Horror Book Club: Coup De Grâce

Nothing says “Who needs Valentine’s Day?” like a queer-themed horror book club meetup with a content warning…

While not all horror book clubs are queer, Lala Books is queer-owned and features many queer writers and stories year-round. We will highlight some of those here as meetups. We highly encourage you to order your books through Lala Books to support our community. There is a link to the book club details and website to buy the book below; however, please note the Content Warning (CW) in the details first.

Coup De Grâce is described as “ a harrowing exploration of the expanding labyrinth of despair and the self" by Paul Tremblay. There are queer characters written by a queer author. The book is less than 140 pages long. See more details about the book below. CW: Heavily focused on suicide.

About the Author:
Sofia Ajram (he/she) is a metalsmith and a Bram Stoker award-nominated literary horror writer who specializes in feverish stories of anomalous architecture and gay pining. He is the editor of the forthcoming Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror. She has also given lectures on contemporary horror films at Monstrum Montreal and serves as a moderator of r/horror on Reddit. Sofia lives in Montreal with her cat Isa. Find them on Twitter and Instagram @sofiaajram.

More about the book:
A mindbending and visceral experimental horror about a young man trapped in an infinite Montreal subway station, perfect for readers of Mark Z. Danielewski and Susanna Clarke. Vickers has a plan: throw himself into the Saint Lawrence River in Montreal and end it all for good, believing it to be the only way out for him after a lifetime of depression and pain. But, stepping off the subway, he finds himself in an endless, looping station. Determined to find a way out again, he starts to explore the rooms and corridors ahead of him. But no matter how many claustrophobic hallways or vast cathedral-esque rooms he passes through, the exit is nowhere in sight. The more he explores his strange new prison, the more he becomes convinced that he hasn’t been trapped there accidentally and, amongst the shadows and concrete, he comes to realise that he almost certainly is not alone. A terrifying psychological nightmare from a powerful new voice in horror.

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