Steve Berman

Jonathan Harper

Stories

Daydreamers

Vintage is the engaging story of what it's like to be a teenager in today's world and the troubles that accompany that age as well as what it's like to be haunted by the troubles of the teens of yesterday's world and how similar both those worlds really are. More than a story about Goth fashion, teen angst or even restless ghosts, Vintage delivers pulse-quickening plot, unique and fully-developed characters.

A Ghost Story

Vintage

An anthology of fifteen stories featuring such themes as amphibians that speak and enchanted jewelry.

Tales of Fantasy

Magic in the Mirrorstone

Kris Ripper

Avon Gale

Roan Parrish

J. A. Rock

KJ Charles

Horror wears many faces, and its masks can be tantalizing. Some of the top names in queer fiction come together to spin their own versions of horror. Worlds rife with dark beauty and mystery, the familiar becoming terrible, creatures ethereal and alluring--and all bearing the gleam of love. Does hope lie along these grim passages or only doom? It will become clear. All in time--and all in fear.

A Collection of Six Horror Tales

All in Fear

Benjanun Sriduangkaew

Melissa Scott

Cat Rambo

Sacchi Green

Tansy Rayner Roberts

Penny Stirling

Redfern Jon Barrett

Tori Truslow

Kenneth Schneyer

Claire Humphrey

Alex Jeffers

Layla Lawlor

Zoe Blade

Amanda Fitzwater

Meda Kahn

Chant©♭ McCoy

Robert E. Stutts

Lexy Wealleans

Alberto Y©Ł©łez

A book such as this spins not only words but also whole worlds: eighteen of them, representing the best lesbian-themed stories of the fantastic or futuristic published the prior year: An artisan who tests the skills and wares of her friends in the hope of finding the ideal housing for an idealized love. A shape-shifting sidekick ensures that the heroine, who might not even be aware of her, saves the day. The device on a young girl's wrist that counts down the years until she will meet her soul mate poses the ultimate challenge of delayed gratification. A daydreamer wonders how she will face the coming Stone Moon and its gathering when her culture demands fertility yet her heart belongs to her best friend, who is not only female but of a higher caste. The women to be met in these pages will find themselves tested not because of their sexual identity but rather the identity they have composed, constructed, and spun.

The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction

Heiresses of Russ 2014

Celebrate a decade of gay speculative fiction with Wilde Stories 2011! This expanded volume from Lethe Press brings stories of undead lovers, stranded astronauts, ghosts and phantom reflections, men lost in an inhospitable wilderness, and fiends who hide under handsome veneers, all written by award-winning authors (Laird Barron, Richard Bowes and Joel Lane) and fresh voices in the field (Nick Poniatowski and Jeffrey Ricker) No other anthology provides readers the widest variety of gay men men facing the weird, the fantastic, and the horrific.

The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction

Wilde Stories 2011

A fascinating and unnerving selection of stories that offer ablend of queer sensiblity with fairy tale magic. Here are heroes and heroines seeking thier own path, and at times, when they stray or are waylaid, the journey back is all the more interesting. Here are tales of the pains of self-discovery, acceptance and of finding, losing and finding love once more. From seduction to kidnap to betrayal by the fey folk in all their varied forms, these are stories that are filled with love, charm and - at times - menace and an underlying eerie horror.

Queer Fairy Fiction

So Fey

Stories of overcoming adversity and experiencing life after coming out.

LGBTQ youth stand up

Speaking out

Verdant virgins & lush lotharios await readers in these strange yet sensual stories about men and vegetation. Fantastical fronds cannot resist caressing warm flesh. Creatures of myth protecting the forest; botanical lab experiments run amok; a veteran of the Mexican-American war finds himself entranced by an aesthete's poisonous garden.

His Seed

One of the more admired characters in Western literature happens to be a murderer, a villain, a fiend: Count Dracula. Irish author Bram Stoker's classic novel stands high in the canon of speculative fiction, influencing countless twentieth- and twenty-first-century storytellers in a variety of mediums. It is only natural for the outsiders of society to reinterpret the world's most infamous vampire through the lenses of their own experience. Who is more outside of society than Dracula? Perhaps the writers of queer-themed speculative fiction and their characters.... In Suffered from the Night: Queering Stoker's Dracula, editor Steve Berman provides a worthy companion to Lethe Press's widely acclaimed earlier anthologies of queered canon, A Study in Lavender: Queering Sherlock Holmes and Where Thy Dark Eye Glances: Queering Edgar Allan Poe. Here you will find dark tales (and a poem) of Dracula himself, his minions willing and not, his implacable enemies, and their heirs. Prepare to be guided into the deep recesses of the queer imagination by an impressive array of award winners, veterans, and bright new lights.

Queering Stoker's Dracula

Suffered from the Night

JoSelle Vanderhooft

Welcome to a new annual anthology created in honor of the late Joanna Russ, American writer, academic, and feminist whose work shone brightly in the male-dominated field of speculative fiction of the latter half of the twentieth century. Heiresses of Russ offers readers in one volume the best lesbian-themed tales of the fantastical, weird and otherworldly, published during the prior year. Editors JoSelle Vanderhooft (Sleeping Beauty, Indeed and Other Stories) and Steve Berman (the Wilde Stories series) read countless books, periodicals, and webzines to collect a range of talers--from new voices as well as award-winning authors--that celebrate the spirit of Russ's fiction: stories of sorceresses and spectral women, lost daughters and sisters of myth. The transformative power of the written word becomes magic and tests the boundaries of gender, identity and a woman's dreams.

Heiresses of Russ 2011

Kelly Robson

Tim Waggoner

Lucien Soulban

Cassandra Khaw

Gemma Files

Selena Kitt

Molly Tanzer

Darien Cox

Jessica Freely

Cassie Alexander

Jaye Wells

'Nathan Burgoine

Jason Ridler

Lucy Snyder

Nathan Pettigrew

A. Rustad

D. Warrick

Tom Cardamone

NASTY: Fetish Fights Back is a daring new collection of erotic short fiction spanning sexualities, genders, orientations, positions, & proclivities. From fetish priests to breath restriction, bondage play to somnophilia, there's something in NASTY for everyone. With stories from New York Times Bestseller Selena Kitt, Shirley Jackson Winner Gemma Files, five-time Bram Stoker Award Winner Lucy A. Snyder and more, this collection pushes the boundaries not only of steamy sex but of what defines us as sexual beings. Explore repressed yet explosive gay erotica in a politically-themed tale, "The Straw Man," by Jessica Freely. In A. Merc Rustad's "Bodies Like Galaxies," a nonconventional gendered couple engage in consciousness upload. Jaye Wells ventures into erotic romance with "Aural Sex." A woman explores her obsession with sensual words. Chiaroscuro never sounded so sexy. Genital piercing has rarely been this orgasmic. Read "Metal" by Lazuli Jones. Cassie Alexander, the author of "The House: An Erotic Choose Your Own Adventure," brings "Galatea." The myth has never made more sense than in this retelling. Hugo and Nebula Finalist, Kelly Robson explores the titillating world of aging lesbians and a group penchant for public nudity in "The Desperate Flesh." Moreover, who doesn't like a good Nazi takedown? Douglas F. Warrick's "The Things I Told the Cops After the Uprising (And a Few Things I Wish I'd Told Them)" is a bittersweet yet beautiful, romantic yet sensual journey through violence and transition. Focused on acceptance and consent, co-editors, Anna Yeatts & Chris Phillips, hope the stories in NASTY: Fetish Fights Back will help readers see the sexuality & sensuality common to all of us. Stories from Selena Kitt, Gemma Files, Jaye Wells, A. Merc Rustad, Lucy A. Snyder, Cassandra Khaw, Lucien Soulban, Jessica Freely, Cassie Alexander, Kelly Robson, Jason S. Ridler, Tim Waggoner, Steve Berman, D. F. Warrick, 'Nathan Burgoine, Kaysee Renee Robichaud, Darien Cox, Molly Tanzer, Tom Cardamone, Lazuli Jones, Rose de Fer, Ann Castle, Charles Payseur, Nathan Pettigrew, Robert Brouhard, Konstantine Paradias, and Matthew F. Amati.

Fetish Fights Back: An Erotic Short Story Collection

Nasty

Steve Berman has assembled thirteen of his most evocative stories, all of which revolve around the central theme of the 'tryst.' But these passionate hookups and romantic encounters range from the eerie to the horrifying to the wondrous. Trysts offers readers dark and quirky tales from a distinctive new voice in gay fiction.

A Triskaidecollection of Queer and Weird Stories

Trysts

A. M. Dellamonica

The latest volume in the acclaimed Heiresses of Russ series features stories that are anything but invisible: the women in these tales are not hiding and are not easily overlooked but rather are choosing the harder path, the more dangerous route, whether that leads to love or loss or adventure. Included in these pages are stories that have won a World Fantasy Award, a Tiptree Award, and a British Fantasy Award...but every one of these stories chosen by guest editor A.M. Dellamonica (herself an award-winning writer of queer speculative fiction) is emblematic of the new vitality to be found in lesbian-themed tales of wonder, the eerie, and the miraculous.

Heiresses of Russ 2016

Burly Tales

Red Caps might be a rock band. Or they might be something more sinister, a fey source of sounds that are but the backdrop to thrills and misadventures. These thirteen stories provide readers jaded with the traditional, Old World fairy tales and tempts them with new stories that will engage bored readers from their suburban ennui. Closets are waiting to be explored. Escape from work camp leads to a dangerous encounter on a wet road. That high school year book is magical and might be mocking you...or helping you find love. And isn't love one of the central premises of the fairy tale? These teenage boys and girls need not fear that their love has no worth, because Steve Berman has written for them princesses who love maidens and adorkable students who have wondrous and smart boyfriends. Readers can be assured that, if the tale does not end happy, it ends most memorably.

New Fairy Tales for Out of the Ordinary Readers

Red Caps

Stephen Graham Jones

Lavie Tidhar

Michael Cisco

Nick Mamatas

Carrie Laben

Steve Rasnic Tem

F. Brett Cox

Steve Eller

No ax murderers hunting sexy teens. No brutal torture for torture's sake. Phantom goes beyond the scare! From paranoid gold prospectors to lonely curators, Satan-worshipping Long Island teens, metaphysics-obsessed television reporters, and to Peter and Olivia and their devastating final choices detailed in the last pages of this anthology, the fourteen stories of Phantom present their horrors differently, but they all ask: How does anyone live through this? Paul Tremblay and Sean Wallace have collected fourteen stories by today's most thoughtful writers of horror, each asking the questions beyond "what is frightening"? This is just the beginning, however, with stories from Steve Rasnic Tem, Lavie Tidhar, F. Brett Cox, Stephen Graham Jones, Steve Berman, Nick Mamatas, Michael Cisco, among other fresh voices in horror.

Phantom

Toby Johnson

"Charmed Lives" offers readers a collection of more than 30 short works of fiction and personal essays as an alternative to the stories that society often tells about gay men. All offer insight into modern gay life that will inspire and shed light on the grace of being gay with tales of hope against adversity, and love over loneliness.

Gay Spirit in Storytelling

Charmed Lives

Connie Wilkins

In this, the second release in the annual Heiresses of Russ series, Lambda Literary Award winning editor Connie Wilkins joins Steve Berman in choosing the best of the prior year's published speculative fiction with lesbian themes. An unexplained astronomical phenomenon brings a woman and her grandfather closer while she questions the meaning of faith. African villagers are sent automatons rather than human relief workers. Mermaids devour men drawn by their song but what will happen to a steampunk submersible piloted by a woman? Two teenage girls discover that memories are held in the fine aromas of perfumes. A family of sisters in Mexico discover a fallen angel. These are tales of the strange, the wondrous, the eerie but all are richly told stories of women facing the unknown and how they are changed by the experience.

Heiresses of Russ 2012

Walt Whitman referred to a "Mad, naked, Summer Night!" In the pages of Boys of Summer, acclaimed editor Steve Berman's latest anthology, talented authors and fresh voices reveal the allure and excitement of the season for gay teens. June always promises romance. July entices with its raw heat, and August offers a languid fire that will burn out before autumn's approach. These are stories of young love and adventure, when the sky's ceiling is a bright blue marvel, when another boy's laughter at the beach can distract from dull summer jobs.

Boys of Summer

Steve Berman

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