Wired.com presents the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 173 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Today in the show will be discussing queer themes and horror and talking about

queer's destroy horror, a special crowd-funded issue of Nightmare magazine.

And this will sort of be a continuation of our panel

on Queers Destroy Science Fiction from episode 133.

So you might want to listen to that one too,

if you haven't already.

And I'm joined by three guests. So first up we've got Wendy and Wagner.

She's the managing slash associate editor for Lightspeed and Nightmare magazines

and also served as guest editor for Queers Destroy Horror.

She's also the author of Skin Walkers, a

Pathfinder Tales adventure novel, as well as more than 30 short stories that have

appeared in venues like Kethu Fatagin, Faragos Wainskah and Beneath Sees useless skies. So Wendy, welcome to the show.

Hi David! Then next up we've got Craig Lawrence Giddney, who served as an assistant editor for

Queers Destroy Horror. He writes both contemporary young adult and genre fiction,

and his first collection, C Swallme and other stories, was a finalist for the 2009 Lambda Literary Award.

Bereft, a Waiya novel novel appeared in 2013 from Tiny Central Press and his second collection

Skin Deep Magic is out now from Rebel Satore Press. So Craig, welcome to the show.

Hello! And finally we've got Alyssa Wong. Welcome to the show. Hello.

And finally, we've got Alyssa Wong,

whose short story, Hungry Daughters of Starfing Mothers

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