Johnny Townsend

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  • Bibliography:
    58 Books
  • First Book:
    November 2009
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Book List in Order: 58 titles

  • The Circumcision of God

    These sixteen stories reveal Mormons with serious problems their church can't always help solve. A young girl has to fight the Klan in 1960's Mississippi. A betrayed husband demands the return of the kidney he donated to his wife. A young gay man is...

  • God's Gargoyles

  • Mormon Underwear

  • Dinosaur Perversions

  • Sex Among the Saints

    Clean-cut Mormons may preach purity and wholesomeness, but sometimes repressing sexual instincts forces those feelings to erupt in unexpected ways. In these stories, two women vie for the sexual affections of the same missionary. An elderly farmer...

  • Zombies for Jesus

    A teenage Mormon girl is haunted by Joseph Smith's wife. A white college instructor confronts his subconscious racism. A timid gay man unleashes his inner beast through a role-playing game. A plastic surgeon accidentally discovers a new life form. Go...

  • The Abominable Gayman

  • The Gay Mormon Quilter's Club

  • The Golem of Rabbi Loew



  • Mormon Fairy Tales

    Fascinating Mormon tales with an unorthodox twist. The Three Nephites from the Book of Mormon cope with their frustrated sexuality since their wives aren't immortal as they are. A deceased sinner plots to break out of Spirit Prison. An obsessive-comp...

  • Let the Faggots Burn: The UpStairs Lounge Fire

    On Gay Pride Day in 1973, someone set the entrance to a French Quarter gay bar on fire. In the terrible inferno that followed, thirty-two people lost their lives, including a third of the local congregation of the Metropolitan Community Church, their...

  • Flying Over Babel

  • Marginal Mormons

    What happens when a High Priest becomes addicted to crack cocaine? Should an unemployed bank teller take in a homeless protestor from the Occupy movement? Do gay people have positive near-death experiences or unhappy ones? Is there a way to splice th...

  • Mormon Bullies

    This eclectic mixture of poignant memoir, bristling Op-ed, and literary criticism focuses on three of the most serious issues facing society today--gay rights, the environment, and universal healthcare. With both sarcasm and insight, Johnny Townsend ...

  • The Mormon Victorian Society

    A Victorian enthusiast has a startling sexual revelation to make at his monthly Society meeting. Two men find love in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. A home teaching assignment goes terribly wrong when a man is confronted with a young gay cowboy....

  • Dragons of the Book of Mormon

    In this collection of Mormon short stories, we see a supporter of Prop 8 forced to attend his boss's gay wedding. A devout Latter-day Saint struggling to pay his bills wonders if he should keep paying tithing, even after being excommunicated. A repor...

  • Selling the City of Enoch

    In this collection of Mormon short stories, we see a mission president's wife murdered in Rome. A mother plans for her role as a god in the hereafter. A descendant of Enoch tries out Capitalism. A bishop disguises himself as a homeless man to teach h...

  • A Day at the Temple

  • Behind the Zion Curtain

    In these Mormon short stories, a teenage boy, worried about the future of the planet, prays for God to send a devastating plague on humans. A polygamist endures a miserable wedding night with his multiple wives. A government assassin tries to incorpo...



  • Gayrabian Nights

    A male escort, invited to the hotel room of a closeted gay Mormon Republican senator, learns that the man is poised to vote on a piece of anti-gay legislation the following morning. To prevent him from sleeping, so that the exhausted senator will mis...

  • Lying for the Lord

    In these Mormon short stories, a missionary in Italy makes a break for freedom on Christmas. Mormons create a theocracy in America and rename the country Zion. A conflicted father wonders how to deal with a transgender son who wants to be his daughte...

  • Despots of Deseret

    In this collection of Mormon short stories, an uncle awaits word on his niece caught up in the 2004 tsunami. A stake president threatens to revoke a couple's temple marriage. An elderly woman breaks her hip and struggles desperately to reach the phon...

  • Missionaries Make the Best Companions

    In this collection of Mormon short stories, a sister missionary fulfills her community service requirement by babysitting for a prostitute. Two elders break their mission rules by venturing into the forbidden French Quarter. A schizophrenic woman tri...

  • Invasion of the Spirit Snatchers

    During the Apocalypse, a group of Mormon survivors in Hurricane, Utah gather in the home of the Relief Society president, telling stories to pass the time as they ration their food storage and await the Second Coming. But this is no ordinary group of...

  • The Tyranny of Silence

    An Artificial Intelligence tries to lead Mormons astray. A bereaved widow listens to the radio hoping to hear love songs from her departed husband. A high school teacher is stalked by one of her students. An ex-Mormon earns a living selling Mormon un...

  • Sex on the Sabbath

    A missionary in Italy tries to rescue a woman enslaved in trafficking. A Salt Lake bishop is murdered in his office. A Mormon advice columnist gets into trouble with the Church. Parents arrange to kidnap their missionary son and force him into deprog...

  • The Washing of Brains

    A world-weary man becomes a widower for the third time. A budding feminist tries to make a political statement by giving birth to her "illegitimate" son in church just before Mother's Day. Missionaries in Rome try to prevent a terrorist bombing. The ...

  • The Mormon Inquisition

    Decades after the Fall, archeologists excavating ruins discover an abandoned vault deep in a mountainside. The vault has been seriously compromised, but a few documents have been found printed on actual paper, an astonishing recovery after worldwide ...

  • Interview with a Mission President

    Jason Kincaid is nearing the end of his three-year term as president of the Washington Seattle mission of the LDS Church. His service has been difficult, and for the first time in his life, he has doubts. During the last zone conference over which he...



  • Weeping, Wailing, and Gnashing of Teeth

    At Judgment Day, several Mormon apostates face being thrust into Outer Darkness for their sins. With all of humanity watching, they are forced to confess their stories of rejecting the witness of the Holy Ghost. As they tell the world what led them t...

  • Behind the Bishop's Door

    Ex-Mormon writer Johnny Townsend can’t leave the Church behind. But it turns out, that’s a good thing. With almost five decades in the Mormon and ex-Mormon communities, Townsend knows its people well. In this collection of short stories, we see a...

  • The Last Days Linger

    The scriptures tell us that in the Last Days, wickedness will increase upon the Earth. When the Mormon Church sees a rise in the number of gay members, they believe the end is upon them. But while “wickedness never was happiness,” it begins to...

  • The Moat Around Zion

    A moat can work to keep bad guys out of one's sanctuary, but it can also act like a prison, trapping good people inside, and the stench from its fetid waters can often prove unbearable. In these tales of the trapped faithful, a woman is shunned when ...

  • Mormon Madness

    Mental illness can strike the faithful as easily as anyone else. But often religious doctrine and practice exacerbate rather than alleviate these problems. From schizophrenia to obsessive-compulsive disorder, from persecution complex to sexual dysfun...

  • Who Invited You to the Orgy?

    Johnny Townsend, author of award-winning literary fiction, whose op-eds have appeared in major newspapers across the country, gives us his most eclectic collection yet. Stories of trans and gay Mormons balancing their spiritual and temporal lives....

  • I Will, Through the Veil

    What gay man hasn't fantasized about hot sex with those repressed Mormon missionaries in their white shirts and conservative ties? But there's more to Mormon fantasy sex than curious young "elders." What about temple workers going at it in the baptis...

  • Have Your Cum and Eat It, Too

    It's 1981, and two Mormon missionaries randomly assigned to work together as "companions" in Napoli find themselves in trouble. They're falling in love, but the Church forbids gay relationships. As missionaries, they can't date anyone at all, much...

  • Strangers with Benefits

  • Glory to the Glory Hole!



  • My Pre-Bucket List

    Sex isn't the way Derek Murdock experienced it when he first came out, when HIV was the most frightening possibility during any encounter. With COVID, even condoms might not protect. Simply being in the same room with another person could transmit th...

  • Wake Up and Smell the Missionaries

    Two Mormon missionaries in Italy discover they share the same rare ability-both can emit pheromones on demand. At first, they playfully compete in the hills of Frascati to see who can tempt investigators most. But soon they're targeting each other no...

  • Orgy at the STD Clinic

    Todd Tillotson is struggling to move on after his husband is killed in a hit and run attack a year earlier during a Black Lives Matter protest in Seattle.In this novel set entirely on public transportation, we watch as Todd, isolated throughout the p...

  • Life Is Better with Love

    From over 500 short stories published over three decades, author Johnny Townsend presents several of his favorites.A gay couple steals from the rich to support their favorite charities.Two young women vie for the affection of the same missionary.A fa...

  • Please Evacuate

    A gay, partygoing New Yorker unconcerned about the future or the unsustainability of capitalism is hit by a truck and thrust into a straight man's body half a continent away. As Hunter tries to figure out what's happening, he's caught up in another d...

  • The Camper Killings

    When a homeless man is found murdered a few blocks from Morgan Beylerian's house in south Seattle, everyone seems to consider the body just so much additional trash to be cleared from the neighborhood. But Morgan liked the guy. They used to chat when...

  • An Eternity of Mirrors

    From over 500 short stories published over three decades, author Johnny Townsend presents several of his favorites.A gay couple steals from the rich to support their favorite charities.Two young women vie for the affection of the same missionary.A fa...

  • A Gay Mormon Missionary in Pompeii

    What's a gay Mormon missionary doing in Italy?He's trying to save his own soul as well as the souls of others, terrorized by homophobic doctrine into committing acts of cultural imperialism to prove his worthiness.In these tales chronicling the two-y...

  • Escape from Zion

    In these short stories by ex-Mormon author Johnny Townsend, parents hire men to pose as the Three Nephites to teach their children the Book of Mormon is true. A shy single woman meets the man of her dreams at an endoscopy party.An anti-Mormon mob thr...

  • A Mormon Motive for Murder

    Rural southern Mormons. Mormons with mental illness. Homeless Mormons. Ex-Mormons. Gay and trans Mormons. Mormon murderers. Mormon missionaries. Mormon missionaries who are murderers. There's something for everyone in this collection of short stories...



  • Gay Gaslighting

    Family members and religious leaders often invoke love as their justification for making the lives of LGBTQ folks difficult. But we've learned how to nurture one another. In these tales from the author of Mormon Underwear and Gayrabian Nights, a gay ...

  • Kinky Quilts

  • Mormon Misfits

    LGBTQ Mormons may not be a good fit for the LDS world, but there's plenty of room for them elsewhere. A budding feminist tries to make a political statement by giving birth to her illegitimate son in church just before Mother's Day. A gay man works w...

  • The Mysterious Madness of Mormons

    When religious indoctrination clashes with reality, the outcome can't always be predicted. In these stories by the author of Please Evacuate and Inferno in the French Quarter, a Seminary teacher threatens to kill his students. A schizophrenic woman i...

  • Out of the Missionary's Closet

    As a former Mormon missionary, author Johnny Townsend understands LDS mission culture. In these stories, a young missionary can't get permission to see a doctor about the lump on his testicle until he can convince his mission president he isn't mastu...

  • Sexual Solidarity

    Gay Ex-Mormons Unite! In these tales by a former Mormon missionary, a polygamist in 1855 Utah is ordered to take a fourth wife, when all he really wants is to be with another man. A Victorian enthusiast has a startling sexual revelation to make at hi...

  • Sins of the Saints

    In this collection of stories by ex-Mormon author Johnny Townsend, we see a missionary cope with the startling discovery that his companion has been translated off the face of the Earth. A teenage girl pretends to be her brother so she can hold the p...

  • Please Evacuate Again

    As Craig and Toby struggle to keep their faltering marriage alive, the climate crisis intrudes, part of a threesome in their relationship.Craig wants to take drastic action but Toby just wants to live his life as best he can before climate breakdown ...

  • Going-Out-Of-Religion Sale

    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Mormons and ex-Mormons, gay and straight, faithful and faithless. In these stories by the author of Mormon Underwear, we see Latter-day Saint women organize a sex boycott to force their husbands to grant them the priesthood. Activists dump the bodies...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Johnny Townsend has published 58 books.

Johnny Townsend does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Please Evacuate Again, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Johnny Townsend, God's Gargoyles, was published in November 2009.

No. Johnny Townsend does not write books in series.
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