Queer Voices Reading Group
Sunday 27th September, 7pm
The Library at The Raven, 7 Queen St, Bath BA1 1HE
6.30pm
7pm
The Queer Voices Reading Group is back for September with Gretchen Felker-Martin's horror title Black Flame!
A cursed film. A haunted past. A deadly secret.
The Baroness, an infamous exploitation film long thought destroyed by Nazi fire, is discovered fifty years later. When lonely archivist Ellen Kramer -deeply closeted and pathologically repressed- begins restoring the hedonistic movie, it unspools dark desires from deep within her.
As Ellen is consumed by visions and voices, she becomes convinced the movie is real, and is happening to her - and that frame by frame, she is unleashing its occult horrors on the world. Her life quickly begins to spiral out of control.
Until it all fades to black, and all that remains is a voice asking a question Ellen can't answer but can't get out of her mind: Do you want it? More than anything?
"Black Flame is depraved, shocking, and devastatingly beautiful. A hypnotic cosmic horror journey that travels both outward and in, pushing through the viscera and slime to reveal something truly profound about the nature of art itself." -Chuck Tingle, author of Bury Your Gays