Horror as a genre has evolved so much. We’ve come a long way from TheHandmaid’s Tale, Nightbitch, and The Substance—to name a few. From the monsters in a haunted forest to the dark underbelly of a luxury beauty company, this female-focused list of horror novels will expand your conception of the genre even more. Ghosts will seem like child’s play compared to the terrors within these stories, as the darkness these characters discover might be very well hidden within themselves.
In this queer Gothic horror debut, women in the Bavarian village of Heulensee feed their fears to an ancient Saint of Fear. In return, it protects them from the monsters of the haunted forest, Hexenwald. Ilse Odenwald has always felt like an outsider, someone without a fear. When the Saint discovers this, Ilse is forced to find her fear or the Saint will devour her sister, Dorothea. Isle steps into Hexenwald and hopes to find her fear within its horrors. But she uncovers a darkness within herself that threatens her entire future.
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Angelina Sicco has only known Cadenze, a quiet little mountain town, all her life. She walks her dog, is a regular at the local dive bar, and does everything she can to bait hot, queer women to her sleepy, conservative hometown. Everything changes when she mets the handsome Jagvi. Jugvi’s arrival awakens an ancient evil and only Jagvi’s touch repels it. This monster feeds on passion, heartbreak, and mess and
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Newly married and with a baby on the way, Jacy and Jed embark on their first road trip to visit Jed’s father, Dr. Ash, in Michigan’s far-flung Upper Peninsula. When they arrive, Dr. Ash is beyond hospitable, making up for the less friendly, enigmatic Mrs. Brandt. Their trip takes a turn when Jacy has a health scare. She begins feeling trapped, with her every move surveilled and whispers about a complicated family history that seems to eerily influence the present.
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Irina, exiled from the art world, obsessively takes explicit photographs of average-looking men scouted from the streets of Newcastle. She gets invited to display her work at a fashionable London gallery. This is a chance to revive her career, but the news instead triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centered around Irina’s consuming relationship with her best friend and the attention of a young man from her local supermarket.
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In 1765, a plague sweeps through Zacatecas, forcing Alba to flee with her wealthy merchant parents and fiancé Carlos. Despite fleeing, Alba begins suffering from strange hallucinations, sleepwalking, and violent convulsions. Elías came to the New World to make his fortune and escape his family’s legacy of greed. He can’t help but notice the increasing tension with his cousin’s betrothed, Alba. In the fight to save her life, both become entangled with the occult, the Church, and long-kept secrets.
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Sophia Bannion feels like there’s something amiss on her first day on the storytelling team at HEBE, a luxury skincare/wellness company. But she soon becomes addicted to the HEBE lifestyle, especially youthjuice—a fatty, soothing moisturizer the CEO, Tree Whitestone, asks Sophia to test. When she finds out the gruesome secret ingredient, she has to decide how far she’ll go to stay beautiful forever.
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Minerva grew up with stories about witches and became a graduate student focused on the history of horror literature. She researches Beatrice Tremblay, an obscure author of macabre tales. Minerva finds out that Tremblay’s most famous novel, The Vanishing, was inspired by a true story and that Minerva is studying at the same university Tremblay had attended. As she gets deeper into the investigation, she begins to sense that the evil force that stalked Tremblay and her missing roommate might still walk the campus.
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