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A review by madmooney
Night of the Living Queers by Alex Brown, Shelly Page
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing an ARC for this anthology.
I will say that [b:Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror Delight|61775756|Night of the Living Queers 13 Tales of Terror Delight|Shelly Page|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1673722583l/61775756._SY75_.jpg|97403217] does a great job of finding a diverse cast of writers from different cultures, so your reading is not limited to North American superstitions and spooky beliefs. The theme of blue moons on a Halloween could be restrictive at times, so I hope their next anthology sheds with this gimmick and allows for all sorts of international queer horror.
There is a different between the experience of reading and reviewing a short story collection by a single author versus reading an anthology by multiple authors: with the short story collection, you get to gauge the full breadth of the author as they try to tantalize and and spook you through their standard and experimental fare.
With an anthology - you only get one shot, and if it happens that the shot that each author took was not that best (but their best fitting the theme of queer + young adult + blue moon) then there is a great chance that you may leave the mental stage set up for you by each entrant not feeling satisfied - but they can totally be your bag if you read more of their body of work.
That said, I do not want to besmirch any single author only because their single shot did not jive with me, so I will only be reviewing my top 5 selections.
I will say that [b:Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror Delight|61775756|Night of the Living Queers 13 Tales of Terror Delight|Shelly Page|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1673722583l/61775756._SY75_.jpg|97403217] does a great job of finding a diverse cast of writers from different cultures, so your reading is not limited to North American superstitions and spooky beliefs. The theme of blue moons on a Halloween could be restrictive at times, so I hope their next anthology sheds with this gimmick and allows for all sorts of international queer horror.
There is a different between the experience of reading and reviewing a short story collection by a single author versus reading an anthology by multiple authors: with the short story collection, you get to gauge the full breadth of the author as they try to tantalize and and spook you through their standard and experimental fare.
With an anthology - you only get one shot, and if it happens that the shot that each author took was not that best (but their best fitting the theme of queer + young adult + blue moon) then there is a great chance that you may leave the mental stage set up for you by each entrant not feeling satisfied - but they can totally be your bag if you read more of their body of work.
That said, I do not want to besmirch any single author only because their single shot did not jive with me, so I will only be reviewing my top 5 selections.