Leanne Olson

Edited by David Ly and Daniel Zomparelli

Narrated by Danielle Verayo

Releasing March 30, 2023 from ECW Press Audio

Queer Little Nightmares is a gruesome, weird, and thoughtful book of short stories and poems that reimagine classic monsters with queer themes. 

I loved the wide variety of monsters in this book: we had sea monsters, ghosts, kaiju, werewolves, cryptids, and some wonderfully gross body horror.  They lent themselves so well to queer themes and many of the stories went in surprising directions.  The poetry was gorgeous and there are a few poems I read multiple times.

Some of the stories that focused heavily on sex and influencer culture weren’t my thing, but there was enough that I found quite a few favourites, and I appreciated the variety of themes.

My personal favourites were the stories Wooly Bully by Amber Dawn, Nature’s Mistake by David Demchuk, Moon Spun Round by Hiromi Goto, and the poems on the origin of trans femmes by Kai Cheng Thom and Dad Movie by Kayla Czaga.

I do wish I’d read this one in print, however.  I didn’t love the audiobook’s narrator; her voice didn’t feel very smooth, or adaptable enough for the variety of stories and poems.  I found some of the stories blurred together because of it.

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Thank you to Netgalley and ECW Press Audio for my review copy of this audiobook.