Product Description

The horror! Gay and lesbian fiction with a twist!

A bone-chilling anthology of gay and lesbian psychodrama, Shadows of the Night brings you face to face with the best in queer fear, breaking through to the dark side of fiction. Short stories that are equal parts haunting and disturbing tremble with tantalizing prose that's inventive, imaginative, and provocative—pulp fiction with a twist. An acclaimed collection of authors gathers at the place where fiction meets fantasy and swaps stories of murder and mayhem, savoring every lurid detail.

Edited by novelist Greg Herren, author of Murder in the Rue Dauphine and Bourbon Street Blues, Shadows of the Night introduces you to the doomed and the damned, including a gay travel writer with a one-way ticket to horror; a murdered lesbian who plots bloody revenge from the grave; a young gay man's fear of Jewish vampires; a gay serial killer with a taste for necrophilia, and much, much more!

Shadows of the Night boasts a collection of contributors that reads like a Who's Who of gay and lesbian, including:

Lambda Literary Award winners Victoria A. Brownworth, J.M. Redmann, William J. Mann, and Lawrence Schimel Lambda Literary Award nominees M. Christian, Jess Wells, Greg Herren, and Therese Szymanski National Book Critics Circle member Richard Hall Novelists William J. Mann, Quentin Harrington, David McConnell, Marshall Moore, and Carol Rosenfeld and Greg Wharton, publisher of Suspect Thoughts Press and editor of the web zines suspect thoughts: a journal of subversive writing and Velvet Mafia!

Shadows of the Night is a collection of horror stories that will satisfy your blood lust for dark fiction.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #966597 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Review
"Creepy, whimsical, and daring...Fascinating and frightening reading." - Warren Dunford, author of Making a Killing "Eerie, macabre, suspenseful, humorous, sexy." - Michael Huxley, editor of Saints & Sinners"

About the Author
Greg Herren is the author of novels Murder in the Rue Dauphine and Bourbon Street Blues. He has edited the anthology Full Body Contact: Sexy, Sweaty Men of Sport, and is currently working on two more.

Customer Reviews

Buy it for Greg Wharton's story, "First Cut"
This is an interesting collection, similar to the Queer Fear series. As with any collection of stories there are highlights. I particularly liked the marvellously neurotic lesbian mindspace of Carol Rosenfeld's rabbit tale. Greg Wharton's gruesome "First Cut" is enough to make any reader wince, focussing as it does on bloody details.

Longer and more brooding in this collection is Marshall Moore's "Sic Gloria Transit." Some wonderful language in this piece ("...suburbs metastasizing themselves out of city cores")

Worth buying for these stories alone.

Wow! Queer horror at its best!
I can't even begin to say how much I enjoyed this book. Some of my favorite writers contributed to this book, and I discovered some new writers I'd never heard of before--and will be watching out for their other work!
Beginning with a Richard Hall story (I'd never heard of him), the book's quality just keeps on building--until the final, a novella by Victoria A. Brownworth, whose journalistic writingsI have always enjoyed....great job!