Query: Non-erotic horror novels about sexuality
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
American Psycho
The Lovely Bones
Among the Missing (novel)
Cujo
Dolores Claiborne
Carrie (novel)
Gerald's Game
Exquisite Corpse (novel)
My Sweet Audrina
Our Lady of the Inferno
The Howling
Bag of Bones
Evidence from documents: American Psycho: '''''American Psycho''''' is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991. The story is told in the first person by Patrick Bateman, a serial killer and Manhattan investment banker. Alison Kelly of ''The Observer'' notes that while "some countries deem it so potentially disturbing that it can only be sold shrink-wrapped", "critics rave about it" and "academics revel in its transgressive and postmodern qualities"
The Lovely Bones: '''''The Lovely Bones''''' is a 2002 novel by American writer Alice Sebold. It is the story of a teenage girl who, after being raped and murdered, watches from her personal Heaven as her family and friends struggle to move on with their lives while she comes to terms with her own death. The novel received critical praise and became an instant bestseller. A film adaptation, directed by Peter Jackson, who personally purchased the rights, was released in 2009. The novel was also later adapted as a play of the same name, which premiered in England in 2018.
Among the Missing (novel): Non-erotic horror novels: The book is a detective story about an investigation into the murder of a woman whose decapitated body is found on a beach.
about sexuality: The pursuit of the killer leads to a complicated series of events involving Merton (a homosexual drug dealer
Cujo: is a 1981 psychological horror novel
Dolores Claiborne: '''''Dolores Claiborne''''' () is a 1992 psychological thriller novel by Stephen King. The novel is narrated by the title character. Atypically for a King novel, it has no chapters, double-spacing between paragraphs, or other section breaks; thus, the text is a single continuous narrative, which reads like the transcription of a spoken monologue. It was the best-selling novel of 1992 in the United States. The story introduced the fictional community of Little Tall Island, which Stephen King later used as the setting for the original TV mini-series ''Storm of the Century''.
Carrie (novel): '''Carrie''''' is a horror novel by American author Stephen King. It was his first published novel, released on April 5, 1974, with a first print-run of 30,000 copies. Set primarily in the then-future year of 1979, it revolves around the eponymous Carrie White, a friendless, bullied high-school girl from an abusive religious household who uses her newly discovered telekinetic powers to exact revenge on those who torment her. In the process, she causes one of the worst local disasters the town has ever had. King has commented that he finds the work to be "raw" and "with a surprising power to hurt and horrify." Much of the book uses newspaper clippings, magazine articles, letters, and excerpts from books to tell how Carrie destroyed the fictional town of Chamberlain, Maine while exacting revenge on her sadistic classmates and her own mother, Margaret. ''Carrie'' was one of the most frequently banned books in United States schools in the 1990s because of its violence, cursing, underage sex and negative view of religion.
Gerald's Game: '''''Gerald's Game''''' is a 1992 suspense novel by American writer Stephen King. The story is about a woman whose husband dies of a heart attack while she is handcuffed to a bed, and, following the subsequent realization that she is trapped with little hope of rescue, begins to let the voices inside her head take over.


The book is dedicated to King's wife Tabitha and her five sisters. Originally, the book was intended to be a companion piece to King's novel ''Dolores Claiborne'', with the connecting theme of two women in crisis caught in the path of an eclipse, though this aspect was greatly reduced by the time the books were published.


The book was adapted into a 2017 film directed by Mike Flanagan.
Jessie Angela Mahout Burlingame and her husband Gerald, a successful and aggressive lawyer, travel from Portland to their secluded lake house in western Maine near Kashwakamak Lake for a spontaneous romantic getaway. The titular "game" involves handcuffing Jessie to the bed for lovemaking, a recent addition to their marriage that Jessie pretends to enjoy, though Gerald finds it exciting. This time, however, Jessie finds herself reluctant after being handcuffed to the bedposts and asks to stop, only to be ignored by Gerald, who pretends her protests are only part of their game. Realizing her husband is deliberately feigning ignorance and that he plans to rape her, Jessie lashes out, kicking Gerald in the chest. The shock causes him to have a fatal heart attack. He dies, leaving Jessie still handcuffed to the bed.
Exquisite Corpse (novel): horror novels: '''''Exquisite Corpse''''' is a horror novel by American writer Poppy Z. Brite.
about sexuality: The protagonist of the story is Andrew Compton, an English convicted homosexual serial killer, cannibal and necrophiliac.
My Sweet Audrina: The story features diverse subjects, such as brittle bone disease, rape, posttraumatic stress disorder and diabetes, in the haunting setting of a Victorian-era mansion near the fictitious River Lyle.
Our Lady of the Inferno: '''''Our Lady of the Inferno''''' is a novel by horror journalist and author Preston Fassel and the first officially licensed novel published by ''Fangoria'' magazine under their ''Fangoria Presents'' imprint. It was originally published by Fear Front, an independent press, in 2016, and was only briefly in print before the company closed in early 2017. In May 2018, ''Fangoria'' magazine announced that it had acquired the book and would be printing it as "Fangoria Presents #1," the inaugural entry in an imprint of branded horror novels.


Set in 1983 Manhattan, the book tells the intersecting stories of Ginny Kurva, a twenty-one-year-old polymath working as a prostitute in Times Square; and Nicolette Aster, a safety inspector at Fresh Kills Landfill who moonlights as a serial killer. It received a generally positive reception, winning the 2018 Independent Publishing Award for Horror and the FANGORIA reissue being named by Bloody Disgusting as one of the 10 best horror books of 2018. Reviews tended to praise its complex treatment of female characters within the horror genre, particularly Nicolette, who received favorable comparisons to Patrick Bateman. Reviews also tended to focus positively on the book's attention to period detail, especially in evoking the 42nd Street vice district of the early 1980s.


A film adaptation is in development as of February 2018. In 2019, it was announced that Barbara Crampton would voice Nicolette in an audio drama adaptation being produced by Mark Alan Miller.


Ginny Kurva is a twenty-one-year-old, alcoholic polymath living in a welfare hotel 1983 Times Square, where she cares for her paraplegic younger sister, Trisha, by working as a prostitute. Ostensibly subservient to her pimp, an elderly Polish gangster known as "The Colonel," Ginny has manipulated him into making her the de facto head of his prostitution operation. In this capacity, she both protects the other girls in her care and instructs them in science, mathematics, and literature, in the hopes that they one day be able to obtain legitimate employment. Ginny's only respite comes in the form of riffing on low-budget horror films with her best friend, Roger, in the Colossus, a grindhouse they both frequent. One evening, Roger informs Ginny that he witnessed one of her girls, Tina, assumed to have run away, being lured into the back of a distinct green van. Ginny dismisses the claim as paranoia.


It is revealed that the van belongs to Nicolette Aster, the safety inspector at Fresh Kills Landfill. Plagued by frequent hallucinations involving murder and violence, Nicolette hides behind a mask of sanity, which allows her to move about the landfill unmolested; after hours, she travels into the city to abduct sex workers, bringing them back to hunt and kill.
The Howling: '''''The Howling''''' is a 1977 horror novel by Gary Brandner.
Bag of Bones: '''''Bag of Bones''''' is a 1998 horror novel by American writer Stephen King. It focuses on an author who suffers severe writer's block and delusions at an isolated lake house four years after the death of his wife.