Bury Your Gays

Misha has fought his way to the top of Hollywood. His long-running hit show has just earned him an Oscar nomination, and he is about as secure as anyone in the business can be. Then the studio executives make a request: write the show's beloved queer characters out of the finale by killing them, to please the algorithm.

Misha refuses. The refusal puts him in the studio's sights, and something stranger follows. The monsters from the low-budget horror films that launched his career start to hunt him and the people he loves, moving through the hills above Los Angeles.

The book is a horror-thriller with a queer protagonist and a queer center. It is a frightening monster story first, and also angry and funny, with a tender streak running through it. Its target is an industry that treats queer lives, and queer deaths, as content to be produced and sold.

Reading it means moving between real menace and sharp satire of studio culture. Love and chosen family sit at the center of the story, and the question driving it is whether Misha can keep control of how his own story ends. The book won the Locus Award for Best Horror Novel.