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Horror

New Release: Spaceships & Other Trips – Raven Oak

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Space Ships & Other Trips - Raven Oak

QSFer Raven Oak has a new sci-fi queer short story collection out (Gay, Non-Binary, Trans FTM): Space Ships and Other Trips. Part II of this debut collection by multi-award-winning author and artist Raven Oak brings together speculative fiction stories from the past ten years of her career, ranging from space adventures with a dash of mystery and other near-future tales to post-apocalyptic stories and deep dives into the mind. You’ll find closed-ship mysteries, foul-acting apps, talking cats, retail hell, and hacked programs in these ELEVEN speculative fiction pieces. Space Ships & Other Trips contains FIVEnever-before seen stories for your enjoyment, including a tie-in story from … Read more

New Release: Cascade – Rachel A. Rosen

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Cascade - Rachel A. Rosen

QSFer Rachel A. Rosen has a new Sci-Fantasy Cli-Fi book out: Cascade. In the wake of a worsening climate crisis, magic runs rampant and demons roam across the Canadian prairies. A long-dead god stirs in the Pacific Ocean, while the wilderness is choked by invasive, screaming grass. The Cascade has shattered political stability, leaving a scandal-plagued government clinging to power in Ottawa. As catastrophe looms ahead, a precognitive rainman, Ian Mallory, stands between run-of-the-mill corruption and a nightmarish, dystopian future. It is up to a diverse and unlikely band of activists, scientists, journalists, and one underpaid, emoji-spell wielding intern to … Read more

New Release: Six Strange Stories and an Essay on H.P. Lovecraft – Felice Picano

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Six Strange Stories and an Essay on H.P. Lovecraft - Felice Picano

QSFer Felice Picano has a new ghost/story/horror collection out (2 stories are LGBTQ+): Six Strange Stories and an Essay on H.P. Lovecraft. These six stories and an essay on H.P. Lovecraft’s most original work, with comments by the horror-meister’s real life schoolmates, comprise a compelling volume by an author whose earlier work in the field has been called “genius.” In After Sunset in the Second Drawing Room Garden a hip young couple buy the ideal Beverly Hills house perfect for their Television series lifestyle. Only to discover that one special area holds decades old inhabitants who still exert eerie control. … Read more

New Release: What Happened Was Impossible – E. F. Schraeder

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What Happened Was Impossible - E.F. Schraeder

QSFer E. F. Schraeder has a new lesbian weird horror book out: What Happened Was Impossible. Everyone knows the woman who escapes a massacre is a final girl, but who is the final boy? What Happened Was Impossible follows the life of Ida Wright, a man who knows how to capitalize on his childhood tragedies…even when he caused them. Get It At Amazon | Publisher | B&N Excerpt From Chapter One, How She Died A lot of stories like this start with the body of a woman. This time, the body belonged to a mother. That made it different than … Read more

Movies: Summoning Sylvia – Queer Comedic Horror at Its Best

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There was a time when the words “straight-to-video” carried an unspoken implication of mediocrity, at best – but that was before a massive shift in the film industry, accelerated but perhaps not solely driven by the pandemic and the need it created for “watch at home” options – changed the game when it comes to judging a movie by its viewing format. Consider “Summoning Sylvia,” a campy horror comedy that made its VOD premiere on April 7, in which all but one of the characters (two if you count dead people) are queer. It’s safe to say that it’s definitely … Read more

New Release: The Story Generator – Mark All

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The Story Generator - Mark All

QSFer Mark All has a new dark horror/fantasy out (lesbian character): The Story Generator. When an antique device is donated to the Miskatoosa University Library, John Dixon believes it will solve his writer’s block. The machine generates plot developments for a novel—but its suggestions begin to come true, weaving a dark story of its own and piercing the veil between this world and a universe of horror. John and his critique partner Gretchen must destroy the device—but it doesn’t want to die. It wants to finish its story. Get It At Amazon Excerpt PROLOGUE September Blue Ridge Mountains, Georgia Etienne … Read more

Initially Yours, On Beyond Cisgender VI Jeff Baker, Boogieman in Lavender

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Initially Yours: On Beyond Cisgender VI by Jeff Baker NOTE: This occasional series was inspired in 2019 by suggestion from A. M. Leibowitz about a reading list for High School beyond the straight, male paradigm. —jsb I am writing this during March 2023, which is Woman’s History Month. So here (a month or so late!) is a short overview of some (not all!) of the women who wrote sci-fi for the pulps and a little later. I fits in well with this ongoing series “On Beyond Cisgender” which started as recommendations for High School reading but these books are fine … Read more

TV: New Queer Horror Film “Swallowed”

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Swallowed

A new queer horror movie, Swallowed, aims to bring scare seekers a story of drugs, bugs and extremes – where all is not as it seems. Swallowed, which will be released in the UK and Ireland digitally on 24 April, is a Blue Finch Film by acclaimed director Carter Smith who has also worked on the 2008 natural horror, The Ruins. Starring American actor Jena Malone, whose credits include The Ruins and Donnie Darko, Mark Patton, who starred in A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, Cooper Koch and Jose Colon, Swallowed is an action-packed horror that will see … Read more

Review: Inflicted – Leo Otherland

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Inflicted - Leo Otherland

Genre: Science Fantasy, Physiological Horror, Space Opera, Soft Sci fi, Eldritch Sci fi, Secondary World/Urban Fantasy LGBTQ+ Category: Ace, Gay, Lesbian, Non-Binary, Trans FTM Reviewer: Damian Get It On Amazon About The Book “Pain is pain. It all hurts the same.”Inflicted with dark desire, one man chooses between idyllic pretense and disturbing reality. Haunted by the silence of deep space, an engineer chases an eerie melody. Torn between penance and pride, a dishonored prince challenges the course of history. Suffering cracks our hearts and splinters our minds. It scars and alters us in irreversible ways. Yet while pain breaks us … Read more

Review: Ship of Fools – H.L. Moore

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Ship of Fools - H.L. Moore

Genre: Sci-Fi, Mystery LGBTQ+ Identities: Trans, Gay Reviewer: Scott Get It On Amazon About The Book On the 3rd Orbital Anniversary, a mining ship vanished, never to be heard from again. Twelve years later, Special Agent Evelyn Carlisle finds herself on the cusp of discovering what happened to it – if she can get the crew of the Galilean Moons Forensic Cleaning Company to talk. A tale from the Jovian Empire. The Review Moore delivers another tightly written story in the Jovian Empire, building suspense with an interrogation of a forensic cleaning crew run by a clueless man named Urhines … Read more