SPLIT OPEN - Queer Horror Stories Chapters 4-6 Leather Daddy, Pool Party, The Confessor (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798185590959)

There is an organization that remembers.

While the world erases queer history, The Meridian preserves everything: every underground club, every secret encounter, every act of desire and every sacrifice made in the dark. But preservation is not an act of kindness. It is a system. And it always demands something in return.

This volume collects three stories (#4 - #5 - #6) from SPLIT OPEN, a queer horror saga spanning nearly a century.

San Francisco, 1977. Joel walks into a vintage leather gear shop on Folsom Street. The owner, a sixty-year-old man known only as "Sir" is charismatic, intimidating, and covered in faded tattoos. Joel buys a harness. That night, the leather tightens on its own, almost choking him... but the worst is yet to come.

Los Angeles, 1986. Asher, an aspiring actor, is invited to an exclusive pool party in the Hollywood Hills. A famous producer's villa, beautiful men, top-shelf drugs. But the guests start drowning - not by accident...

Boston, 1983. Father Michael Doyle hears confessions that aren't confessions at all-men whispering desires they've never spoken to another living soul, through the grille of his confessional. Then comes a man who isn't there to repent, but to watch. A card slides under the door: an address on Marlborough Street, a time, no name. What waits for him there isn't redemption. It's an archive that never forgets.

Each story stands alone. Together, they reveal fragments of a vast design.

Because The Meridian is everywhere.

And it never forgets.