This review and the rest of the crap I write can be seen @ my blog Bark's Book Nonsense . Stop by and say hey.6 romance authors unleash their dark side and I, for one, couldn’t be happier. These stories all focus on things darker than most romances and all have well fleshed out characters and even a few steamy moments going on between all of the scares. I could read stories like these all day, every day. Too bad I have bills and a job and there aren’t enough of these sorts of tales to feed that...

A new anthology of queer horror in which I have a story! Mine is a Victorian AU penny dreadful tale, in which a young lady trying to save her lover gets involved in a murder investigation and finds herself working for a rather unpleasant barber on Fleet Street... For me the standouts of the show are the incredibly unnerving Kris Ripper story and the brilliantly weird Avon Gale, but that's the joy of an anthology, it's something for everyone (as long as that something in this case involves queer

FINISHED this anthology on 10/23 ... a week before Halloween :)Average Rate: 3.25 stars. Favorite story -- Legion: A Love Story by Avon Gale-----------Company by Roan Parrish: 3 starsRead 13th October 2017I didn't enjoy Roan Parrish's writing that I 'sampled' from a couple of her novels. But in this short -- or maybe because it is short -- it was okay. The story was a bit weird, basically you need to be careful of your imaginary friend, he could be very BAD for you.Love Me True by Kris Ripper: 2...

I enjoyed this more than Stephen King's "It" and found it scarier. There, I've said it.Since all the authors are romance authors (as far as I know), I was expecting this to be a collection of romantic stories with a horror setting and the usual happy ending. Instead, it's mostly a collection of tales in which the creepy gets creepier and people die."The Price of Meat" by K.J. Charles (which I'd read before) is the one exception - it's a relatively optimistic penny dreadful-type story inspired by...

For the joint review with Michele all in pretty you could better visit Just Love...Mel: I was a fan of most of the authors already and I always wanted to try a book by Avon Gale, and I really like to read good short stories in between longer reads. But horror is not entirely my genre, so I knew going in that I might not like all of the stories—which is totally okay for me.Judging from the stories that I loved and from the overall good writing quality (even if I dnf’ed 2 stories because of the gr...

All in Fear is an anthology of horror stories from six M/M romance writers combining vampires, cannibalism, AI, and serial killers (to mention a few) with the desire for true love. The collection includes:Company by Roan Parrish - Readers often joke about their "book boyfriends" but what happens when one actually appears to teenager Nick? Having Michel de Ludovigne from "The Face of the Vampire" comics by his side seems like a dream come true ... until it becomes a nightmare.Love Me True by Kris...

3.5 starsI'm not going to lie, this was a bit of a let-down for me. With all these brilliant writers I expected to be scared shitless afterwards. The 2nd, 4th, & 5th was the best of the bunch. That's pushing it for me, because the first wasn't scary but I enjoyed the theme and what it involved. Story 2 & 3 weren't bad, but I was really waiting for them to be over. They weren't something that I would pick up at tall. I've never read anything by Steve Berman & Kris Ripper before. I truly liked Kri...

I am my friends' favorite person to go see scary movies with, because I squeal and shriek and hide behind my hands while clutching their arm or curling up in a ball in my seat. So when I got a chance to read ALL IN FEAR, a queer horror anthology that releases December 1st, I almost hid under the bed. But this collection features a bunch of my absolute favorite authors, so I dug deep for courage and say, "HELL, YES, PLEASE GIMME NOW." I finished it this morning & I'm still thinking about these st...

This review originally appeared on Just Love: Queer Book Reviews (and is much prettier there!)Co-reviewed with JLR member MelMichele: I was excited to read this anthology when it was announced, curious to see how these romance authors would interpret a horror theme. I don’t consider myself a horror fan, although a surprising number of my favourite stories do contain horror elements, or are written by authors who are well known in the genre. I’m very pleased to know my excitement was not misplace...

Company by Roan ParrishThis was really nice, I really loved Nick, he was so sweet, it was hard not to love him. Michel was also nice, but just for the different reasons than Nick. He was so scary. I loved this character very much because I keep guessing all the time about what was on his mind. The plot is really good, is different, it had some nice romantic moments. I liked how Nick was very ambivalent about his feelings for Michel, I was great to see the doubt in him and how the relationship ch...

I was so excited to read this anthology, even though I’m a baby when it comes to horror movies and books. I get scared very easily, but I also love to challenge myself to read books out of my comfort zone. A collection of queer horror tales was the perfect way to do this.It also helps that this anthology featured a few of my favourite queer romance authors, as well as many I have been meaning to read for a while. It was a great way to get a taste of their writing, and I definitely enjoyed the st...

Overall I would rate this collection very high and recommend it to anyone who loves a bit of the macabre. Let’s take a look at each story individually.Company by Roan ParrishCompany by Roan Parrish was by far one of the creepiest of the stories in this anthology. Nick’s life is basically a mess—his parents are divorcing, his own social life is, at first, seemingly stable but quickly changes making him a loner and to make matters worse his favorite comic book character—a vampire, seems to have co...

All In Fear,I liked this collection of horror story`s.The tales are well written en come al together on the theme of horror.Not your every day spooky,creepy,horror.but more refined,more under the skin.but horror al the same.I especially liked K.J.Charles`s story and the story By Roan Parrish.They were good fun and I would liked a full lenght off both.Arc was given by in exchange for an review

This is a small collection of queer horror tales, but they are diverse and powerful. Almost every horror staple you might expect – a demon, a vampire, several serial killers, artificial intelligence with a will of its own, magical objects, cannibalism – is here, except for a ghost. Strangely enough, there is no haunted house or castle in this anthology, but you won’t mind the lack of dead characters. The live ones are scary enough.In “Company” by Roan Parrish, a lonely boy encounters a mysteriou...

4.5 Stars ~ The appeal of horror for me has always been in the cerebral. The ominous places an author can take my imagination is one of the things I love about the genre; but then, that push one step further into a physical response—the chills and heart pumping adrenaline spikes—elevates the reading experience to another level. The irresistable appeal of the anthology All in Fear began with its contributing authors and ended with its deliciously frightening storytelling.Each of the novellas in t...

Company by Roan Parrish3.5 HeartsThis story had elements of paranormal, first love, and lust but I think overall what this story was was just plain sad. I mean this was overwhelmingly sad. I’m thinking Nick was incredibly mentally unstable so much so that it had a direct, negative impact on his life and personal relationships. Was Michel real? I don’t know? Was what he had with Nathaniel real? I don’t know. The reader is left with tons of questions at the end of this one. The only conclusion I c...

*~~*ARC kindly provided by the author to me in exchange for an honest review *~~*Sometimes disturbing, sickening but always thrilling. Containing 6 marvelous stories with different themes and kind of styles. All worth a read.Some stories were more mind-play and the fear they created captured you, then other were disturbing in the description and you were horrified. After all the stories were totally different yet all sum one up: they are disturbing. Some of them can be called “classical”, some o...

I think perhaps horror isn't my thing. It always seems to be irredeemably negative, at least based on the majority of the stories in this anthology. The KJ Charles is the most interesting of the selection by a long margin. That's not to say the others aren't well-written, but I've just not got my head round reading things where the interest is in "exactly how is this all going to end in bloodshed, the annihilation of hope, and the gruesome dismemberment of limbs and souls?"

Beauties by J.A. Rock-4*Well that ending is definitely NOT what I expected! This story is about a group of scientists that create infant artificial beings. They have an "elastic" brain that allows them to grow and shape themselves almost as a human baby brain would. Sometimes they send the brain off to another Dept to be put into a toddler body, so on and so forth. Other brains they take back to dissect to see how it's growing and all the new paths created, etc... The flip to this, the partners

3.5 stars rated up. Most of these were really good, although I would not necessarily have classified them all as horror - there's a wide variety here from serial killer mystery to historical/gothic penny dreadful, some paranormal sci-fi/urban fantasy-ish offerings and some dystopian. I do get that it's kind of hard to find a label that suits them all, though, so I guess "horror" was as close as it got.My favourite by far was K.J. Charles's story, "The Price of Meat," featuring a spunky, capable