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Welcome to Parr's Landing, Population 1,528... and shrinking.

The year is 1972. Widowed Christina Parr, her daughter Morgan, and her brother-in-law Jeremy have returned to the remote northern Ontario mining town of Parr's Landing, the place from which Christina fled before Morgan was born, seeking refuge. Dr. Billy Lightning has also returned in search of answers to the mystery of his father's brutal murder. All will find some part of what they seek--and more.

Built on the site of a decimated 17th-century Jesuit mission to the Ojibwa, Parr's Landing is a town with secrets of its own buried in the caves around Bradley Lake. A three-hundred-year-old horror slumbers there, calling out to the insane and the murderous for centuries, begging for release--an invitation that has finally been answered.

One man is following that voice, cutting a swath of violence across the country, bent on a terrible resurrection of the ancient evil, plunging the town and all its people into an endless night.

Like Daughters of Darkness and Dark Angels, Pam Keesey's successful series of lesbian vampire stories from Cleis Press, Sons of Darkness gathers first-rate horror fiction that reveals the inherent homoeroticism of the vampire myth.

The crumbling summerhouse called Wild Fell, soaring above the desolate shores of Blackmore Island, has weathered the violence of the seasons for more than a century. Built for his family by a 19th-century politician of impeccable rectitude, the house has kept its terrible secrets and its darkness sealed within its walls. For a hundred years, the townspeople of Alvina have prayed that the darkness inside Wild Fell would stay there, locked away from the light. Jameson Browning, a man well acquainted with suffering, has purchased Wild Fell with the intention of beginning a new life, of letting in the light. But what waits for him at the house is devoted to its darkness and guards it jealously. It has been waiting for Jameson his whole life - or even longer. And now, at long last, it has found him.

A striking and ambitious collection of gay horror fiction, covering a wide range of creatures of the night and all manner of urban terrors.

Contents:

• Introduction: In Praise of Queer Fear (Queer Fear: Gay Horror Fiction) - (2000) - essay by Michael Rowe
• The Nightguard - (2000) - shortstory by C. Mark Umland
• Piercing Man - (2000) - shortstory by Douglas Clegg
• The Siege - (2000) - shortstory by Michael Marano
• Bear Shirt - (2000) - shortstory by Gemma Files (variant of Bear-Shirt)
• Little Holocausts - (1997) - novelette by Brian Hodge
• The Sound of Weeping - (2000) - shortstory by Thomas S. Roche
• Hey Fairy - (2000) - shortstory by Edo van Belkom
• The Spark - (1997) - novelette by William J. Mann
• Spindleshanks (New Orleans, 1956) - (2000) - shortstory by Caitlín R. Kiernan
• The Perpetual - (2000) - shortstory by David Quinn
• Genius Loci - (2000) - shortstory by Becky N. Southwell
• Goodbye - (2000) - shortstory by Michael Thomas Ford
• Tabula Rasa - (2000) - shortstory by Robert Boyczuk
• You Can't Always Get What You Want - (2000) - shortstory by T. L. Bryers
• The Bird Feeders - (2000) - novelette by David Nickle
• No Silent Scream - (2000) - shortstory by Nancy Kilpatrick
• Nestle's Revenge - (2000) - novelette by Ron Oliver
• Second Shadow - (2000) - shortstory by Joseph O'Brien

Queer Fear II builds on the successes of its predecessor, Queer Fear, the groundbreaking gay-themed horror anthology that Gothic.net called "the best horror anthology of [the year]," which won the Queer Horror Award, and was a finalist for a Spectrum Award and two Lambda Literary Awards.

This second volume includes among its stories new work by some stars of the previous volume--International Horror Guild Award winners Gemma Files and Michael Marano, Bram Stoker Award winners David Nickle and Edo van Belkom, and screenwriter Ron Oliver. Science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer, winner of the Aurora and Nebula Awards, crosses genres to appear alongside newer writers like Bram Stoker Award winner Brett Savory, novelist Sephera Giron, and classic British ghost story author Steve Duffy.

And if that's not enough, Queer Fear II will also feature a new, unpublished story by internationally acclaimed horror writer Poppy Z. Brite.

The dark pleasures and anxieties of the Queer Fear books have their roots in the nightmarish, viral machinations of AIDS and homophobia, as well as the ghoulish, old-fashioned thrills of confronting things that go bump in the night. Queer Fear II will keep you up long past the witching hour.

Contents:

• Acknowledgments (Queer Fear II) - (2002) - essay by uncredited
• Introduction: In Further Praise of Queer Fear - (2002) - essay by Michael Rowe
• Bugcrush - (2002) - shortstory by Scott Treleaven
• Polyphemus' Cave - (2002) - novelette by David Nickle
• Dead in the Water - (2002) - shortstory by C. Mark Umland
• Delicious Monster - (2002) - shortstory by Nalo Hopkinson
• Gaytown - (2002) - novelette by Robert Boyczuk
• Digging Up Graves - (1997) - shortstory by William J. Mann
• artGod - (2002) - shortstory by Joseph O'Brien
• Black Shapes in a Darkened Room - (2002) - shortstory by Marshall Moore
• Night of the Werepuss - (2002) - shortstory by Michael Thomas Ford
• On Being a Fetish - (2002) - shortstory by David Coffey
• I Stand Alone - (2002) - shortstory by Sèphera Girón
• Numbers - (2002) - shortstory by Steve Duffy
• Want - (2002) - shortstory by Ron Oliver
• Oh Yes, My Eyes - (2002) - shortfiction by David Quinn
• One of the Boys - (2002) - shortstory by Edo van Belkom
• Till Human Voices Wake Us - (2002) - shortstory by Stephen Dedman
• Slice - (2002) - shortstory by Warren Dunford
• Veggie Mountain - (2002) - shortstory by Thomas S. Roche
• Exit Wound - (2002) - shortstory by Michael Marano
• Freshets - (2002) - shortstory by Brett Alexander Savory
• Bayou de la Mère - (2002) - shortstory by Poppy Z. Brite
• The Narrow World - (2001) - novella by Gemma Files
• Contributors (Queer Fear II) - (2002) - essay by uncredited