Gay Vampire Fiction

Lovers Who Stay With You

by David MacMillan
Rating
87/100
Published
2010
Tags
Anthology, Horror, Romance
Undead hunks join with their mortal lovers to breathe life into the moribund romance genre. They shag shamelessly in paeans to their romance. This multi-genre approach alone will command the attention of reviewers and readers alike; the strength of the stories will make this collection an immediate sales leader and awards contestant. There's love, strong characters, and meaning on each page (as well as hot sex to whet the libido). In this thrilling new collection, Mr. MacMillan has blended the vampire, romance, and erotic genres so that each genre reaches new heights while maintaining its union with the others. He has brought what he's learnt from his previous five anthologies to cement that union firmly. The stories he's selected cover the width and depth of the vampire mythos and thus reaches to the core of the human condition. Lovers Who Stay With You boasts contributions from such luminaries of gay erotica as Philip Markham, Simon Sheppard, Jay Starr, Barry Alexander, Grant Foster, Jordan Baker, and Bill Crimmin and such writers of great promise as S. D. Yorston, Richard Bellingham, Davy Jones, Michael Gouda, and Daniel Ritter. 27 first-class stories and Mr. MacMillan's vampire novel bring readers to this new genre-blend and hold them there. Eternally adult, touching but always male, Lovers Who Stay With You probes the depths and climbs the heights of what it means to be human and male, thus creating new guidelines for male erotica.
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Review

An unassuming anthology, Lovers Who Stay With You appears to have been thrown together, typos and all, yet it manages to be one of the best collections of gay vampire short fiction. Edited by David MacMillan, the stories range from short to novella length with a wide variety of unique takes on the vampire mythology.

Some of the best stories in the collection include, Making it a Three-way by J.R. Mattingly, Dog in a Manger by Tom Millios—both tales where our hero succeeds in the end. For more light-hearted and humorous tales, Chosen by Chad Stephens and Night Wings by Barry Alexander, take the vampire mythos less seriously.

Released in 2004, this anthology is becoming hard to find however it’s available on Amazon. If there’s one collection of gay vampire erotica worth reading, Lovers Who Stay With You is at the top of the list.

Book Details
Publisher: STARbooks Press
ISBN: 9781891855429