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• Affinity

  Waters, Sarah, 1966-

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  AVAILABLE AS EBOOK. Like Dickens, Waters writes novels with elegant writing, detailed settings, complex plotting, and vividly developed characters. This historical mystery and haunting ghost story is filled with the sights, scenes, and smells of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bury Your Gays

  Tingle, Chuck

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  AVAILABLE AS PRINT AND EBOOK. "Misha is a gay screenwriter working for a giant Hollywood conglomerate and celebrating his first Oscar nod, for a short film. When he refuses to kill off his queer characters to appease the corporation's profit…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Carmilla

  Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 1814-1873

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  AVAILABLE AS PRINT AND EBOOK. Originally published in 1872, this classic Gothic vampire novel predates Dracula. The protagonist, a young woman, is preyed upon by a female vampire, Carmilla. The lesbian undertones are so obvious as to barely be…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Confessions of An English Opium-eater

  and Related Writings

  De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859

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  AVAILABLE AS PRINT BOOK. These classic writings explore the author's grief, terror, sorrow, and opium addiction. The more psychedelic works inspired Dario Argento's masterpiece film "Suspiria."

• Diavola

  a Novel

  Thorne, Jennifer

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  AVAILABLE AS PRINT BOOK. A dysfunctional family takes their annual vacation in a crumbling villa in Italy which quickly becomes chaos as the family learns that the villa is home to a vengeful ghost. Are you more afraid of the paranormal activity or…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hell Followed With Us

  White, Andrew Joseph

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  AVAILABLE AS PRINT AND EBOOK. A fundamentalist sect, the Angels, unleashes a plague to decimate the world’s population. Benji escapes their grasp but not until they’ve injected him with a plague mutation to transform him into a monster. He is saved…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hungerstone

  Dunn, Kat

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  AVAILABLE AS PRINT AND EBOOK. This modern rework of Carmilla is a gothic slow-burn steeped in yearning, feminine rage, and blood.

• Model Home

  Solomon, Rivers

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  AVAILABLE AS PRINT AND EBOOK. After the unexpected death of their parents, Ezri and their siblings must go back to the unwelcoming, affluent, and predominantly white gated community they grew up in to deal with their parents' personal effects, even…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Darling Dreadful Thing

  a Novel

  Veen, Johanna van

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  AVAILABLE AS PRINT BOOK. A phony psychic haunted by a centuries-old spirit falls for her client, a wealthy widow with a crumbling estate and a formidable ghost of her own.

• Our Share of Night

  a Novel

  Enriquez, Mariana

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  AVAILABLE AS PRINT AND EBOOK. This Argentinian supernatural horror follows the journey of a father and son as they try to come to terms with the death of their wife and mother and grapple with the terrifying cult she was connected to.

• Our Wives Under the Sea

  Armfield, Julia

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  AVAILABLE AS PRINT AND EBOOK. This book is all haunting and moody. After Leah's submarine sinks, she returns home changed, leaving her wife Miri to unravel her mysterious behaviour. Miri faces losing Leah as she navigates the depths of love and loss…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Picture of Dorian Gray

  Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900

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  AVAILABLE AS PRINT AND EBOOK. Oscar Wilde's novel about a young man named Dorian Gray, whose portrait ages and reflects the moral decay caused by his hedonistic lifestyle while he himself remains perpetually youthful and handsome.

• Red X

  a Novel

  Demchuk, David

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  AVAILABLE AS PRINT BOOK. This novel examines Toronto's Gay Village, and murdered, missing, and vanished gay men throughout decades. Told against the shifting and blending backdrops of the HIV/AIDS crisis, gentrification, police brutality and raids,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Summer Sons

  Mandelo, Lee

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  AVAILABLE AS PRINT BOOK. Mere days after his best friend dies of an apparent suicide, Andrew's world begins to crumble as he discovers the truth of his friend's death.

• The Turn of the Screw

  And, In the Cage

  James, Henry, 1843-1916

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  AVAILABLE AS PRINT BOOK. The Turn of the Screw is a classic example of the ghost story that weaves together uncanny events, psychology and ambiguity to heighten the element of terror. The Turn of the Screw's horror lies in the uncertainty of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Yellow Jessamine

  Starling, Caitlin

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  AVAILABLE AS EBOOK. A plague arrives the city of Delphinium on a ship owned by the cutthroat and secretive shipping magnate Evelyn Perdanu. The symptoms? Glowing eyes and an intense obsession with Evelyn herself.