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Lethe Press

Lethe Press is an independent press specializing in literary fiction, titles of gay & lesbian interest, poetry, and science fiction.

An Ideal for Living An Ideal for Living Grace White and her brother Robert, overweight and affluent, are desperate to hang onto their respective love interests. Grace’s husband Rich is bonking every woman he can talk into bed. Grace is willing to look beyond his affairs if she can just have her marriage back. Robert’s law school fling James’s interest diminished as Robert’s wai ... Learn More Marshall-Moore $7.50	Ask the Fire Ask the Fire ''I had a friend who was a spy.'' So begins this story of espionage, set just before the terrible events of September 11th. Ask the Fire features a brilliant, almost enlightened, but emotionally jaded and politically cynical secret agent, a man who has seduced secrets out of Araby for decades for American intelligence agencies. Now, t ... Learn More Dennis Paddie $9.99	Bears in the Wild: Hot and Hairy Fiction Bears in the Wild: Hot and Hairy Fiction Does a Bear read in the woods? You bet your sweet woof he does! Bears in the Wild, the third Bearotica collection of hot and hairy short fiction, draws readers deeper into the lush forest of masculine desire. These tales reveal at a mysterious bonfire a whole new tribe of lusty gay, bi, and queer male characters from the Bear cult, joyous ... Learn More R. Jackson (Ed) $7.50

Best Gay Stories 2009 Best Gay Stories 2009 Eighteen tales showing the handsome face of gay writing. Noted editor Steve Berman has spent the past year reading page after page to bring booklovers a collection of the finest stories featuring the range of emotions every gay man feels in his lifetime-- the pain of first love, the mischief spent as a wayward youth, the desires and fear ... Learn More Steve Berman ed $9.00	Gay Perspective: Things our (homo)sexuality tells us about the nature of God and the Universe Gay Perspective: Things our (homo)sexuality tells us about the nature of God and the Universe Back in print, expanded and updated, with a new Preface by the author, Johnson's Lammy-nominated bold statement of the spiritual side of gay consciousness. ... Learn More Toby Johnson $10.00	Gay Spirituality Gay Spirituality In this Lambda Literary award-winning title, Toby Johnson explores how the rise of gay identity has become an important part of contemporary religious development. This dramatic transformation has resulted due to the perspective of gay men with their ability to step outside the assumptions and conventions of culture and see things from a ... Learn More Toby Johnson $10.00

Real Men Ride Horses Real Men Ride Horses Wander the pink desert, where the heat is thick, cowboys come clean, Indians tell all, and the author as voyeur writes down their stories. In Ken Shakin's erotic collection, Western America is revealed, stripped to the waist, where men and boys get lost in the desert, looking for a wet dream. ... Learn More Ken Shakin $7.50	Second Thoughts Second Thoughts In acclaimed author Steve Berman's second collection of thirteen stories and essays, he again guides readers through the darker pathways of his imagination. These are stories of regret: the scent of loneliness enticing odd children to eat away a fussy caretaker's historic house; a depressed accountant turns to monster hunting; and a young ... Learn More Steve Berman $3.00	Secret Matter Secret Matter The winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men's Science Fiction and bestselling novel, Secret Matter returns to print in a revised edition for the 21st century. With an afterword by gay theologian, social commentator Mark Jordan. BONUS -- with this edition: Adam and Steve, a whimiscal tale with a profound insight. Kevin Anderson is ... Learn More Toby Johnson $9.00

Silver Foxes: Steamy Story of Older Men Silver Foxes: Steamy Story of Older Men Daddy lovers rejoice! Author C.B. Potts has devoted an entire collection to that rough and hunky older man who has earned his place in the long history of gay erotica. Whether he has hair gun-metal gray or lustrous white, the daddy possesses a charisma that drives younger men wild. Who else offers an embrace that promises to keep you war ... Learn More C.B. Potts $7.50	Strong and Sudden Thaw, A Strong and Sudden Thaw, A The Ice fell upon the world nearly a hundred years ago, and if civilization didn't rightly collapse, it surely staggered and fell ill a while. In the small town of Moline, Virginia, folks struggle to survive, relying on hybrid seed sent by the faraway Department of Reintroduction and Agriculture and their own faith in God and hard work. B ... Learn More R.W. Day $9.99	Two Spirits Two Spirits Twenty years after publishing his ground-breaking The Spirit and the Flesh, anthropologist Walter L. Williams breaks his silence and writes another book on Native Americans. Together with award-winning writer Toby Johnson, he has produced a work of historical fiction striking in its evocation of Navajo philosophy and spirituality. Set in ... Learn More Walter L. Williams & Toby Johnson $9.00

Van Allen's Ecstasy Van Allen's Ecstasy Born into an extraordinarily talented family, 29-year-old Michael Van Allen is the gay son of a well-known concert pianist and an equally famous painter. All his life, he has yearned for the talent and creativity that should have been his birthright but have somehow been denied him. When he wakes up in a mental hospital, his memory gone, ... Learn More Jim Tuschinksi $7.50	Vintage: A Ghost Story Vintage: A Ghost Story In a small town, a lonely teen walking along a highway one autumn evening meets the boy of his dreams, a boy who happens to have died decades ago and haunts the road. Awkward crushes, both bitter and sweet, lead him to face not only the ghost but youthful dreams and childish fears. With its cast of offbeat friends, antiques and Ouija boar ... Learn More Steve Berman $6.50	Wilde Stories Wilde Stories A newcomer to San Francisco falls in love too fast despite the warnings of a cadre of ghosts haunting his uncle; a businessman comes to regret his ennui when faced with the machinations of an outsider artist; on a train traveling through a dangerous Russian winter, a passenger encounters a wolf on two legs; a mining colony where love has ... Learn More Steve Berman (Ed) $7.99