Bending the Landscape: Vol 3: Horror (Bending the Landscape; Original Gay and Lesbian Writing)
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (914 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1585671169 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 332 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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Hopkins, Holly Wade Matter, A.J. Potter, Carrie Richerson, Mark Tiedmann, Alexis Glynn Latner and more.. On the heels of the phenomenal success and acclaim of Volume I (Science Fiction), Bending the Landscape: Horror brings together a tantalizing slew of truly "horrific" tales guaranteed to provoke, entertain and inspire fear. In Kraig Blackwelder's Coyote Love, a man wakes up in a stranger's bed, not knowing how he got there. These stories, written by writers both gay and straight, incite fear and spur thought. Terror ensues as the reader is shown just how far a person is willing to go to deny reality. Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel have, once again, compiled an exciting array of never-before-published stories both from talented newcomers and award-winning genre veterans. In The WereSlut of Avenue A, Leslie What shows us that change is not always a good thing as we witness what may or may not be a physical transformation into something inhuman. Contributors include Brian A
READ THIS BEFORE YOU BUY! Taylor Hastings A very important thing to know before buying this book is it is the exact same book as the Sci-fi one! Only the cover is different. And it kind of isn't horror, proper. The stories are really fun regardless, but they aren't really horror stories and there isn't one thing sci-fi about ANYTHING in there! In the introduction one of the editors states that the writers were given guidelines for the stories submitted and I think that maybe that's what the problem is. The stories seem so confined. I mean, doesn't sci-fi signify the very nature of stretching ones imagination and not being limited? Again,. Not up to par Having read the Science Fiction volume of this series, I was pleased when this book was selected by my local book group and I approaching reading it with enthusiasm. Unfortunately, like everybody else in the book group, I was pretty disappointed. The stories in this collection are not satisfying as horror (e.g. they're not scary, creepy, don't cause feeling os paranoia), nor are many of them satisfying as gay stories (e.g. almost all the relationships in the book are negative and some stories barely have gay content at all). Many of the stories provoked what we in our book discussion called an "e. Bending the Landscape: Horror A Customer Some of the stories here are excellent, the best in my opinion being "Coyote Love". Mark McLaughlin, Barbara Hambly and Mark Tiedemann also contribute strong stories. Generally, the level is professional, although there are a few clunkers.These stories mostly go beyond "minority literature" and should appeal to readers of speculative fiction and short stories in general.
Fantasy is really the book's strong suit, as shown in L. Two stories amount to SF: Holly Wade Matter's "Memorabilia," a sad soliloquy on the impossibility of relationships in a ruined world, and Mark W. In Barbara Hambly's "'Til Death," an amusing variant on Sartre's No Exit, an airport becomes a metaphor for hell as two women continually miss their flights while one shops and the other hunts a blonde. The overall high quality of these stories, whatever their label, should please the obvious target audie