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The secrets of lives not shared, not taken, not known, all can be found in the eclectic fiction of author Charles Payseur. A sentient star deals with the trauma of their binary partner having...

A lost boy under the spell of a seductive killer suffers the cut of betrayal while on the hunt for blood. The dead son of an abusive horror novelist returns from the grave to tell his father what...

From the Lambda Literary Award and Bram Stoker Award-winning author Lee Thomas come a thrilling novel. 1944 - Barnard, Texas. At the height of World War II, a killer preys on the young men of a quiet...

When precocious Lilly, an eleven-year-old, undergoes an inexplicable and startling growth spurt, her father and doctors decide to take drastic action to curb what they see as a dangerous development...

Is the Golden Daughter a monster created by vile magic? A fabled assassin whose many victims are turned to gilded statues? Perhaps Liddy Vanya is both. The king's daughter is his greatest weapon...

Harry does not know his family's weird history or that the spirit of the fowl beast would scratch at the floorboards. As the haunting worsens, it becomes clear that the chicken wants vengeance...

When a plane goes missing in mysterious circumstances, Devin Stacy, a freelance necromancer-er, contingency communication specialist-finds the National Transportation Safety Board needs his special...

In the summer of 1955, Tommy Cadigan finds himself helpless in the face of desire, especially when the man that wears the face is his high school swimming coach, a young Korean War veteran discharged...

Growing up in the early years of the twentieth century, Joe Dooley allows his love for music and his passionate friendships with other young men to blind him to the tides of revolution rising around...

The Nameless Dark debuts a major new voice in contemporary Weird fiction. Within these pages, you'll find whispers of the familiar ghosts of the classic pulps--Lovecraft, Bradbury, Smith--blended...

At fourteen, Kit St. Denys brought down his abusive father with a knife. At twenty-one his theatrical genius brought down the house. At thirty, his past-and his forbidden love-nearly brought down the...

The Soul of China offers readers a tour of Chinese tradition and character lost to the modern era. Richard Wilhelm arrived in China before the Boxer Rebellion and stayed for a quarter of a century...

A treasure trove examining early speculative fiction, Scarborough's covers the period from Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto and other Gothic romances straight through to the author's own present...

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...

These Things That Walk Behind MeAuthor: David SurfacePublisher: Lethe PressPublication Date: Oct 01, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1590217659ISBN-13:...

More than six hundred women-most likely many more-passed as men to fight in the American Civil War, and that's not counting the nurses and spies. In WWI women served as nurses and ambulance drivers,...

Originally published in 1962, Tormented Virgin is one of countless of pulp novels that sought to entice readers with a salacious story. Lethe Press is proud to release this early novel about...

In a small Ontario town, seventeen-year-old John Daniel wakes by the railroad tracks with no recollection of how he got there. Something called him from his bed. Officer David Forester, a recent...

Steve Berman has assembled thirteen of his most evocative stories, all of which revolve around the central theme of the assignation or 'tryst.' But these passionate hookups and romantic encounters...

Vampires and Vampirism is part of the canon of works on the folklore of vampires. Inside these pages are many accounts of the presence of nocturnal creatures with an unnatural hunger. Readers will...

Fourteen unsettling, speculative shorts that draw on folk and fairy tales. Weird fiction author Schaller includes a section of story notes in which he reveals his inspiration for each of the tales...

In 2079, Stevven Pane (they/them) operates an unsanctioned urban garden atop a condemned apartment on the coast of South Carolina. When the authorities move to arrest Stevven, he embarks on a trek of...

The canon of Edgar Allan Poe, one of the foremost writers of dark and atmospheric fiction and poetry, offers readers haunted shores teeming with various erudite men brooding in the waning light over...

Bones of extinct species wander a campground, stalking a group of friends in love with the same woman. The object of their affection seeks solace with a couple in a world with rain that kills. In a...

A love story spanning decades. A lonely widow mourning her husband and daughter. A trail of missing people all leading to one unpredictable source. Edna Mann, a lonely widow longing for the family...

This expanded volume from Lethe Press collects the finest gay speculative fiction of the prior year--stories of undead lovers, stranded astronauts, ghosts and phantom reflections, men lost in an...

In the 2013 volume of Wilde Stories--a critically acclaimed series reprinting the best of the prior year's gay fantasy, horror and science-fiction tales--editor Steve Berman has collected stories of...

Morris came to Manderlay Colony to write, to share his truth, and create something literary. But on his last night in the quiet, small town, a series of events leave him trapped, with shrinking funds...