Queer Little Nightmares

An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry

English language

Published Nov. 1, 2022 by Arsenal Pulp Press.

ISBN:
978-1-55152-901-1
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Stories were stronger than the poems.

I found these generally took more effort that reading a regular novel because each time you have to adjust to the world of the story, you can't just dip in and out.

The stories I liked the most were the "Black Mirror" style ones where there was a strange technology or a twist. The "queer person turns into a monster" stories kind of ran together for me.

I also liked the stories for non-Western cultures that explored their own monsters.

Of the poems, Floral Arrangement I was the one I liked the best.

This is what small presses are for!

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Queer Little Nightmares is a collection of stories and poems for the monsters in all of us (especially the queer ones). Diverse in style and content, these works are deliciously weird and grounded in emotional truth. Standouts for me include the stories "The Vetala's Song" by Anuja Varghese and "Strange Case" by Eddy Boudel Tan, and the poems "Godzilla, Silhouette Against City" by Ryan Dzelzkalns and "Cryptid Cruising" by Avra Margariti. But they're all worth reading.