The Sapphic Squad discussion

Looking for shappic horror books that are actually scary!

The Luminous Dead is claustrophobia inducing and weird as hell.

Dead Space Kinda horror-based? It's more of a thriller but also involves the horrors of unchecked capitalism and asteroid mining with scary AI.

Into the Drowning Deep I never want to get on a boat ever again, if that helps (although the actual part where you see the mermaids isn't super scary...but the build-up is scary).

Burn Our Bodies Down and Wilder Girls. They’re both light on the Sapphic, but it’s clearly stated that the girls are. It’s more existential horror, but both were good reads. I’m completely blanking on the author name, but they’re by the same one.

Silk Hills (graphic novel) & Primal Animals (young adult, but extremely intense)

This is a self-rec, but many reviewers considered my violent, gory vampire book to be horrific. It's gothic horror set in 1920s Singapore, with a sapphic love triangle resolved by a choice of endings. The Wicked and the Willing. Content warnings at http://go.lianyutan.com/watw-cw

I also loved Into the Drowning Deep, mentioned above! Anything by Mira Grant is usually good, although most of her books are not sapphic.

- Seconding Wilder Girls and Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Powers, some of my favorite horror.
- A Lesson in Vengeance is more unsettling and twisted than scary (imo anyways) but I really liked it
- The Diviners is my favorite horror series (and series in general)--I would hesitate to call it "sapphic horror" but one of the characters is an asexual lesbian and in an f/f relationship from the third book on and it's got some great horror elements
- I've heard mixed things about Sawkill Girls but it's sapphic horror

Rory Power's Wilder Girls and Burn our bodies down also Carmilla

seconding lianyu tan. her books are amazing

Things have gotten worse since we last spoke
The Society For Soulless Girls
This Delicious Death
Brainwyrms
Beyond the ruby veil ( Isnt really horror but is grotesque and just REALLY GOOD)

Incredibly triggering and terrifying, horrifying more in a social sense than a haunted house sense.
Kinda scary-ish? YA and felt like a loving homage to 80s and 90s teen screams.
I love space horror and this hit all my fears.

I am about halfway through Night of the Living Queers and totally recommend it!! It's a bunch of short horror stories, about 20 pages each. this is like not my genre at all but the authors are doing phenomenal jobs of allowing us to get a full story in such a short amount of pages. absolutely recommend!

Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall :)

Madi wrote: "Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall :)"

Kate Alice Marshall does some amazing shit. Read The Narrow by her a while back and its phenominal.

Plain bad heroines isn’t hardcore horror but has that feel and is great!

I have just read the perfect book for this. Eyes Guts Throat Bones

It's a collection of sapphic short stories with a lot of horror themes. There's mixed elements of body horror, dystopian stories, fantasy and mythical vibes - in general, it's just really fantastic. I think everyone should read it.