diff --git a/src/MdToHTML.hs b/src/MdToHTML.hs
index fe05d71..b57efd9 100644
--- a/src/MdToHTML.hs
+++ b/src/MdToHTML.hs
@@ -88,7 +88,9 @@ leftmostLongestParse parser input =
         Nothing -> (mempty, mempty)
         Just x -> x
 
-specialChars = "\\#*_[\n"
+specialChars = "\\#*_[\n`"
+
+escapableChars = '~' : specialChars
 
 -- Makes a parser greedy. Instead of returning all possible parses, only the longest one is returned.
 greedyParse :: ReadP a -> ReadP [a]
@@ -196,7 +198,7 @@ parseSingleNewline = do
 parseEscapedChar :: ReadP MdToken
 parseEscapedChar = do
   char '\\'
-  escapedChar <- choice (map char specialChars) -- Parse any of the special chars.
+  escapedChar <- choice (map char escapableChars) -- Parse any of the special chars.
   return (Unit [escapedChar])
 
 -- Parse a character as a Unit.