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Horror

REVIEW: Where Evil Begins – Matt Converse

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Where Evil Begins - Matt Converse

Genre: Horror LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Gordon Get It On Amazon About The Book Tyler is a sexy young newbie to the New York City leather scene. When he eyes a muscled, masked stranger, his hunky best friend Andrés warns him to be careful due to the string of recent murders in the leather community. The masked stranger hides more than his face, and that is revealed when you go back far enough. True evil is made, not born. The Review This novella, “Where Evil Begins” by Matt Converse, is fast-paced and well-constructed, featuring jumps from the present moment, where … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Nocturne Chronicles – River Hamilton

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QSFer River Hamilton has a new fantasy horror romance out: “The Nocturne Chronicles Book One.” They are no longer human. But now they have to fight to save their humanity. Two hundred years ago the Great Vampire War between the Nation and the Lair brought the realm of the undead to the brink of extinction – a struggle between order and chaos, from which the Nation emerged victorious and all-powerful, to reform the vampire world forever. But now the Lair has returned, sworn to bring back the old ways of killing and hunting. Adeimantos – a 2,000-year-old vampire – finds … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: The Man from Milwaukee audio – Rick R. Reed

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Man From Milwaukee

QSFer Rick R. Reed has a new gay horror book out on audio: “The Man From Milwaukee.” It’s the summer of 1991 and serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer has been arrested. His monstrous crimes inspire dread around the globe. But not so much for Emory Hughes, a closeted young man in Chicago who sees in the cannibal killer a kindred spirit, someone who fights against the dark side of his own nature, as Emory does. He reaches out to Dahmer in prison via letters. The letters become an escape — from Emory’s mother dying from AIDS, from his uncaring sister, from … Read more

There Was A Crooked Man, A Queer Tale By A Master Of Words – Boogieman In Lavender

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Once upon a time, in an era where LGBT relationships did not have even the acceptance they do today there was a grand master of words who envisioned something entirely different. Charles Leroy Nutt, a heterosexual writer who had published in science fiction and fantasy magazines and written for comic books, penned a “daring” story titled “The Crooked Man,” which first appeared in the August 1955 issue of Playboy and followed a man, “Jessie,” described as a “pervert” through a world of furtive hookups and clandestine sex (even if the sex could only be implied.) Charles Leroy Nutt’s other published … Read more

for writers: Share Your Spec Fic Holiday Tales!

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: Yesterday we asked readers to share their fave queer spec fic winter holiday tales. Now we’re asking our authors! Short description and link, please. Writers: This is a writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

FOR READERS: Favorite Queer Spec Fic Winter Holiday Tales

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Scott: Readers, bring me your favorite queer speculative fiction winter holiday tales – Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Festivus, Christmas, Solstice, New Year’s… and why you love them. Links please! Writers: This is a reader chat – you are welcome to join it, but please do not reference your own works directly. Thanks! Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

ANNOUNCEMENT: Unsafe Words – Loren Rhoads

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Unsafe Words - Loren Rhoads

QSFer Loren Rhoads has a new queer spec fic short story collection out: “Unsafe Words.” In the first full-length collection of her edgy, award-winning short stories, Loren Rhoads punctures the boundaries between horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction in a maelstrom of sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll. Ghosts, succubi, naiads, vampires, the Wild Hunt, and the worst predator in the woods stalk these pages, alongside human monsters who follow their cravings past sanity or sense. Get It At Amazon | Publisher | B&N | Bookshop.org Excerpt Excerpt from “Still Life from Shattered Glass” from Unsafe Words by Loren Rhoads The moment … Read more

Happy Turkey Day!

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FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: On this American Turkey Day, share your favorite spec fic books featuring Thanksgiving meals (queer or otherwise). Writers, feel free to share your own works. Writers: This is a reader/writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Join the chat: FB: http://bit.ly/1MvPABVMeWe: http://bit.ly/2mjg8lf

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Devil’s in the Details & other stories – Charlie Descoteaux

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The Devil’s In The Details & Other Stories - Charlie Descoteaux

QSFer Charlie Descoteaux has a new queer horror story collection out: “The Devil’s In The Details & Other Stories.” The Devil’s in the Details & Other Stories–three paranormal Dark Romances featuring characters with shaky moral compasses as they get their Happily Ever Afters. The Devil’s in the Details James is on the run from the Key West Coven and the job he never wanted: enforcer. Portland, Oregon, is as far away as he could get and still be in the US, and since he doesn’t have a passport or a way to get one, that’s where he stopped. James knows … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: Eye of the Beholder – Thomas Grant Bruso

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Eye of the Beholder - Thomas Grant Bruso

QSFer Thomas Grant Bruso has a new gay horror/paranormal book out: “Eye of the Beholder.” In the middle of a psychic session with Madame Petri, David hears a ghostly voice calling his name. But he is not sure if it’s the elderly fortuneteller exaggerating the reading or bizarre grumblings coming from a mysterious old man in a painting hanging in the psychic’s foyer. When Madame Petri disappears in a ball of flames, David rushes home, terrified. From that moment on, David and his policeman boyfriend, Zane, find themselves trying to solve the series of murders and mayhem that begin to … Read more