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.

All in Fear: A Collection of Six Horror Tales

Literature & Fiction

Rock, J.A.

Parrish, Roan

Gale, Avon

Charles, KJ

Berman, Steve

Ripper, Kris

Short Stories & Anthologies

Open Ink Press LLC

What If

Weiss, Vivian

PRENTICE/HALL

Vintage: A Ghost Story

Walking on an empty stretch of highway on a lonely autumn night, a gay teen meets a strange boy who disappears into thin air. What begins as a dream turns into a nightmare as the dangerous obsession of a star athlete killed in 1957 begins to haunt the teen. Vintage is a thriller that looks at the dark side of gay urban fantasy, where the dead can never rest and trapped spirits yearn for peace.

Haworth Positronic Press

Scarred Lands Blood Sea

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

White Wolf Publishing

Trysts is the first collection of dark fantasy fiction with gay characters by Steve Berman. 
Berman has assembled thirteen (thus the triskadecollection of the subtitle) 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 voice in gay fiction.

Trysts: A Triskaidecollection of Queer and Weird Stories

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Lethe Press

Wilde Stories 2008: The Best of the Year's Gay Speculative Fiction

As such literary movements as interstitial and slipstream gain momentum, more and more authors interweave their traditional stories with gay themes as coming out, homophobia, and self-as-other, with a bit of the strange and weird. Named after one of the founding fathers of gay speculative fiction, Wilde Stories is a new annual anthology that offers readers the best of such stories from the prior year. Editor Steve Berman, a finalist for both the Lambda Literary and Andre Norton Awards, has collected an engaging selection of the fantastical, the strange, and the scary from such notable authors as Victor J. Banis, Hal Duncan and Lee Thomas. Includes the winner of the Gaylactic Spectrum Award for best queer-themed short story.

Ore, Rebecca

Lane, Joel

Currier, Jameson

Pelan, John

Thomas, Lee

Dubé, Peter

Banis, Victor J.

Ibanez-Carrasco, Francisco

Harper, Jonathan

United States

In a small New Jersey town a lonely boy walking along a highway one autumn evening meets the boy of his dreams, a boy who happens to have died decades ago and haunts the road. Awkward crushes, both bitter and sweet, lead him to face youthful dreams and childish fears. With a cast of offbeat friends, antiques, and Ouija boards, Vintage offers readers a memorable blend of dark humor, chills and love. A finalist for the Andre Norton Award for best speculative fiction young adult novel.

Teen & Young Adult

Lethe Pr

Greek myths held that Oceanus to be a massive river surrounding the land. A Titan, son of sky and earth, he was depicted as a handsome, muscular man whose torso ended in a scaled tail. As the Olympians emerged, Oceanus retreated, his domain restricted to strange and dangerous shores, the realm of sailors' fortunes and worries. So, too, are the eleven tales within the pages of The Touch of the Sea: fantastical, at times eerie, with sightings of mermen, water spirits, and sea beasts (even the fabled ''living island,'' the aspidochelone) as well as a smattering of pirates. What makes these stories memorable is that they affirm the masculinity of the sea, the taste of brine on another man's lips.  Become mates with such award-winning authors as Joel Lane and Jeff Mann--seasoned storytellers 'Nathan Bourgeoine, Chaz Brenchley, and Alex Jeffers--and a wide array of coxswains: Brandon Cracraft, Jonathan Harper, John Howard, Vincent Kovar, Matthew A. Merendo, Damon Shaw--under the helm of editor Steve Berman.

The Touch of the Sea

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