🏳️‍🌈 Queer Horror

Horror that channels the terrors of otherness, closeted existence, and bodily transgression, using the genre's dark vocabulary to explore what it means to be monstrous — or to be made monstrous by the world.

The Starving Saints

by Caitlin Starling

A starving castle. Four saints with impossible bounty. The feast consumes its faithful from within.

3.58

23k+

🏰 Medieval Horror 🦴 Body Horror ⛪ Religious Horror 🏚️ Besieged Castle 🔥 Heretic Protagonist

The Starving Saints

A starving castle. Four saints with impossible bounty. The feast consumes its faithful from within.

by Caitlin Starling 2025

3.58

23k+ ratings

🏰 Medieval Horror 🦴 Body Horror ⛪ Religious Horror 🏚️ Besieged Castle 🔥 Heretic Protagonist

The Honeys

by Ryan La Sala • 2022

When his twin attacks him and dies, Mars infiltrates the camp clique that claimed her.

3.79

21k+

🏕️ Camp Horror ✨ Genderfluid Lead 💔 Twin Grief 🐝 Secretive Clique 🧠 Hive Mind

The Honeys

When his twin attacks him and dies, Mars infiltrates the camp clique that claimed her.

by Ryan La Sala 2022

3.79

21k+ ratings

🏕️ Camp Horror ✨ Genderfluid Lead 💔 Twin Grief 🐝 Secretive Clique 🧠 Hive Mind

The Library at Hellebore

by Cassandra Khaw • 2025

A magic school devours its students. Locked in the library, survivors learn only one leaves alive.

3.07

7k+

📚 Dark Academia 🩸 Body Horror 🫂 Found Family 💔 Sapphic Longing 🕯️ Gothic Dread

The Library at Hellebore

A magic school devours its students. Locked in the library, survivors learn only one leaves alive.

by Cassandra Khaw 2025

3.07

7k+ ratings

📚 Dark Academia 🩸 Body Horror 🫂 Found Family 💔 Sapphic Longing 🕯️ Gothic Dread

We Are Always Tender With Our Dead

by Eric LaRocca • 2025

After a massacre a boy patrols unburied corpses in a town where grief becomes ritual

3.30

2k+

🖋️ Literary Horror 🐦‍⬛ Cursed Town 🩸 Body Horror 🔪 Small Town Cruelty 🖤 Bleak Horror

We Are Always Tender With Our Dead

After a massacre a boy patrols unburied corpses in a town where grief becomes ritual

by Eric LaRocca 2025

3.30

2k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Horror 🐦‍⬛ Cursed Town 🩸 Body Horror 🔪 Small Town Cruelty 🖤 Bleak Horror

Kill Creek

by Scott Thomas • 2017

Four horror writers spend Halloween night in a haunted house that feeds on their darkest secrets.

3.75

24k+

🏚️ Sentient House 🎬 Meta Horror ✍️ Writers In Peril 🌀 Blurred Reality 🔄 Cyclical Evil

Kill Creek

Four horror writers spend Halloween night in a haunted house that feeds on their darkest secrets.

by Scott Thomas 2017

3.75

24k+ ratings

🏚️ Sentient House 🎬 Meta Horror ✍️ Writers In Peril 🌀 Blurred Reality 🔄 Cyclical Evil

The Gathering Dark

by Tori Bovalino • 2022

Teen girls battle cursed houses and hungry forests in folk horror stories where trauma grows teeth.

3.53

4k+

🌒 Folk Horror 🩸 Generational Trauma 🌲 Vengeful Nature 🔥 Female Rage 🏚️ Cursed Places

The Gathering Dark

Teen girls battle cursed houses and hungry forests in folk horror stories where trauma grows teeth.

by Tori Bovalino 2022

3.53

4k+ ratings

🌒 Folk Horror 🩸 Generational Trauma 🌲 Vengeful Nature 🔥 Female Rage 🏚️ Cursed Places

Into the Drowning Deep

by Mira Grant • 2017

A scientist hunts mermaids in the deepest trench on Earth. They killed her sister first.

3.93

47k+

🦑 Deep Sea Horror 🧜‍♀️ Predatory Mermaids 💀 Doomed Expedition 🤟 Sign Language 🕳️ Claustrophobic Horror

Into the Drowning Deep

A scientist hunts mermaids in the deepest trench on Earth. They killed her sister first.

by Mira Grant 2017

3.93

47k+ ratings

🦑 Deep Sea Horror 🧜‍♀️ Predatory Mermaids 💀 Doomed Expedition 🤟 Sign Language 🕳️ Claustrophobic Horror

Private Rites

by Julia Armfield

Three sisters reunite for their father's funeral at a glass house on stilts built for sacrifice.

3.58

16k+

🖤 Literary Horror 💔 Estranged Sisters 🕯️ Ritual Sacrifice 🔥 Slow-Burn Horror 🌍 Climate Dystopia

Private Rites

Three sisters reunite for their father's funeral at a glass house on stilts built for sacrifice.

by Julia Armfield 2024

3.58

16k+ ratings

🖤 Literary Horror 💔 Estranged Sisters 🕯️ Ritual Sacrifice 🔥 Slow-Burn Horror 🌍 Climate Dystopia

Wretch

by Eric LaRocca • 2026

After his husband dies, a man joins a grief group whose rituals conjure a soul-hungry spirit.

3.35

2k+

🖤 Grief Horror 🩸 Body Horror 🍖 Emotional Cannibalism 🪲 Insect Horror 🪞 Unreliable Reality

Wretch

After his husband dies, a man joins a grief group whose rituals conjure a soul-hungry spirit.

by Eric LaRocca 2026

3.35

2k+ ratings

🖤 Grief Horror 🩸 Body Horror 🍖 Emotional Cannibalism 🪲 Insect Horror 🪞 Unreliable Reality

Lucky Day

by Chuck Tingle • 2025

On the day probability collapsed, fish rained from the sky. The cosmic wound never healed.

3.80

13k+

🕳️ Cosmic Horror 🐒 Absurdist Horror 👩‍👧 Mother Wound 🌑 Existential Dread 😂 Darkly Funny

Lucky Day

On the day probability collapsed, fish rained from the sky. The cosmic wound never healed.

by Chuck Tingle 2025

3.80

13k+ ratings

🕳️ Cosmic Horror 🐒 Absurdist Horror 👩‍👧 Mother Wound 🌑 Existential Dread 😂 Darkly Funny

Hazelthorn

by C.G. Drews

Locked away for seven years, he escapes to find his guardian dead, dark vines threading his throat.

4.21

21k+

🌿 Botanical Horror 🩸 Body Horror 💔 Enemies To Lovers 👹 Monster Boyfriend 💉 Medical Abuse

Hazelthorn

Locked away for seven years, he escapes to find his guardian dead, dark vines threading his throat.

by C.G. Drews 2025

4.21

21k+ ratings

🌿 Botanical Horror 🩸 Body Horror 💔 Enemies To Lovers 👹 Monster Boyfriend 💉 Medical Abuse

Bury Your Gays

by Chuck Tingle • 2024

When a screenwriter won't kill his queer leads, the studio's AI sends his own monsters after him.

4.04

31k+

🪞 Metafictional Horror 🎬 Hollywood Horror 👹 Monsters Made Real 💔 Trauma As Monster 🫂 Found Family

Bury Your Gays

When a screenwriter won't kill his queer leads, the studio's AI sends his own monsters after him.

by Chuck Tingle 2024

4.04

31k+ ratings

🪞 Metafictional Horror 🎬 Hollywood Horror 👹 Monsters Made Real 💔 Trauma As Monster 🫂 Found Family

Eat the Ones You Love

by Sarah Maria Griffin • 2025

Broke and heartbroken, Shell takes a florist job in a dying mall where something sentient hungers.

3.46

8k+

🪴 Botanical Horror 🫀 Body Horror 🌿 Sentient Plant 💔 Toxic Sapphic Love 🌧️ Melancholy Horror

Eat the Ones You Love

Broke and heartbroken, Shell takes a florist job in a dying mall where something sentient hungers.

by Sarah Maria Griffin 2025

3.46

8k+ ratings

🪴 Botanical Horror 🫀 Body Horror 🌿 Sentient Plant 💔 Toxic Sapphic Love 🌧️ Melancholy Horror

Walking Practice

by Dolki Min • 2022

To survive on Earth, an alien seduces and devours lovers, but the loneliness cannot be consumed.

3.55

7k+

🩸 Body Horror 📖 Literary Horror 🦎 Shapeshifter Horror 🎭 Gender As Performance 💀 Monstrous Desire

Walking Practice

To survive on Earth, an alien seduces and devours lovers, but the loneliness cannot be consumed.

by Dolki Min 2022

3.55

7k+ ratings

🩸 Body Horror 📖 Literary Horror 🦎 Shapeshifter Horror 🎭 Gender As Performance 💀 Monstrous Desire

The Midnight Muse

by Jo Kaplan • 2026

A band gathers where their frontwoman disappeared. The woods have been listening all year.

3.92

294

🎸 Band Horror 🍄 Fungal Body Horror 🎵 Occult Music 💔 Sapphic Longing 🏚️ Cabin In The Woods

The Midnight Muse

A band gathers where their frontwoman disappeared. The woods have been listening all year.

by Jo Kaplan 2026

3.92

294 ratings

🎸 Band Horror 🍄 Fungal Body Horror 🎵 Occult Music 💔 Sapphic Longing 🏚️ Cabin In The Woods

Last to Leave the Room

by Caitlin Starling • 2023

A physicist under a sinking city discovers an impossible door in her basement. It opens.

3.52

3k+

🖤 Psychological Horror 🚪 Doppelganger Horror 🧠 Unreliable Narrator 💀 Identity Dissolution 🏚️ Claustrophobic Dread

Last to Leave the Room

A physicist under a sinking city discovers an impossible door in her basement. It opens.

by Caitlin Starling 2023

3.52

3k+ ratings

🖤 Psychological Horror 🚪 Doppelganger Horror 🧠 Unreliable Narrator 💀 Identity Dissolution 🏚️ Claustrophobic Dread

What Moves the Dead

by T. Kingfisher • 2022

A soldier returns to a decaying manor: her friends are dying, and the lake is learning.

3.84

146k+

🍄 Fungal Body Horror 🏚️ Crumbling Gothic Manor 📜 Poe Retelling 🏳️‍⚧️ Non-Binary Protagonist 🔬 Amateur Investigation

What Moves the Dead

A soldier returns to a decaying manor: her friends are dying, and the lake is learning.

by T. Kingfisher 2022

3.84

146k+ ratings

🍄 Fungal Body Horror 🏚️ Crumbling Gothic Manor 📜 Poe Retelling 🏳️‍⚧️ Non-Binary Protagonist 🔬 Amateur Investigation

Spread Me

by Sarah Gailey

In a desert station, six researchers bring a buried creature inside. Now it copies them.

3.36

7k+

🧫 Sci-Fi Horror 🍄 Fungal Horror 🫀 Body Horror 🚪 Isolated Station 👥 Body Snatchers

Spread Me

In a desert station, six researchers bring a buried creature inside. Now it copies them.

by Sarah Gailey 2025

3.36

7k+ ratings

🧫 Sci-Fi Horror 🍄 Fungal Horror 🫀 Body Horror 🚪 Isolated Station 👥 Body Snatchers

It Sleeps Below

by William F. Gray • 2026

Something ancient beneath a lake knows her name. It took her partner. Now it wants her.

3.81

171

🖤 Cosmic Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror 🕯️ Grief As Horror 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma ⚠️ Cult And Ritual

It Sleeps Below

Something ancient beneath a lake knows her name. It took her partner. Now it wants her.

by William F. Gray 2026

3.81

171 ratings

🖤 Cosmic Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror 🕯️ Grief As Horror 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma ⚠️ Cult And Ritual

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