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Horror Anthology — Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet

by The Undead Rat on August 14, 2010

The first horror book we’ll be looking at this weekend is the Stoker Award winning Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet edited by Vince A. Liaguno and Chad Helder.

Historically, gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgendered people have been poorly represented in horror fiction. Even today they are under-served in horror.

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Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet is a horror anthology edited by Vince A. Liaguno and Chad Helder

Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet

Editors: Liaguno, Vince A. and Chad Helder
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Horror Anthology
Page Count: 340pp.
Pub. Date: December 1, 2008
Publisher: Dark Scribe Press, LLC

Winner of the 2008 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology

Something unspeakable is coming out of the closet . . . From the ghosts of dead lovers and malevolent queer faeries to devious doppelgangers and twisted psychopaths, an eclectic lineup of award-winning writers from the horror and GLBT literary communities come together in this groundbreaking collection of queer horror stories.

These tales will surprise with their universally resonant themes while exploring the deeper aspects of the closet experience — coming out, staying in, and being haunted by.

Join Lee Thomas, Sarah Langan, Jameson Currier, Rick R. Reed, Scott Nicholson, Kealan Patrick Burke and others as they throw open their literary closet doors with 23 chilling tales. Be prepared as these master dark scribes reveal what lurks in those shadowy corners at the back of our closets.

And the horrors found there promise to be unspeakable.

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction: The Case for Closets by Vince A. Liaguno
  • Opening the Box by Chad Helder
  • Emmeline by C. J. Lines
  • The Bloomsbury Nudes by Jameson Currier
  • Epistle of the Sleeping Beauty by Jan Vander Laenen
  • Cask by Jude Wright
  • Black Annis by Joy Marchand
  • Memento Mori by Elissa Malcohn
  • The Shallows by Gary McMahon
  • I Am the Shadow That Walks There by Michelle Scalise
  • Bluff by L. A. Fields
  • In Her Mirrors, Dimly by Maria Alexander
  • The Portico Angel by Kevin W. Reardon
  • Vourdalak by Michael Hacker
  • Memory Box by Reesa Brown
  • Double Walker by Lisa Morton
  • Sublet by Rick R. Reed
  • I’m Your Violence by Lee Thomas
  • The Engine of Desire by Livia Llewellyn
  • The Boys of Bald Cave by C. Michael Cook
  • Prayers of the Living by Erin MacKay
  • The Next Big Thing by Christopher Fox
  • The Shaping by Scott Nicholson
  • A Letter from Phoenix by Kealan Patrick Burke
  • The Agathas by Sarah Langan
Amazon.com December 2008 (Trade Paperback — Dark Scribe Press)
Barnes and Noble December 2008 (Trade Paperback — Dark Scribe Press)

Circle of Seven Productions created the trailer and the music for Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet.

Vince A. Liaguno and Chad Helder's Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet is a horror anthology that was nominated for the 2008 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology

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Mona Garg August 14, 2010 at 4:09 pm

Just hoping to increase my chances of winning Kindle as part of Haunted Computer’s blog tour giveaway. I’m a new follower via email.

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