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Queer Fear

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A striking and ambitious collection of gay horror fiction by some of today's hottest authors and talented newcomers, covering a wide spectrum of creatures of the night and all manners of urban terrors. These dark, often disturbing tales expand the boundaries of the horror genre; the sexuality of the protagonists is a point of reference for the "horror" of otherness that defines and, at times, divides us.

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Cover painting: Detail from The Ambassador of Obloquyby James Huctwith

Contains the following stories:

"The Nightguard" C. Mark Umland

"Piercing Men" Douglas Clegg

"The Siege" Michael Marano

"Bear Shirt" Gemma Files

"Little Holocausts" Brian Hodge

"The Sound of Weeping" Thomas S. Roche

"Hey Fairy" Edo Van Belkom

"The Spark" William J. Mann

"Spindleshanks (New Orleans, 1956)" Caitlin R. Kiernan

"The Perpetual" David Quinn

"Genius Loci" Becky N. Southwell

"Goodbye" Michael Thomas Ford

"Tabula Rasa" Robert Boyczuk

"You Can't Always Get What You Want" T.L. Bryers

"The Bird Feeders" David Nickle

"No Silent Scream" Nancy Kilpatrick

"Second Shadow" Joseph O'Brien

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 252 pages

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