Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

Narrated by: André Santana, Charlie Jane Anders, CJ Leede, Georgia Bird, Liz Kerin, Mara Wilson, Mark Oshiro, Sarah Gailey, Stephen Graham Jones, T. Kingfisher, TJ Klune

A 2025 Audie Award winner for Judges Category: Horror!

Long-listed, School Library Journal Best Books of the Year, 2024

Long-listed, Audible.com Best of the Year, 2024

Long-listed, Barnes and Noble Best New Books of the Year, 2024

Long-listed, Esquire Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2024

Long-listed, CPL: Chicago Public Library Best of the Best, 2024

This program features multicast narration.

"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.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books.

©2024 Chuck Tingle (P)2024 Macmillan Audio

Not what I expected, but I enjoyed it.

This book is a love letter to writing horror and to the LGBTQIA+ community. I liked how it combined real-world themes with goofy fictional situations. It shared its message without feeling preachy.
If you are a fan of horror or of queer joy, then you should read Bury Your Gays.

Solid horror

This was a solid horror with enjoyable characters. I could have done without so many narrators but I still had fun with this.

a wild ride! wholey original

this book subverts everything you think you know about queer culture in Hollywood. I promise you you are in for one hell of a ride that you won't soon forget

A celebration of queer joy by a beloved author

This book was a helluva wild ride! The narration was excellent, which really made the novel shine, but the writing itself was the real hero here.

The hype is real.

What’s so special about a masked author in a bright pink suit? I asked myself going into this that very question. As this year’s StokerCon was happening and I started seeing the pics roll in, I kept witnessing friend tout Chuck Tingle.

That’s when I began looking into his titles and came across Bury Your Gays.

This is a wonderful story that doesn’t beat the reader about the head and shoulders with the sexuality aspect of the main character. It’s a well written, thought provoking story with wonderful characters who happen to be part of LGBTQIA+ community. It shows that we are simply humans trying to live our lives. The book also addresses some very real queer issues.

I want to thank my friends for introducing me to Chuck Tingle. I’ll be reading more of his stuff. Maybe we will even meet at a convention some day.

an unpredictable delight

This was my first Tingle book ever, after many years of recommendations to read him by my friends. I expected to live it, and I truly do!

INSANELY good audiobook

This was an INSANELY good audiobook!

I am not typically a horror reader, but this story was so much more than that, and had me completely hooked. (So grateful for this month’s book club pick taking me out of my reading comfort zone.)

With Misha being a scriptwriter, the literary perspective, explanation and understanding of the horror genre on top of the horrific story that unfolded made for a gripping, engaging read.

The sections of the book that were written and read as a piece of a script with full cast and graphic audio truly set this one apart for me. I was emotional one moment, disgusted and horrified, while mildly humored, the next.

The underlying theme of the true horror that is queer erasure in Hollywood was handled expertly, and points were made.

Chuck may make a horror reader out of me yet. (Okay, maybe not, but I’m definitely more open to, and appreciative of, the genre!)

a blast & a half

Super entertaining and full of heart, with a very solid voice performance from the narrator and other cast members. The story was entertaining with lots of exciting twists, and the exuberant and unabashed queerness was refreshing. I ended up feeling really connected to these characters and their struggles and triumphs, and as the story drew to a close I was wishing it wouldn’t end. Hats off to Mr. Tingle for this one.

A book for queer creatives

Chuck Tingle has been a powerhouse in queer fiction for years now and this book reflects his sharpened tongue. It also cuts right to the heart of what it can often feel like as a queer person in America trying to make a living with your art. Beneath a clever story about a witty closeted hollywood writer being haunted by seemingly deranged fans masquerading as monsters from his various films is a very relatable river of angst that nearly every LGBTQ person I know feels towards queer representation in media. Chuck goes straight for the jugular of corrupt, pandering, hollywood elite who hide behind phrases such as "we crunched the numbers and...uh, we really feel like we should go in a different direction with that character" or the classic, "we really liked your story but do you think you could make the love interest a women, we just feel like that would land better"

It is hard to say much more without revealing too much so I will leave it at this: This is a timely horror story that does exactly what the genre should do in 2024, hold up a mirror to our reality and give us some much needed catharsis.

Queer meta horror!

An excellent queer horror. I really enjoyed the structure and story and how some chapters were from the character’s past.