KCLS BookMatch: Queer Horror, Body Horror, and MonstersLike this list

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• Someone You Can Build a Nest in

  Wiswell, John, 1981-

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  Shesheshen has made a mistake fatal to all monsters: she's fallen in love. Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by hunters intent on murdering her, she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Organ Meats

  Chang, K-Ming,

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  Best friends Anita and Rainie have made countless visits to their home base: an old sycamore tree and its neighboring lot of stray dogs who have a mysterious ability to communicate with humans. The girls learn that they are preceded by generations…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jawbone

  Ojeda, Mónica, 1988-

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  Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of a deserted cabin, held hostage by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise? When Fernanda,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BTTM FDRS

  Daniels, Ezra Claytan,

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  Escaping her upwardly mobile parents, Darla moves back to their old neighborhood in Chicago's Bottomyards to find bare-bones housing where she can grow her design business on the cheap. Paradoxically, the area's "authentic" ambiance has begun…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sorrowland

  Solomon, Rivers,

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  Vern, an albino, intersex, Black child raised in a cult known as the Blessed Acres of Cain, flees to the woods as a seven-months-pregnant 15-year-old, giving birth to twins she names Howling and Feral. The new family is pursued by "the fiend," who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bury Your Gays

  Tingle, Chuck,

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  Misha knows that chasing success in Hollywood can be hell. But finally, after years of trying to make it, his big moment is here: an Oscar nomination. And the executives at the studio for his long-running streaming series know just the thing to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Monstrilio

  a Novel

  Sámano Córdova, Gerardo,

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  Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago's lung. Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale, she nurtures the lung until it gains sentience, growing into the carnivorous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Low, Low Woods

  Machado, Carmen Maria,

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  When your memories are stolen, what would you give to remember? Follow El and Vee as they search for answers to the questions everyone else forgot. Shudder-to-Think, Pennsylvania, is plagued by a mysterious illness that eats away at the memories of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Woods All Black

  Mandelo, Lee,

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  Leslie Bruin is assigned to the backwoods township of Spar Creek by the Frontier Nursing Service to vaccinate the flock, birth babies, and weather judgements of churchy locals who look at him and see a failed woman. Forged in the fires of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Hole

  Burns, Charles, 1955-

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  It was like a horrible game of tag... It took a while, but they finally figured out it was some kind of new disease that only affected teenagers. They called it the 'teen plague' or 'the bug' and there were all kinds of unpredictable symptoms... For…Read moreRead more of this annotation