BIPOC or LGBTQ+ Horror
Here are some suggestions for your Summer Book Bingo NW 2023 category: BIPOC or LGBTQ+ Horror. Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed.
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Cherish Farrah
Being faced with her home's foreclosure, one of only two black girls in a wealthy gated community manipulates her way into her friends' household where she starts noticing strange things happening and her suspicion of the seemingly perfect family grows.
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Jawbone
Edgar Allan Poe meets a few of the mean girls. (Kirkus)
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Echo
After a terrible accident high in the Alps, travel journalist Nick Grevers wakes from a coma to find that his climbing buddy, Augustin, is missing and presumed dead. But Nick claims to not remember anything. Sam, Nick's long-suffering boyfriend, wants to be glad that Nick is alive and coming home. But the accident has stirred up terrible memories. Because it turns out that-though Nick was the only body airlifted off that mysterious peak-he didn't come home alone, after all. And now, their uninvited guest is awake.
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LoterÃa
Newly illustrated and with bonus stories, an updated edition of the award-winning short story collection features a unique tale for each of the 54 cards in the Mexican board game Loteria, with images of murderers, ghosts, goblins and ghouls.
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Infidel
A horror tale for the 21st century, Infidel follows an American Muslim woman and her multi-racial neighbors who move into a building haunted by entities fueled by xenophobia.
Format: Graphic Novel
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Queen of Teeth
The intersection of two women falling in love, a newly born entity, and a corrupt big pharma company set the stage for this horror story.
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Seven Empty Houses
Empty homes, emptied lives, and emptying memories: Life's—particularly family life's—many emptinesses and emptyings abound in this ethereal collection. (Kirkus)
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Sister, Maiden, Monster
With the world being ravaged by a nightmarish transformative virus, dark forces bring together three women trying to survive: Erin, who has acquired an appetite for human flesh; Savannah, a BDSM switch who now has a penchant for murder; and Mareva, who is plagued by multiplying tumors.
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Sorrowland
A Lambda Award–winning writer explores America’s dark history of brutalizing Black bodies in their latest work of speculative fiction. (Kirkus)
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She Is A Haunting
A French colonial house in Vietnam threatens to devour its modern-day occupants. (Kirkus)
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