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Horror

REVIEW: A Peculiar Prom Night – R.L. Merrill

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A Peculiar Prom Night - R.L. Merrill

Genre: Paranormal, Romance, Horror LGBTQ+ Category: Gay Reviewer: Ulysses, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book Four sexually frustrated chaperones
 Three hapless kids caught vaping in the bathrooms
 Two heated kisses
 One ghost ship on the San Francisco Bay turns this joyous celebration into one helluva creepy night…
 Meet siblings Ramona and Ruben, veteran teachers at Baymont High School. They’ve been chaperoning proms for years, but tonight they’ll need all of their faculties to protect their students from beings who may or may not have evil intentions. Oh, and manage to keep their family’s secret while attempting … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT: A Peculiar Prom Night – R.L. Merrill

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A Peculiar Prom Night - R.L. Merrill

QSFer R.L. Merrill has a new MM paranormal/horror romance out: “A Peculiar Prom Night.” Four sexually frustrated chaperones
 Three hapless kids caught vaping in the bathrooms
 Two heated kisses
 One ghost ship on the San Francisco Bay turns this joyous celebration into one helluva creepy night…
 Meet siblings Ramona and Ruben, veteran teachers at Baymont High School. They’ve been chaperoning proms for years, but tonight they’ll need all of their faculties to protect their students from beings who may or may not have evil intentions. Oh, and manage to keep their family’s secret while attempting to get closer to their … Read more

Tales for October – Boogieman in Lavender

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This will be a Halloween season like no other. Fears are real. Trick-Or-Treat may be cancelled. Costume shops are devoid of costumes. Wearing masks has taken on a new meaning. With more time to read, the escape of good horror fiction has never been more needed. The fine writer Greg Herren has released a collection of mystery and suspense stories; “Survivor’s Guilt and Other Stories.” (Bold Strokes Books.) Including such fine tales as “Annunciation Shotgun” and the title story blending gripping plotting with fine character studies. Many of Herren’s stories have the feel of episodes of the old “Alfred Hitchcock … Read more

Interview Queer Horror Director Israel Luna – new Film “Ouija Warehouse”

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Filmmaker Israel Luna completed filming of “Ouija Warehouse” in June – the fifth installment in Luna’s The Ouija Experiment franchise. The first three are American films the first distributed by Viva Pictures and the other two distributed by ITN Studios, while the fourth is a foreign film distributed by MGK Multimedia. Israel independently made the first film titled, “The Ouija Experiment”, a remake of his 2002 film, “Is Anybody There?”, on a small budget of one-thousand two hundred dollars in 2013. The movie did so well in sales that ITN Studios picked up and funded the sequel, “Ouija: Resurrection” in … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: The Door and Other Uncanny Tales – Dmetri Kakmi

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Dmetri Kakmi has a new queer horror collection out: “The Door And Other Uncanny Tales.” And there’s a giveaway! Living paintings, spectral children, cannibal serial killers, lost souls, haunted houses, and ancient evil proliferate The Door and Other Uncanny Tales. Everywhere reality and fantasy collapse to create a new unstable world, even the body is not what it seems. Combined with Dmetri Kakmi’s gothic imagination and mordant humor, the result is fiction that is as memorable as it is unsettling. This collection contains three new and three previously published stories, including the acclaimed Haunting Matilda, The Long Lonely Road and … Read more

The Feminist World of Joanna Russ- Boogieman in Lavender

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Her literary criticism was blunt and uncompromising. Her humor was sharp and stinging. Her importance to the field of science fiction cannot be underestimated. Best of all, her fiction is still being read, enjoyed and learned from. She is Joanna Russ (1937 -2011.) Here, I must confess that I have not read much of Russ’ work, but I am familiar with it. Her book “How to Suppress Women’s Writing” is a must-read. I sat down with one of her collections; “The Hidden Side of the Moon.” I didn’t quite know what to expect, I certainly didn’t expect her sense of … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: The Handsome Twist – Pezhmun Dennis Ghiassi

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QSFer Pezhmun Dennis Ghiassi has a new queer fantasy/horror/romance book out: “The Handsome Twist.” The Handsome Twist is a dark fairy tale inspired by the author’s actual life, being raised in Iran as a gay male, which for many who don’t know, is equivalent to the death penalty. Due to tackling topics such as perverse behavior, taboo lust, political oppression, maltreatment, rape and homicide, in high volume of vulgar language, this book is aimed for the mature audience. Living his sweetest life in a cozy cottage, deep in the heart of a magical forest, a little boy by the name … Read more

FOR READERS AND WRITERS: Balancing Horror and reality

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FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Brandon Lesane: What types/titles of Horror best balance your need to be horrified with your need for [believable] resolutions? 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

FOR READERS & WRITERS: Defining YA / NA

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FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: How do you define YA/NA, especially in spec fic? What is and isn’t appropriate for young adult, and for new adult? Writers: This is a reader and 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/GIVEAWAY: Innovation – Queer Sci Fi’s Sixth Flash Fiction Anthology

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Innovation

Queer Sci Fi’s sixth annual flash fiction anthology is here – “Innovation” – and there’s a giveaway too! IN-NO-VA-TION (Noun) 1) A new idea, method, or device. 2) The introduction of something new. 3) The application of better solutions to meet unarticulated needs. Three definitions to inspire writers around the world and an unlimited number of possible stories to tell. Here are 120 of our favorites. Innovation features 300-word speculative flash fiction stories from across the rainbow spectrum, from the minds of the writers of Queer Sci Fi. Other Worlds Ink | Amazon Kindle | Amazon Paperback | iBooks | Barnes & Noble | Kobo | Goodreads Giveaway Queer … Read more