#hailey piper

HP Lovecraft: what if you you saw a cosmic horror and it made you go crazy

August Derleth: what if you saw a cosmic horror and HP Lovecraft wrote it

Robert W Chambers: what if you saw a really off-putting shade of yellow

Stephen King: what if you saw a cosmic horror and it was a clown

Thomas Ligotti: what if you saw a cosmic horror and actually you were the clown all along

Frank Belknap Long: what if you saw a cosmic horror in the corner

Ruthanna Emrys: what if YOU were the cosmic horror

Theodore Sturgeon: what if you saw a cosmic horror and it was a teddy bear

Robert Bloch: what if you saw a cosmic horror and actually the real darkness was inside the human heart the whole time

Ramsey Campbell: what if a you saw a cosmic horror and it was english

Victor LaValle: what if you saw a cosmic horror and it was a metaphor for racism

Caitlin Kiernan: what if you saw a cosmic horror and racism was good actually

Nick Mamatas: what if Jack Kerouac saw a cosmic horror thats like telling gene krupa not to go boom boom bam boom boom bam bam boom boom bam boom

Brian Keene: we can't stop here this is cosmic horror country

Laird Barron: what if you saw a cosmic horror and you could punch it

Brian Lumley: what if you saw a cosmic horror and you could shoot it with a gun

Robert E Howard: what if you saw a cosmic horror but you despised sorcerers and all weavers of the black arts so you killed it and took its treasure (+10 gold coins, +12 experience points)

William Hope Hodgson: ohhhhh what if you saw a cosmic horror in a pineapple under the sea

Arthur Machen: what if you saw a cosmic horror that your nanny warned you about

Hailey Piper: what if you saw a cosmic horror and it was gay

Drew Huff: what if you saw a cosmic horror and it was a bimbo

books i read in 2026:

"all the hearts you eat"

hailey piper

goodreads | storygraph

A kink-fixated couple, Carmen and Blanca, have been in a rut. That is until Blanca discovers the enigmatic Smoke in an under-street drug den, who holds pages to a strange play, The King in Yellow. Read too much, and you’ll fall into madness. But read just a little and pull back, and it gives you the adrenaline rush of survivor’s euphoria, leading Carmen to fall into a game of lust at a nightmare’s edge. As the line blurs between the world Carmen knows and the one that she visits after reading from the play, she begins to desire more time in this other world no matter what horrors she brings back with her.

I’ve recently become very invested in The Worm and His Kings by Hailey Piper

I picked up the books thinking they were queer mystery and instead got launched into a story of cosmic horror (still queer)