10 Queer Haunted House Books To Scare Your Socks Off

A bunch of pals (and ex-friends) celebrating earlier than a marriage determine to spend the evening in a Heian-era Japanese mansion rumored to be haunted. Haunted by whom? A jilted bride, after all. And her spirit is hungry for contemporary firm. As the chums revel the evening away, their thrills quickly flip into chilling terror because the ghost bride emerges from the shadows to say her prey. Who amongst them will survive till morning? Only time — and the ghost bride — will inform. This one has a bisexual primary character.

In this lush retelling of Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher, it’s not ghosts however a mind-altering fungus that haunts the Usher house in distant Ruravia. A nonbinary retired soldier has come to analyze claims that their pal Madeline Usher is dying. What they discover is straight out of a nightmare: fungal growths overtaking the home, sleepwalking, possessed wildlife, and unusual voices speaking at evening. Can this lethal knot be untangled, or will no matter is overtaking the House of Usher eat all of them?

Queer teen Jade solely agreed to spend the summer time along with her estranged father in Vietnam in alternate for his assist paying her faculty tuition. She has little interest in the bug-infested French colonial home he’s restoring or in reviving their relationship, no matter he or her little sister may hope. More than bugs are infesting this home stuffed with historical past, although. As Jade tries to show to her household that this home just isn’t value saving — a lot much less inhabiting — she fakes a haunting. But quickly, the true haunting proves not possible for anybody however essentially the most willful to disregard.

A brand new mom, exhausted from giving start and wracked with guilt over her unfinished dissertation, discovers the ghost of youngsters’s writer Margaret Wise Brown dwelling upstairs. Margaret, the writer of Goodnight Moon, has unfinished enterprise along with her ex-lover, and till Megan helps her end it, she and her new child daughter received’t be secure. It could also be a supernatural energy battle, however it’s additionally a meditation on the struggles, each bodily and psychological, of recent motherhood.

One evening in an deserted home ruined Alice’s life three years in the past. Now, her pal Ila is asking her to return once more. Memories of what occurred on the House nonetheless eat Alice, however she is aware of she’ll return. She is aware of that, by some means, she and Ila must put apart their variations — which is tough as a result of Alice is trans and Ila has gone full TERF. But Alice and Ila weren’t the one ones to enterprise into the House that evening three years in the past — they had been simply the one ones to go away.

Moving into her Great Aunt Aggie’s crumbling nation home wasn’t precisely what queer teen Asha had in thoughts when she hoped for a contemporary begin. Sure, it will get her away from the fixed fights along with her mother and suspicions of her stepdad, however a pest-riddled house suffering from scary occurrences isn’t a giant step up. When Asha discovers the historical past that ties her household to the home — and its neighbors — is reaching into the current, she’ll have to seek out some method to break a cycle of violence going again generations.

A full-contact haunted home that appears undeniably impressed by the real-life McKamey Manor turns into a part of a horrific scandal when solely three of the 4 contestants to enter the ultimate room of Quigley House make it out alive. What occurred within the years, months, and moments main as much as that fateful second? Everyone current that evening relives the alternatives and beliefs that culminated in an unthinkable crime. (This one has a homosexual primary character.)

A younger woman and her two dads are vacationing at a distant cabin within the New Hampshire woods when a stranger seems within the driveway. At first, Wen likes the person who performs and talks along with her for hours. But when three different strangers present up, and he tells her none of what’s about to occur is her fault, she is aware of she was fallacious to belief him. The strangers declare they’re attempting to save lots of the world, however after at this time, Wen’s world won’t ever be the identical.

Vera has averted her childhood house and her dying mom for so long as doable, however the time has come to face her mom and her previous. But Vera isn’t the one one her mom has invited. An artist impressed by the home’s darkish historical past has additionally invaded the area, and Vera is exhausted by him and the unusual notes he leaves behind in her father’s handwriting. He claims it isn’t him, however he’s, in spite of everything, the one one there who could possibly be leaving them. Crowder House is infamous. Vera is aware of this all too nicely. But it’s by no means been haunted earlier than — has it?

Not all homes are haunted by ghosts; some are haunted by people. Or, on this case, vampires. A woman dwelling within the slums learns of an opportunity to flee her place in life by turning into a bloodmaid to a rich benefactor. As the most recent bloodmaid on the House of Hunger, Marion should learn to please her new mistress, Countess Lisavet, and rapidly. Bloodmaids are going lacking virtually each evening, and if Marion can’t study the principles of her new life, she’ll quickly change into one in all them.