Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Mira and Layla are trying to make their way to Chicago for the last leg of their college tour road trip when they’re stranded in a small town and forced to stay at the Wildwood Motel. To Layla, this is a minor setback while she’s more focused on figuring out her confusingRead More
A Sapphic, Filipino Horror Comedy: Damned If You Do by Alex Brown
Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Filled with imagery and stories from Filipino folklore, Damned If You Do follows high school stage manager Cordelia Scott, as she prepares to put on the annual school play, struggles with passing her classes and imagining a future for herself, and tries to push down her not-so-subtle crush on her childhood best friend, Veronica.Read More
A Cult in the Woods—Or Worse? The Wicked Unseen by Gigi Griffis
Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Audre doesn’t fit well in the conservative small town to which she’s moved. She’s from New York City. She’s a lesbian. She’s a determined skeptic. And she’s the daughter of an occult researcher and a mortician. So when the preacher’s daughter, Elle, disappears, suspicion falls on Audre’s family. She works to findRead More
Sapphic YA Romance in a Haunted House: The Girls Are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link The Girls Are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh is a YA supernatural horror novel. Its protagonist, Dare, is just beginning her summer internship restoring an old house and recovering from a breakup with her boyfriend. She plans to use the summer to launch a podcast about the house’sRead More
Til reviews The Gathering Dark edited by Tori Bovalino
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link The Gathering Dark is a collection of folk horror short stories. I went into this book expecting the folk horror short stories. The queerness of those stories came as a delightful surprise. I will own outright that whether or not this counts as a sapphic read is debatable. To me,Read More
Danika reviews The Restless Dark by Erica Waters
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link During October this year, I tried to pack my TBR with seasonal, Halloween-adjacent reads, and The Restless Dark looked like the perfect match. It’s a sapphic YA horror/thriller book set at a true crime podcast event where listeners compete to try to find the unrecovered bones of aRead More
Vic reviews Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link I am still a relative newbie when it comes to horror, but Vincent Tirado’s Burn Down, Rise Up served as a fantastic entry point for me. When Bronx high schooler Raquel’s mother falls into a coma with a mysterious illness on the same day that her crush’s cousin disappears, RaquelRead More
Larkie reviews The Girls are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link I love a good horror movie, and can never resist a classic haunted house, so when I heard that The Girls are Never Gone is about a podcast host investigating a 30 year old murder and possible haunting of a dilapidated old mansion, and it’s sapphic, I jumped on it.Read More
Danika review Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link I have to say, although I love the illustration of Raquel, I don’t think cover does justice to this being a horror novel. I got sports vibes from it. I didn’t notice the little monster claws/legs in the background on first viewing. But this is definitely horror, withRead More
Til reviews To Break a Covenant by Alison Ames
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link To Break a Covenant is set in perpetual aftermath. The town was formed after a disaster in a nearby mine, where fires still burn and rain ash over the abandoned Moon Basin. The people of Moon Basin simply moved outside the range of the ash and formed NewRead More