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A deliciously macabre and queer gothic tale that blurs the line between a cursed Gilded Age history and a modern Hollywood haunting. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Plain Bad Heroines.
- macabre
- haunted
- cinematic
- dread-soaked
- 01
A Lesson in Vengeance
Victoria Lee
A suffocatingly atmospheric descent into obsession, where the ghosts of the past blur dangerously with the toxic allure of the present.
- 02
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Grady Hendrix
A sweltering, blood-soaked slice of 1970s feminist horror where desperate girls turn to dark magic to reclaim their stolen futures.
- 03
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Emily Austin
A hilariously bleak and deeply tender spiral into the mind of an anxious lesbian trying to survive her own brain.
- 04
My best friend's exorcism
Grady Hendrix
A neon-soaked, blood-spattered love letter to the fierce, terrifying, and life-or-death intensity of teenage female friendship.
- 05
Don't Want You Like a Best Friend
Emma R. Alban
A delightful, swoon-worthy romp through Victorian ballrooms where a matchmaking scheme accidentally sparks a breathless queer romance.
- 06
The miseducation of Cameron Post
Emily M. Danforth
A deeply felt, bittersweet journey through the claustrophobia of conversion therapy and the expansive resilience of queer youth.
- 07
The paying guests
Sarah Waters
A masterclass in simmering tension where a quiet domestic drama slowly tightens into a suffocating knot of passion and dread.
- 08
The Pull of the Stars
Emma Donoghue
A fiercely intimate, ticking-clock descent into a 1918 maternity ward where life and death collide in the span of three harrowing days.
- 09
Wilder Girls
Rory Power
A visceral, dread-soaked descent into the monstrous beauty of survival and the fierce, feral bonds of girlhood.
- 10
Her Body and Other Parties
Carmen Maria Machado
A surreal, razor-sharp fever dream that maps the violence and desire inscribed upon women's bodies.
- 11
The Once and Future Witches
Alix E. Harrow
A fierce, autumnal fairy tale about fractured sisters weaving forgotten magic into a revolution.
- 12
Mercies
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
A chilling, atmospheric tale of female resilience and forbidden love blooming in the shadow of religious zealotry.
