#16 - Bending the Landscape: Fantasy (1996) and #17 - Bending the Landscape: Horror (2001)
Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (Eds), Bending the Landscape: Fantasy (1996) and Bending the Landscape: Horror (2001)
The fantasy anthology features a lot of authors I like - Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman, Tanya Huff - and yet I did not like it.
On the other hand, the horror anthology is the last, and in my opinion, the strongest, of Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel’s *Bending the Landscape* series. There is plenty of scope for strong stories exploring queerness in horror stories.
The standouts for me:
Alexi Smart’s ‘Broken Canes’ really captures the horror of knowing you have seen a terrible crime but not being believed because you are too young, girls, and queer to boot.
Even more creepy is Mark W Tiedemann’s ‘Passing’ in which the protagonist turns himself into the enemy in order to survive.
The fantasy anthology features a lot of authors I like - Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman, Tanya Huff - and yet I did not like it.
On the other hand, the horror anthology is the last, and in my opinion, the strongest, of Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel’s *Bending the Landscape* series. There is plenty of scope for strong stories exploring queerness in horror stories.
The standouts for me:
Alexi Smart’s ‘Broken Canes’ really captures the horror of knowing you have seen a terrible crime but not being believed because you are too young, girls, and queer to boot.
Even more creepy is Mark W Tiedemann’s ‘Passing’ in which the protagonist turns himself into the enemy in order to survive.