Formats: paperback, ebook | Cover design: Ashley Hankins | ISBN (ebook): 9781915691033 | Published: 27 October 2022

About the Book

Unthinkable: A Queer Gothic Anthology collects eighteen original Gothic tales primed to unsettle and entertain.

From a Southern Gothic tale of destruction and revenge, to haunted houses and cursed lovers, to an eco-Gothic saga, Unthinkable’s tales present undying themes of love and tragedy, life and death, all suffused with queerness.

Following on from the success of its predecessor Unspeakable: A Queer Gothic Anthology, Unthinkable features stories from a fresh batch of authors, showcasing the depth and breadth of queer Gothic literature.

Edited by Celine Frohn and featuring an introduction by S.T. Gibson, Unthinkable promises to haunt the reader long after the final page has been turned.

About the Editor

Celine Frohn is a publisher, editor, and PhD researcher with a passion for Gothic and LGBTQ+ literature. The Unspeakable and Unthinkable anthologies combine both her academic work on the nineteenth-century Gothic, as well as her love for contemporary speculative fiction. Celine runs Nyx Publishing, which has published queer SFF including S.T. Gibson’s A Dowry of Blood and Holly J. Underhill’s The Bone Way.

Contributors

K. Blair, Jillian Bost, Adriana C. Grigore, Stewart Horn, Kallyn Hunter, Diana Hurlburt, Gillian Joseph, G.T. Korbin, Solstice Lamarre, Hunter Liguore, Sydney Meeker, Antonija Mežnarić, Elisabeth R. Moore, Valentin Narziss, Tabitha O’Connell, Arden Powell, Kimberly Rei, Jamie Rose, M. Špoljar.

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Praise for Unthinkable

“Populated by ghost lovers, wood sprites, vampires, androids and – above all – queers who survive, Unthinkable taps into a rich seam of potential in the Gothic tradition. Like a haunted well in an abandoned churchyard; I felt utterly compelled to throw myself in!”
Eris Young, author of They/Them/Their and Ace Voices

“From a monastery in medieval Japan to a hipster bar in Buffalo, Unthinkable: A Queer Gothic Anthology is a journey rife with mystery and longing from beginning to end. In Unthinkable, Editor Celine Frohn has brought together a diverse collection of evocative stories that reframe the gothic with a queer lens. These are tales of haunted houses and haunted hearts, each story shimmering with its own dark magic. This is an anthology that will leave you shivering – maybe with fear, maybe with desire, or maybe, with a little bit of both.”
Anuja Varghese, author of Chrysalis

“A glorious and multi-faceted exploration of how the gothic flourishes at the intersections of queer existence. From the crumbling walls of a monastery in medieval Japan to haunted ancestral homelands, this is a collection that breathes new, expansive life into a genre that has always been about change and shifting powers.”
Heather Parry, author of Orpheus Builds A Girl