If Elton John fever-dreamed an episode of The Walking Dead after scrolling TikTok at 3 a.m., you’d probably get Fabulous Bodies. 🧟✨🎹
Chuck Tingle is back with another completely unhinged queer horror story, and honestly? This one feels like he locked himself in a glitter-covered nightclub with a Red Bull, a horror movie marathon, and a deep fear of influencer culture. 😂
Poppy is a 27-year-old fashion influencer and single mom with around 200k followers… and also a part-time corpse thief selling bodies on the black market. As one does. 💅⚰️ She’s offered $5 million to steal the body of Eddie, a legendary piano-pounding gay icon from the 1970s. But naturally, things go very badly when Eddie wakes up as a zombie. From there, the book spirals into one chaotic night full of queer camp energy, bizarre humor, and nonstop “WHAT am I reading?!” moments. It genuinely gave me Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle vibes if Harold & Kumar wandered into a haunted glam-rock apocalypse. 🌈🪩🧠
What I continue to appreciate about Chuck Tingle is that no one else is really doing horror quite like this. The absurdity is the point. Underneath all the madness, there’s still commentary about fame, identity, loneliness, and performance. For me, this one didn’t hit emotionally quite as hard as Lucky Day or Bury Your Gays, which both had a little more heart beneath the chaos. But I still had an absolute blast reading it and connected with both main characters.
Wild. Campy. Gross. Funny. Surprisingly tender in spots. Basically: exactly what you sign up for when you pick up a Chuck Tingle book. 🖤
⭐️ 3.5/5 stars
Thank you to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for the advanced listening copy! Fabulous Bodies publishes in July.
Leave a Reply