For queer YA horror recs from 2022, click here.
She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron
This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham
The Narrow by Kate Alice Marshall
Monstrous by Jessica Lewis
Bonus: For a whole anthology full, check out Night of the Living Queers ed. by Alex Brown and Shelly Page
Double Bonus: The Last Girls Standing by Jennifer Dugan is maybe more psych thriller than Horror, but check it out anyway
My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham
People Like Us by Dana Mele
Fraternity by Andy Mientus
A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
As I Descended by Robin Talley
Bonus: Coming this fall, The Forest Demands its Due by Kosoko Jackson, and coming in 2024, With Love & Mischief by Derek Milman
TikTok creator, CEO of Beegrizwrites, and romance book ghostwriter ‘s HOMETOWN ADVANTAGE, a queer twist on the traditional small-town holiday rom-com, where two former classmates reunite for a drunken, banter-filled night and a long weekend of hijinks, falling hard along the way; and a second novel, pitched loosely as Bridesmaids meets Ashley Herring Blake, to Nidhi Pugalia at Penguin, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, by Dana Murphy at Trellis Literary Management (world).
Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White
The Restless Dark by Erica Waters
These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall
My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham
The Honeys by Ryan La Sala
My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham
A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
Rules for Vanishing and These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall
Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand
The River Has Teeth and The Restless Dark by Erica Waters
Bonus: Coming in June 2023, You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron
Please note this does not include any titles already listed here.
A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
Livingston Girls by Briana Morgan
Simon Snow by Rainbow Rowell
The Grimrose Girls by Laura Pohl
My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham (Coming April 5, 2022)
Bonus: Coming in Fall 2022 (as of now), Fraternity by Andy Mientus
Double Bonus: While I wouldn’t call it a “boarding school book,” It Ends in Fire by Andrew Shvarts is set at a Wizard Academy, so I’m gonna slip it in here
A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass
People Like Us by Dana Mele
Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
As I Descended by Robin Talley
Bonus: Coming in 2022, My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham
