Literary agents who want books like Mexican Gothic

Reisinger is open to a wide range of horror in adult fiction but has a specific, differentiated desire: something with humor, satirical bite, or meta self-aware…

She describes herself as actively hunting in this space and uses enthusiastic language — 'spooky and spellbinding,' 'haunting and beautiful,' stories that keep …

Bertoloni gravitates toward horror that unsettles slowly and atmospherically—think gothic dread, ghosts, and dark romantic undercurrents rather than pure shock …

Her guiding principle here, borrowed from Michael Connelly, is that a great crime novel is about how a case works on a detective — not how a detective works on …

This is her stated top priority. She wants moody, atmospheric work — elevated dark academia, Southern gothic, and horror that unsettles. Think gothic horror in …

Harper is specifically hungry for horror that functions as a family saga in disguise — emotional dread layered over supernatural threat. Psychological horror, g…

This is the center of her fiction taste. She wants novels with Gothic atmosphere, psychological tension, family secrets, and the kind of slow-building dread tha…

Female-centric suspense with genuine twists and compulsive pacing is a clear priority. She also wants fast-paced thrillers with a light speculative edge, and at…

She wants contemporary, historical, and gothic horror, with particular enthusiasm for gothic set in non-Western contexts, and queer/trans/feminist horror with s…

This is Valentina's highest-priority category and the one she named explicitly when reopening to queries in May 2026. She wants the full tonal spectrum — eerie,…

Horror — including gothic horror and manuscripts that fuse horror with science fiction — is a named priority. She responds to atmospheric, high-concept work wit…

This is her core and primary interest. She is drawn to horror that operates on two registers at once — genuinely unsettling and formally literary, with prose th…

This is her clearest passion. She wants voice-driven horror that approaches fear in inventive ways — macabre humor, gothic atmosphere, psychological dread, cosm…

He wants gothic and horror novels that earn their dread through emotional grounding — not pure shock value but fear that emerges from character and place. His c…

Mattson has a clear weakness for SFF that prioritizes imagination and wonder over technical world-building machinery. 'Mind-bending but not too techie' is the g…

Crisp's horror appetite runs toward the literary and historical: haunted houses, angry ghosts, morally ambiguous speculative threads, and gothic atmosphere over…

Katrina is specifically hunting gothic genre blends that layer romance, speculative fiction, supernatural lore, and richly drawn historical settings — haunted c…

High-concept adult sapphic romance is an active priority. She is also drawn to paranormal and speculative romance set in richly atmospheric historical periods —…

The center of the recent sales. Spieller wants upmarket and book-club fiction, diverse and female-driven suspense and thrillers, immersive upmarket or literary …

BIPOC-authored crime fiction is a confirmed priority backed by a sale. She wants mysteries and thrillers centered on diverse protagonists — particularly Latina,…

Her sales record makes this her single strongest category. She wants fresh worlds and nuanced themes, not paint-by-numbers secondary world fantasy. She is drawn…

Her clearest adult-fiction priority. She wants atmospheric, culturally rooted horror with literary ambition—the kind of novel that uses setting and heritage as …

She gravitates toward literary novels where the speculative element feels peripheral but inevitable — magic that seems to breathe just outside reality's edge. M…

Horror is Romero's defining passion and her top priority across MG, YA, and adult. She wants nearly all subgenres—gothic horror, paranormal horror, psychologica…

This is her most loudly stated priority. She wants narratives exploring immigrant experience, colonial legacy, and diaspora identity—written in any genre. The e…