Steve Berman

• Sep-2001
• / Horror
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• Apr-2004
• / Fantasy
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Storytelling can be a way of spinning straw into gold, of showing ourselves we have drawn a long straw in this life. A finalist for Best GLBT Anthology for the Lambda Literary Awards, Charmed Lives offers readers a collection of over thirty short wor...

• May-2007
• / Thriller
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Walking on an empty stretch of highway on a lonely autumn night, a gay teen meets a strange boy who disappears into thin air. What begins as a dream turns into a nightmare as the dangerous obsession of a star athlete killed in 1957 begins to haunt th...

• Feb-2008
• / Action Adventure
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In this anthology for teen readers, fifteen best-selling and acclaimed authors--including Holly Black, Cecil Castellucci, Cassandra Clare, Eugie Foster, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, and Gregory Frost--weave all-new stories filled with magic. Comic and dark, ...

• Jun-2008
• / Horror
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• Aug-2008
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-2008
• / General Fiction
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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 fuss...

• Oct-2009
• / Fantasy
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• Oct-2009
• / General Fiction
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• Nov-2009
• / General Fiction
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• Jul-2010
• / General Fiction
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• Nov-2010
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-2010
• / Fantasy
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The legends of Fairyland tell that one should never taste the food or sip the drink, or else risk being caught there forever. But the tempting morsels in So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction are irresistible! Lambda Award-nominated editor Steve Berman brings ...

• Jul-2011
• / Fantasy
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Set in San Francisco during the Gold Rush era, Ji Yuan, a Chinese youth who immigrated to America with his brother to seek his fortune but has found only disappointment. Now, his brother lays sick, dying, and Yuan must seek the help of two local sp...

• Aug-2011
• / Horror
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• Aug-2011
• / General Fiction
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• Sep-2011
• / General Fiction
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Speaking Out features stories for and about LGBT and Q teens by fresh voices and noted authors in the field of young adult literature. These are inspiring stories of overcoming adversity (against intolerance and homophobia) and experiencing life afte...

• May-2012
• / Romance
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Walt Whitman referred to a "Mad, naked, Summer Night!" In the pages of Boys of Summer, acclaimed editor Steve Berman's latest anthology, talented authors and fresh voices reveal the allure and excitement of the season for gay teens. June always p...

• May-2012
• / Fantasy
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• Jul-2012
• / Science Fiction
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• Jun-2013
• / General Fiction
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• Jun-2013
• / Horror
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• Jul-2013
• / General Fiction
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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 their feelings for unobtainable women. Yet, whether...

• Jul-2013
• / Fantasy
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• Jul-2013
• / Fantasy
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Children are supposed to be all sugar and spice and everything nice . . . but we know that's not the truth. Dark tales of wicked tykes and dangerous kids playing vicious games that lead adults -- sometimes their own parents -- to their demise are a s...

• Aug-2013
• / Science Fiction
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More Americans were killed during the years 1861-1865 than any other date in history. Men shattered, women lost, families broken. In Shades of Blue and Gray, editor Steve Berman offers readers tales of the supernatural -- ghost stories that range fro...

• Aug-2013
• / Science Fiction
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It’s a wonder humanity ever survived into the twenty-first century. Even Neanderthals knew to bury the dead beneath stones to prevent corpses from rising. Ancient civilizations feared slain warriors would return from battlefields, medieval physicia...

• Oct-2013
• / Horror
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• Feb-2014
• / Fantasy
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Red Caps might be a rock band. Or they might be something more sinister, a fey source of sounds that are but the backdrop to thrills and misadventures. These thirteen stories provide readers jaded by the traditional, Old World fairy tales with tempti...

• Feb-2014
• / Fantasy
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For millennia, male infernal figures have been portrayed as both dazzling tempters and dark seducers. The alluring fantasy of Handsome Devil highlights Lucifer's role as the beautiful trickster who steals hearts (as well as souls), and features stori...

• Jun-2014
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-2014
• / Horror
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• Jun-2015
• / General Fiction
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The table of contents to this book features fresh ideas, old hands, burly faces, genderqueer souls, shades of skin and hair as much as it does timbre of voice, both actual and authorial. Best Gay Stories 2015 starts and ends with a kiss--between p...

• Jul-2015
• / Dark Fantasy
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Wilde Stories showcases the previous year's best offerings in short gay fantasy, horror, weird, and science fiction. This volume offers readers the secret missives of Roman emperors, an ungrateful ghost haunting her father's lover, werewolves, pos...

• Aug-2015
• / Science Fiction
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In the field of mad science, women have for too long been ignored, their triumphs misattributed to mere men. Society has seen the laboratory as the province of men. Jacob's Ladder electric arcs, death rays, even test tubes have phallic connotations, ...

• Jun-2016
• / General Fiction
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Editor Steve Berman delivers another fine volume in the Best Gay Stories series. As the rights and privileges of gay men expand with each passing year, the demand for stories grows--stories that rouse the reader to step out from the shadows, to aband...

• Jul-2016
• / Science Fiction
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Reality and memory; imagination and oblivion. Somewhere between these signposts can be found the events of Wilde Stories 2016: a future world has forbidden the songs of dancefloor divas but on one night the show returns as a cautionary exhibition;...

• May-2017
• / Erotica
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• Jul-2017
• / Science Fiction
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A man named Turing visits a museum to see its rarest automata; during the Plague Years, three artists seeking to express a voice for their friends lost to AIDS unwittingly create life; a far-future restaurant offers patrons questionable cuisine; a...

• Oct-2018
• / Romance
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The eleventh and final volume in the series that offered readers the best gay-themed stories of the strange, uncanny, and fantastical! Work by such acclaimed authors as Richard Bowes, Sam J. Miller, Sean Eads, and John Chu. A library of all the bo...

• Aug-2021
• / Contemporary Romance
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What has been missing from the daring tales of fairy tale heroes is quite simply some heft. In Burly Tales, Lambda Literary Award-winning editor Steve Berman has gathered a dozen stories of whimsy and romance that feature gay men with plenty of curve...

• Oct-2021
• / Contemporary Romance
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Entertaining tales of the macabre, sure to cause shivers and indigestion. - Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewThese are stories of men facing strange appetites within their own physicality, within a lover or, perhaps, a stranger's hungers. A young athlet...

• Oct-2023
• / Horror
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What happens when we go looking for trouble? Delights or dismay? Many horror stories and films, as do plenty of hook-ups, begin with this premise. When you can't sleep and begin browsing Grindr or Scruff, why not invite the guy without a face pic who...