GAY HORROR FICTION: two novels and an anthology to keep you readg - BOYS, BEARS & SCARESBOYS, BEARS & SCARES

Contents:

• GAY HORROR FICTN BOOKS
• QUEER FEAR: GAY HORROR FICTN, VOL. 2 PAPERBACK – OCTOBER 1, 2002
• GAY HORROR FICTION: TWO NOVELS AND AN ANTHOLOGY TO KEEP YOU READG

GAY HORROR FICTN BOOKS

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I began this list hopg to brg more of an awarens of darker genr wh LGBT mt clu any characters who are or were wrten by thors who intify as gay, lbian, bisexual, trans, genr-variant, tersex, queer, or asexual/aromantic. apolypse, apolyptic, bloody, body-horror, bjo, ics, cryptid, dark-fantasy, mon, dracula, exorcism, f-f, fairi, fantasy, fal-girls, gay, ghost-hunters, ghosts, gore, gothic, graphic-novels, halloween, hnted-hoe, hntg, historil, horror, lbian, lgbt, lgbtqia, mermaids, mlm, monster, murr, necromancers, october, paranormal, posssn, queer, queer-horror, retellg, sapphic, sry, science-fictn, serial-killer, short-stori, slasher, space-horror, spooky, spooky-season, survival, thriller, trans, vampir, werewolv, wch, zombi. Below fd gay horror books that not only ighten but also lve eply to issu of gentrifitn, police btaly, and the HIV/AIDS crisis.

People are disappearg om the gay muny of Toronto. Told wh alternatg chapters of fictn mixed wh diary entri of non-fictn, Red X is one of the most metafictnal gay horror books on this list. Author John Fram pats a bleak picture of a lol nservative town slowly beg smothered wh nightmar one of the bt gay horror books of recent The Bright Lands: Amazon | Goodreads.

QUEER FEAR: GAY HORROR FICTN, VOL. 2 PAPERBACK – OCTOBER 1, 2002

Nonbary thor Ally Wilk has crafted one of the bt gay horror books for fans of the isolated All the Whe Spac: Amazon | Goodreads. Black and gay, Jake Livgston feels alienated at his predomantly whe and straight private school. Though not every character is out, and not every story has gay them, there are more than enough here to make LGBTQIA characters the norm, not the exceptn.

From “In the Hills, the Ci, ” about two gay men who vatn near the se of a rual gone horribly wrong, to “Human Remas, ” about a man whose doppelganger is beg more real than he is, to “The Midnight Meat Tra” — which sadly isn’t what you thk is — Clive Barker’s stori are always brilliant, often disturbg, and nsistently thought-provokg their blend of horror and fantasy.

And while New Orleans may be overplayed (look’ at you, next on our list), the French Quarter and Bourbon Street feel revivified the Stoker-wner’s hands, as a man search for his son’s attacker and challeng an old evil rponsible for several for several gory aths at a gay lounge lled the Wonrland.

GAY HORROR FICTION: TWO NOVELS AND AN ANTHOLOGY TO KEEP YOU READG

An entertag blend of creepy ghost story and off-beat gay romance, this hnted hoe novel is as much about the ghosts our souls as the on unr our beds… but that don’t make s twists any ls spenseful. Rice evotively tangl the ways which unspeakable secrets and sual celti n reach a boilg pot, and how the self-hatred at the heart of homophobia n birth a rage vastatg enough to stroy an entire muny.

Lovecraft and Peter Strb is showsed this tale of overtly threatened macho gay iends tak the creeps factor to 11, patg a bleak and horrific universe that is nohels lguistilly mmerizg. Queer Fear II builds on the succs of s precsor, Queer Fear, the groundbreakg gay-themed horror anthology that lled "the bt horror anthology of [the year], " which won the Queer Horror Award, and was a falist for a Spectm Award and two Lambda Lerary send volume clus among s stori new work by some stars of the prev volume—Internatnal Horror Guild Award wners Gemma Fil and Michael Marano, Bram Stoker Award wners David Nickle and Edo van Belkom, and screenwrer Ron Oliver. Dark pleasur and anxieti of the Queer Fear books have their roots the nightmarish, viral machatns of AIDS and homophobia, as well as the ghoulish, old-fashned thrills of nontg thgs that go bump the night.