gents: Steamy tales from the age of steam (Lethe press)
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Lambda Literary Finalist 2019 "Fans of the 19th century will find this a pleasing and diverting assemblage of works." - Publishers Weekly Return to an era of foggy streets and back-alley mollyhouses in this collection of seventeen erotic tales set in a ribald and risque Victorian era. A glorious cadre of authors—including such award-winning storytellers as Felice Picano, Tom Cardamone, and Jeff Mann—offers readers tales of noblemen and servants, rakes and cads, all partaking in steam and sweat. Alongside these modern masters of the genre comes excerpts from period Victorian gay erotica and twenty-two erotic photographs plucked from the archives of history itself. Welcome to Gents, where everything old is sexy again. "Bright’s aim “to curate a collection that was both arousing but also grounded in the real history of a time that holds a deep fascination” for him succeeds: the stories are well written, at turns entertaining, even thought-provoking; and the sex is varied, steamy, and thoroughly enjoyable. This volume satisfies on numerous levels." Out In Print (read the full review) Table of Contents: - Extract: Sins of the Cities of the Plain (Jack Saul) - Hiraeth (Rhidian Brenig Jones) - The Romp (Dale Chase) - The Blacksmith’s Son (Katie Lewis) - Like Trains in the Night (Verona Hummingbird) - Mombasa Vengeance (Mike McClelland) - Extract: My Secret Life (Anonymous) - The Story of a Criminal Practice (Nick Campbell) - Progress Be Damned (Rob Rosen) - Luc Orphenlin and the Hodag of Rhinelander - (Charles Payseur) - The Whipping Master (Dale Cameron Lowry) - London, 1888 (Jeff Mann) - Steam in Antartica (Matthias Klein) - Extract: Teleny (Anonymous) - Henry/Hendrik (Henry Alley) - On a Passage to the Queen’s Jubilee (Kolo) - Mr. Okada and his Calotype Camera - (Claudia Quint) - Grey Salamanders (Tom Cardamone) - All My Oceans of Blood and Ink (Matt Bright) - The Invincible Theatre (Felice Picano) - Extract: My Secret Life (Anonymous) |