Art by M.E. Morgan, Interior Design by rafael nicolás
Queers Who Bite Book Box November 2023 Indie Choice!
A Sapphic Seaside Cosmic Horror Romance
Love changes you. So do the Outer Gods.
“An extraordinary departure. Dante splices genre in a beautiful and brutal Horror Romance a la The Shape of Water and Midnight Mass. Someone call Guillermo Del Toro, because Providence Girls deserves an adaptation.”
- Freydís Moon, bestselling author of Heart, Haunt, Havoc
- Freydís Moon, bestselling author of Heart, Haunt, Havoc
Now: Alone in a cottage, Lavinia writes to the woman she loved.
Fifteen years ago: Middle-aged Lavinia Whateley escapes her hilly Massachusetts town when the townsfolk decide to sacrifice her on Halloween. After almost dying in the woods, she's saved and housed by the stoic and mysterious Asenath Waite, or Azzie. On the coastal outskirts of East Providence, they start to fall in love.
However, things change when Azzie, with her secret past and the strange "scars" on the side of her neck, begins to transform into an eldritch creature of the deep.
Fifteen years ago: Middle-aged Lavinia Whateley escapes her hilly Massachusetts town when the townsfolk decide to sacrifice her on Halloween. After almost dying in the woods, she's saved and housed by the stoic and mysterious Asenath Waite, or Azzie. On the coastal outskirts of East Providence, they start to fall in love.
However, things change when Azzie, with her secret past and the strange "scars" on the side of her neck, begins to transform into an eldritch creature of the deep.
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Comps
The Shape of Water (romance with (someone turning into) a fish monster) The Fly (1986) (body horror) The Handmaiden (sapphic longing) A Dowry of Blood (epistolary/diary/letter format) Portrait of a Lady on Fire (seaside sapphic longing) Our Wives Under the Sea (sea-related sapphic body horror with themes about grief) |
Content Warnings
Past sexual abuse between a father and daughter Past rape Past traumatic pregnancy Body horror Emetophobia Body dysmorphia Ableism toward people with albinism Mentions of suicide ideation |
