make/shift Magazine, Fist of the Spider Womanapplies the tropes of the horror genre-suspense, fear, surprise-to the horrors of real life, and allows its characters the courage and grit to come out on the other side, scarred, but surviving. Anna Camilleri, author, I am a Red Dress, Fist of the Spider Woman applies the tropes of the horror genre-suspense, fear, surprise-to the horrors of real life, and allows its characters the courage and grit to come out on the other side, scarred, but surviving. If Charlotte were all grown up, queer, kinky, and foul-mouthed, Fist would be the stuff of her dreams. This book isn't about desire despite fear, or fear that triumphs over desire-Fist of the Spider Woman asks, "What are you afraid of?" and then spins a multi-dimensional, multi-genre web that is sexy, poignantly scary, and politically astute. A sense of spectral foreboding hangs over one of the heroines who has always abhorred the basement, but finds herself blindfolded and seeking a hiding space among the musty shelves of canned vegetables.Amber Dawn has a beautifully twisted mind I'm a fan. Neighbours share urban legends of a ghost residing in the house’s basement. Their game signifies the end of queer sanctuary in their richly storied neighbourhood.ĭawn somehow successfully blends a mix of housing and activist history, BDSM, multiple love stories and a ghost tale to concoct the book’s creepiest story. In “Here Lies the Last Lesbian Rental in East Vancouver,” two lovers play a sadomasochistic game of hide-and-seek on the last night in their rental house. 
In this nice counterpoint to Arsenal Pulp’s enjoyable Queer Fear series, it is editor Amber Dawn, though, who lands a haymaker of a story. Nomy Lamm treads an ambiguous line about a protagonist who may be a paranoid schizophrenic in “Conspiracy of Fuckers.” Is the government monitoring the heroine because she publishes a radical zine? Do they really want her to assimilate? As a bonus, “Conspiracy” includes an intersexed character as the main’s ex. Barnes writes of the peculiarities of a family living along a northwestern rainforest, how the family is marked by a rare shark and by the matriarch’s true love. Kestrel Barnes’ “Shark” could pander to a sort of Jaws mentality, but she elevates her prose while still applying familiar tropes such as the sight of a distant shark fin along the shoreline.
A rather overshadowed selection of poetry appears between these pleasurable stories, which also examine romantic themes.
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