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Allen Barnett saw this collection of short stories published in 1991, the same year as his death due to AIDS-related illness at the age of 36. The Body and Its Dangers and Other Stories won a Ferro-Grumley Award and a Lambda-Literary Award and is widely regarded as a classic of American literature. "Allen Barnett knew how to plait the somber and the sardonic. His work is as light as it is dark, as funny as it is heart-breaking. I met him only once at a gay literary conference in San Francisco and, with that instant mixture of sincerity and intimacy for which we Americans are famous, he said to me, "I wish I didn't have to die so young. There's still so much I want to write." Every page is as fresh and immediate as the day he wrote it; we can only prize the masterful stories in this collection and regret there aren't many others." -Edmund White, A Boys Own Story and Genet: A Biography"Allen Barnett's fiction is true. That is, even when the writing is elegant it is also incisive, heated and revelatory. Each phrase, whether describing alienation or loss, desire or that which is unknowable, lands with a trembling resonance; a graceful touch which can never be forgotten. I'm grateful that his 'fully human' stories have lived to amaze a new generation."-Jewelle Gomez, The Gilda Stories"Of all the vibrant literature - fiction, memoirs, reporting, criticism, histories - that emerged in the United States during the height of the AIDS epidemic Allen Barnett's The Body and Its Dangers stands out as a dazzling example of how personal and social tragedy can produce brilliant art. Each of these stories deftly and brilliantly exposes the desires, fears, love, and untimely the terrors of being a human and being alive. Barnett's prose is seductive and alluring even as - or especially when - he is gently exposing those the daily disruptive and unsettling realizations that to be human is to be mortal, and to be mortal is to acknowledge the power and beauty of the body."-Michael Bronski, A Queer History of the United States and co-editor of Invisible History: The Collected Poems of Walta Borawski "Inspiring truth-telling through acute perceptions of the connection between language and life. Allen had the courage to make literature expand to reflect the AIDS experience, the talent to make the petty an intrinsic part of the profound. He knew when to look away and when to look."-Sarah Schulman, Let the Record Show: A Political Historyof ACT UP New York, 1987-1993

Two cousins entangled by memories, a romance that begins in a sleazy bar, or a real Marilyn Monroe.Dale Corvino gives us visceral access to his characters' brains. Each of these pieces delivers something whole. You can tell he's been around, and you're bowled over by the humanity that has grown from it.- Bruce Benderson, Author of The RomanianBonds & Boundaries is a collection of short stories written over ten years. Among the bonds explored: two women, a starlet and a homemaker, admiring each other across the constraints of their roles ("Miss Bensonhurst"); a mother and her gay child reasserting their love after estrangement ("Great White"); queer friends protecting each other ("Drowned River"); a stripper sitting next to a gay man on a long bus ride ("More Sequins than Cloth"); lovers reuniting through displacement ("The Marielito"). Though the boundaries explored include national ("The Forty-Ninth Parallel"), social, and familial ("Donor Baby"), such externalities are revealed in how they push emotional and personal boundaries. The recurrent theme of sex work interactions (stripper/customer, kept boy/sugar daddy, escort/client), ripe for explorations of bonds and boundaries alike, reflects the author's past experience and genesis as a writer. Racial and cultural dynamics drive several stories, notably "Three-way Calls" and "Benny Aboard." Several take on the particular despair of Gen X, a cohort largely formed in an analog context and thrust into a digitally-mediated reality, though none more pointedly than "Satellite Rules, Stranded Longings," in which an aging salesman at a trade show grapples with intimacy while using a gay cruising app. As a collection, Bonds & Boundaries maps a queer journey from the moraine of our origins through the vectors of longing that form us towards the afterlives we must often build over displacement and loss.A 2021 Lambda Literary Emerging Fellow in nonfiction, Dale Corvino found his confessional voice at the East Village queer underground literary salon "Dean Johnson's Reading for Filth," recounting his youth as an object of longing and later interactions with sex work. In 2018, he won the Gertrude Press Fiction contest, judged by Whiting Award recipient Brontez Purnell. Recent nonfiction includes a profile of Chilean writer Pedro Lemebel for the Gay & Lesbian Review, "You've Got Male," on queer longing in the digital era for Matt Keegan's 1996, and a chapter on sex worker representation for the 2021 Routledge Handbook of Male Sex Work, Culture, and Society. Upcoming projects include a memoir based on his kept-boy experience in Eighties New York City. Dale lives in Hell's Kitchen with the Sour Patch Kid of his dreams.

Mundo Lopez, a minor player in the criminal underworld of Los Angeles, has killed a man of unexpected importance to the Mayan gods of war and death. After his release from prison, Mundo journeys with his lover, Pedro, through the jungles of Guatemala to steal a fortune in sacred gold from the Pyramid of the Dead. It is there among the ruins of Tikal that the dark gods, in their quest for vengeance, force him to make a monumental and horrific choice... Brian Yapko is a lawyer who tries to make up for it by writing narrative fiction and poetry. His debut science fiction novel, El Nuevo Mundo, was published in 2022 by Rebel Satori Press. His novella San Damien and the Red Daggers was published in serial form by Bewildering Stories in Spring, 2023; his short story "Paradox of the Twins" was recently published by The Ancible and his novella Erica Victor will be published in late 2023 by Gypsy Shadow Publications. His poetry has appeared in over fifty publications He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with his husband, Jerry, and their canine child, Bianca.

"A thought-provoking collection of poetry that delves into themes of identity, love, and self-discovery. Each poem is a journey into the complexities of the human experience navigating sensitive topics with honesty and vulnerability. With a unique blend of personal anecdotes and social commentary, Love(ly) Child offers a captivating exploration of life's highs and lows, leaving a lasting impact on those who immerse themselves in its pages."--

One day at the height of summer, a group of restaurant employees in a small college town in northern Missouri wake up to a world that has changed: random people have vanished and been re-placed by strangers. But these replacements are strangers only to them; the rest of the world sees nothing amiss, the replaced American president, professional athletes, and actors and entertainers wiped from their memories. As the summer progresses, the staff discover that they can each return one person's memory. But who will each of them choose, and why?Joe Baumann's is the author of three collections of short fiction, Sing With Me at the Edge of Paradise, The Plagues, and Hot Lips. His fiction and essays have appeared in Third Coast, Passages North, Phantom Drift, and many others. He possesses a PhD in English from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. He was a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow in Fiction. His debut novel, I Know You're Out There Somewhere, is forthcoming from Deep Hearts YA. He can be reached at joebaumann.wordpress.com.

Octavio Gonzalez has crafted a poetic sequence as emotionally raw as it lyrically wrought. His language is rich without being baroque; his lines are a dance, until they are a gut punch. At the core of this gorgeous collection is a body of sonnets about the endlessly desiring body. At the core of both bodies is the heart. -Evie Shockley, Zora Neale Hurston Distinguished Professor of English Rutgers UniversityThere is something so pure in desire, beyond explanation or reason. In Octavio González's work, encounters with desire are often spiritual in nature, where an open-eyed vulnerability meets the gravitational energy of attraction and longing. Interspersed with these hot, sexy poems, are glimpses of childhood displacement, the raw grief of loss, and the tenderness of chosen family. Above all, this book is a celebration of queer desire and survival. -Samuel Ace, author of Our Weather Our Sea and Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don't washIn Octavio González's first book-length poetry collection, limerence, he probes the inextricable tension, pain, pleasure, and danger in relationships with men. As a gay man, who immigrated to the United States from the Dominican Republic, González writes poems that convey an all-consuming, yet ever elusive search for home and place in the intimacy of both fleeting sexual encounters and long-term relationships. In the therapist's office, on rooftops, and in bedrooms, González navigates love, lust, and longing. González's experience of love, sexual desire and romance is not sentimental as these experiences are often intertwined with questions of consent and violence. Poignant and searing, this collection will have the readers both appreciating and reexamining the meaning of love, trust, and safety. -Pia Deas, author of Cargo In limerence, Octavio González gifts us with a lusty archive of what the poet's remembered body tells, keeping readers adrift and glued to the funk of history, longing, and desire. His is a libation to what makes queer bodies burn. -Carlos Ulises Decena, author of Tacit Subjects and Circuits of the Sacredlimerence is revelatory, fierce, and filthy in the most profound way. Octavio González is a daring, fresh, exciting, and necessary new voice to our LGBTQ+ and Latinx literary tradition. -Emanuel Xavier, author of Pier Queen and Christ LikeOctavio R. González is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Wellesley College. He teaches courses on American queer literature and culture, British and American modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, and the twentieth-century novel. González is a 2021 Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Fellow. His lit crit monograph, Misfit Modernism: Queer Forms of Double Exile in the Twentieth-Century Novel, was published in the Refiguring Modernism imprint from Pennsylvania State University Press (2020). His poetry has appeared in Lambda Literary Poetry Spotlight, Puerto Del Sol, The Latino Book Review, OCHO, Anomaly, HIV±Here and Now, Lambda Literary's Emerge Anthology, Writing on the Moon, Mass. Poetry on the T, and other journals and anthologies. Poems from Limerence have been finalists and long listed for Gival Press' Oscar Wilde Poetry Award (2021) and Palette Poetry's "Love & Eros" prize (2022).

"The author of Puppet Boy this time brings you a gentle romance full of meet-cutes, coffee dates, and talking cats. Sorry, make that a pitch-black sex comedy, with aggressive outdoor hook-ups, unusual tasty treats, and... well, the talking cat bit is true. My Cat's Guide to Online Dating sits somewhere between Gregg Araki for the Grindr generation and what might happen if Dennis Cooper wrote a romcom. Filthy, surreal and darkly funny, you're in for a ride that's going to leave you hungry for flesh in all sorts of unexpected ways."- Matthew Bright, author of The Library of Lost Things"One of the most unique books I've read - by turns frightening, hilarious, bizarre, and very, very erotic." - Rob Byrnes, author of Straight Lies and The Night We Met""Baines renders the reader complicit with the voracious appetites of his hero Zach and his familiar, Grace Jones. And, at the novel's heart, there beats a steadily mounting horror. Eat this one up!"" - James K. Moran, author of Fear Itself and Town & Train"One hell of a ride. Dark, disturbing, and that's just the cat."- 'Nathan Burgoine, author of Exit Plans for Teenage FreaksA hook-up gone bad can be purrder.Fresh from a breakup, deeply closeted freshman Zach jumps at the chance to housesit his family home and enjoy a long, horny summer free of both his ex and his religious parents. But when an old enemy turned hot hook-up falls to his death, Zach turns to the only true friend he's ever known-his cat, Grace Jones. With the dead man's phone and a knack for texting, she promises Zach help, for a price that will satisfy both their appetites. Does it matter if Grace Jones' powers draw on something far more ancient and sinister than a cell phone? "Get laid, Zachary. Get laid." Each new hook-up brings Zach darkly humorous discoveries about life, love, sex, and his own desires. But Zach knows it's only a matter of time before someone discovers his secret. Can he rely on his feline protector, or is he trapped in a hungry devil's bargain? Christian Baines is an awkward nerd turned slightly less awkward novelist. His work includes the paranormal series The Arcadia Trust, novella Skin, and Puppet Boy, a finalist for the 2016 Saints and Sinners Emerging Writer Award. Born in Australia, he now travels the world whenever possible, living, writing, and shivering in Toronto, Canada on the occasions he can't find his passport.

Time Bomb is a Bhagavad Gita-inspired/time travel/save-the-world-from-global-warming novel with a queer romantic edge.Christian Sparrow is a time traveler from the end of the twenty first century. His earth is dying, and his mission is to go back in time to change the course of history by disrupting the Los Alamos atomic bomb project. But he didn't plan on falling in love with Archer Meyer-a nuclear physicist whiz-kid whose work and life Christian will likely have to ruin if he is to succeed.The men will need to navigate through a perplexing world of spies, scorpions, sex tapes, and safe words before they can hope to discern their true duties, and perhaps save the world, and even themselves.John Patrick is a Lambda Literary Award finalist who spends most of his time in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, where he is supported in his writing by his husband and their terriers, who are convinced they could do battle with the bears that come through the woods on occasion (the terriers, that is, not the husband). An introvert, John can often be found doing introverted things like reading or writing, cooking, and thinking deep, contemplative thoughts (his husband might call this napping). He loves to spend time in nature-"forest bathing" is the Japanese term for it-feeling connected with the universe. But he also loathes heat and humidity, bugs of any sort, and unsteady footing in the form of rocks, mud, tree roots, snow, or ice. So his love of nature is tempered-he's complicated that way.John and his husband enjoy traveling and have visited over a dozen countries, meeting new people, exploring new cultures, and-most importantly-discovering new foods.

James "Jamie" Van Ryan is the greatest porn star who has ever lived. The objectively perfect body with the objectively perfect face. Everyone wants him, everyone wants to be him, and the powerful want to own him. When one of the richest royals in all the galaxy wants to marry him, Van Ryan finds himself on the farthest edge of known space, embroiled in political intrigue, and falling in love with a revolutionary and his cause. Which side will he choose?J. Warren has a PhD from Illinois State University and lives in Wyoming where he teaches English.

Christopher Soden is a poet of being and becoming, of rising above guilt, shame, abuse and humiliation to build a life of love and self-acceptance. - Michael Simms, author of American AshChristopher Soden's poems are never a PR campaign for the author, never self-aggrandizing below a thin veil of manufactured vulnerability. These are not poems created to insight sighs from the audience. They are much more real than that, much more truly vulnerable than that, much more sticky and fun and difficult than that. Often life is solitary, often life is a mother-fucker, but if you are holding this book in your hands then you are not alone, even more than that: you are being held in the arms of an author who may not know you but, in each and every poem, wonders and cares about you. - Matthew Dickman author of WonderlandHonesty and vulnerability abound in this collection of Whitman-like raptures. Christopher Stephen Soden doesn't just tell us that "There are all kinds of attachment /and all kinds of men"; he takes us on a tour through the erotics of male companionship and unabashed desire. Youth, lover, and sage present themselves to the reader in turn, each inviting the reader to engage in a "pas de deux /with...poppa spirit, Animus. -Michael McKeown Bondhus author of Diving BonesChristopher Soden is a poet of being and becoming, of rising above guilt, shame, abuse and humiliation to build a life of love and self-acceptance. Inside the word revision lies, of course, the word vision. Gusher, a redux of Christopher Soden's brilliant first book Closer, offers the reader insight into the vision and visionary scope and spirit of this poet. The poems in this collection show us how desire, loss, and nostalgia can come alive inside language, remembering hunger, and hungering for memory. Poem after poem takes your breath away and in doing so reminds you that you're still breathing. -sam sax, Author of MadnessChristopher Stephen Soden received his MFA in Poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts in January of 2005. He teaches craft, theory, genre and literature. He writes poetry, plays, literary, film and theatre critique for sharpcritic.com and EdgeDallas. Christopher's poetry collection, Closer was released by Rebel Satori Press on June 14th, 2011. He received a Full Fellowship to Lambda Literary's Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices in August 2010. His performance piece: Queer Anarchy received The Dallas Voice's Award for Best Stage Performance. Water and A Christmas Wish were staged at Bishop Arts and Radio Flyer and Every Day is Christmas. In Heaven. at Nouveau 47. Other honors include: Distinguished Poets of Dallas, Poetry Society of America's Poetry in Motion Series, Founding Member, President and President Emeritus of The Dallas Poets Community. His work has appeared in: Rattle, The Cortland Review, 1111, Peculiar, Briar's Lit, Typishly, F(r)iction, G & L Review, Chelsea Station, Glitterwolf, Collective Brightness, A Face to Meet the Faces, Resilience, Ganymede Poets: One, Gay City 2, The Café Review, The Texas Observer, Sentence, Borderlands, Off the Rocks, The James White Review, The New Writer, Velvet Mafia, Poetry Super Highway, Gertrude, Touch of Eros, Gents, Bad Boys and Barbarians, Windy City Times, ArLiJo, and Best Texas Writing 2.

Jason Escobar joins the Lunar Management Company and lifts for the moon. There, he meets Charlemagne Beckman and begins to understand the workers on the moon, called "Lunatics," and their desire for freedom from the company he works for. Poor working conditions and low wages propel the Lunatics to demand action. With his new lover, Martin Kauri, Jason is thrown into the rebellion and must decide where his duty lies. The coming confrontation will bring the Lunatics together and force Jason to choose between freedom and his love for Martin or his obligation to the LMC. T. Lawton Carney's undergraduate studies were at the University of Tennessee, majoring in English Literature. He is author of three books on the business of interior design under the name of Thomas L. Williams, and he also contributed to the premier issue of the Santa Barbara Literary Journal. He has co-written interior design forecast pieces and written for local and regional newspapers.Tom's mother sparked an interest in Sci-Fi when he was six years old and took him to the neighborhood library to introduce him to Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and his early favorite, the Tom Swift, Jr. series. Tom, and his husband Robert, have lived on the East Coast of the United States, London, England, Carmel, California, and now Palm Springs.

The Gusty Deep is a monster-tale that pokes holes between world ages and lets them chatter to one another through a keyhole in the moss. In this very adult faerie-tale, twelfth-century Britain descends into the chaos of The Anarchy. Lux, daughter of the surviving member of the Green Children of Woolpit, narrowly escapes a forced marriage with a stranger, a way-faring man called Robin Goodfellow. He takes Lux back to his band of Others-the queer, the whores, and the witches-together, can they save the land, its resources, and their very right to exist as the world slips into civil war?Lee Morgan lives on a communal homestead on kunanyi/Mt Wellington, where he creates sanctuary for other weirdos, raises books, people, and ideas from the grave. He has had novels and non-fiction published by Moon Books and Three Hands Press. Having survived an enormous tumour, Lee currently is busy filling the room in his skull with new brains, writing Folk Horror, and queering the world one step at a time.

Jefferson High School's first LGBTQ support group is created after a student dies by suicide. As the new school year begins, six students join the group and sit in a circle every Monday afternoon-sometimes in silence, sometimes in heated dialogue-sharing pieces of their lives. Denice is the leader who wants to protect everyone; Vivian's feeling like an outsider because of her asexual identity; Angel's a rebel who can't bear the thought of coming out to his mom; Finn's an introvert whose parents made them leave after coming out as trans; Johnny's an outgoing performer dealing with his parents' divorce; and Lexie's an ally, just here to support. As the students begin to discover different facets of their identities, they grapple with a lot of questions: How can we best support someone through a difficult time? What does it mean to share affinity when we don't share the same identities? And what does it really mean to be a member of the queer community? "Using gorgeous poetic verse, Matty Bennett brilliantly captures the stories of a group of queer teens reconciling their dreams with reality. It's a book I wish I had access to during my formative years. We Give Support, Not Advice is timely, pertinent and essential for our LGBTQ+ youth." - Emanuel Xavier, author & activist"We Give Support, Not Advice is a quick, engaging, and important read. Matty Bennett's novel-in-verse takes a diverse group of characters, puts them in a room, and lets them tell their own story in a voice that is both accessible and lyrical. "Despite our fragments, we are / whole..." the students tell us. And we believe them. At its core, We Give Support, Not Advice is both a difficult and hopeful read. A necessary book in these times." - Jamie Beth Cohen, author of Wasted Pretty"The characters in Matty Bennett's novel-in-verse encapsulate the nuances of queerness-the awkwardness, the fury, the tenderness. It's a book I wish I had in high school, a time when I desperately needed queer camaraderie, especially in my grief. In We Give Support, Not Advice, ''we are reminded why we exist.'" - Lisa Summe, author of Say It Hurts

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book awardee, The Butcher's Sons is a gritty, intimate portrait of three young Irish-American brothers whose lives irrevocably change during a heat wave in New York City's Hell's Kitchen, circa 1930. Bound by blood but separated by forbidden secrets, brothers-Dickie, Walt and Adlai-run a butcher shop for their alcoholic father, whose broken spirit has isolated him from the world. When Dickie makes a rash decision, involving an organized crime family, a chain of events are triggered changing the brothers' lives and forcing them to come together-at first, with a sense of camaraderie, but ultimately, with something much fiercer, more brutal.Shot through with themes of honor, betrayal, race and sexual identity "Hess' masterful, elegant style weaves these diverse elements into a seamless narrative that touches the heart of what it means to be human."With a new introduction by journalist Ian MacAllen."A brutal and lyrically gorgeous story of three Irish brothers' during the 1930s as they transgress social and moral norms to satisfy their desires, despite the dire consequences." - John Copenhaver, Lambda Literary Review"At once gritty, poetic, and romantic, Hess' masterful, elegant style weaves these diverse elements into a seamless narrative that touches the heart of what it means to be human." - Kirkus Reviews"This more modern retelling of King Lear brings the kingdom down to the streets, but the heart-wrenching cruelty of fate shows up in the same Shakespearean way...Hess weaves all three of these points of view together under the sweltering heat of Hell's Kitchen in the 1930's. The Butcher's Sons is told with such vibrancy and aroma, you can almost feel the sweat seeping out of your skin." - Luke Goldstein Blogcritics Editors Pick 5 Star Review

Oscar Wilde is pulled into a dark conspiracy led by followers of an ancient Egyptian deity seeking to reestablish her terrifying religion-and she wants Wilde to be her new high priest. But Wilde does not stand alone, and as the coming conflict reveals stunning secrets about those closest to him, he realizes his greatest ally happens to be his fiercest nemesis-the Marquess of Queensberry.Originally from Kentucky, Sean Eads is a writer and librarian living in Denver, CO. His first novel, The Survivors, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. His third novel, Lord Byron's Prophecy, was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the Colorado Book Award.

Is their budding relationship for real or just wishful thinking?Young Tim Dawson produces dance music and is deep into the bar scene. The older and quieter Castor can't be bothered; he's made his solitary life watching lane markers roll underneath him from the cab of his truck. When he does finally fall in love, it's with his brother-in-law. Tim desperately tries to find security with Castor. He befriends the older man's sister Sonia while Castor sets out to capture her handsome husband Ricky. Set against a backdrop of St. Louis in the early 1990s, Rabushka's novel is a time capsule of a bygone gay world ... and a timeless story of lost love and broken hearts.Jerry Rabushka is a playwright, composer, and novelist. For many years he wrote and produced original plays and musicals through his theater company Ragged Blade Productions. His novel Star Bryan was published by Rebel Satori in 2012. He has produced several albums of original music, and for several years has been performing music of the ragtime era.Due to his contribution to St. Louis LGBT history, much of Rabushka's fiction, playwriting and music has been archived by the State Historical Society of Missouri, with selected pieces archived at the Missouri Historical Society. He lives with his partner Isaac Cherry in St. Louis.

Nate Audley is affable, aimless and prone to the charms of Joey, a seducer with sexuality to spare. But even as they indulge in the forbidden, Nate can't shake what's at stake: his relationship with his family. Sometimes cum is thicker than blood in this first novel from peerless porn writer, Natty Soltesz.Praise for Natty Soltsz: "[College Dive Bar, 1 AM] exceeds at being comical and a huge turn-on at the same time." -Butt Magazine"It's not very often at all that I'm reading porn and getting happily distracted by how good the sentences are and how economical the prose is." -Dennis Cooper"The king of intergenerational porn." -Kevin Killian"[Writes] like the Stephen King of man sex." -Joe Gage"Backwoods bypassed cerebral instincts and went straight to my lap." -Out in Print

Michael Scot was a legendary scholar of the Middle Ages. He was born in 1175 in the border regions of Scotland and northern England. He was an advisor court astrologer to Emperor Frederick II. Scot studied in Oxford and Paris. He was a theologian and appears to have been ordained by Pope Honorius III. He knew many languages and translated important texts from Greek and Arabic, including Aristotle. It was a contemporary of Fibonacci and it is possible he influenced the presentation of his famous Fibonnaci sequence. Noted during for his scholarship in his lifetime, Scot quickly became a legend in the years following his death c. 1232. He gained posthumous fame variously viewed as an alchemist, occultist, sorcerer, and warlock. He is the only Scot to appear in Dante's Divine Comedy. Originally published in 1897, Brown's work remains an important full-length enquiry into Scot's life and legend.

Northcote Thomas provides an lengthy study of the history and practice of crystal gazing. He covers techniques for scrying utilizing a crystal sphere as an aid in clairvoyance and obtaining visions. A chapter on the incantation or "call" is included. In additional to practical techniques, the work covers the crystal ball's history. Thomas spends two chapters in an in depth discussion of Egyptian scrying.An early work on the subject, originally published in 1905.

Dominic Ronove is a contract demon who'll get you anything you want, for six years, and a small token of your appreciation.Malik Parsa is an easy-going gay twenty-something with a conventional everyday existence - until he meets Dominic Ronove.Imagine Dominic's surprise when he discovers Malik isn't human, and every other supernatural creature in the city wants to get their claws into him.J.P. Jackson is an award-winning author of dark urban fantasy, paranormal, and paranormal romance stories that feature LGBTQ+ main characters. He works as an IT analyst in health care during the day, and lives with his husband of 24 years and his two Chihuahuas, Canela and Jalisco. His other hobbies include hybridizing African Violets (thanks to grandma), extensive traveling, and believe it or not, knitting.

The Perfect Fortune TellerA nineteenth century introduction to a varied range of fortune telling methods and magical charms. Includes Napoleon's Oracle, Madame De Stael's Book of Necromancy, and Countess of Blessington's Interpretation of Dreams, Madame Aubrey's Palmistry, the Egyptian Circle, the influence of Saints days, and other diverse signs & auguries. Madame Z. also covers alectromancy (use of the alphabet), seafaring signs, interpretation of dreams as expressed in numbers, cartomancy (use of cards), astragalomancy (dice), candle omens, physiognomy, and many more. The book also covers traditional charms and amulets for love and luck.Originally published in 1884.

"Tam o' Shanter" is one of Scottish poet Robert Burns' most famous and beloved creations. The epic poem tells the story of poor Tam o' Shanter, who after a night of drinking, tarries too long at the local pub. On his ride home, he comes upon a covene of warlocks and witches celebrating an infernal mass at the haunted ruins of the Alloway Kirk. Burns poem is humorous and rife with the Samhain spirit.The poem is accompanied by essays regarding the story of its creation, the relationship of Tam o' Shanter to other similar tales, and historical placement and antecedents to Tam's tale.

Crystal Vision Through Crystal Gazing or The Crystal as a Stepping-Stone To Clear Vision: A Practical Treatise on the Real Value of Crystal-GazingA concise treatise on crystal gazing authored by Charles Stansfield Jones, also known by his name as an occult adept, Frater Achad. Jones was a close associate of Aleister Crowley. For a time the Great Beast considered Achad his magical son. He became an important occultist in his own right with groundbreaking-and sometimes very controversial-magical theories. His other works include a a three work treatise on the Qabala.

Aleister Crowley most important work the seminal holy book of his thelemic religion The Book of the Law, Liber AL vel Legis. New pocket edition measuring 4 x 6 inches. The book was allegedly received on 8 April, 9 April, and 10 April in Cairo in the 1904. Crowley attributed the authorship to an praeterhuman intelligence named Aiwass. Crowley would later identify the entity as his personal Holy Guardian Angel.

The Mysteries and Secrets of Magic provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of magic and the occult. It delves deeply into the history of magic, the ancient science of the supernatural. Thompson explores the rites, rituals, closely guarded secrets, and the hidden lore of historical occult practices.The Mysteries and Secrets of Magic covers the art and practice of magic from pre-history to modern times. Thompson reveals a diverse collection of the secret rites, invocations, charms, magical diagrams, and mystical formulas of the grimoire tradition. He also covers the hidden lore of the faery or fae; the Devil and demons.

Johnnykin attempts to protect a stone goblin from a bully. To his surprise the goblin comes to life and transports him to the fantastical world of the fairies.Charles Godfrey Leland is a well known 19th century folklorist. This work was originally printed in 1876.