#horrormance

[deputyrook]

-> Be My Victim: Favourite depictions of love/romance in horror [Candyman, 1992; Midsommar 2019; Silence of the Lambs, 1991; Possession, 1981; Bones and All, 2022; Annihilation, 2018; Raw, 2016; Ravenous, 1999]

[sohiara]

[ash-and-books]

Rating: 5/5

Book Blurb:

Ami awakes from years in stasis to find she’s at the edges of deep space, and the only surviving member of her crew. Utterly alone and unable to contact Earth, she sends out a distress beacon, not expecting a response. When she gets one from a being who calls himself Dorian, she’s welcomed onto his ship as he offers his assistance in any way he can. But nothing on Dorian’s ship is as it seems. And as Ami tries to navigate the maze of hallways and first contact with this alien being, a deep hum begins to resonate, haunting her, as if the ship itself is whispering to her.

Review:

Waking up from years of stasis on a ship in deep space only to find the rest of your crew dead... and when a stranger answers your distress call...what awaits you? Ami wakes up on her ship hoping to see her crew mates, yet when she finds them they are all dead. Now alone on her ship she sends out a distress call, not sure if anyone will respond... but when someone does she is surprised to discover a alien taking the form of a handsome man named Dorian. Dorian offers to help her, let her stay on her ship until the repairs are done, and let her study him... yet the moment she steps onto his ship things begin to get strange. She begins to see shadows moving, visions of her dead crew mates... and her memories are starting to clash. Ami doesn't know what is true or real but she feels like she's been on this ship before... something about Dorian calls to her and the thrum of the ship seeps into her being... what actually happened to her crew and who is Dorian to her? This was such a fun read, especially since its a bit of sci-fi horror, a touch of dark romance, and just all the fun of an unreliable narrator. I had so much fun reading this and trying to unravel the mystery with Ami. I loved the twist and turns and honestly this was the perfect book to read this week (right before I go see Alien Romulus). I am such a sucker for horrormance and this gothic space one just perfectly fit for me.

Release Date: August 13,2024

Publication/Blog: Ash and Books (ash-and-books.tumblr.com)

*Thanks Meg for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

[wolfehorror]

A Guide To Wolfe

Hi I'm H.S. Wolfe and I write queer horror, romance, erotica and urban fantasy. I have two books and three shorts published currently, as well as an anthology on the way.

In The Garden Of Echo - Genesis 1 Echo and I have been around almost as long as the earth itself. We’re indestructible, in love, and hungry. For centuries we’ve wandered across continents, just the two of us, devouring an invasive species: humans. But the mess we’ve left in our wake has its consequences. Forced to curb our feeding and go into hiding has put Echo and me at risk of exposure, and I’d die before I let anything happen to her. In The Garden Of Echo is a T4T erotic horromance novella, and the first book of the Genesis trilogy. Full content warnings are listed in the author’s note and can be found on the author’s website.

Tales Of Genesis The TOG shorts are erotic one-offs best read after In The Garden Of Echo on itchio only

ROTGUT All I want to do is play drums in Cluster Headache, but I can’t even get that right. Between my on-again off-again shituationship with one of my band mates, the drinking problem-I-don’t-really-have and losing my job along with my will to live... I’ve kind of botched up my life.

As if things weren’t crummy enough I’m being followed by strange creatures that no one else seems to notice. Right before a big show too, that can’t be a good sign.

I've got a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach about it.

ROTGUT is an 18k psychological thriller / paranormal horror novella about music, mental health, and aliens.

COVER ART BY YUNE (@heavenlyystar on social media) I'm also part of this huge project I've been running alongside author Mars Adler, a Queer Weird West Anthology feature 17 authors and artists, which was fully funded on kickstarter in 11 days! The kickstarter is running until the end of June 2024

Dead Cowpoke's Don't Wrangle With more queers, weirds, and steers than you can shake a stick at, DEAD COWPOKES DON'T WRANGLE collects original weird west tales and art and will take you to the strangest plains over yonder, then further still. So tie up your horse, settle in to wet your whistle 'round the fire, and prepare to be amazed. When shape-shifters, duels, gunslingers, and strangers come to town, you best be saddling up for a hootin' hollerin' good time. You can find all my links to the left of my blog or here

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Fiction: Genre-Mashup Horror Novels

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield Model Home by Rivers Solomon Such Pretty Flowers by K.L. Cerra We Came to Welcome You by Vincent Tirado If I Stopped Haunting You by Colby Wilkens

[whatsuptyler]

Not a terribly serious post, but a post nonetheless! My queer horror romance novel is a pretty serious book, but these unhinged AO3 tags were too fun to not use. If you’re looking for slow burn horror mixed with slow burn romance, exorcism and possession horror, or queer and disabled characters, look no further.

PRAY FOR HIM is out now!

Full description below 👇

PRAY FOR HIM - a LGTBQ+ possession horror novel, out now

A psychic priest is thrown headfirst into a battle of faith and love against the forces of Hell when his dearest friend becomes possessed.

Father Isaias Flores may not have much, but he has his faith—and his dear friend Hector to keep him anchored when he is mired in self-doubt. But when Hector’s daughter, Violet, comes to Isaias with concerns that her father is acting strangely, Isaias’s doubts only increase, now with no one to keep him steadfast. For Hector seems to be possessed by something darker than even the traumas of the past, and Violet has nowhere else to turn to save her only family.

This is a problem that may require divine intervention—the rites of exorcism.

Unsure of his place in the church, doubting his gifts from God, and struggling to make sense of his feelings for the man he had thought was only a friend, Isaias isn’t sure if he is strong enough to save anyone’s soul from damnation.

For what can one man do against the torments of Hell?

[rhettmotel]

Can someone please give me some recs for horror romance?? Wanna break into a new genre over my break. ☺️

[rotten-hearts-sharp-teeth]

"Bound by wild desire... I fell into a ring of fire"

I couldn't decide which version to post so you get both.

'Toxic Love' October prompt featuring my Hellsing OC Sabine and the Captain. There will be a NSFW follow up to this later in the month 👀

[the-book-wyverns-lair]

🩸🗡️Welcome to the darkness that we call Beautifully Bloody…🗡️🩸

There will be no happily ever after here.

The monsters under the bed will get you.

The haunted house will keep you.

The scary stories you grew up with will serenade you with unimaginable darkness.

When the sound down the hall gives you a shiver and the creaking of a floorboard sends you into a panic, we are the ones filling you with a sense of dread, from lust to death.

Do you take the risk, diving into these stories filled with an abundant variety of horror? If so, welcome to our dark side, enter if you dare.

Beautifully Bloody Volumes One and Two are not recommended for readers with any triggers as this will come at you from all different angles.

Get Volume One Here:

https://books2read.com/BeautifullyBloodyVolume1

Get Volume Two Here:

https://books2read.com/BeautifullyBloodyvolume2

#beautifullybloodyanthology #nohea #twentystories #scary #twovolumes #twentyauthors #nowavailable

[maybemockingbird]

My name is A.L. Davidson and I am a genre-blending horror and sci-fi romance author with a penchant for cozy, slice of life style reads! I've got a great community over on Patreon and I'm currently looking for new recruits to come get lost in space with me and enjoy my wide variety of cozy, monster-filled, queer slow burn romance reads with diverse casts of characters! There are tons of perks to dive into across all tiers, and the link is easy to find in my LinkTree, so come nab a free trial and stay for a while with over 1,000 pages of stories!

I'm hoping to get a bunch of new Cosmonauts so I can write a TON of fun short stories, bonus chapters, and spooky stuff for Halloween, so if you're looking for a new author to read, love supporting indie authors with diverse casts and genre-blending vibes, please consider checking out my Patreon! 

Alycia Davidson on Patreon

[alintalzin]

Title: A Dark and Dreadful Thing.

A year after the Jolantean Opera House was burnt down by Countess Alisette Blackthorn, Mr. Elford decides to revive the opera by giving a performance at the circus. As the circus arrives in town, it brings with it a terrifying secret of missing children and a mysterious, unnamed ringmaster trapped within its grasp. Mute ballerina Rowene February, who has fallen in love with the handsome, tortured ringmaster, must put an end to the circus's reign of terror and free him from its clutches.

[deputyrook]

"oh no, that's hot" - sexual awakening through horror - a gifset for every person who ever watched a scene in a horror movie that made them feel something they'd never felt before, knowing it wasn't the 'right' thing to feel.

[sohiara]

[cmrosens]

Beauty and the Beast in Horror Films

Vote in the poll at the bottom of the post for which fairytale you'd like me to look at next - I'll just be collecting everyone's recs for retellings/reimaginings (diverse as poss pls! Plus can be self-pubbed, trad or indie). Also i'll be doing the horror films version of the post too.

Greetings! Before I get into the main post, just a note on my newsletter/posts going forward. Since I generally cross-post from my newsletter to my blog, and now that WordPress has a function that enables only subscribers to access certain posts, I’m going to start using that feature for my newsletter. I already didn’t like substack due to its stance on TERFs, but couldn’t afford to move the…

[lilibetbombshell]

[ladzwriting]

Bloody-Good Horror Reads