Friendly reminder: Sapphic Shelf Explosion happens on February 26, 2026. If you’re shopping ahead of time, some books may not be on sale just yet. All participating titles will be free or $0.99 on 2/26/26, so be sure to check the price before you buy.
Hallowed Be Thy Name – Ash Redd
Author-provided blurb:
“The only name on your lips when death comes for you will be mine.”
When Isadora Crane is accused of witchcraft and burned at the stake, her lover Christine Van Tassel is destroyed by grief. Using a powerful ritual, she brings Isadora back, but she’s summoned more than just her lover from beyond the grave.
Another force is eager to spill the blood of Sleepy Hollow’s men and help Christine and Isadora exact revenge on every council member who’ve scorned them. The Headless Horseman will ride until the streets of Sleepy Hollow run red!
Hallowed Be Thy Name is a short sapphic gothic reimagining of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. It was originally written for The Tales of the Scorned Anthology, benefitting charities for reproductive rights in the US. It contains mature themes, dark elements, and graphic violence. Reader discretion is advised, please head all content warnings.
Where to get it on 2/26/26:
• Amazon
Blood Chute – Ash Redd
Author-provided blurb:
This little piggy went to market.
Hell hath no fury like Sadie Graves. After being assaulted in a small, country bar on her twenty-first birthday, she’s consumed by blood lust and fueled by vengeance.
This little piggy stayed home.
Catalina, her step-sister, is happy to oblige all of Sadie’s violent desires and soothe her own inner turmoil.
And this little piggy cried “Wee wee wee wee wee.”
Saddle up because the Grave sisters have captured a fresh little piggy and it’s time for him to make amends and pay in blood.
All the way home.
Blood Chute is a sapphic extreme erotic horror written for Beneath Her Skin: A Feminine Rage Horror Anthology benefitting RAINN. It’s a Southern Gothic short story that contains mature themes, dark elements, and graphic violence. Reader discretion is advised, please head all content warnings.
Where to get it on 2/26/26:
• Amazon
Dark Heart of Ilmoure – Cara N. Delaney
Author-provided blurb:
Iris Grey returns to her hometown hoping to heal old wounds. Instead, she finds a cold welcome, and a family keeping secrets at every turn.
When Iris starts to dig deeper, she soon finds herself mired in a plot that threatens to swallow herself, the town, and the people she once loved.
Where to get it on 2/26/26:
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• Author’s Website
Blood Beneath Ice – Ellen Winter
Author-provided blurb:
The skating world was never ready for Astrid Isolfr, the ‘ice wolf’.
Trained to be a weapon
To compete at all costs
She flinches at soft touch, embracing only the hard slam of the ice.
When Astrid is forced out of the limelight, she finds other ways to demand the adoration she craves.
With blades at her feet and blood on her hands, she beckons you to the rink of death!
Where to get it on 2/26/26:
• Amazon
My Lord – L. B. Shimaira
Author-provided blurb:
A queer, slow-burn erotic gothic horror novel about rediscovering yourself after trauma—with kinky, blood-drinking immortals and polyamory.
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Lord Deminas is known to be cruel. Yet, he’s rather protective of Meya, his new chambermaid, and punishes anyone who dares hurt her. Servants regularly vanish, and with the Lord now drinking her blood, Meya and her paramour need to avoid the same happening to either of them.
Where to get it on 2/26/26:
• Amazon
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• Author’s Website
The Burning of Seraphim of No Known Father – L.R. Dellacourte
Author-provided blurb:
When one of their friends is burned at the stake, the oppressed young women of an isolated 17th century puritanical community embrace the arrival of a violent, bloodthirsty entity and its rampage of vengeance against the men that have subjugated them.
Where to get it on 2/26/26:
• Amazon
Long Leggity Beasties – Tinnean
Author-provided blurb:
Dark deeds are being done, and Jenn Canaday, a special agent with the FBI, has been assigned to look into them. This takes her to New Mexico, where cattle are being rustled and people are going missing — one of them the niece of the state’s governor.
Meg Parkinson is a sheriff’s deputy in the small town of Laurel Hill. She and Jenn had once spent a steamy week together, but then Jenn had sent her away, something Meg hasn’t gotten over, as reluctant as she is to admit it.
When Meg notices that the homeless camp on the edge of her town has become deserted, Jenn is brought into her vicinity to aid in the investigation. Will the former lovers be able to work together? Can they rekindle the flame that had once burned so brightly? And will they learn what’s behind all the disappearances without disappearing themselves?
Where to get it on 2/26/26:
• Amazon
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The Binding of Bloom Mountain – Vesper Doom
Author-provided blurb:
The Binding of Bloom Mountain is an adult folk horror novel. Set in an alternate Appalachia, an autistic lesbian must do a ritual hike up a cursed mountain to save a town from destruction.
Where to get it on 2/26/26:
• Amazon
• Author’s Website
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