i've had a real itch i've felt needing scratched recently for a specific type of book to read.
i finished Dead Animals by Phoebe Stuckes, and i went into it expecting a lot – it had every opportunity to turn into a twisted tale of revenge, trauma, sapphic love and supernatural happenings; even with the perfect ingredients in mind it fell short for myself, and others it seems, but it's left me searching even harder for the books to scratch that itch.
if anyone here has any recommendations of something like Dead Animals or Paradise Rot that has those horror esque tones mixed with surrealist themes, a disturbing sapphic relationship, tones of obsession, trauma, mental illness etc.
i need something that's going to break my brain, something i won't be able to stop thinking about – i need something to ruin me. any recs ?
TLDR fuck me up but make it gay
thanku in advance for ur help <3
by shanreid_
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• other books i’ve got in my collection include (both finished and TBR) Brainwyrms, Yellowface, Butter, I Who Have Never Known Men, Ripe, How to Kill Your Family, The List, The Virgin Suicides, Milkfed, The Belljar, Diary of an Oxygen Thief trilogy, A Clockwork Orange, This Is How You Remember It, The Handmaids Tale
^^hopefully this gives some insight into what other types of books i’m reading that may aid ur suggestions
The Locked Tomb series, starting with *Gideon the Ninth* could use “trauma, sapphic love, and supernatural happenings” as its tagline. The one they do use is “Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space,” which is just slightly better.
Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder – cosmic horror set during the pandemic. Sapphic relationships abound.
Gideon the Ninth for sure
Love this prompt!!!! Hopefully something I mention will interest you 🙂
Have to agree with the people who recommended the Locked Tomb series, as I am also obsessed with it. It will break your brain, and that is a guarantee.
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado – short story collection; very sapphic; very weird; stunningly written and so unique
House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson – sapphic vampires… need I say more?
Chlorine by Jade Song – about a girl who is a competitive swimmer who believes she is a mermaid, and also she’s having a relationship with one of her best friends (this book is amazing)
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield – a woman goes on a deep sea expedition and when she comes back she is…different; the book is about her and her wife navigating her traumatic homecoming (it’s very sad)
The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste – haunted gays, basically