Bury Your Gays

Happy release day to editor Sofia Ajram! His vision for the anthology “Bury Your Gays” struck such a chord with me that I had to write All Of Our Boys Are Missing even though I was too busy with other projects to mess around with open submissions and the trials of the sludge pile.

But some stories have to be written. The best ones demand it, and you really have little choice in the matter.

Here’s more about the book, and a look at the TOC:

“A manifestation of ecstasy, heartache, horror and suffering rendered in feverish lyrical prose. Inside are sixteen new stories by some of the genre’s most visionary queer writers. Young lovers find themselves deliriously lost in an expanding garden labyrinth. The porter of a sentient hotel is haunted within a liminal time loop. A soldier and his abusive commanding officer escape a war in the trenches but discover themselves in an even greater nightmare. Parasites chase each other across time-space in hungry desperation to never be apart. A graduate student with violent tendencies falls into step with a seemingly walking corpse. Featuring stories from Cassandra Khaw, Joe Koch, Gretchen Felker-Martin, Robbie Banfitch, August Clarke, Son M., Jonathan Louis Duckworth, M.V. Pine, Ed Kurtz, LC Von Hessen, Matteo L. Cerilli, November Rush, Meredith Rose, Charlene Adhiambo, Violet, and Thomas Kearnes.”

Read All Of Our Boys Are Missing in the anthology “Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror” from Ghoulish Books!

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Joe Koch writes literary horror and surrealist trash. Their books include The Wingspan of Severed Hands, Convulsive, The Shipwreck of the Cerberus, and The Couvade, which received a Shirley Jackson Award nomination in 2019. His short fiction appears in numerous publications including Vastarien, Southwest Review, Children of the New Flesh, and The Book of Queer Saints. In addition, they co-edited the art horror anthology Stories of the Eye with Weirdpunk Books. Find Joe (he/they) online at horrorsong.blog and on some social media sites as horrorsong.

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