DARK RAINBOW: QUEER EROTIC HORROR is what a short story
anthology should be. Each story nails
the theme of combining erotic and horror themes. Each story is distinct from the other. The stories have plots, themes, and
originality.
Some like “Goldilocks and
her Undead Bear” are bizarre and stomach churning; others like “The Grave of
Lilith” are more conceptual. Most are somewhere on the fantastic spectrum from
magical realism, to paranormal, to high fantasy.
The emphasis is on G and L, but there is also
B, T, and a few other letters from the queer spectrum incorporated as aspects
of the stories and their characters. The only thing that strikes me as at all
overly predictable is the cover mashup of two arguable genre cliched—the skull
and rainbow-- but I have no complaints about what is within.
Review copy courtesy of Netgalley, 5/5
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