Where Thy Dark Eye Glances
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Queering Edgar Allan Poe
ed. by Steve Berman
The canon of Edgar Allan Poe, one of the foremost writers of dark and atmospheric fiction and poetry, offers readers haunted shores teeming with various erudite men brooding in the waning light over their feelings for unobtainable women. Yet, whether the tales or verses are grotesque or sinister, Poe's narrators are Outsiders, dealing with emotions that so many LGBT individuals feel: isolation and abandonment as well as loneliness and lost love. In the Shirley Jackson Award nominated Where Thy Dark Eye Glances, editor Steve Berman has assembled a range of tales that queer the prose and poetry of the Poe, the man himself, as well as dark and eerie stories about reading Poe's work.
"The City and the Stranger" by Seth Cadin
"Matthew Brady, The Gallery of Illustrious Americans" by Daniel Nathan Terry
"Poetaster" by Steve Berman
"The House" by Ed Madden
"The House of the Resonate Heart" by L.A. Fields
"The Raven and Her Victory" by Tansy Rayner Roberts
"Corvidae" by Peter Dubé
"The Man Who Was" by Ray Cluley
"Gwendolyn" by Máiréad Casey
"Telltale" by Claire London
"The Lord's Great Jest" by Satyrus Phil Bucato
"His Hideous Heart" by Kyle S. Johnson
"Variations of Figures Upon the Wall" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
"For the Applause of Shadows" by Christopher Barzak
"By that Sweet Word Alone" by Heather Lojo
"Two Men in a Bedchamber, as Observed by the Ghost of the Girl in the Oval Portrait" by Terra LeMay
"Midnight at the Feet of the Carayatides" by Cory Skerry
"Surrounded by Death" by Ronna Magy
"The Bells" by Chip Livingston
"The Demon and the Dove" by Collin Kelley
"The Death of Beautiful Men" by Jeff Mann
"Eureka!" by Nick Mamatas
"Seven Days of Poe" by Richard Bowes
"The Chicken Farmer and His Boy: A Metaphysical History" by John Mantooth
"A Portrait in India Ink by Harry Clarke" by Alex Jeffers
"Lacuna" by Matt Cheney
The canon of Edgar Allan Poe, one of the foremost writers of dark and atmospheric fiction and poetry, offers readers haunted shores teeming with various erudite men brooding in the waning light over their feelings for unobtainable women. Yet, whether the tales or verses are grotesque or sinister, Poe's narrators are Outsiders, dealing with emotions that so many LGBT individuals feel: isolation and abandonment as well as loneliness and lost love. In the Shirley Jackson Award nominated Where Thy Dark Eye Glances, editor Steve Berman has assembled a range of tales that queer the prose and poetry of the Poe, the man himself, as well as dark and eerie stories about reading Poe's work.
"The City and the Stranger" by Seth Cadin
"Matthew Brady, The Gallery of Illustrious Americans" by Daniel Nathan Terry
"Poetaster" by Steve Berman
"The House" by Ed Madden
"The House of the Resonate Heart" by L.A. Fields
"The Raven and Her Victory" by Tansy Rayner Roberts
"Corvidae" by Peter Dubé
"The Man Who Was" by Ray Cluley
"Gwendolyn" by Máiréad Casey
"Telltale" by Claire London
"The Lord's Great Jest" by Satyrus Phil Bucato
"His Hideous Heart" by Kyle S. Johnson
"Variations of Figures Upon the Wall" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
"For the Applause of Shadows" by Christopher Barzak
"By that Sweet Word Alone" by Heather Lojo
"Two Men in a Bedchamber, as Observed by the Ghost of the Girl in the Oval Portrait" by Terra LeMay
"Midnight at the Feet of the Carayatides" by Cory Skerry
"Surrounded by Death" by Ronna Magy
"The Bells" by Chip Livingston
"The Demon and the Dove" by Collin Kelley
"The Death of Beautiful Men" by Jeff Mann
"Eureka!" by Nick Mamatas
"Seven Days of Poe" by Richard Bowes
"The Chicken Farmer and His Boy: A Metaphysical History" by John Mantooth
"A Portrait in India Ink by Harry Clarke" by Alex Jeffers
"Lacuna" by Matt Cheney
"Where Thy Dark Eye Glances" is a solid collection; as editor Berman puts it, it is 'no mere dream within a dream.' The depth of Poe's work allows for a breadth of approaches to the idea of "queering" the Poe canon. The characters may be gay and lesbian, but the themes are universal. Poe fans should not pass this collection up." - Anthony Cardno for Strange Horizons