Heart Eyes & Horror Vibes: Curated Reads for the Hopelessly Devoted

This is essential horror rooted in the genre’s long queer tradition, tracing how intimacy curdles into obsession. These stories explore fixation, manipulation, and the terrifying closeness of being truly seen — burrowing into your mind and refusing to let go long after the final page.

Luxury, blood and desire collide when Marion enters the House of Hunger. Ruled by a magnetic, blood-drinking countess, Marion is soon thrust into a cat-and-mouse game of survival in this lush, gothic story.

When Rosemary falls for Ash, a beautiful artisan selling handmade goods at the farmers’ market, desire quickly deepens into fixation. Bloom is a seductive, sapphic novella where romance turns ravenous, and love threatens to consume everything.

After a disastrous deep-sea expedition, Leah comes back from the ocean — but not all of her returns, leaving her wife to unravel what happened beneath the water. Our Wives Under the Sea is a haunting portrait of intimacy, grief and impossible devotion.

A gorgeous gothic ghost story and a Rebecca for a new age. Cañas delivers an atmospheric love story set against the backdrop of the Mexican War of Independence. A winning debut with electric prose.

Something sinister is brewing beneath an isolated mansion in the Mexican countryside, and an ancient evil is about to be exposed. With callbacks to classics like Rebecca, Jane Eyre and The Haunting of Hill House, Moreno-Garcia proves that she is just as consumed by stories of haunted houses as we are in this new gothic horror with a twist.

Do not go lightly into this book. Exquisite Corpse delves into the sadistic mind of two serial killers in sultry, sweltering New Orleans in their search for the “perfect victim”. This novel takes horror to new heights and deep, unsettling lows.

When Olive — a radio host with the peculiar habit of secretly recording every human interaction — meets shy surgeon Theo while volunteering at the local food pantry, she is instantly smitten, especially with the gap between his front teeth. But love soon turns to obsession as Olive grapples with her overwhelming need to be close to Theo, closer than anyone else has ever been before.

A darkly humorous and at times romantic twist on the classic werewolf tale. Blending body horror with a monstrous narrative around identity, rage and transformation, it’s both cozy and terrifying. A compulsive read with bite!

Bound together for centuries, Antonia and Vaslav accept a devilish bargain that promises sunlight — and unravels everything they are. Beyond the Grace of God is a seductive, Los Angeles gothic of immortal love, obsession and the slow horror of losing everything you once were.