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Mae Murray

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Mae Murray is a writer and editor hailing from Arkansas, now living in eerie New England. She contributes essays and film criticism to Fangoria.com and Dread Central. She is the recipient of the 2022 Brave New Weird Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction. The Book of Queer Saints Volume I was her editing debut and a 2023 British Fantasy Award nominee in the Best Anthology category. I'm Sorry If I Scared You is her debut novel. ...more

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	The Book of Queer Saints: Volume I by Mae Murray (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sam Richard (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), James Bennett (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.96 avg rating — 359 ratings — published 2022 — 5 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
	Scissor Sisters by Rae Knowles (Goodreads Author) (Editor ), April Yates (Goodreads Author) (editor), Stephanie Ellis (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2024 — 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
	I'm Sorry If I Scared You 4.16 avg rating — 74 ratings — 5 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
	Brave New Weird: The Best New Weird Horror, Volume 1 by Alex Woodroe (Goodreads Author) (Editor), M.E. Bronstein (Goodreads Author), Charlotte Ariel Finn 3.97 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2023 — 4 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
	Shredded: A Sports and Fitness Body Horror Anthology by Eric Raglin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Steve Stred (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Nikki R. Leigh 4.29 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2022 — 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
	Blood, Sweat & Queers: Vampiric Love Stories by Mae Murray (Goodreads Author), Margaret Hall (Editor), Lyndall Clipstone (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 37 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 Book of Queer Saints: Volume II by Mae Murray (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Hailey Piper (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Alison Rumfitt (Goodreads Author) 4.30 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2023 — 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
	Demons and Death Drops by Chris Krawczyk (Editor ), Sanjana Raghavan (Contributor), Dori Lumpkin (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2023	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
	Scales Fell From Her Eyes: Parable #1 by Mae Murray (Goodreads Author), Marko Head (Illustrator) 4.69 avg rating — 13 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
	Broken Olive Branches by Stephanie Rabig, Laurel Hightower (Goodreads Author), Zachary Rosenberg 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2024 — 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

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My Monsters Ain't Like Yours: A Collection of Short Stories

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A vampire story for the queer kids, the misfits, the artists, the punks and lovers. Baby-Blue is like if a non-binary Louis de Pointe du Lac and the vampires of Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark (1987) had a baby. Barron is a brave new voice in queer genre ...more
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“You were raped. You had an abortion. Your little brother was shot. Life’s never been easy for none of us, not a day in our lives. It’s been shit, and it’ll always be shit. All we’ve got is each other.”
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“For just a moment, she forgot her reluctance to come home, because home was not a place as much as it was a feeling, and the feeling was love, love, love.”
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“Teeth spat in a bloody arc, clattering against the wall and floor like rain on a tin roof.”
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