Danai Christopoulou is the author of Vile Lady Villains , a sapphic horromantasy that brings Klytemnestra together with Lady Macbeth, out in the U.S. on May 12th from Union Square & Co. Below, they talk about three horromantasies they loved reading this year: Horror and romance dance well together. The realms of the beautifully grotesque and the deliciously macabre have given birth to stories that, though we didn’t always call “horromantasies,” we did relish their melange of lust and repulsion. This mix is one I tried to keep in mind while I was drafting Vile Lady Villains , and one I keep yearning for in the books I read. And while some of the three titles mentioned below tilt the balance toward one end or the other, all deliver impeccable settings and characters that you can’t help falling in love with — and being terrified by. Bury Our Bones In the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab : I will read everything V. E.…