Memorable Reads of 2023

  “And books, they offer one hope that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.” – Anne Rice AT THE beginning of 2023, I made a New Year’s Resolution to read more. Specifically, I wanted to choose reading over watching TV in my downtime. […]

REVIEW: NOMAD: A STORY FROM THE REELS BY BRIAN B. EWING

NOMAD: A Story From The Reels by Brian B. Ewing is the second book in a series that focuses on Tom Sisto, an introvert with a tragic past gifted with a psychic power to experience first-person memories of both victims and killers. These visions come to him like an old-school projector, the back of his eyelids acting […]

Review: Sons of Darkness: Tales of Men, Blood, and Immortality Edited by Michael Rowe & Thomas S. Roche

Sons of Darkness: Tales of Men, Blood, and Immortality (1996) takes us down a deliciously homoerotic path of darkness and blood.   I DON’T naturally gravitate toward the short story format or erotica, so a literary work has to possess something unique and compelling to get my attention. This anthology came into my life in […]

Review: Oracle: A Story From The Reels By Brian B. Ewing

ORACLE: A Story From The Reels by Brian B. Ewing is the first book in a series that focuses on Tom Sisto, an introvert with a tragic past gifted with a psychic power to experience first-person memories of victims and evil-doers alike. These visions come to him in a manner akin to an old-school projector; […]

Interview with Queer Horror Writer Eric David Roman

Eric David Roman: “We need to write and tell our horror stories.”   I’d like to welcome Eric David Roman to the Blog. Eric is the author of several short stories, the novella Despicable People and Long Night At Lake Never, a Queer Horror novel about a conversion therapy camp where a relentless killer is out for revenge on […]

The Necessity Of Revenge

REVENGE IS a complex concept. At its core is the desire for vengeance or retribution motivated by perceived wrongdoing. The perpetrator, the one who carried out the unforgivable slight, the immoral act, the unforgettable harm, must pay for their transgression, and they must pay in a manner that will equal the pain and suffering of the […]

Review: Fractured Love (Book 1) & Fractured Mind (Book 2) by Matthew Dante

AT IT’S core, Fractured Love (Book 1) is a story about unrequited love between two young gay men, best friends since childhood, but it goes so much further than that and gets so much darker. It’s these disturbing twists that make Matthew Dante’s novel a highly successful queer thriller. On the eve of graduating high […]

Review: Long Night at Lake Never by Eric David Roman

BOY, DID I love this! A fantastic nod to 80s slasher movies, Long Night at Lake Never is about a small group of queer youth forced to endure treatment at a cult-like Conversion Therapy camp nestled deep in the woods of buttf#ck nowhere by “ex-gay” religious cretins. Oh ya, and a killer is stalking everyone–a killer […]