Ari Gold’s music video for “Make My Body Rock” features bisexuality, vampirism and eating children. What’s not to love? Tony spoke to Gold about his new video here, and I continue the conversation about not only that, but girls with special powers…

To wrap up Women in Horror Month, I’ve found the most elusive of creatures—the horror lesbian! Just take a tour through photographer April A. Taylor’s website, and you’ll find blood and women in peril to satisfy even the most voracious of gore-lovin’ eyeballs. Much like me, Taylor (pictured) is a complete horror geek, so this interview is more of a conversation than your traditional Q&A. Warning: Readers may be exposed to high levels of nerd.

In Part One of my interview with Irish author Alan Kelly, we talked about growing up gay in Ireland, the fascination with the seamier side of life, and his short fiction. In Part Two, Kelly gives me all the details on his pulpliciously gruesome debut novel, LET ME DIE A WOMAN, and his favorite potato dish.

A creepy little book slithered into my mailbox recently. The tome shares a title with the classic Doris Wishman quasi-documentary, LET ME DIE A WOMAN, and yes, like the film, the book's plot does involve a transgender character. But whereas Wishman's film examines the transgender experience through documentary footage and straightforward fictional vignettes, author Alan Kelly's gruesome meditation mixes sci-fi and horror with a dash of noir revenge drama into a squirming, half-dead stew.

In Part One of my interview with BITE MARKS writer/director Mark Bessenger, we talked about our earliest mental scars caused by horror cinema. In this second part, Bessenger gives me the lowdown on shooting a vampire (with a side of gay indie) comedy in the middle of Indiana.

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