Suffered from the Night: Queering Stoker's Dracula

by Steve Berman (editor/contributor), Lee Thomas (contributor), Livia Llewellyn (contributor)

Introduction / Steve Berman --
The tattered boy / Lee Thomas --
Yours is the right to begin / Livia Llewellyn --
Self-portrait as Jonathan Harker / Ed Madden --
Seven lovers and the sea / Damon Shaw --
The calm of despair / Jason Andrew --
Bloofer ladies / Elka Cloke --
The powers of evil / William P. Coleman --
My arms are hungry / Traci Castleberry --
Protect the king / Jeff Mann --
Hungers / Rajan Khanna --
The letter that doomed Nosferatu / Steve Berman --
Ardor / Laird Barron --
A closer walk with thee / Sven Davisson --
Unhallowed ground / Seth Cadin

Genres: Horror, LGBT, Queer, Retellings, Short Stories, Anthologies

254 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2013

About the author

Some tidbits about me...

I turned down a scholarship to Miskatonic University because I heard of the high rate of incidents against the student population.

I briefly worked for Omni Consumer Products in their Marketing Department. Great benefits, nice cafeteria, sadly too prone to executive whim.

Last year I stayed at the noted Mauna Pele resort in Hawaii. The accommodations were impressive but my traveling companion disappeared soon after wanting to attend a pig roast.

I've slept with one minor porn star and with a guy who later became one.

And I happen to have written some fanfic that inspired the memorable holodeck scene in Star Trek: Hidden Frontiers episode "Vigil"

Reviews

[Jerry L. Wheeler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hot on the heels of Berman’s Where Thy Dark Eye Glances, a queering of Edgar Allan Poe, comes Suffered from the Night, which takes on the Dracula mythos. With these volumes, Lethe Press is quickly becoming the go-to publisher for the re-imagining of icons. And that’s a mighty sweet place to be. Even sweeter is the fact that the stories get better and better. As with the other book, the authors represented in Suffered from the Night draw their inspirations from major and minor characters in the text–some even unnamed–as well as those who present us their takes on the vampire myth in general. One can only hope Berman’s visionary stance never shifts and we get something equally as wonderful. Soon.

[Damian Serbu · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you enjoy Dracula, you will also enjoy this read! An entertaining romp into the legend, with a queer twist at every turn. These are all solid stories, and, as usual, Berman does a nice job of editing the collection.

[Anthony · Rating 5 out of 5]

My full review of the book can be found now at http://www.lambdaliterary.org/reviews...