num_pages: 252
description: A striking and ambitious collection of gay horror fiction by some of today's hottest authors and talented newcomers, covering a wide spectrum of creatures of the night and all manners of urban terrors. These dark, often disturbing tales expand the boundaries of the horror genre; the sexuality of the protagonists is a point of reference for the "horror" of otherness that defines and, at times, divides us.Cover painting: Detail from The Ambassador of Obloquy by James HuctwithContains the following stories:"The Nightguard" C. Mark Umland"Piercing Men" Douglas Clegg"The Siege" Michael Marano"Bear Shirt" Gemma Files"Little Holocausts" Brian Hodge"The Sound of Weeping" Thomas S. Roche"Hey Fairy" Edo Van Belkom"The Spark" William J. Mann"Spindleshanks (New Orleans, 1956)" Caitlin R. Kiernan"The Perpetual" David Quinn"Genius Loci" Becky N. Southwell"Goodbye" Michael Thomas Ford"Tabula Rasa" Robert Boyczuk"You Can't Always Get What You Want" T.L. Bryers"The Bird Feeders" David Nickle"No Silent Scream" Nancy Kilpatrick"Second Shadow" Joseph O'Brien
language: English
title: Queer Fear
titlecomplete: Queer Fear (Queer Fear #1)
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Queer, LGBT, Gay Fiction, Anthologies, Horror, Queer Lit, Fantasy, Gay
ratings_count: 131
series: Queer Fear 
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Gaylactic Spectrum Award
category: Best Other Work, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Anthology/Fiction, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Queer Horror Award
category: Best Short Story Collection
publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press