Queer Book Club x Queer Horror Book Club - My Darling Dreadful Thing

For October we are doing a collaboration with Queer Horror Book Club!

**Welcome to Queer Book Club!
We read books about, for and written by queer people! Follow us on Instagram @queer_book_club

We had a great time last meeting talking about mysteries and Norway. For next month we chose to read, My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen

Our next meetup will be held on Tuesday October 14th at Young Ethel’s in Park Slope BK

This month we will be reading My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen**

Spirits are drawn to salt, be it blood or tears.

Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth—strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries—is the light of Roos' life. That is, until the wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop visits one of Roos' backroom seances, and the two strike up a connection.

Soon, Roos is whisked away to the crumbling estate Agnes inherited upon the death of her husband, where an ill woman haunts the halls, strange smells drift through the air, and mysterious stone statues reside in the family chapel. Something dreadful festers in the manor, but still, the attraction between Roos and Agnes is undeniable.

Then, someone is murdered.

"A Sapphic seance of preternatural proportions, My Darling Dreadful Thing summons a stunning new literary voice to be reckoned with. Johanna van Veen reaches beyond the veil to conjure up a gothic shocker like no other."—Clay McLeod Chapman, author of What Kind of Mother and Ghost Eaters

**At the end of the discussion we can vote on which book we read for next month so bring a queer suggestion.

Make sure to support our amazing host bar, by buying drinks! They are so great to support us so we must do our part in return!

We are a lovely accepting group of queers and allies, and all are welcome!

Our book list is officially too long for meetup and will now live on this google doc!
Queer Book Club - Booklist
See you next month!