Queer Fear II
builds on the successes of its predecessor,
Queer Fear
, the groundbreaking gay-themed horror anthology that Gothic.net called "the best horror anthology of [the year]," which won the Queer Horror Award, and was a finalist for a Spectrum Award and two Lambda Literary Awards.
This second volume includes among its stories new work by some stars of the previous volume—International Horror Guild Award winners Gemma Files and Michael Marano, Bram Stoker Award winners David Nickle and Edo van Belkom, and screenwriter Ron Oliver. Science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer, winner of the Aurora and Nebula Awards, crosses genres to appear alongside newer writers like Bram Stoker Award winner Brett Savory, novelist Sephera Giron, and classic British ghost story author Steve Duffy.
And if that’s not enough,
II will also feature a new, unpublished story by internationally acclaimed horror writer Poppy Z. Brite.
The dark pleasures and anxieties of the
books have their roots in the nightmarish, viral machinations of AIDS and homophobia, as well as the ghoulish, old-fashioned thrills of confronting things that go bump in the night.
will keep you up long past the witching hour.
Michael Rowe
is co-editor of
Sons of Darkness
and
Brothers of the Night
, and author of the essay collections
Writing Below the Belt
Looking for Brothers
. A journalist and essayist whose work has appeared in
The Advocate
The Globe & Mail
, he lives in Toronto, Ontario.