Bury Your Gays
The instant USA Today bestseller by Chuck Tingle about what it takes to succeed in a world that wants you dead.
Named one of the Best Horror Books of 2024 (Esquire, Parade, and Library Journal) • Winner of the Locus Award for Best Horror Novel • A Lambda Literary Award finalist!
Misha knows that chasing success in Hollywood can be hell.
But finally, after years of trying to make it, his big moment is here: an Oscar nomination. And the executives at the studio for his long-running streaming series know just the thing to kick his career to the next level: kill off the gay characters, "for the algorithm," in the upcoming season finale.
Misha refuses, but he soon realizes that he’s just put a target on his back. And what’s worse, monsters from his horror movie days are stalking him and his friends through the hills above Los Angeles.
Haunted by his past, Misha must risk his entire future—before the horrors from the silver screen find a way to bury him for good.
"Brilliantly bloody, wildly fun, and extremely scary, Bury Your Gays brings a sledgehammer down on tired tropes and makes a masterpiece of their guts."—Rachel Harrison, national bestselling author of Black Sheep
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Community Reviews
There was alot of cheekiness and cleverness though; that just kept me reading.
From 1/4 mark to 3/4 mark I was loving it. Very much horror comedy. Some really great moments.
It was just such a slog to get into…and there just wasnt a good flow.
Too many time jumps. The themes in the book are fantastic. It covers SO MUCH ground.
Despite some reviews not enjoying the horror movie villains; they were some of my favourite parts. Especially his explanation of inspiration and real life horrors the character endured.
The beginning wasn’t compelling and book didn’t need the last few chapters.
I mean, wow.
This is the single best work of queer horror I have ever read, a perfect homage to the genre. Beyond comparison (until I read the rest of the Tingleverse that is). Maybe also one of the best books I’ve ever read in general. There wasn’t a single moment I wasn’t fully invested in this story. I found Misha a refreshingly realistic horror protagonist and that maintained my immersion throughout all the unbelievable twists and turns.
The antagonist in this book is so incredibly unique. I can’t say much without spoiling it, but I think it perfectly captures so much of the modern artist’s anxieties about our rapidly-changing world. Especially in regards to the ending… fuck that hits hard. It’s thoroughly terrifying and poignant and profound. And the deeply intimate exploration of queer trauma and the heartbreak and long-lasting damage that comes from social stigma and a lack of media representation… it’s all so spot-on, so raw, so relatable it physically hurts you.
One of the booktubers I like the most is a queer horror aficionado and so after finishing this book I immediately went to her page to see if she’d reviewed it. We seem to have very similar tastes so I was curious to see how she felt. Sure enough, she gave this 5 stars as well. It’s inarguably, objectively a great story and anyone with even a passing interest in the genre should not miss out on it.
(I also immediately went to the website to see if the Congratulations, Baby matchbook was on sale and of course that was a very silly hope I had, but if those were ever sold I would definitely buy a few. Please Chuck I want that matchbox so bad.)
Bury Your Gays is a mix of technology and body horror. Taking readers on a high stakes, fast-paced ride with Misha, a gay screenwriter in LA that creates stories and characters based off of childhood memories and trauma. After being given an ultimatum to either make a pair of characters straight or kill them off, Misha begins to encounter very life replicas of villains from past horror projects.
With a five day deadline to save himself and his friends, Misha's world as he knows it is completely changed when he discovers there's more than just a money grabbing CEO that he has to worry about.
I think Tingle is genius for crafting this eerily relevant story centering the dangerous of self-learning/adaptive AI in the hands of the rich who only care about the bottom line. And in the case of Misha, it's a big tech production company trying to monopolize all forms of entertainment.
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