including a surprising retelling of The Living Dead where gays and lesbians are the only ones to survive. |
2007 | B |
| Coldheart Canyon: A Hollywood Ghost Story
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Clive Barker | Film's most popular action hero needs a place to heal after surgery that has gone terribly wrong, and finds such a place in a luxurious, forgotten mansion. But the original owner of the mansion was a beautiful woman devoted to pleasure at any cost, and the terrible legacy of her deed has not yet died. There are ghosts and monsters haunting Coldheart Canyon, where nothing is forbidden. |
2001 | -- |
| Dark Angels: Lesbian Vampire Stories
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Pam Keesey | This collection of erotic tales contains original and previously published fiction. Classics such as 'The Vampire' by Cora Linn Daniels, and 'The Bloody Countess' by Alejandra Pizarnik. |
1995 | A |
| Darkest Thirst, The
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The thirst for immortality. The thirst for revenge. The thirst for redemption. The unquenchable thirst for dark desires. The darkest thirst... the thirst for blood. This book contains three queer vampire stories: 'On Line,' 'The Alberscine's Vigil' and 'Nocturne a Tre in B-Double-Sharp Minor' |
1998 | B | |
| Embracing the Dark
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Eric Garber | An anthology of eleven short stories of horror and dark fantasy, with gay men and lesbians at the center of these tales of ghosts, vampires, werewolves and spirits. |
1991 | -- |
| Fungus, The
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Harry Adam Knight | A lethal fungus attacks the citizen of London. |
1985 | -- |
| Gerald's Game
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Stephen King | Alone in their bedroom a couple is playing a game of trust and control. But when Jessie's husband handcuffs her to a bedpost, she lashes out--with deadly results. Now trapped, Jessie has to deal with her most terrifying nightmares. |
1992 | C+ |
| Haunting of Hill House, The
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Shirley Jackson | Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has unnerved readers since its original publication in 1959. A tale of subtle, psychological terror, it has earned its place as one of the significant haunted house stories of the ages. |
1959 | -- |
| Horror Reader, The
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Ken Gelder | Twenty-nine non-fiction essays and excerpts from previously published sources |
2000 | -- |
| Hot Blood XI: Fatal Attractions
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Jeff Gelb and Michael Garrett | Unleash your wildest passions. Surrender to forbidden cravings. Here are eighteen delectably unholy tales of terror that will lift you to the heights of passion... then send you spiraling into the sinister shadows of human nature. |
2003 | -- |
| Imps of the Perverse: Gay Monsters in Film
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Michael William Saunders | Hollywood movies often portray gay people as being in some sense monstrous. This volume focuses on several filmmakers who have used the trope of the homosexual as monster in a way that subverts traditional cinema. |
1998 | D- |
| Insomnia
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Stephen King | A man finds himself sleeping less and less and begins to suffer from hallucinations. Gradually he begins to be drawn into a supernatural struggle |
1994 | -- |
| Jade Unicorn, The
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Jay Halpern | A powerful group of Manhattan Satanists supernaturally unleash a monstrous demon. |
1979 | -- |
| Little Deaths: An Anthology of Erotic Horror
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Ellen Datlow | Original anthology of 24 stories of sex and horror by Lucius Shepard, Ruth Rendell, Harry Crews, Clive Barker, and others. |
1994 | -- |
| Monsters in the Closet : Homosexuality and the Horror Film (Inside Popular Film)
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Harry M. Benshoff | Horror fiction has always portrayed society's greatest fears as monstrous incarnations of 'the other,' so it should be no surprise that there has always been a clear homoerotic subtext in horror films--from Frankenstein to Interview with the Vampire. |
1997 | A |
| Queer Fear II: Gay Horror Fiction
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Michael Rowe | Building on the success of Queer Fear (which won the Queer Horror - Best Short Story award in 2000), Queer Fear II brings 22 new GLBT horror stories. |
2002 | -- |
| Queer Gothic
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George E. Haggerty | Essays exploring the full spectrum of sexual desire as it appears in Gothic fiction as loss or violence. |
2006 | -- |
| Rainbow Arc of Fire: Autumn Saga
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Gregory Earl Sanchez | A super-powered couple accidentally unleashes a flood of monsters on an unsuspecting city. |
1997 | D- |
| Sentinel, The
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Jeffrey Konvitz | A woman returns to New York to find herself trapped in an age-old battle between
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1974 | C |
| Shadows of the Night: Queer Tales of the Uncanny and Unusual
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Greg Herren | A bone-chilling anthology of gay and lesbian psychodrama. These stories introduce you to the doomed and the damned, including a gay travel writer with a one-way ticket to horror; a murdered lesbian who plots bloody revenge from the grave; a young gay man's fear of Jewish vampires; and many others. |
2004 | -- |
| Tommyknockers, The
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Stephen King | Something is happening to the residents of Haven, Maine. Something that gives everyone in the small town powers no human should have, turning Haven into a death trap for outsiders-and plunging the town into the depths of madness... |
1987 | -- |
| Trysts
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Steve Berman | Watch as a Ouija board spells out your deepest secret... |
2001 | -- |
| Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet
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Vince A. Liaguno and Chad Helder | This collection of queer horror stories showcases everything from the ghosts of dead lovers and malevolent queer faeries to devious doppelgangers and twisted psychopaths. |
2008 | -- |
| Uranian Worlds
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Eric Garber and Lyn Paleo | The classic reference on alternative sexuality in science fiction, fantasy and horror. It contains detailed annotations that document and describe the representation of alternative sexuality in a wide array of novels, stories, films and videos. |
1990 | A |
| Whispers
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Kris Bruyer | A psychic discovers that the dreams she's been having are very, very real. In a haunted mansion she and her friends discover a very real evil that mixes with evil of ages past. |
1995 | C- |
| Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture
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Arthur Evans | An overview of witchcraft and homosexuality throughout the ages. |
1978 | D- |
| Year's Best Horror Stories: No. 17
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Karl Edward Wagner | A collection of 20 of the year's best horror stories. |
1989 | -- |
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