Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

Pull up a chair by the window. The fog’s rolling in off the cove, and we’ve got just the book for it.

The instant USA Today bestseller, winner of the Locus Award for Best Horror Novel, and a Lambda Literary Award finalist—this one came in with a bang and hasn’t quieted down since. It was also named one of the Best Horror Books of 2024 by Esquire, Parade, and Library Journal. Quite the shelf-talker, that.

Here’s the gist. Misha knows that chasing success in Hollywood can be its own special kind of hell. But after years of grinding, his big moment has finally arrived: an Oscar nomination. The catch? The studio behind his long-running streaming series wants him to kill off the gay characters, “for the algorithm,” in the season finale.

Misha refuses. And that, it turns out, paints a target square on his back.

Soon the monsters from his old horror movies are stalking him and his friends through the hills above Los Angeles. To protect his future, Misha has to face down the horrors of his past—before they bury him for good.

It’s bloody. It’s wildly fun. And it absolutely takes a sledgehammer to tired old tropes. As Rachel Harrison, bestselling author of Black Sheep, put it: “Brilliantly bloody, wildly fun, and extremely scary.”

Curl up with this one on a stormy night. We dare you.

If you loved it, come back and browse the rest of the shelf—we’ve also got Camp Damascus, Lucky Day, and Straight.

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