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Lethe Press is an independent publishing house specializing in speculative fiction, books of gay interest, poetry, spirituality, as well as classic works of the occult & supernatural. Named after the Greek river of memory and forgetfulness, Lethe Press is devoted to ideas that are often neglected or forgotten by mainstream publishers. Founded in 2001 by author Steve Berman, Lethe Press has grown steadily in its first few years. Our books have been finalists for, and in cases won, such awards as the Andre Norton, Gaylactic Spectrum, Golden Crown Literary, and Lambda Literary Awards. Our anthologies have featured the works of many acclaimed and New York Times best-selling authors.

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His Seed: An Arboretum of Erotica by
Price: $5.00 USD. Words: 78,770. Language: English. Published: May 8, 2017 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » Erotica » Gay, Fiction » Erotica » Science Fiction
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
Verdant virgins and lush lotharios await readers in this anthology of strange yet sensual stories about men and vegetation. Fantastical fronds cannot resist caressing warm flesh. Sylvan creatures of myth protecting the forest; botanical laboratory experiments run amok; and a veteran of the Mexican-American war finds himself entranced by an aesthete's poisonous garden. Lammy award winner!
Disturbed by Her Song by
Price: $6.00 USD. Words: 63,110. Language: English. Published: August 30, 2010 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Historical, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian
(5.00 from 1 review)
Disturbed By Her Song collects the work of Esther Garber & her half-brother Judas Garbah, the mysterious family of writers that Tanith Lee has been channeling for the past few years. Possibly autobiographical, frequently erotic and darkly surreal, their fiction takes place in a variety of eras and places, from Egypt in the 1940s, to England in the grip of the Pre-Raphaelites, to gaslit Paris.
Engines of Desire: Tales of Love and Other Horrors by
Price: $5.00 USD. Words: 85,120. Language: English. Published: March 3, 2011 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Women's fiction » Feminist
(5.00 from 1 review)
Death and pleasure—Freud's Todestrieb: "libido has the task of making the destroying instinct innocuous, and it fulfills the task by diverting that instinct to a great extent outwards… The instinct is then called the destructive instinct, the instinct for mastery, or the will to power." Few authors have spun stories of Thanatos and Eros as skillfully and powerfully as Livia Llewellyn.
The Phoenix by
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 125,710. Language: English. Published: May 2, 2011 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Historical » General, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » General
(5.00 from 1 review)
A compelling Victorian saga of two men whose love for each other transcends time and distance—and the society that considers it an abomination. Set in the last twenty years of the 19th century, The Phoenix is a multi-layered historical novel that illuminates poverty and child abuse, as well as theatre history in America and England.
In Search Of and Others by
Price: $5.00 USD. Words: 45,270. Language: English. Published: February 27, 2013 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary, Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction
(5.00 from 1 review)
In Will Ludwigsen’s beautiful collection of nine reprinted and six original stories, the universe has a way of being weird in just the ways we need it to be. There are answers to many of our deepest questions…and they’re usually far more personal and mysterious than we expect.  What are you in search of? And what is in search of you?
Cub by
Price: $5.00 USD. Words: 73,220. Language: English. Published: February 12, 2014 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay, Fiction » Romance » Contemporary
(5.00 from 1 review)
Travis Ferrell has not yet admitted his passion for handsome guys—and his idea of what handsome is and what handsome does is not much different from him. Soon he’ll learn that he’s not unique; gay culture has a name for young men like him. Cubs. Lambda Literary Award-winning author Jeff Mann has written a touching romance for the outsider in us all.
Next to Nothing: Stories by
Price: $5.00 USD. Words: 58,970. Language: English. Published: April 2, 2014 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay, Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
(5.00 from 1 review)
O. Henry Prize-winning author Keith Banner’s new collection of short fiction recounts the troubled lives of ne’er-do-wells and outsiders. The banality of life, whether it be trapped in front of the television or popping pills for E.D., is exposed and mocked with aplomb. Few writers capture the quintessence of awkward domesticity and growing up queer like Banner.
Butcher's Road by
Price: $5.00 USD. Words: 118,700. Language: English. Published: May 21, 2014 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay
(5.00 from 1 review)
Once a world-class wrestler, Cardinal now serves as hired muscle for a second-rate Chicago mobster. While collecting a parcel from a gangland lowlife, Cardinal witnesses the man's murder. Cardinal embarks on search for answers that will reveal a world of metallic charms and weapons, all forged with unimaginable powers, and a mysterious order intent on retrieving their relic.
The Role by
Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 99,800. Language: English. Published: March 31, 2016 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay, Fiction » Romance » Contemporary
(5.00 from 1 review)
Mason Burroughs is an actor on the verge of giving up when his life changes when he bumps into Kevin Caldwell, an old crush from acting school. Kevin helps Mason land a role that could make him the next Broadway star. However, as rehearsals begin, Mason learns that there’s a lot more drama than what’s on stage.
The God in Flight by
Price: $4.00 USD. Words: 180,850. Language: English. Published: June 9, 2016 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay, Fiction » Romance » Historical » General
(5.00 from 1 review)
1878, young Satterwhite attends Yale in the hope he will discover what life holds for fellows with sharp aesthetic senses. He is unprepared to meet his assigned art teacher, Professor Klionarios. The pair are so dissimilar but the tumultuous love affair scorned by their society is a gilded construct between one believing himself ready to know real love and a willing partner.
Country by
Price: $6.50 USD. Words: 142,450. Language: English. Published: August 26, 2016 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Contemporary, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay
(5.00 from 1 review)
Brice Brown sings about loyalty and broken hearts, the earnestness of being a proud Southerner, yet his popular country music lyrics are misdirection because Brice has kept hidden his attraction to men for all his life. But when a former lover--and band member--goes to the press with the truth, Brice finds himself sick of all the lies and returning to the sanctuary of his West Virginian hometown.
Lily by
Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 65,390. Language: English. Published: November 15, 2016 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Dark, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian
(5.00 from 1 review)
Lily is a girl who discovers she has the ability to see how others will die simply by touching them. Only she doesn't want this gift, and takes extreme measure to protect herself from it. Can she survive the quest the old witch Baba Yaga has given her...or the attention of the tent revivalist who promises to save her soul? This dark fantastical novel is Michael Thomas Ford's newest masterpiece.
Sea Swallow Me by
Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 61,160. Language: English. Published: June 30, 2010 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » African American fiction » General, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay
(4.00 from 2 reviews)
A finalist for the Lambda Literary Award! Magic and myth mingle in dark and dazzling ways in Craig Laurance Gidney's debut collection. A tourist meets an African sea god... A 12th century Japanese monk attracts the attention of a mischievous shapeshifter... The Earl King lives in a briar patch on an antebellum plantation... Spirits of the past haunt a young boy on a Southern coastal island...
The Touch of the Sea by
Price: $4.00 USD. Words: 68,900. Language: English. Published: May 4, 2012 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories
(4.00 from 2 reviews)
Here are 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 define the masculinity of the sea, the taste of brine on another man's lips.
Fog: A Novel of Desire and Reprisal by
Price: $3.50 USD. Words: 56,270. Language: English. Published: August 18, 2011 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » Erotica » Gay, Fiction » Erotica » BDSM
(4.00 from 1 review)
Outside an isolated cabin, winter fog caresses spruce trees. Inside, two men, lovers, have enacted a plan of revenge, kidnapping the handsome son of the man who wronged one of them. Al, the accomplice, has stalked Rob for weeks, and his infatuation for the young man has grown deeper than he ever anticipated. A tale of gay erotica and BDSM by a master of the genre.
Wilde Stories 2012: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction by
Series: Wilde Stories: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction. Price: $2.00 USD. Words: 68,520. Language: English. Published: July 24, 2012 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories
(4.00 from 1 review)
The latest volume in the acclaimed Wilde Stories series has tales of hitchhikers on the run, dragons in the sky, swordsmen drawing their blades. These are stories fantastic and strange, otherworldly and eerie, but all feature gay men struggling with memories or lovers or simply the vicissitudes of life no matter how wild the world might be.
Wilde Stories 2016: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction by
Series: Wilde Stories: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction. Price: $6.00 USD. Words: 81,120. Language: English. Published: July 25, 2016 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay, Fiction » Literary collections » LGBTQ+
(4.00 from 1 review)
Reality and memory; imagination and oblivion. Somewhere between these signposts can be found the events of 15 stories in Wilde Stories 2016: a future world has forbidden the songs of dancefloor divas but on one night the show returns as a cautionary exhibition; high school outcasts create a fictional scapegoat and then his body is found; and let us not forget that colonial Mars needs Oscar Wilde!
Down on Your Knees by
Price: $4.50 USD. Words: 51,990. Language: English. Published: September 24, 2016 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay, Fiction » Horror » Crime
(4.00 from 1 review)
Denny “The Bull” Doyle steps out of prison only to find a low-level gangster is attempting to take over his organization. The Bull's associates are being murdered in violent and bizarre ways, and the next target is his beloved, though wholly sociopathic, brother, Jordie. Behind it all is Malcolm Lynch, a sadistic gangster who has more than guns and knives at his disposal: he's a sorcerer.
Queer Hauntings: True Tales of Gay and Lesbian Ghosts by
Price: $5.00 USD. Words: 47,860. Language: English. Published: July 28, 2011 by Lethe Press. Categories: Nonfiction » LGBTQ+ » History, Nonfiction » Travel » LGBTQ+
(3.00 from 1 review)
Queer Hauntings: True Tales of Gay and Lesbian Ghosts is a collection of eerie locales worldwide with a queer bent, combining historical fact and unearthly encounters from across the United States, as well as around the globe.
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