My Roommate Is Trying To Kill Me by Maya-Gawonii Shabazz-Saleh

Release date: October 13, 2026

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“Funny, frightening, and unexpectedly tender, My Roommate Is Trying To Kill Me is a deliciously unhinged queer horror romance for anyone who’s ever ignored a red flag because the face attached to it was just that good!“ - Aiden Thomas, NYT bestselling author of Cemetery Boys

Some things are harder to survive than murder.

Hakeem Morales wants to be the kind of horror actor people build midnight screenings around. At the moment, he’s mostly working nights at a Los Angeles horror bar, The Last Cue; trying not to spiral about his stalled life; and wondering whether his new roommate is trying to kill him.

Antonio Sanchez is older, private, unfairly attractive, and suspicious in ways Hakeem feels should be illegal. He writes cryptic things in notebooks. He jokes too much about Hakeem’s upcoming twenty-seventh birthday. Every time Hakeem almost convinces himself he’s being dramatic, Antonio does something else deeply alarming.

Unfortunately, Hakeem’s growing list of evidence is matched only by his growing attraction—because nothing improves a possible murder situation like developing a crush on the man you’re pretty sure is planning it.

cover by Marguerite Sauvage of 42.fold Studio!

About the Author

Maya-Gawonii Shabazz-Saleh is an author and critical essayist whose work moves between liberatory frameworks, horror as political analytic, and fiction across genres. Her essays appear in Dead Pretty: Beauty in the Horror Genre (Nottingham Horror Collective, September 2026) and Echoes of the Earth: Black Voices Reclaiming Ecology and Justice (Cassava Republic Press, forthcoming), among twelve other literary magazine publications in 2026.

She is the author of Midnight in California: A Holiday Duology, The Margins Between Us and Moss Mother: Poems from the Bayou, as well as several short stories.

She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.