Wilde Stories 2011: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction (Wilde Stories: Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction)

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 (Laird Barron, Richard Bowes and Joel Lane) and fresh voices in the field (Nick Poniatowski and Jeffrey Ricker) No other anthology provides readers the widest variety of gay men facing the weird, the fantastic, and the horrific. (less) Introduction / -- Steve Berman Love will tear us apart -- Alaya Dawn Johnson Map of seventeen -- Christopher Barzak How to make friends in seventh grade -- Nick Poniatowski Mortis Persona -- Barbara A. Barnett Mysterium tremendum -- Laird Barron Oneirica -- Hal Duncan Lifeblood -- Jeffrey A. Ricker Waiting for the phone to ring -- Richard Bowes Blazon -- Peter Dube All the shadows -- Joel Lane The noise -- Richard Larson How to make a clown -- Jeremy C. Shipp Beach blanket spaceship -- Sandra McDonald Hothouse flowers -- Chaz Brenchley. 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 (Laird Barron, Richard Bowes and Joel Lane) and fresh voices in the field (Nick Poniatowski and Jeffrey Ricker) No other anthology provides readers the widest variety of gay men men facing the weird, the fantastic, and the horrific. "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 (Laird Barron, Richard Bowes and Joel Lane) and fresh voices in the field (Nick Poniatowski and Jeffrey Ricker). No other anthology provides readers the widest variety of gay men men facing the weird, the fantastic, and the horrific"--Publisher's website