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“Chilling and funny in equal measure, this is such an entertaining horror to listen to. This stunning exploration of the implications of AI in art and the effects Corporate Pride have on the queer community had my heart racing from page one. And the narrators only add to the tale, bringing Tingle's characters to vivid life. This is one audio I'll listen to again and again!”
— Amanda • Watermark Books
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“Bury Your Gays is the right amount of fun, gore and emotional that I expected and I totally LOVED IT. The cynical gaze on the instrumentalisation of the LGBTQIA+ representation and the multiple twists on why everything is happening made it an instant book crush for me.”
— Camille • Nouvelle Librairie Internationale V.O
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“I never thought I'd describe a horror novel as joyful but here we are. Chuck Tingle has managed to create a story that is both utterly horrifying AND full of joy. I was elated to see an asexual hero, and the commentary this book makes about how queer folks are treated in media is spot on. With creative monsters, an interesting plot, characters you can really get behind, and above all, hope and joy, this book hit every nerve of my little queer heart. I absolutely loved it!”
— Candice • Tubby & Coo's Book Shop
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“No spoilers here: Bury Your Gays was true Hollywood Magic. Inclusive, timely, and full of hope this will leave readers reconsidering the power of past torments and current technology attachments. ”
— Jenny • E. Shaver, bookseller
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“Chilling and funny in equal measure, this is such an entertaining horror to listen to. This stunning exploration of the implications of AI in art and the effects Corporate Pride have on the queer community had my heart racing from page one. And the narrators only add to the tale, bringing Tingle's characters to vivid life. This is one audio I'll listen to again and again!”
— Amanda Scroggins • Watermark Books
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“You might not have known that you needed a Queer Horror Novel set in modern day Hollywood with a homophobic studio, questionable use of AI, and a screenwriter being haunted by his most terrifying creations after being told by his boss he needs to kill off his gay characters...but I’m here to tell you that you do, in fact, need this novel. Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle is an absolute treat of Queer Horror. It’s fun and bright and exciting and terrifying and frustrating and beautiful. You can always count on Chuck Tingle for incredible representation, captivating stories, and characters you feel like you know in real life. Bury Your Gays is everything I wanted it to be and so much more. Come for the piano dropping on a misogynist, stay for the thoughtful meditations on AI, Hollywood, and Queer Representation in our media. ”
— Ryan • Gibson's Bookstore
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“This one is for all the disappointed fans who never got to see their queer ships become canon on TV. Misha Byrne, once that devastated fan, is now a TV writer who will fight the horrors of homophobia and capitalism to get that coveted on screen kiss. A true hero!”
— Sydney • Book Soup
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“The mysterious author Chuck Tingle, who only makes public appearances in a pink mask and sunglasses, has written a horror novel turning tropes on their heads, offering a bloody, funny commentary on being LGBTQ+, working in the film industry, and contending with some very evil AI. Along the way, we get a primer on the horror genre and meet a host of creepy monsters – all the creation of gay screenwriter Misha Byrne, who finds himself literally battling his own demons. Andre Santana is funny and sly in his narration, and it’s a sheer joy that we have cameo narration appearances from some of the best authors currently writing horror and fantasy.”
— Claire • Honest Dog Books
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"André Santana brings a personable feel to this satirical sci-fi romp.... This audiobook is a fast-paced cocktail of social commentary, humor, and horror." —AudioFile on Straight
Bury Your Gays is a heart-pounding new novel from USA Today bestselling author Chuck Tingle about what it takes to succeed in a world that wants you dead.
"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
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.
Also by Chuck Tingle
Camp Damascus
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books.
CHUCK TINGLE is the USA Today bestselling author of Camp Damascus. He is a mysterious force of energy behind sunglasses and a pink mask. He is also an anonymous author of romance, horror, and fantasy. Chuck was born in Home of Truth, Utah, and now splits time between Billings, Montana and Los Angeles, California. Chuck writes to prove love is real, because love is the most important tool we have when resisting the endless cosmic void. Not everything people say about Chuck is true, but the important parts are.
Charlie Jane Anders is the author of Victories Greater Than Death, the first book in the young-adult Unstoppable trilogy, along with the short story collection Even Greater Mistakes. Her other books include The City in the Middle of the Night and All the Birds in the Sky. Her fiction and journalism have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, McSweeney's, Mother Jones, the Boston Review, Tor.com, Tin House, Conjunctions, Wired Magazine, and other places. Her TED Talk, "Go Ahead, Dream About the Future" got 700,000 views in its first week. With Annalee Newitz, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.
CJ LEEDE is a horror writer, hiker, and Trekkie. She is the author of Maeve Fly, winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award and Splatterpunk Award, and Bram Stoker Award nominee. When she is not driving around the country, she can be found in LA with her boyfriend and rescue dogs.
LIZ KERIN is an author, playwright, screenwriter, and graduate of the Rita and Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She is also the author of The Phantom Forest (2019). She lives in Southern California.
MARK OSHIRO is the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning Latinx queer author of Anger Is a Gift, Each of Us a Desert, and Into the Light, as well as their middle grade books The Insiders, You Only Live Once, David Bravo, and Star Wars Hunters: Battle for the Arena. They are the coauthor (with Rick Riordan) of The Sun and the Star: A Nico Di Angelo Adventure. When not writing, they are trying to pet every dog in the world.
Hugo Award-winning and bestselling author Sarah Gailey is the author of the novels The Echo Wife and Magic for Liars. Their nonfiction has been published by Mashable and The Boston Globe, and they won a Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer. Their fiction credits also include Vice and The Atlantic. Their debut novella, River of Teeth, was a 2018 finalist for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES was raised as pretty much the only Blackfeet in West Texas - except for his dad and grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins. He now lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife, a couple kids, and too many old trucks. Between West Texas and now, he's published more than twenty books, including the novels The Fast Red Road, Ledfeather, and Mongrels, and the short story collections After the People Lights Have Gone Off, States of Grace, and The Ones that Got Away.
Stephen’s been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, the Texas Institute of Letters Jesse Jones Award for Fiction, the Independent Publishers Awards for Multicultural Fiction, three This is Horror awards, and he’s made Bloody Disgusting’s Top Ten Novels of the Year. Stephen teaches in the MFA programs at University of Colorado at Boulder and University of California Riverside-Palm Desert.
T. KINGFISHER (she/her) writes fantasy, horror, and occasional oddities, including Nettle & Bone, What Moves the Dead, Thornhedge, A House with Good Bones, and A Sorceress Comes to Call. Under a pen name, she also writes bestselling children's books. She lives in North Carolina with her husband, dogs, and chickens who may or may not be possessed.
TJ KLUNE is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of The House in the Cerulean Sea, Under the Whispering Door, In the Lives of Puppets, the Green Creek Series for adults, the Extraordinaries Series for teens, and more. Being queer himself, Klune believes it's important—now more than ever—to have accurate, positive queer representation in stories.
Reviews
“Tingle cements his place in horror with this gory romp...[his] vivid, visceral storytelling combines with prescient insight into the corporate dynamics that rule mainstream media. The result is smart, subtle, and a bloody good time.”
—Publishers Weekly (STARRED REVIEW)
“Tingle burst onto the traditional publishing scene with one of the best books of 2023 (Camp Damascus), but his follow-up is even better ... taking readers on a highly entertaining, fast-paced ride, filled with thought-provoking satire, original monsters, and some of the most realistic characters they will encounter on any page, all to prove that love is real and horror itself is, at its core, a celebration of life.”
—Booklist (STARRED review)
“Brilliantly bloody, wildly fun, and extremely scary, Bury Your Gays brings a sledgehammer down on tired tropes and makes a masterpiece of their guts. A profoundly smart and emotionally resonant novel that is sprinkled with cinema magic and a brutal Hollywood reckoning.”
—RACHEL HARRISON, national bestselling author of Black Sheep
“RIP gay clichés! Wickedly funny and hella entertaining, this takes great pride in digging up Hollywood's skeletons and gleefully pounding them to dust. I loved every eerie, nostalgic, blood-spattered, rainbow-flag-waving page.”
—JOSH WINNING, author of Burn the Negative and Heads Will Roll
"This triumph of a book effortlessly and cleverly upends cliche. One of the best novels ever about LA, the film industry, and horror movies, it delivers all the fandom, fear, and feels, and then some. Only Chuck Tingle can tell a story as masterfully as this, and he once again proves that love is so real."
—CJ LEEDE, author of Maeve Fly
Praise for Camp Damascus
An instant USA Today & Indie Bestseller!
A Bram Stoker Award Nominee and CALIBA Golden Poppy Award finalist!
A Best Book of 2023 (Vulture) and a Best Horror Book of 2023 (Esquire, Library Journal)!
An Indie Next Pick!
“Fantastic. Camp Damascus is seriously good.” —Jenny Lawson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy
“A genuinely terrifying nightmare – but it ain’t the monsters you gotta be afraid of. Chuck Tingle is absolutely the best guide through this level of Hell.” —N.K. Jemisin, New York Times bestselling author
“It’s a bighearted, chilling ride that proves the author’s mantra over and over: Love is, indeed, real.” —Vulture
“This book is highly entertaining, cinematic, and filled with monsters, both human and supernatural, all of which will lure horror fans to its pages, but what holds it all together is the immense love at the heart of the novel.” —Library Journal (STARRED review)
“A timely, authentically chilling story.” —Booklist (STARRED review)
“Chuck Tingle continues to surprise and thrill. Camp Damascus is terrifying, darkly funny, and engagingly humane.” —John Scalzi, New York Times bestselling author
“Camp Damascus is a queer horror novel that unpacks the cruelty of conversion camps and that particular brand of religious fervor that actively harms people who are different under the guise of godliness....It is genuinely horrifying.... It is also beautiful and affirming.” —Tor.com
“Camp Damascus feels like a fantastic debut, and a subtle reinvention, and a proper evolution, all at once....a genuinely great horror story.” —BoingBoing
“This chilling page-turner should win Tingle a slew of new fans.” —Publishers Weekly
“A joyful, furious romp through dark places, Tingle proves he's as good at fear as he is at love.” —T. Kingfisher, bestselling author of What Moves the Dead
"Camp Damascus is a hell of a ride. Tingle is right at home in the horror genre - he delivers all the thrills of a slasher while exploring the deep wounds that can be inflicted by broken systems. This book is worth your time." —Sarah Gailey, author of Just Like Home
“Jaw-dropping...both frightening and utterly cathartic. A queer nightmare of demonic proportions!” —Mark Oshiro, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anger is a Gift
“This book is for anyone who thought they were going to hell for being themselves. Chuck Tingle takes that fear and weaves it into a seamless horror that will keep you up at night, not only because it’s got monsters but because we’ve known those monsters. And yet it still proves love is real. Camp Damascus is a big hug to all of us who had to fight to find each other.” —J.R. Dawson, author of The First Bright Thing
“Intelligent, cleverly written, and subversive. A strong and brilliant story of identity, love, sincerity, and personal triumphs even when things get dark.” —R.R. Virdi, USA Today bestselling author of The First Binding
“Thrilling, engrossing, surprising, and ultimately uplifting. I loved it. Tingle blends horror and sincerity and makes it look easy, producing a mystery of betrayal and righteous justice that you won't forget.” —Ryan North, New York Times bestselling & Eisner-winning author
“Clever, scary as hell, and deeply satisfying. Love is real, and it transcends genre.” —Jay Edidin, cohost of Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men podcast
"A well-crafted and surprisingly moving novel. And certainly quite different from Tingle’s previous work..."—CrimeReads