‘Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror’ Announces Its Authors [Exclusive]
Mary Beth McAndrews
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Queer horror isn’t new, but it is certainly having its moment in the sun right now, between recent film releases such as Huesera: The Bone Woman and Swallowed and the work in horror literature by authors such as Eric LaRocca, Hailey Piper, Paula D. Ashe, and much more. What these works highlight is the messiness of the queer experience. Queer people are allowed to be villains, but they’re also allowed to be nuanced people with their own unique mess of emotions. And to further nail down that point, Sofia Ajram is editing Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror, coming from Ghoulish Books, which we announced earlier this year. Now, we’re exclusively announcing the full table of contents for the upcoming anthology!
Read the full synopsis below:
A manifestation of ecstasy, heartache, horror, and suffering rendered in feverish lyrical prose. Inside are sixteen new stories by some of the genre’s most visionary queer writers. Young lovers find themselves deliriously lost in an expanding garden labyrinth. The porter of a sentient hotel is haunted within a liminal time loop. A soldier and his abusive commanding officer escape a war in the trenches but discover themselves in an even greater nightmare. Parasites chase each other across time-space in hungry desperation to never be apart. A graduate student with violent tendencies falls into step with a seemingly walking corpse.
Featuring stories from Cassandra Khaw, Joe Koch, Gretchen Felker-Martin, Robbie Banfitch, August Clarke, Son M., Jonathan Louis Duckworth, M.V. Pine, Ed Kurtz, LC Von Hessen, Matteo L. Cerilli, November Rush, Meredith Rose, Charlene Adhiambo, Violet, and Thomas Kearnes.
Now, get an exclusive look at the full table of contents for Bury Your Gays!
- “Your Honor, I’d Like to Put You in the Shoes of One of Dr. Morehouse’s Thirty Proven Clients” by M.V. Pine
- “This Body Is Not Your Home” by Son M.
- “Curdled Song of the Broken Earth” by Jonathan Louis Duckworth
- “Fortune Favours Grief” by Cassandra Khaw
- “Cleodora” by August Clarke
- “Summer Night” by Robbie Banfitch
- “Bad Axe” by Ed Kurtz
- “American Gothic” by LC Von Hessen
- “Sardines” by Gretchen Felker-Martin
- “Zero Tolerance Policy” by Meredith Rose
- “Blackhole” by November Rush
- “Lost and Found” by Charlene Adhiambo
- “Love Like Ours” by Violet
- “Filthy Animals” by Thomas Kearnes
- “Worth the Dying Shame” by Matteo L. Cerilli
- “All of Our Boys Are Missing” by Joe Koch
Editor Sofia Ajram said of the anthology:
“Queerness has always had a certain kinship with the horror genre, and it felt important to me when working with Max Booth (the publisher) to curate a space for stories by queer writers where everything was encouraged to be messy, because so much of the art we create is in response to existing narratives in real life. Tragic queer horror is sometimes political, oftentimes lonely, haunting, and depraved, and most of all can be absolutely filthy. I proudly get to say that all of these beautiful complexities have come together into an anthology I couldn’t be more thrilled to have edited. The revolutionary writers within explore tragic queer love in ways that delight and terrify and I’m so excited for readers to discover them.”
Check out the hardcover and paperback covers for the upcoming anthology:
The anthology will debut at the Ghoulish Book Festival in San Antonio on March 15, 2024, and officially be released elsewhere on March 19, 2024. Readers can pre-order Bury Your Gays on the Ghoulish webstore.
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