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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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Heiresses of Russ 2012: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction by
Series: Heiresses of Russ: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Price: $2.00 USD. Words: 94,850. Language: English. Published: October 11, 2012 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian, Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
An unexplained astronomical phenomenon brings a woman and her grandfather closer. African villagers in need of aid are sent automatons. 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. These are tales of the strange, wondrous, eerie, but all are rich.
Desire and Devour: Stories of Blood and Sweat by
Price: $3.50 USD. Words: 67,890. Language: English. Published: August 23, 2012 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » Erotica » Gay, Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
Award-winning author Jeff Mann has collected his erotic and powerful stories of the vampire Derek's unlife, adventures that travel centuries and the globe. Loosen your collar, bare your throat, sigh in expectation, but do not forget to shiver as this burly and brawny stalker of men steps behind you, to brush his beard against your neck as his hands grasp you where you most need to be touched.
Lauriat: A Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction Anthology by
Price: $3.50 USD. Words: 59,940. Language: English. Published: July 27, 2012 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal, Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general
Featuring stories that deal with voyeur ghosts, taboo lovers, a town that cannot sleep, the Chinese zodiac, and an exile that finally comes home, Lauriat: A Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction Anthology covers a diverse selection of narratives from fresh, Southeast Asian voices.
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.
The Dust of Wonderland by
Price: $5.00 USD. Words: 96,600. Language: English. Published: June 4, 2012 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay, Fiction » Horror » Ghost
With the lives of his estranged family and his lover, David, threatened, Ken Nicholson has no choice but to follow his nightmares back to their New Orleans origin. There he will battle a corrupt and powerful being that believes every life is a story to be captured and rewritten, a being that doesn’t believe in happy endings.
Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction by
Price: $6.00 USD. Words: 98,420. Language: English. Published: June 2, 2012 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
Speculative fiction is the literature of questions, of challenges and imagination, and what better to question than the ways in which gender and sexuality have been rigidly defined, partitioned off, put in little boxes? Extraordinary stories by Keyan Bowes, Kelley Eskridge, Tobi Hill-Meyer, Nalo Hopkinson, Claire Humphrey, Sarah Kanning, Keffy R. M. Kehrli, Ellen Kushner, and 9 more authors
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.
Purgatory: A Novel of the Civil War by
Price: $6.50 USD. Words: 97,530. Language: English. Published: March 8, 2012 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay, Fiction » Historical » USA
During the Civil War, two young soldiers on opposite sides find themselves drawn together. When these two find themselves admiring more than one another’s spirit and demeanor, when passions erupt between captor and captive, will this new romance survive the arduous trek to Purgatory Mountain?
Heiresses of Russ 2011: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction by
Series: Heiresses of Russ: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Price: $2.00 USD. Words: 90,880. Language: English. Published: January 12, 2012 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories
Heiresses of Russ offers readers in one volume the best lesbian-themed tales of the fantastical and otherworldly published during the prior year. Editors JoSelle Vanderhooft and Steve Berman have chosen stories that celebrate the spirit of the fiction of beloved author, the late Joanna Russ: stories of sorceresses and spectral women, lost daughters and sisters of myth.
Eat Your Heart Out: a novella by
Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 50,260. Language: English. Published: November 15, 2011 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian, Fiction » Horror » General
A breakneck tale of kick-ass, wise-ass, sexy-ass lesbians and ZOMBIES, Eat Your Heart Out opens on what promises to be another tediously annoying day at Ashbee’s Furniture Outlet. Then the strip-mall calm of Nowhere, Ohio, is shattered by the sudden, simultaneous appearance of Renni Ramirez – hyper-competent star of the beloved Rising Evil B-movie franchise – and actual ZOMBIES.
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 2011: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction by
Series: Wilde Stories: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction. Price: $2.00 USD. Words: 96,460. Language: English. Published: August 10, 2011 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » General
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 and fresh voices in the field.
Pumpkin Teeth: Stories by
Price: $3.50 USD. Words: 58,350. Language: English. Published: July 31, 2011 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » General
Tom Cardamone's his wicked universe of changelings and mysterious creatures, where a boy transforms into lightning and illuminates his emerging sexuality. Where a man accidentally receives a package meant for his neighbor, a situation complicated by the fact that he lives next door to a Sphinx. A nurse finds herself working in a retirement home for vampires… and more
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.
A History of Barbed Wire by
Price: $5.00 USD. Words: 89,330. Language: English. Published: July 20, 2011 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » Erotica » Gay, Fiction » Erotica » BDSM
In intense, lyrical language, Jeff Mann’s short stories explore the sex and psychology of BDSM and of bear culture, and most are set in Mann's native Appalachia, an area often mythologized as a place where the wilderness within converges with the wilderness without. Winner of the 2006 Lambda Literary Award.
Wagers of Gold Mountain by
Price: Free! Words: 7,430. Language: English. Published: July 12, 2011 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Historical, Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal
Set in San Francisco during the Gold Rush era, Ji Yuan, a Chinese youth who immigrated to America with his brother to seek his fortune but has found only disappointment. Now, his brother lays sick, dying, and Yuan must seek the help of two local spirits. But being tricksters, nothing these spirits tells the youth is ever the whole truth.
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.
Japanese Dreams: Fantasies, Fictions & Fairytales by
Price: $3.00 USD. Words: 48,130. Language: English. Published: April 16, 2011 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories
Japanese Dreams takes the reader to the islands of fire and smoke - where shape-shifters, demons and lovers all populate a landscape blossoming with story. Imaginative contributions by such well-known writers of fantasy as Steve Berman, Eugie Foster, Jay Lake, Yoon Ha Lee, Robert Joseph Levy, Lisa Mantchev, Richard Parks, Ekaterina Sedia, Erzebet YellowBoy, and more.
Wilde Stories 2009: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction by
Series: Wilde Stories: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction. Price: $2.00 USD. Words: 65,580. Language: English. Published: March 19, 2011 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Urban, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay
The 2009 edition of Wilde Stories, edited by Steve Berman, promises readers a range of imaginative gay-themed fiction culled from the prior year. These are tales that range from the horrorific (Lee Thomas' "I'm Your Violence") to the surreal (Sven Davisson's "Dim Star Descried") to the fantastical ("Firooz and His Brother" by Alex Jeffers).
The German by
Price: $5.00 USD. Words: 86,820. Language: English. Published: March 7, 2011 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay
At the height of World War II, a killer preys on the young men of a quiet Texas town. The murders are calculated, vicious, and they are just beginning. Sheriff Tom Rabbit and his men are baffled and the community he serves is terrified of the monster lurking their streets. The only clues the killer leaves behind are painted snuffboxes containing notes written in German.
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.
So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction by
Price: $5.00 USD. Words: 122,110. Language: English. Published: November 29, 2010 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » General
Twenty-two captivating stories where queer culture and fey folklore meet! Lambda Award-nominated editor Steve Berman brings together acclaimed fantasy writers with some of the brightest names in speculative and LGBT fiction to create tales that are moving and magical. These stories of romance and grief, adolescence and identity, struggle and hope will enchant readers who long for a fantastic esc
Second Thoughts: More Queer and Weird Stories by
Price: $2.00 USD. Words: 57,600. Language: English. Published: November 28, 2010 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Urban, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay
In his second collection of stories and essays, author Steve Berman once more guides readers through the dark paths of his imagination with such tales as a nursery rhyme tempting a young lover, the scent of loneliness enticing children to eat away a caretaker’s historic house, and a pair of Victorian-era burglars seeking their fortune in a fey-filled London
Binding the God: Ursine Essays From the Mountain South by
Price: $5.00 USD. Words: 79,590. Language: English. Published: November 22, 2010 by Lethe Press. Categories: Nonfiction » LGBTQ+ » Essays, Nonfiction » Travel » Trip Journals
A much lauded essayist and poet, Jeff Mann writes of the passion and pain of being a Southern gentleman who happens to be invested in many worlds:  the hungers of gay Bear culture; the propensities of leather and bondage; the frustrations of academia; and the perspectives of an Appalachian who has traveled the world. Binding the God is his second collection of essays.
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.
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...
Wilde Stories 2010: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction by
Series: Wilde Stories: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction. Price: $2.00 USD. Words: 72,280. Language: English. Published: June 6, 2010 by Lethe Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay
This 2010 edition of Wilde Stories offers the finest tales of fantastical and weird happenings befalling gay men from both acclaimed authors (award-winners Laird Barron, Elizabeth Hand, Tanith Lee, Richard Bowes, & Joel Lane) and fresh voices (Tom Cardamone &, Georgina Li) in the field. Here are stories of hungry wolves walking on two legs and ghosts of departed lovers hesitant to leave.
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