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VPL - Books Just For You - Creeping Gothic Vibes With a Queer Twist

This list was prepared by VPL's reading experts for a reader interested in humorous stories, literary fiction, and thrillers. Favourite authors include: Linda H. Codega, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Jeanette Winterson.

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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…
    eBook, 2000New York : Riverhead Books, 2000.
  • 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…
    Book, 2024New York : Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group, 2024.
  • 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…
    Book, 2013[Toronto] : The House of Pomegranates Press, [2013]
  • 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."
    Book, 2009Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, 2009.
  • 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…
    Book, 2024New York : Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group, 2024.
  • 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…
    Book, 2022Atlanta, Georgia : Peachtree Teen, [2022]
  • AVAILABLE AS PRINT AND EBOOK. This modern rework of Carmilla is a gothic slow-burn steeped in yearning, feminine rage, and blood.
    Book, 2025New York : Zando, 2025.
  • 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…
    Book, 2024New York : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.
  • 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.
    Book, 2024Naperville, Illinois : Poisoned Pen Press, [2024]
  • 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.
    Book, 2023London ; New York : Hogarth, [2023]
  • 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…
    Book, 2022New York : Flatiron Books, 2022.
  • 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.
    Book, 1974London, New York, Oxford University Press, 1974.
  • 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,…
    Book, 2021Toronto, Ontario : Strange Light, 2021.
  • 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.
    Book, 2021New York : Tordotcom, 2021.
  • 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…
    Book, 2001New York : Modern Library, 2001.
  • 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.
    eBook, 2020Stanton Publication Services, Incorporated, DBA BookMobile, 2020.