There’s something about sapphic horror books, I don’t know what it is, but they always end up being so good. Here are some of the best recommendations!

Into the Drowning Deep – Mira Grant

A mockumentary film crew travels out to the Mariana Trench with the intention of filming a documentary about fake mermaids. They 100% plan on faking these mermaid sightings but when they get out there… something happens and they all disappear. All they leave behind is their boat and camera footage that shows a horrifying ordeal. Some people believe what happened, others call it a hoax.

7 years later, a new camera crew and a research team head back out and this time they’re a lot more prepared, or so they think. They plan to find real mermaids for the first time ever. But when they get there they realise that things are far worse than they ever could’ve imagined.

The Invocations – Krystal Sutherland

A supernatural serial killer who leaves no evidence is killing young witches. 

Zara’s sister was one of the victims and she’s not willing to let her sister go that easily – even if it means learning necromancy. Jude is the daughter of a billionaire who made a bad deal with a demon and now her soul is slowly turning necrotic. Emer is the daughter of a witch who sells spells to desperate young women in exchange for part of their souls, and she’s the solution to both of their problems.

They come together to attempt to stop the serial killer before they end up on his hit list.

Our Wives Under the Sea – Julia Armfield

Leah was part of a research team on a submarine where their deep sea mission went horribly wrong. They ended up stranded at the bottom of the ocean with no communication to the top for months. 

Now her wife, Miri, finally thinks she’s got her wife back, but it soon becomes clear that ever since she’s returned… something is not quite right with her. It seems that Leah has brought back a piece of what they were studying with her…

Wilder Girls – Rory Power

18 months ago, Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine when the Tox hit. They’re cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their small island home, where the girls are warned to never wander past the school’s fence where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They’re left to sit waiting for a cure that they’re not even sure is coming.

But then a girl goes missing and her best friend, Hetty, will do anything to find her… including breaking quarantine.

Plain Bad Heroines – Emily M. Danforth

In 1902, 2 students at the Brookhants School for Girls are madly in love and obsessed with the memoir of a scandalous young writer. A few months later, they’re found dead after a horrific wasp attack, the book lying next to their intertwined bodies. After 3 more deaths on the property that are all linked to the controversial memoir, the school is closed for good.

Over a century later, a controversial horror film about the events at the school is being filmed at the crumbling and supposedly cursed school starring hollywood lesbian ‘it girl’ Harper Harper.

You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight – Kalynn Bayron

Charity has the summer job of her dreams. She plays the ‘final girl’ at Camp Mirror Lake, where guests pay to be scared in a full-contact horror game based on a slasher movie. They recreate scenes from the classic film and try to make it as scary as possible for their guests.

But on the last weekend of the season, some of Charity’s coworkers begin to disappear and when one of them turns up dead, she begins to feel like her role as the ‘final girl’ is about to become a bit too real as they’re forced to fight for survival.

This Delicious Death – Kayla Cottingham

The melting of arctic permafrost releasted a virus that caused some people to undergo a transformation that made it so they can only gain sustenance through consuming the flesh of human beings. Those that go without it quickly become feral which has resulted in a distrust of these people and they’re quickly given the nickname ‘ghouls.’

But 3 years on, scientists have developed a synthetic version of human meat that means the world has slowly began to return to normal. 

4 teenage gouls living in Southern California are heading off to a music festival in the desert. But on the first night, one of them goes feral and ends up eating a boy. They soon realise that other festival goers are disappearing and they begin to suspect that someone is forcing ghouls to go feral.

Patricia Wants to Cuddle – Samantha Allen

The final 4 women in a reality dating show are whisked off to a mysterious island in the Pacific Northwest for the final of the show, where the bachelor will choose one of them to date. Each of the women are their for their own reasons – namely fame and brand sponsorships – and not really looking for love.

But soon after they arrive on this island, they realise that something is not quite right. The people act odd and there’s a mysterious but misunderstood local living in the dark and soon, someone has disappeared.