At the time of my writing this review, A VISION OF MOONLIGHT only has one rating on Amazon, which is honestly shocking to me, because this queer collection of dark fantasy and sapphic horror is evocative of authors like Tanith Lee and Poppy Z. Brite. I'm not going to go through every story in the collection but my two favorites were the high fantasy stories set in Vel. I would read a full-length novel about that elemental-based magic system and the toll it takes on the body. I also loved the emotions in these work, and how even though death and destruction of the body played such a focal role in all of these stories, the primary message seemed to be that life persists.
I recently read and enjoyed this author's sapphic werewolf romance, A WOLF STEPS IN BLOOD, and I really liked it, but I honestly think that I may have liked this more. Anthologies can be tricky because sometimes the way that the stories are curated isn't so great, or the quality vacillates wildly, but this was an incredibly cohesive collection with surreal, terrifying, and poignant stories.
This author needs to be read by more people, because my god.
4 out of 5 stars
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