Shadows of the Night

This is an interesting collection, similar to the Queer Fear series. As with any collection of stories there are highlights. I particularly liked the marvellously neurotic lesbian mindspace of Carol Rosenfeld's rabbit tale. Greg Wharton's gruesome "First Cut" is enough to make any reader wince, focussing as it does on bloody details.Longer and more brooding in this collection is Marshall Moore's "Sic Gloria Transit." Some wonderful language in this piece ("...suburbs metastasizing themselves out of city cores")Worth buying for these stories alone.

I can't even begin to say how much I enjoyed this book. Some of my favorite writers contributed to this book, and I discovered some new writers I'd never heard of before--and will be watching out for their other work!Beginning with a Richard Hall story (I'd never heard of him), the book's quality just keeps on building--until the final, a novella by Victoria A. Brownworth, whose journalistic writingsI have always enjoyed....great job!