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Queer Fear II builds on the successes of its predecessor, Queer Fear, the groundbreaking gay-themed horror anthology that Gothic.net called "the best horror anthology of [the year]," which won the Queer Horror Award, and was a finalist for a Spectrum Award and two Lambda Literary Awards. This second volume includes among its stories new work by some stars of the first volume--International Horror Guild Award winners Gemma Files and Michael Marano, Bram Stoker Award winners David Nickle and show more Edo van Belkom, and screenwriter Ron Oliver. Science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer, winner of the Aurora and Nebula Awards, crosses genres to appear alongside newer writers like Bram Stoker Award winner Brett Savory, novelist Sephera Giron, and classic British ghost story author Steve Duffy. And if that's not enough, Queer Fear II also features a new, unpublished story by internationally acclaimed horror writer Poppy Z. Brite. The dark pleasures and anxieties of the Queer Fear books have their roots in the nightmarish, viral machinations of AIDS and homophobia, as well as the ghoulish, old-fashioned thrills of confronting things that go bump in the night. Queer Fear II will keep you up long past the witching hour. Winner, Lambda Literary Award show lessTags
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FYI Review - This anthology contains the following short stories:
-Introduction: In Further Praise of Queer Fear by Michael Rowe
-Bugcrush by Scott Treleaven
-Polyphemus' Cave by David Nickle
-Dead in the Water by C. Mark Umland
-Delicious Monster by Nalo Hopkinson
-Gaytown by Robert Boyczuk
-Digging Up Graves by William J. Mann
-artGod by Joseph O'Brien
-Black Shapes in a Darkened Room by Marshall Moore
-Night of the Werepuss by Michael Thomas
-On Being a Fetish by David Coffey
-I Stand Alone by Sephera Giron
-Numbers by Steve Duffy
-Want by Ron Oliver
-Oh Yes, My Eyes by David Quinn
-One of the Boys by Edo van Belkom
-Till Human Voices Wake Us by Stephen Dedman
-Slice by Warren Dunford
-Veggie Mountain by Thomas S. Roche
-Exit Wound by Michael show more Marano
-Freshets by Brett Alexander Savory
-Bayou de la Mere by Poppy Z Brite
-The Narrow World by Gemma Files show less
-Introduction: In Further Praise of Queer Fear by Michael Rowe
-Bugcrush by Scott Treleaven
-Polyphemus' Cave by David Nickle
-Dead in the Water by C. Mark Umland
-Delicious Monster by Nalo Hopkinson
-Gaytown by Robert Boyczuk
-Digging Up Graves by William J. Mann
-artGod by Joseph O'Brien
-Black Shapes in a Darkened Room by Marshall Moore
-Night of the Werepuss by Michael Thomas
-On Being a Fetish by David Coffey
-I Stand Alone by Sephera Giron
-Numbers by Steve Duffy
-Want by Ron Oliver
-Oh Yes, My Eyes by David Quinn
-One of the Boys by Edo van Belkom
-Till Human Voices Wake Us by Stephen Dedman
-Slice by Warren Dunford
-Veggie Mountain by Thomas S. Roche
-Exit Wound by Michael show more Marano
-Freshets by Brett Alexander Savory
-Bayou de la Mere by Poppy Z Brite
-The Narrow World by Gemma Files show less
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Michael Rowe is the three-time Lambda Literary Award-nominated author
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- Epigraph
- ... the communication
Of the dead is tongued with fire
beyond the language of the living.
-T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"
Unfathomable to mere mortals is the lore of friends. -Nathanie Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown"
Just as courage imperials life, fear protects it. -Leonardo da Vinci - Dedication
- For Geoffrey Person, with love
and
For Janine Fuller, a personal heroine with admiration and respect - First words
- I love cities, especially in autumn, especially at night in the dead hours before dawn.
Has a haunted house ever existed that could rival the macabre grandeur of those granite-and-steel canyons on a late October nigh... (show all)t, their long shadows tinted blood-red in the high-riding harvest moonlight? In the countryside it might be blacker and quiet, but here in the city, in the shimmer of reflected neon, you can see more clearly what walks beside you, and the distant rush of humanity - muffled car horns, the suspiration of traffic, the sound of people's voices - can many any number of sounds, from breathing to screams. -Introduction: In Further Praise of Queer Fear, Michael Rowe
Grant belonged to that peculiar species of troubled teen that arrives unannounced mid-way through the year, the product of a divorce or a parent being laid off, and completely fails to fit in. It was just the kind of rank, su... (show all)burban pathos that Ben adored, and he fell for the new boy immediately. Unfortunately, in the four months since Grant arrived in the school, Ben had only managed to draw a few semi-meaningful conversations out of him. It was more than the scowly, solitary youth afforded anyone else, and the privilege wasn't lost on Ben, but he wanted more. -Bugcrush, Scott Treleaven - Canonical DDC/MDS
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- PR9197.H67
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