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A Worthy Sequel to Shirley Jackson’s Classic: A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand

April 8, 2025 by Rachel Friars

From award-winning author Elizabeth Hand comes the first ever authorized retelling of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House (1959). A Haunting on the Hill (Mulholland Books, 2023) is a startlingly contemporary and frighteningly vivid take on one of the most well-known haunted house novels of the twentieth century.  A Haunting on the Hill follows Holly, a playwright turnedRead More

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An Unforgettable Experimental Novel: Biography of X by Catherine Lacey Review

March 29, 2025 by Rachel Friars

In what has quickly become one of my favourite novels of all time, Catherine Lacey’s Biography of X (Picador 2023) reveals a circuitous tale of a woman’s life and an alternate history of the United States that was consuming, compelling, and thrilling to read. When a woman known only as X—a performance artist, author, and infamous socialRead More

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A Haunting Carmilla Retelling: Hungerstone by Kat Dunn Review

February 11, 2025 by Rachel Friars

From Gothic fiction author Kat Dunn comes a new retelling of Carmilla that is equal parts haunting and thrilling. Hungerstone (Zando, February 18 2025) is one of the best new releases of 2025.  Set in mid-nineteenth-century England, Lenore has been married to her husband Henry for a decade. A steel magnate and social climber, their marriage has benefitted fromRead More

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A Race Between Witches and Witch Hunters: VenCo by Cherie Dimaline Review

January 21, 2025 by Rachel Friars

From the award-winning author of The Marrow Thieves (2017) comes a novel about queer community, survival, and joy—with a twist. Cherie Dimaline’s VenCo (2023) is a compelling story about the (super)natural powers of women.  VenCo follows orphan Lucky St. James, the daughter of a bad-ass Métis woman living with her grandmother, Stella, in Toronto. When Lucky discovers that the twoRead More

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A Haunting Gothic About Family in (Climate) Crisis: Private Rites by Julia Armfield Review

December 10, 2024 by Rachel Friars

As an avid reader of all of Julia Armfield’s fiction, I was eager to pick up her newest novel. From the author of Our Wives Under the Sea (2022), Private Rites (Fourth Estate, 2024) promised to be poignant, haunting, and literary.   Set in a future world where environmental disaster has flooded much of the world with ceaseless rains, threeRead More

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The Perfect Sapphic Horror Read for a Cold Winter’s Night: Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta

November 21, 2024 by Rachel Friars

Just in time for dark, chilly winter nights, Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta’s Feast While You Can (Grand Central Publishing 2024) is one of my top reads of 2024 and has quickly become one of my most-recommended queer horror novels!  Marketed as perfect for fans of novels like Nightbitch, Feast While You Can is a novel of queer love andRead More

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The Perfect Queer Gothic to Read on Halloween: My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johnna van Veen 

October 17, 2024 by Rachel Friars

I’ve been trying to spend the fall reading Gothic fiction, and as Halloween approaches, Johanna van Veen’s queer Gothic horror novel, My Darling Dreadful Thing (Poisoned Pen Press, 2024), is the perfect book for this time of year!  Veen’s debut novel follows Roos Beckman in the 1950s. Roos has a spirit companion, Ruth, has been dead forRead More

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Lush, Atmospheric Queer Historical Fiction: A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland 

September 17, 2024 by Rachel Friars

A lush, atmospheric queer historical fiction for fans of Portrait of a Lady on Fire and The Birth House, Rose Sutherland’s A Sweet Sting of Salt (Dell 2024) is the perfect read to cozy up with this fall.  Sutherland’s queer retelling of the folktale The Selkie Wife follows Jean, a midwife in a Nova Scotia village who is as renowned for herRead More

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A Fresh, Queer Take on Crime Fiction: Behind You by Catherine Hernandez

August 13, 2024 by Rachel Friars

Amazon Affiliate Link In her new novel, Catherine Hernandez weaves gripping suspense and affecting emotion into a story of trauma, survival, and healing against the backdrop of one of Canada’s most terrifying historical events.  Behind You (HarperAvenue 2024) follows Alma, a Filipina woman working as an editor for a true crime series called Infamous, which features sketchesRead More

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A Twisty Sapphic Spiritualist Con: Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkins

May 30, 2024 by Rachel Friars

Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! Carmella Lowkins’s new historical novel, Spitting Gold (Atria Books 2024), is a fabulously atmospheric story with a twisting plot that keeps you guessing until the very end! Spitting Gold is set in nineteenth-century Paris. Baroness Sylvie Devereux has worked tirelessly for years to distance herself from herRead More

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