Want something a bit different for the holidays? Horror
has never looked this enticing! New release,
All in Fear, is a gorgeous collection of horror tales from some of
the hottest names in queer fiction. Be prepared to be titillated...
and terrified.
All in Fear
By KJ Charles,
Roan Parrish, J.A. Rock,
Steve Berman,
Avon Gale, and Kris Ripper
Available 12/1/16
Horror wears many faces, and its masks can be
tantalizing. Some of the top names in queer fiction come together to spin their
own versions of horror. Worlds rife with dark beauty and mystery, the familiar
becoming terrible, creatures ethereal and alluring—and all bearing the gleam of
love. Does hope lie along these grim passages or only doom? It will become
clear. All in time—and all in fear.
Company by Roan
Parrish
Nick Levy’s
family is falling apart and he has no friends, but at least he can escape into
the world of his favorite comic book series, The Face of the Vampire. Naturally, when the vampire in question
shows up one day, Nick is enthralled. After all, what could be better than his
own personal fantasy made real? Except that Nick isn’t exactly sure whether
Michel is real or not. And when the arrival of a new boy in school promises
romance, Nick sees a side of Michel he never could have imagined. This Michel
is cruel, jealous . . . and he’ll do anything to keep Nick for himself.
Love Me True by
Kris Ripper
Palmer's life is as good as it gets. Well, okay, so he
hates his mind-numbing office job. But he's found a hot, smart, incredibly
kinky guy. The sex is explosive. The power play is off the hook. And if he
gets his way, Jon will soon be his husband.
When Palmer asks, Jon says yes. For the first time ever,
Palmer thinks things might be really good. Sure, bad things happen in the world—to other people. But this is all he needs: Jon at the end
of the day, in their bed, arms around him.
How could he have possibly been so stupid?
The Price of Meat by KJ Charles
Johanna Oakley will do anything to save her beloved
Arabella from the cruelty of Mr Fogg’s madhouse—but ‘anything’ turns out to be
more than she bargained for when she finds herself working for a man suspected
of worse than murder. As Johanna is plunged from the horror of Sawney Reynard’s
barber shop into the foul, lawless labyrinth at the heart of London, can she or
anyone get out alive?
His Mouth Will
Taste of Chernobyl by Steve Berman
Joining Zeta Psi isn’t Steve’s dream, it’s his dad’s.
Nevertheless his dad’s gift of the mysterious Bailey flask gets Steve an in to
the frat house, and maybe his best shot at being accepted on campus. But the
flask’s silver sheen may only be lighting his way into the darkness at the
heart of the frat—and the darkness he’s learning is within himself. Steve wants
to choose who he is, but choices are dropping like flies as he learns the true
mystery of the Bailey flask. How does he give back a gift that’s also a curse?
Legion: A Love
Story by Avon Gale
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Beauties by
J.A. Rock
When Dr. Lester
Usole attends an event at AI developer Carnificiality, he’s introduced to
Beauties: artificial beings designed to provide tailored sexual experiences for
their human owners. Lester isn’t interested in sex—but he is fascinated by Ira,
a Beauty too violent to be sold.
Lester convinces
Carnificiality to give Ira to him. Lester has always wanted the chance to work
with an adult AI, and around Lester, Ira isn’t violent. He’s strangely
innocent, uncannily perceptive, and his company does much to ease Lester’s
loneliness. Except something’s not quite right: Ira roams at night, even when
Lester’s sure he’s locked Ira’s door.
Soon Lester is
certain of only one thing: Ira has a secret. Something that will link their
pasts and change the course of their future—if Lester is willing to face what’s
on the inside.
“An engaging anthology of queer fiction filled with
monsters, mysteries, and menace.” — Kirkus
Reviews
About the Authors:
Steve Berman
Steve Berman loves
to tell stories that are both queer and weird. He was a Zeta Psi back in his
college days at and remembers being hazed. He survived and graduated and even
earned a Masters Degree in Liberal Studies. He has written and sold over a
hundred articles, essays, and short stories. His YA novel, Vintage, was a
finalist for the Andre Norton Award.
KJ Charles
KJ Charles is a
writer and freelance editor. She lives in London with her husband, two kids,
and a cat with murder management issues. KJ writes mostly historical romance,
mostly queer, often with fantasy or horror in there.
Avon Gale
Avon Gale wrote her
first story at the age of seven, about a “Space Hat” hanging on a rack and
waiting for that special person to come along and purchase it — even if it was
a bit weirder than the other, more normal hats. Like all of Avon’s characters,
the space hat did get its happily ever after — though she’s pretty sure it was
with a unicorn. She likes to think her vocabulary has improved since then, but
the theme of quirky people waiting for their perfect match is still one of her
favorites.
Avon grew up in the
southern United States, and now lives with her very patient husband in a
liberal midwestern college town. When she’s not writing, she’s either doing
some kind of craft project that makes a huge mess, reading, watching horror
movies, listening to music or yelling at her favorite hockey team to get it
together, already. Avon is always up for a road trip, adores Kentucky bourbon,
thinks nothing is as stress relieving as a good rock concert and will never say
no to candy.
At one point, Avon
was the mayor of both Jazzercise and Lollicup on Foursquare. This tells you
basically all you need to know about her as a person.
Connect with Avon:
Roan Parrish
Roan Parrish
lives in Philadelphia where she is gradually attempting to write love stories
in every genre.
When not
writing, she can usually be found cutting her friends’ hair, meandering through
whatever city she’s in while listening to torch songs and melodic death metal,
or cooking overly elaborate meals. She loves bonfires, winter beaches, minor
chord harmonies, and self-tattooing. One time she may or may not have baked a
six-layer chocolate cake and then thrown it out the window in a fit of pique.
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Kris
Ripper
Kris Ripper lives in
the great state of California and hails from the San Francisco Bay Area. Kris
shares a converted garage with a little kid, can do two pull-ups in a row, and
can write backwards. (No, really.) Kris is genderqueer and prefers the z-based
pronouns because they’re freaking sweet. Ze has been writing fiction since ze
learned how to write, and boring zir stuffed animals with stories long before that.
Links:
The site: krisripper.com
J.A. Rock
J.A. Rock is the
author or coauthor of over twenty LGBTQ romance, suspense, and horror novels,
as well as an occasional contributor to HuffPo Queer Voices. J.A. has received
Lambda Literary and INDIEFAB Award nominations for Minotaur, and The Subs Club received
the 2016 National Leather Association-International Pauline Reage
Novel Award. J.A. lives in Chicago with an extremely judgmental dog, Professor
Anne Studebaker.
