Blood Sweat & Queers

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>CRACK OPEN THE COFFIN AND UNLEASH THE VAMPIRE.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>An ancient beast stirs in the shale beneath an oil rig. A dancer languishes in a lakeside cottage. A man swipes right hunting flesh with a predator's patience. A woman reels from government-sanctioned body horrors.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>All queer. All ravenous. All vampires.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Vampires have always been vessels of longing craving not only blood but sex power and the sanctity of the taboo. And what hunger is more righteously denied more persistently policed than queer love? Like the vampire the queer spirit endures unkillable and unashamed.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>With a foreword by vampire scholar Margaret Hall </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Blood Sweat & Queers</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> presents decadent tales of queer love from eight LGBTQ+ authors all intertwined with the eternal allure of the vampire- stories of desire unbound of passion unending and hunger that threatens to consume everything in its path. Crack open the coffin if you dare.</span></p><p></p>