Lethe Press: 166 books

Fifty years ago, three hundred teachers and students in Florida vanished. No storm troopers. No mass graves. Who were they? Just wasted lives from blackmail, coercion, entrapment—tactics of state senator Charlie Johns and his covert investigations of homosexuals in Florida’s universities. The...

“Homo Superiors…is a seduction into evil. L.A. Fields’ prose burns like an underground fire. Relentless, and more dangerous than you realize until it’s too late.” - Laird Barron, author of X’s for Eyes and Man With No Name Two college seniors: Noah, frail like the hollow-boned birds...

“In this hauntingly beautiful collection of nine reprinted and six original stories, Ludwigsen…issues an invitation to look past preconceived notions of self and ways of being, and to take a journey to the dark side of imagination.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review A house inches...

"We know the territory that Jaffe writes in—lush, stark, unexpected, a Jordan flowing through it with Real on one bank and Dream on the other. Jaffe is not afraid to write about violence, or blasphemy, sometimes comically and sometimes horrifically...you are holding in your hands this new book...

The autobiographical essays in Edge offer insight into the passions of acclaimed author Jeff Mann. These memories, insightful as they are endearing, range from his boyhood obsession with the gothic allure of Dark Shadows, to the doubt and pain of being a Southerner and so at the edge of the gay community,...

The author of Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me and That's Mr. Faggot to You returns with more skewed observations on the strange state of the queer union. As fans of his previous collections have happily discovered, little escapes his attention, and no topic is too controversial or sacred to be tackled....

Kevin Grierson has a Shadow with a mind of its own. It likes thrills, it likes power, it likes the rush of drugs and danger. From the suburbs of Boston to the streets of New York, from the false glamor of advertising to the dark glamor of hustling and drug-dealing. Grierson’s Shadow keeps him walking...

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...

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...

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...

"The invasion of the earth by a race of socially oblivious couch potatoes. The Survivors by Sean Eads begins as a romp, then turns much darker—nicely done!" —Richard Bowes, Lambda Literary Award-winning author "Eads (Trigger Point) offers up a short novel reminiscent of 1970s...

A panicked call from his ex-wife summons Ken Nicholson back to New Orleans, where his son has been attacked and left for dead. While his child’s life hangs in the balance, Ken endures visions connected to a terrifying time from his past. As a teenager, he witnessed the brutal deaths of several young...

Overall, the range is impressive, and the quality unquestionable: an intriguing theme and a hugely enjoyable anthology. --Rainbow Reviews We have always been here. For as long as there’s been such a thing as sex, alternate sexual identities have been a fact of life. So why have we...

Not every gay teen yearns for fashion and popular culture. Some boys are pure country folk and like the feel of flannel and the smell of the farm. And they’re neither lithe nor muscle-bound but stocky boys, the ones who develop hairy chests, arms, and faces years earlier than their peers. One such...