✨Horror / Gothic / Paranormal Cont.✨
-Voice-driven narratives with strong character perspective and emotional depth
-Stories that blend horror, gothic elements, or the paranormal with identity, relationships, grief, or memory (5/8)

✨Horror / Gothic / Paranormal ✨
-Atmospheric, eerie, or unsettling storytelling. . . hauntings, decay, isolation, or a lingering sense that something isn’t right
-Psychological or social tension grounded in real fears, often intersecting with the uncanny or supernatural (4/8)

3. YA queer horror & speculative
-ANYTHING comped to Leviticus please
-Teen voices that sound genuine
-Stories with meaningful themes (without being preachy)
-Non-western settings and magic systems #MSWL #writersky

2. Adult thriller/horror
-Fast-paced thrillers and horrors, esp. from BIPOC or queer POV
-Campy queer horror equally laugh-out-loud as it is spooky #MSWL

"I want Gothic horror, space horror, folk horror, psychological horror, supernatural horror, slasher horror – scare me!"
Rose Ferrao #MSWL

BIPOC fantasy, horror, & thriller #MSWL

I look forward to reading! 🥰 Find the rest of my wishlist here:
stormliteraryagency.com/madelyn-knecht.html

Watching The Boroughs and would love something in this vein! Older protagonists who aren’t believed, funny banter, SciFi/horror #MSWL

🧵 1/8: Hi authors + illustrators! As a new literary agent at Storm, I’l open to queries soon. I wanted to share my #MSWL .

I’ll be searching broadly in June. Here’s what I’d love to see in my QueryTracker inbox for YA to New Adult.

Full: jackiegarciamorales.my.canva.site/hello/

Specific wishes in Young Adult Fiction:
Stories that grapple with faith, sexuality, and/or cultural identity, like Ahmad Saber’s RAMIN ABBAS HAS MAJOR QUESTIONS
Mystery thrillers that keep me turning the page, like Katie Bernet’s BETH IS DEAD (retellings or not)
Stories that broach topics like neurodivergence and sexuality in an authentic way, like Andrew Joseph White’s THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH
Psychological horror that reads like a dark fairy tale, like C.G. Drews’s DON’T LET THE FOREST IN

Specific wishes in Adult Fiction:
High-stakes fantasy where characters face impossible decisions
Boundary-pushing Queer horror, like Andrew Joseph White
Weird girl fiction, like Callie Kazumi and Monika Kim
litRPG, like Matt Dinniman’s DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL
Cottage gore and botanical body horror (think the aesthetic of the movie Gaia)
Thrillers with extremely high-concept hooks, like Marisa Walz’s GOOD INTENTIONS and Caro Clare Burke’s YESTERYEAR
Unhinged female protagonists, like Marisa Kashino’s BEST OFFER WINS

#mswl

*whispers* I will finally be opening for queries after almost a year of being closed. My query inbox will be open June 1st-15th and July 1st-15th. If you’re interested in what I’m looking for, check out my new #MSWL #queryingauthors #litagent

our Senior Agent, Leah Pierre, quite a bit. Leah is into horror and magic. So, if those are your categories, please vist Ladderbird.com, and visit Leah's Query box.
For this editor, I plan to reach back out for her dream project! #MSWL

In Horror:

⚰️ Indigenous horror, unexplored folklore of all countries and people

⛴️ Closed-set horror, like a cruise ship, a locked mall, a flooded island

👹 Tightly interwoven choice and plot; characters that drive the plot; rejecting puritanical moral codes

🌽 Ethel Cain & Hozier music

In Romance:

💘 I want, most of all, to fall in love. Make me swoon like a Victorian maiden. 100/10 on the swoon scale.

🌸 Historical romance that explores secret societies, unspoken relationships

🗝️ Romance always has to have another genre for me, be that fantasy, horror, or mystery (or all three!)

"Send me upmarket genre fiction: fantasy, grounded science fiction, magical realism, and horror."
mariavicente.com #MSWL

#mswl

"I love Gothic fiction of all kinds and crave horror through immersive atmosphere and prose."
alexandragrana.bsky.social #MSWL

I'm open to queries again! It's a bit earlier than I thought, but since I was nearly at inbox zero, I decided to go ahead and open. Here's my updated #MSWL : www.azantianlitagency.com/about-us/tha...

You can query me here: querytracker.net/query/thaisa...

Visual #MSWL Part 2!