What are You Reading in November?

As I planned, I read a stack of queer horror books in October—though nowhere near as many as I wanted to! First, I finished My Violent Muse by Rosie Sycamore, which is a bisexual dark thriller about obsession, art, and female rage. It is a strange book with a unique voice, and weeks after reading it, I’m still not sure how I feel about it! During my 24-hour readathon, I got through some queer horror graphic novels, including Mister Magic: The Graphic Novel by Kiersten White, Scott Peterson, Veronica Fish, and Andy Fish. I liked the original book, and I thought it worked well as a graphic novel, too. It’s a sort of extended metaphor about Mormonism, using a lost media children’s TV show. I finished reading this at 5 a.m., and it made me cry, but I’m not sure how much of that was from the sleep deprivation. (Queer religious trauma always gets to me.) A novel I read in one sitting during the readathon was Fabulous Bodies by Chuck Tingle, and as has been the case with every Chuck Tingle horror book I read, it was zany and gory and heartfelt, all at the same time. It wasn’t my favourite of his, but I still enjoyed reading it. (I actually teared up at the end of this one, too. What is it...