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Wilde Stories 2008: The Best of the Year’s Gay Speculative Fiction ed. Steve Berman (Lethe Press, December 2008, 978-1-59021-078-9, $15.00, 237pp, tp, an, cover by Jake Baggaley)     Best-of-the-year anthology of 11 stories from 2007. Authors include Rebecca Ore, Hal Duncan, and Lee Thomas. This is a print-on-demand edition, 11 · Introduction · Steve Berman · in 15 · The Woman in the Window · Jameson Currier · nv All Hallows #42, October 2006 39 · Awkward · Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco · ss Velvet Mafia #22, 2007 57 · Acid and Stoned Reindeer · Rebecca Ore · ss Clarkesworld #14, November 2007 69 · City of Night · Joel Lane & John Pelan · ss Subterranean #7, 2007 87 · Lycaon · Peter Dubé · ss At the Bottom of the Sky by Peter Dubé, Livres DC Books, 2007 97 · Lycanthropy · Jonathan Harper · ss Velvet Mafia #21, 2007 111 · The Emerald Mountain · Victor J. Banis · nv Blith House Winter 2007 137 · An Apiary of White Bees · Lee Thomas · nv Inferno ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor, 2007 163 · The Burial · Polly Buckingham · ss Raven Chronicles v13 #1, 2007 179 · The Island of the Pirate Gods · Hal Duncan · nv Postscripts #13, Winter 2007 215 · Ever So Much More Than Twenty · Joshua Lewis · ss So Fey ed. Steve Berman, Haworth Positronic Press, 2007 235 · About the Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

Wilde Stories 2009: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction ed. Steve Berman (Lethe Press, September 18, 2009, 978-1-59021-080-2, $15.00, 240pp, tp, an)     Details taken from online listing. 11 · Introduction · Steve Berman · in 15 · Bluff · L. A. Fields · ss Unspeakable Horror ed. Vince A. Liaguno & Chad Helder, Dark Scribe Press, 2008 21 · Firooz and His Brother · Alex Jeffers · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May 2008 37 · Dim Star Descried · Sven Davisson · ss Madder Love ed. Peter Dube, Rebel Satori Press, 2008 51 · The Bloomsbury Nudes · Jameson Currier · nv Unspeakable Horror ed. Vince A. Liaguno & Chad Helder, Dark Scribe Press, 2008 81 · Echo · Peter Dubé · ss Madder Love ed. Peter Dube, Rebel Satori Press, 2008 91 · I’m Your Violence · Lee Thomas · nv Unspeakable Horror ed. Vince A. Liaguno & Chad Helder, Dark Scribe Press, 2008 119 · A Troll on a Mountain with a Girl · Steve Berman · ss Second Thoughts: More Queer and Weird Stories by Steve Berman, Lethe Press, 2008 135 · Behind the Curtain · Joel Lane · ss Dark Horizons #52, Spring 2008 143 · Aka St. Mark’s Place [Dust Devil] · Richard Bowes · nv The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy ed. Ellen Datlow, Del Rey, 2008 169 · In the Night Street Baths · Chaz Brenchley · nv Lace and Blade ed. Deborah J. Ross, Leda, 2008 197 · The Behold of the Eye · Hal Duncan · nv Lone Star Stories #28, August 2008

Wilde Stories 2010: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction ed. Steve Berman (Lethe Press, August 2010, 978-1-59021-301-8, $15.00, 227pp, tp, an, cover by Aina Buforn Garcia)     Best-of-the-year anthology of 12 stories from 2009. Authors include Laird Barron, Richard Bowes, and Elizabeth Hand. This is a print-on-demand edition. 7 · Introduction · Steve Berman · in 13 · Strappado · Laird Barron · nv Poe ed. Ellen Datlow, Solaris, 2009 31 · Tío Gilberto and the Twenty-Seven Ghosts · Ben Francisco · ss Realms of Fantasy October 2009 49 · Lots · Marc Andreottola · ss Ganymede #5, 2009 63 · I Needs Must Part, the Policeman Said [Dust Devil] · Richard Bowes · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction December 2009 95 · Ne Que V’on Desir · Tanith Lee · ss Icarus #3, Winter 2009 109 · Barbaric Splendor · Simon Sheppard · ss Time Well Bent: Queer Alternative Histories ed. Connie Wilkins, Lethe Press, 2009 127 · Like They Always Been Free · Georgina Li · ss Federations ed. John Joseph Adams, Prime Books, 2009 133 · Some of Them Fell · Joel Lane · ss Black Static #13, October/November 2009 149 · Where the Sun Doesn’t Shine · Rhys Hughes · ss Mister Gum by Rhys Hughes, Dog Horn Pub., 2009 165 · Death in Amsterdam · Jameson Currier · nv The Haunted Heart by Jameson Currier, Lethe Press, 2009 189 · The Sphinx Next Door · Tom Cardamone · ss Pumpkin Teeth by Tom Cardamone, Lethe Press, 2009 197 · The Far Shore · Elizabeth Hand · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction October/November 2009 225 · The Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

Wilde Stories 2011: The Best of the Year’s Gay Speculative Fiction ed. Steve Berman (Lethe Press, August 10, 2011, 978-1-59021-303-2, $18.00, vii+289pp, tp, an, cover by Cesarr S. Terrio)     Details taken from online listing. 3 · Love Will Tear Us Apart · Alaya Dawn Johnson · nv Zombies vs. Unicorns ed. Holly Black & Justine Larbalestier, Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2010 25 · Map of Seventeen · Chris Barzak · nv The Beastly Bride ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking, 2010 51 · How to Make Friends in Seventh Grade · Nick Poniatowski · ss Strange Horizons June 21 2010 67 · Mortis Persona · Barbara A. Barnett · ss Fantasy Magazine (online) #44, November 2010 85 · Mysterium Tremendum [The Children of Old Leech] · Laird Barron · na Occultation and Other Stories by Laird Barron, Night Shade Books, 2010 147 · Oneirica · Hal Duncan · ss Icarus #5, Summer 2010 161 · Lifeblood · Jeffrey Ricker · ss Blood Sacraments ed. Todd Gregory, Bold Strokes Books, 2010 173 · Waiting for the Phone to Ring [Dust Devil] · Richard Bowes · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction March/April 2010 201 · Blazon · Peter Dubé · ss Saints+Sinners 2010 by ed.Amie M. Evans & Paul J. Willis, Queer Mojo Press, 2010 217 · All the Shadows · Joel Lane · ss Brighton Shock! ed. Stephen Jones, PS Publishing, 2010 227 · The Noise · Richard Larson · ss Sybil’s Garage #7, 2010 239 · How to Make a Clown · Jeremy C. Shipp · ss Fungus of the Heart by Jeremy C. Shipp, Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2010 247 · Beach Blanket Spaceship · Sandra McDonald · ss Clarkesworld #46, July 2010 261 · Hothouse Flowers: or, The Discreet Boys of Dr Barnabus · Chaz Brenchley · ss The Bitten Word ed. Ian Whates, Newcon Press, 2010

Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction ed. Steve Berman (Lethe Press, July 2012, 978-1-59021-397-1, $25.00, x+225pp, hc, an, cover by Ben Baldwin)     Best-of-the-year anthology of 15 stories from 2011. Authors include Richard Bowes, Chris Barzak, and Ellen Kushner. Details taken from online listing. ix · Introduction · Steve Berman · in 3 · The Arab’s Prayer · Alex Jeffers · ss M-Brane SF #24, January 2011 17 · Fairy Tale · Justin Torres · ss From Macho to Mariposa ed. Charles Rice-Gonzalez, Lethe Press, 2011 23 · Thou Earth, Thou · K. M. Ferebee · ss Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #27, August 2011 43 · Hoffmann, Godzilla and Me [Dust Devil] · Richard Bowes · ss Icarus #10, Fall 2011 55 · Color Zap! · Sam Sommer · ss Queer Fish ed. Margarita Bezdomnya & Rose Mambert, Pick Narcissus Press, 2011 65 · All Smiles · Steve Berman · ss Teeth ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Harper, 2011 79 · The Peacock · Ted Infinity & Nabil Hijazi · ss Strange Horizons July 11 2011 91 · Ashes in the Water · Mat Joiner & Joel Lane · ss The New and Perfect Man ed. Peter Crowther & Nick Gevers, PS Publishing, 2011 103 · A Razor in an Apple · Kristopher Reisz · ss Icarus #9, Summer 2011 115 · The Cloud Dragon Ate Red Balloons · Tom Cardamone · vi Daily Science Fiction March 14 2011 121 · Filling up the Void · Richard E. Gropp · nv Daily Science Fiction July 8 2011 137 · The House by the Park · Lee Thomas · nv Tales from the Den ed. R. Jackson, Bear Bones Books, 2011 165 · Pinion · Stellan Thorne · ss Strange Horizons January 17 2011 175 · We Do Not Come in Peace [Borderlands] · Christopher Barzak · nv Welcome to Bordertown ed. Holly Black & Ellen Kushner, Random House, 2011 199 · The Duke of Riverside [Riverside] · Ellen Kushner · nv Naked City ed. Ellen Datlow, St. Martin's Griffin, 2011

Wilde Stories 2013: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction ed. Steve Berman (Lethe Press, June 15, 2013, 978-1-59021-131-1, $18.00, x+263pp, tp, an, cover by Rob Lorino)     Best-of-the-year anthology of 12 stories from 2012. Authors include Laird Barron, Hal Duncan, and Chaz Brenchley. A hardcover edition (-071-0, $25.00) was announced but not seen. Details taken from online listing. ix · Introduction · Steve Berman · in 3 · Breakwater in the Summer Dark · L. Lark · nv Boys of Summer ed. Steve Berman, Bold Strokes Books, 2012 29 · The Keats Variation · K. M. Ferebee · nv Strange Horizons June 4 2012 (+1) 51 · Tattooed Love Boys · Alex Jeffers · nv GigaNotoSaurus March 1 2012 83 · Grierson at the Pain Clinic [Kevin Grierson] · Richard Bowes · ss Icarus #15, Winter 2012/2013 97 · Wave Boys · Vincent Kovar · nv The Touch of the Sea ed. Steve Berman, Lethe Press, 2012 119 · Renfrew’s Course · John Langan · ss Lightspeed #25, June 2012 139 · Wetside Story · Steve Vernon · ss 157 · Next Door · Rahul Kanakia · nv Diverse Energies ed. Tobias S. Buckell & Joe Monti, Tu Books, 2012 175 · A Strange Form of Life · Laird Barron · ss Dark Faith: Invocations ed. Maurice Broaddus & Jerry Gordon, Apex Publications, 2012 189 · Night Fishing · Ray Cluley · ss Shadows & Tall Trees #3, Spring 2012 207 · Sic Him, Hellhound! Kill! Kill! · Hal Duncan · ss Subterranean (online) Spring 2012 227 · Keep the Aspidochelone Floating · Chaz Brenchley · nv The Touch of the Sea ed. Steve Berman, Lethe Press, 2012 259 · The Contributors · [uncredited] · ms

Wilde Stories 2014: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction ed. Steve Berman (Lethe Press, August 2014, 978-1-59021-500-5, $15.00, 246pp, tp, an)     Details taken from Table of Contents. ix · Introduction · Steve Berman · in 3 · Grindr · Clayton Littlewood · ss Friend. Follow. Text. ed. Shawn Syms, Great Plains Publications, 2013 13 · The Ghosts of Emerhad · Nghi Vo · ss Icarus #16, Spring 2013 21 · How to Dress an American Table · J. E. Robinson · ss The Day Rider and Other Stories by J. E. Robinson, Gival Press, 2013 33 · Caress · Eli Easton · nv Steamed Up ed. Anne Regan, Dreamspinner Press, 2013 67 · 57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides · Sam J. Miller · ss Nightmare #15, December 2013 79 · Happy Birthday, Numbskull · Robert Smith · ss Jonathan #2, 2013 89 · Right There in Kansas City · Casey Hannan · ss previously available as an audio track on The Ethics of American Kickboxing by 90s Meg Ryan, September 2013. 95 · The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere · John Chu · ss Tor.com February 20 2013 113 · Seven Lovers and the Sea · Damon Shaw · nv Suffered from the Night ed. Steve Berman, Lethe Press, 2013 139 · In the Brokenness of Summertime · R. W. Clinger · ss The Other Man ed. Paul Alan Fahey, JMS Books, 2013 151 · Lacuna · Matthew Cheney · nv Where Thy Dark Eye Glances ed. Steve Berman, Lethe Press, 2013 173 · Super Bass [The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps] · Kai Ashante Wilson · ss Tor.com May 22 2013 191 · Midnight at the Feet of the Caryatides · Cory Skerry · ss Where Thy Dark Eye Glances ed. Steve Berman, Lethe Press, 2013 211 · The Revenge of Oscar Wilde · Sean Eads · ss Zombies: Shambling Through the Ages ed. Steve Berman, Prime Books, 2013

Wilde Stories 2015: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction ed. Steve Berman (Lethe Press, July 18, 2015, 978-1-59021-284-4, $15.00, 201pp, tp, an, cover by Elizabeth Leggett)     Best-of-the-year anthology of 13 gay stories from 2014. Authors include Sonya Taaffe, Chaz Brenchley, and Paul Tremblay. A hardcover edition (-501-2, $20.00) was announced but not seen; Details taken from online listing. ix · Introduction · Steve Berman · in 3 · The Love of the Emperor Is Divine · Tom Cardamone · ss Handsome Devil ed. Steve Berman, Prime Books, 2014 13 · The Vampire of Xanthos · Andrew Warburton · ss Chelsea Station June 5 2014 31 · The True Alchemist · Sonya Taaffe · ss Not One of Us #51, April 2014 37 · The Mortuaries · Katharine E. K. Duckett · nv Interzone #252, May/June 2014 63 · What Glistens Back · Sunny Moraine · ss Lightspeed #54, November 2014 75 · Passion, Like a Voice—That Buds · Steve Berman · ss Glitterwolf Halloween Special Edition 2014 89 · True North · Chaz Brenchley · ss Bitter Waters by Chaz Brenchley, Lethe Press, 2014 read at the Fifth Proceedings of Phantoms at the Phil on January 6, 2009. 107 · The Oily Man · Alex Jeffers · nv Handsome Devil ed. Steve Berman, Prime Books, 2014 133 · Werewolves of Northland · Patrick Pink · ss Chelsea Station October 23 2014 145 · Notes for “The Barn in the Wild” · Paul Tremblay · ss The Children of Old Leech ed. Ross E. Lockhart & Justin Steele, Word Horde, 2014 163 · Conjuring Shadows · Craig Laurance Gidney · ss Expanded Horizons #32, November 2011 171 · The God Within · Damien Kelly · ss BFS Journal #12, 2014 187 · A Gift in Time · Maggie Clark · ss Clarkesworld #92, May 2014

Wilde Stories 2016: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction ed. Steve Berman (Lethe Press, July 23, 2016, 978-1-59021-610-1, $25.00, 224pp, hc, an, cover by Marwane Pallas)     Best-of-the-year anthology of 15 gay stories from 2015. Authors include Jonathan Harper, Richard Bowes, and Chaz Brenchley. Details supplied by Denny Lien. · Introduction · Steve Berman · in 1 · Imaginary Boys · Paul Magrs · nv Speak My Language ed. Torsten Højer, Robinson, 2015 33 · Wallflowers · Jonathan Harper · ss Big Lucks January 15 2015 47 · Camp · David Nickle · ss Aickman’s Heirs ed. Simon Strantzas, Undertow Publications, 2015 61 · The Ticket Taker of Cenote Zaci · Benjamin Parzybok · ss Strange Horizons February 2 2015 79 · The Duchess and the Ghost · Richard Bowes · ss Fantasy Magazine #59, December 2015 93 · Lockbox · E. Catherine Tobler · ss She Walks in Shadows ed. Silvia Moreno-Garcia & Paula R. Stiles, Innsmouth Free Press, 2015 103 · What Lasts · Jared W. Cooper · vi Daily Science Fiction July 28 2015 109 · He Came from a Place of Openness and Truth · Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam · ss Lightspeed #56, January 2015 123 · The Language of Knives · Haralambi Markov · ss Tor.com February 4 2015 131 · To Die Dancing · Sam J. Miller · ss Apex Magazine #78, November 2015 147 · Edited · Rich Larson · ss Interzone #259, July/August 2015 155 · Envious Moons · Richard Scott Larson · ss Joyland February 2 2015 167 · Utrechtenaar · Paul Evanby · nv Strange Horizons June 1 2015 (+1) 189 · To the Knife-Cold Stars · A. Merc Rustad · ss previously available as an audio download from Escape Pod, February 7, 2015. 203 · The Astrakhan, the Homburg, and the Red Red Coal · Chaz Brenchley · nv Lightspeed #61, June 2015 221 · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg

Wilde Stories 2017: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction ed. Steve Berman (Lethe Press, July 9, 2017, 978-1-59021-628-6, $30.00, 302pp, hc, an)     Details taken from online listing. · The Tale of the Costume Maker · Steve Carr · ss Sick Lit Magazine July 6 2016 · Das Steingeschöpf · G. V. Anderson · ss Strange Horizons December 12 2016 · Where’s the Rest of Me? · Matthew Cheney · nv Blood by Matthew Cheney, Black Lawrence Press, 2016 · The Gentleman of Chaos · A. Merc Rustad · ss Apex Magazine #87, August 2016 · Frost · ’Nathan Burgoine · ss apostrophen.wordpress.com December 14 2016 · Bull of Heaven · Gabriel Murray · ss Strange Horizons July 25 2016 · The Sound a Raven Makes · Mathew Scaletta · nv GigaNotoSaurus July 1 2016 · Angel, Monster, Man · Sam J. Miller · nv Nightmare #40, January 2016 · Most Holy Ghost · Martin Pousson · ss · Ratcatcher · Amy Griswold · ss Mothership Zeta #4, July 2016 · The Drowning Line · Haralambi Markov · ss Uncanny Magazine #10, May/June 2016 · My Own Heart’s Desire · Robert Levy · ss 2016 · Turing Test · Eric Schaller · ss Meet Me in the Middle of the Air by Eric Schaller, Undertow Publications, 2016 · Of All Possible Worlds · Eneasz Brodski · ss Swords v. Cthulhu ed. Molly Tanzer & Jesse Bullington, Stone Skin Press, 2016 · Carnivores · Rich Larson · ss Strangers Among Us ed. Susan Forest & Lucas K. Law, Laksa Media, 2016 · It’s the End of the World As We Know It · A. C. Wise · ss The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories by A. C. Wise, Lethe Press, 2016 · The Death of Paul Bunyan · Charles Payseur · ss Lightspeed #79, December 2016

Wilde Stories 2018: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction ed. Steve Berman (Lethe Press, October 2018, 978-1-59021-319-3, $20.00, 292pp, tp, an)     Details taken from ebook Table of Contents. · Ghost Sex · Joseph Keckler · ss Dragon at the Edge of a Flat World by Joseph Keckler, Turtle Point Press, 2017 · Serving Fish · Christopher Caldwell · ss People of Color Take Over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination ed. Nisi Shawl, Wilder Publications, 2017 · Some Kind of Wonderland · Richard Bowes · ss Mad Hatters and March Hares ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor, 2017 · Pan and Hook · Adam McOmber · ss Vestiges #3, 2017 · The Summer Mask · Karin Lowachee · ss Nightmare #62, November 2017 · The Library of Lost Things · Matthew Bright · ss Tor.com August 23 2017 · Making the Magic Lightning Strike Me · John Chu · ss Uncanny Magazine #16, May/June 2017 · Salamander Six-Guns · Martin Cahill · ss Shimmer #38, July 2017 · Cracks · Xen · nv Fiyah #3, Summer 2017 · The Future of Hunger in the Age of Programmable Matter · Sam J. Miller · ss Tor.com October 18 2017 · Uncanny Valley · Greg Egan · nv Tor.com August 9 2017 · Love Pressed in Vinyl · Devon Wong · ss Strange Horizons April 3 2017 · There Used to Be Olive Trees · Rich Larson · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction January/February 2017 · The Secret of Flight · A. C. Wise · ss Black Feathers ed. Ellen Datlow, Pegasus Books, 2017 · A Bouquet of Wonder and Marvel · Sean Eads · ss Georgetown Haunts and Mysteries ed. Jeanne C. Stein & Joshua Viola, Hex Publishers, 2017