#hungerstone

Favourite reads of 2025

Some of my favourite books and comics and art books! As well as things I look forward to reading next year! Art in the first slide are of fanart from Godkiller and Hungerstone.

edit: i believe sara moved her shop to squarespace, so you can now buy her zines here:

A dry description of the premise does not do the narrative even close to justice. The prose is impressionistic, emotive, and simultaneously introspective and self-deluding. Carmilla's nature as a vampire is never revealed in full, only alluded to, and she looms like an enticing spectre of id in our protagonist's mind. The house feels more like a monster, a synecdoche for the grievous harm our protagonist's circumstances have pushed her to inflict on herself. As she allows herself to rediscover want, the experience is as uncomfortable as it is elating, her desires as cruel and unjust as they are wholesome and fulfilling.

i read 26 books in october and a chunk of those were about sapphic vampires & other sapphic horror reads ..... 'tis the lezzie vampy szn! 🦇

i have all of these available on my pagebound profile for anyone interested in adding them to their tbr while checking out an indie, anti-ai booktracker platform co-founded by two cool women ⭐️

i wanna share more book recs on here but for now, check these out + the two lists i have available on pagebound on lesbian history & general sapphic reads!

like. if you want Romantic Sapphism I get it but Hungerstone isn't doing that. It's not about that and that is NOT because of some failure of straight woman writing lesbians! it's a Gothic novel for crying out loud, it's like asking Wuthering Heights to be a comedy of manners a la Emma. what next, shall it be a book about two lesbians rescuing a cat in the Alps and falling in love on the way??

the amount that Hungerstone NAILS the social dynamics of Lenore's position, the abandonment by her husband, the yearning to be loved or even to be touched with any affection or attraction; any acknowledgement that he might care for her. The way Henry compliments her by saying she is like a man in her emotions! And then...enter the vampire. Hunger. And oh...she is hungry. It is not ABOUT LOVE!! It is about WANT. It is about STARVING. It is about DESIRE and someone showing up, stripping away every wall you have built to keep yourself carefully shielded from your own howling yearning starvation for love, and saying want.