Rainbow Book Club: Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

The Rainbow Book Club is cohosted by Mindy from Napa County Library and Napa Bookmine staff members Kass and Jules. The book club focuses on books that explore and embrace queer identity.

This is a free event, but we appreciate your RSVP so we can plan for your attendance! We look forward to welcoming you.

"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

“Brilliantly bloody, wildly fun, and extremely scary, Bury Your Gays brings a sledgehammer down on tired tropes and makes a masterpiece of their guts. A profoundly smart and emotionally resonant novel that is sprinkled with cinema magic and a brutal Hollywood reckoning.” — Rachel Harrison, national bestselling author of So Thirsty

"This triumph of a book effortlessly and cleverly upends clichés. One of the best novels ever about LA, the film industry, and horror movies, it delivers all the fandom, fear, and feels, and then some. Only Chuck Tingle can tell a story as masterfully as this, and he once again proves that love is so real." — CJ Leede, author of American Rapture

The instant USA Today bestseller by Chuck Tingle about what it takes to succeed in a world that wants you dead.

Named one of the Best Horror Books of 2024 (Esquire, Parade, and Library Journal) • Winner of the Locus Award for Best Horror Novel • A Lambda Literary Award finalist! • Winner of the 2025 Locus Award for Best Horror Novel • A Best Horror Book of 2024 (Esquire) • One of the Best Books of Summer 2024 (Esquire, Paste, HuffPost, Publishers Weekly) • Winner of the 2025 Libby Award for Best Horror • Winner of the 2025 RUSA Horror Reading List • Winner of the 2025 Dragon Award for Best Horror Novel • A CALIBA Golden Poppy Award finalist • A GoodReads Choice Award finalist for Best Horror • An Indie Next and LibraryReads Pick
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: K*ll 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.

CHUCK TINGLE is the USA Today bestselling author of Camp Damascus, Bury Your Gays, and Straight. His books have been finalists for the Bram Stoker and CALIBA Golden Poppy Award. He is a mysterious force of energy behind sunglasses and a pink mask. He is also an anonymous author of romance, horror, and fantasy. Tingle was born in Home of Truth, Utah and now lives in Los Angeles, California. Tingle writes to prove love is real, because love is the most important tool we have when resisting the endless cosmic void. Not everything people say about Tingle is true, but the important parts are.