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Rob Costello (he/him) writes dark and contemporary fiction with a queer bent for and about young people. He’s the contributing editor of WE MOSTLY COME OUT AT NIGHT: 15 QUEER TALES OF MONSTERS, ANGELS & OTHER CREATURES, nominated for a 2024 Bram Stoker Award® and named a 2024 CYBILS Award Finalist as well as a Notable/Recommended/Best Book of 2024 by the New York Public Library, Ginger Nuts of Horror, PseudoPod, Reactor Magazine, and Locus Magazine. He’s also author of the dark fiction story collection THE DANCING BEARS: QUEER FABLES FOR THE END TIMES, named a finalist for The Whirling Prize. His stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and have appeared in The Dark, The NoSleep Podcast, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, ...more

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	Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small-Town America by Nora Shalaway Carpenter (Goodreads Author) (Editor), David Bowles (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Joseph Bruchac (Contributor) 3.78 avg rating — 932 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Mostly Come Out At Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels & Other Creatures by Rob Costello (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kalynn Bayron (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), David Bowles (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.92 avg rating — 390 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. 141, Nos. 1 & 2, July/August 2021 by Sheree Renée Thomas (Editor), Lauren Ring (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), L.X. Beckett (Contributor) 3.59 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Ugly World for Beautiful Boys 4.58 avg rating — 43 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dancing Bears: Queer Fables for the End Times 4.54 avg rating — 24 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dark Magazine, Issue 57: February 2020 by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sean Wallace (Editor), Rob Costello (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dark Magazine, Issue 78: November 2021 by Sean Wallace (Editor), H. Pueyo (Goodreads Author), Rob Costello (Goodreads Author) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dark Issue 115 by R.L. Summerling (Goodreads Author), Steve Rasnic Tem (Goodreads Author), Abigail Kemske (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dark Magazine, Issue 65: October 2020 by Sean Wallace (Editor), Rob Costello (Goodreads Author), Shari Paul 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dark Issue 117 by Nelson Stanley (Goodreads Author), Rob Costello (Goodreads Author), Steve Rasnic Tem (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“She was unafraid to be ugly and strange, to take up space, to howl and roar.”
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“This city eats pretty boys like us alive if we let it.”
― Rob Costello, An Ugly World for Beautiful Boys

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“Man is his own devil and his own god. He became such when he stopped believing in anything but himself.”
― Rob Costello, We Mostly Come Out at Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels & Other Creatures

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“Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow.

Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.

The same way old painters would sit in a tiny dark room and trace the image of what stood outside a tiny window, in the bright sunlight.

The camera obscura.

Not the exact image, but everything reversed or upside down.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

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“Sometimes you grow to love the shadow that follows.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

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“This city eats pretty boys like us alive if we let it.”
― Rob Costello, An Ugly World for Beautiful Boys

tags: city-life, club-scene, lgbtq-ya, lgbtqia-characters, nyc

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“That’s why I chose you. Only we can see each other for who we truly are.”
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