The Canadian hinterlands are really gothic if looked at just the right way. John's, I canoed something like 2,200 miles through the northern Ontario and Manitoba wilderness,' says Rowe. The school was renowned for its outdoor sports program, which included snowshoeing and canoeing. John's would challenge me and toughen me up.' John's, so it was a logical family choice. 'My parents were a little concerned at the level of privilege I was growing up around in the mid-70s. John's from a private school in Geneva, Switzerland,' says Rowe, whose father was a diplomat. John's Cathedral Boys' School in Selkirk from 1977 to 1981. On the surface of things, it may appear that Toronto-based writer and journalist Michael Rowe is coming to town to launch his new vampire novel, Enter, Night (ChiZine Publications).īut the true horror lies deeper: the event is also a high school reunion of sorts for Rowe, who attended St. Also – if you enjoy our show, please consider leaving us a rating and/or review on one of those services.Winnipeg occupies big spot in the heart of vampire-novelist Michael Rowe Listen below, or subscribe to the Great Lakes Horror Company on iTunes, Google Music or Stitcher.

His second, Wildfell, was published in December 2013 by ChiZine Publications. As the creator and editor of the critically acclaimed horror anthologies Queer Fear and Queer Fear 2, he was hailed by Clive Barker in 2002 as having “changed forever the shape of horror fiction.” He is married and lives in Toronto. He has won the Lambda Literary Award, the Randy Shilts Award, and the Spectrum Award, and has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award, the Associated Church Press Award, and the International Horror Guild Award. For 17 years he was the first-tier Canadian correspondent for Fangoria. His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in the Globe & Mail, National Post, The Advocate, and The Huffington Post, as well as CFQ, The Scream Factory, All-Hallows, among many others. The two discuss his most recent novels Enter, Night and Wildfell, Clive Barker, Christopher Rice, Anne Rice’s universe, homophobia and growing up queer in the ’70s and ’80s, and horror’s efforts to find legitimacy in the literary world.Īn award-winning journalist, and literary nonfiction writer, Michael is the author of Writing Below the Belt, a critically-acclaimed study of censorship, erotica and popular culture, as well as the essay collections Looking for Brothers and Other Men’s Sons. In this special Pride Month edition of the GLHC podcast, Andrew Robertson interviews queer horror writer and celebrated journalist Michael Rowe.

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