This is an absolutely cracking collection.
All interest in gay fiction aside it deserves to be read and appreciated by all fans of speculative fiction, though some will find the collection too heavy on horror, it's time to throw our hands up and admit that horror is on the ascendant and will eclipse both fantasy and scifi for the next few years. All we can do is seek out the good stuff.

Reviews of individual stories, as I can be bothers to add them, are below the spoiler cut


Love Will Tear Us Apart by Alaya Dawn Johnson
A lot of people will be turned off by the fact that it's yet another zombie story (although, presumably somewhere out there are the people fuling the zombie boom who are as hungry for more zombie fic as... no, I won't finish that simile). I am not a zombie fan, but I have been terrified of prions after seeing a documentary about CJD when I was a kid. So on a creepy level the story worked for me. The love story was quite thinly sketched and the 'we like the same music and are therefore soulmates' trope always bugs me but I could let it slide for the quality of the writing.

“Waiting for the Phone to Ring” by Richard Bowes
This was read edge of the chair stuff. The meat of the story is always just out of sight, in a way that's enthralling rather than irritating.

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