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Rob Costello

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Rob Costello (he/him) writes dark and contemporary fiction with a queer bent for and about young people. He’s the contributing editor of WE MOSTLY COME OUT AT NIGHT: 15 QUEER TALES OF MONSTERS, ANGELS & OTHER CREATURES, nominated for a 2024 Bram Stoker Award® and named a 2024 CYBILS Award Finalist as well as a Notable/Recommended/Best Book of 2024 by the New York Public Library, Ginger Nuts of Horror, PseudoPod, Reactor Magazine, and Locus Magazine. He’s also author of the dark fiction story collection THE DANCING BEARS: QUEER FABLES FOR THE END TIMES, named a finalist for The Whirling Prize. His stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and have appeared in The Dark, The NoSleep Podcast, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, ...more

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“She was unafraid to be ugly and strange, to take up space, to howl and roar.”
Rob Costello, We Mostly Come Out at Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels & Other Creatures

“This city eats pretty boys like us alive if we let it.”
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“Man is his own devil and his own god. He became such when he stopped believing in anything but himself.”
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“Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow.

Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.

The same way old painters would sit in a tiny dark room and trace the image of what stood outside a tiny window, in the bright sunlight.

The camera obscura.

Not the exact image, but everything reversed or upside down.”
Chuck Palahniuk

“Sometimes you grow to love the shadow that follows.”
Donna Lynn Hope

“This city eats pretty boys like us alive if we let it.”
Rob Costello, An Ugly World for Beautiful Boys

“That’s why I chose you. Only we can see each other for who we truly are.”
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