A review by sucreslibrary
Bending the Landscape: Original Gay and Lesbian Horror Writing by Leslie What, James Van Pelt, Brian A. Hopkins, Holly Wade Matter, Kraig Blackwelder, Mark W. Tiedemann, Barbara Hambly, Carrie Richerson, Alexi Smart, Kathleen O'Malley, Alexis Glynn Latner, A.J. Potter, Stephen Pagel, J.K. Potter, Gary Bowen, Nicola Griffith, Ellen Klages, Keith Hartman

3.0

Two major things: some of the authors are straight, and this isn't leave-the-lights-on horror. There's a lot of good stories in here (a decent handful about southern gay ppl dealing with ghosts and other such things, which is exactly the kind of thing I love) and there's also some that are just bad. The last story, which involves a lot of torturing and murder of gay men, was really tasteless. Some of the stories feel more like bad comedy routines (true hell is the DFW airport and your nagging bitch of a wife, amirite?) and others are obviously men writing lesbians. Several stories were touching and emotional with horror elements incorporated (post-apocalypse settings, more ghosts) and some felt like writing exercises that should never have been published (looking at you, story #3). All in all a decent anthology, if mostly white, able-bodied and cis.