Shadows of the Night: Queer Tales of the Uncanny and Unusual

by Greg Herren (Editor)

A bone-chilling anthology of gay and lesbian psychodrama, Shadows of the Night brings you face-to-face with the best in queer fear, breaking through to the other fiction. Short stories that are equal parts haunting and disturbing tremble with tantalizing prose that's inventive, imaginative, and provocative - pulp fiction with a twist.

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

208 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2004

About the author

Greg Herren is a New Orleans-based author and editor. Former editor of Lambda Book Report, he is also a co-founder of the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival, which takes place in New Orleans every May. He is the author of ten novels, including the Lambda Literary Award winning Murder in the Rue Chartres, called by the New Orleans Times-Picayune “the most honest depiction of life in post-Katrina New Orleans published thus far.” He co-edited Love, Bourbon Street: Reflections on New Orleans, which also won the Lambda Literary Award. He has published over fifty short stories in markets as varied as Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine to the critically acclaimed anthology New Orleans Noir to various websites, literary magazines, and anthologies. His erotica anthology FRATSEX is the all time best selling title for Insightoutbooks. Under his pseudonym Todd Gregory, he published the bestselling erotic novel Every Frat Boy Wants It and the erotic anthologies His Underwear and Rough Trade (to be released by Bold Strokes Books in 2009).

A long-time resident of New Orleans, Greg was a fitness columnist and book reviewer for Window Media for over four years, publishing in the LGBT newspapers IMPACT News, Southern Voice, and Houston Voice. He served a term on the Board of Directors for the National Stonewall Democrats, and served on the founding committee of the Louisiana Stonewall Democrats. He is currently employed as a public health researcher for the NO/AIDS Task Force.

Reviews

[James · Rating 1 out of 5]

Full review here:

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Frankly, about the only reason to pick this up is to get a bibliography of other, better works of queer horror/thriller/suspense books as listed in the introduction.

[Gothic Readers Book Club · Rating 5 out of 5]

GOTHIC READERS BOOK CLUB CHOICE AWARD WINNER

Greg Herren has produced a fantastic collection of gay-themed Gothic tales here! The Richard Hall story "Country People" is worth it alone, but the rest of the authors really rise to the occasion, too. Marshall Moore's "Sic Gloria Transit" is a dark, brooding piece with haunting prose. "The Troll in the Basement" by Quentin Harrington and "Waiting for the Vampire" by William J. Mann are also two standouts here. The anthology closes with a novella, "Fever" by Victoria A. Brownworth, bringing the collection to just as intense an ending as Hall's opening tale.

If You Like: Sheridan Le Fenu, Algernon Blackwood, Edith Wharton

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[Catherine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Worth finding for several of the stories in it, though others suffer from the problem where authors who primarily write for queer small presses don't get to take the same risks that authors who write for dark fantasy/horror venues. Brownworth's "Fever" is interesting and very well written, then thuds with a "so what?" ending, for instance, instead of going as grim as it feels like it should be. "Country People," "The Mask" and "Shadow of the Vampire" are decent reads, however, as are several others.