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A review by undervmountain
Night of the Living Queers by Alex Brown, Shelly Page
medium-paced
4.0
Right off the back of deciding that maybe Anthologies weren't for me, along comes Night Of The Living Queers to make me question that decision. Some of my favourite authors have short stories in here that I thoroughly loved, and I found some new authors who I'll be following too!
The majority of the stories are very very good, and there's some outstanding ones in here that really make use of the short space while making me desperate for a full book - Welcome To The Hotel Paranoia, The Visitor and Hey There Demons in particular.
Not every story is great though - two stories use a second person narrative that I really dislike, and if I'm going to be honest the last story Knickknack was the weakest in the whole book. Nine Stops featured a brutal animal murder that I'd highly recommend skipping over if you need to.
I think after this I will continue looking for more anthologies, and try and remember that sometimes they can be as good as this one was! Horror clearly lends itself well to shorter stories, so I'll definitely be on the lookout for more of those.
The majority of the stories are very very good, and there's some outstanding ones in here that really make use of the short space while making me desperate for a full book - Welcome To The Hotel Paranoia, The Visitor and Hey There Demons in particular.
Not every story is great though - two stories use a second person narrative that I really dislike, and if I'm going to be honest the last story Knickknack was the weakest in the whole book. Nine Stops featured a brutal animal murder that I'd highly recommend skipping over if you need to.
I think after this I will continue looking for more anthologies, and try and remember that sometimes they can be as good as this one was! Horror clearly lends itself well to shorter stories, so I'll definitely be on the lookout for more of those.