FIST OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
WITH A ROUGH TONGUE
Tales of Fear & Queer Desire
Femmes Write Porn
edited by Amber Dawn
& Trish Kelly
This anthology of horror stories, with literary styles that span gothic, speculative and noir, expresses the fantasies of queer women and provides strong characters in place of the genre’s stereotypically scantily dressed victims. —Ms. Magazine
fiction (anthologies) lgbt / horror isbn 978-1-55152-251-7 $17.95
A rebellious anthology of stories about sex and the modern femme: no-holds barred, queer sex tales that reinvent lesbian erotica in ways that are transgressive and empowering. independent publisher award finalist [The editors] dismantle every expectation of lesbian erotica in this collection. —Bust Well-written, empowering, and challenging. —Books to Watch Out For
fiction (anthologies) / lgbt isbn 978-1-55152-193-0 $16.95
MISSOURI
PATIENCE & SARAH
Christine Wunnicke
Isabel Miller, introduction by Emma Donoghue
Written in the language of the period, this vivid and utterly transfixing novel set in the 19thcentury American Midwest is a love story between two men: Douglas Fortescue, a successful poet in England who flees the country for America following an Oscar Wilde-like scandal insinuating sexual impropriety; and Joshua Jenkyns, a feral young outlaw who was taught how to shoot a man at age six, and who, against the wishes of his father, teaches himself how to read, a skill that then unleashes a world of possibility beyond that which he knows. best books of the year list (ala lgbt roundtable)
fiction / gay men’s isbn 978-1-55152-344-6 $12.95
Set in the 19th century, this classic lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White, an educated painter, and Sarah Dowling, a farmer, whose romantic bond does not sit well with the puritanical New England farming community in which they live. First published in 1969, Patience & Sarah won the American Library Association’s first Gay Book Award. a little sister’s classic second printing The writing has the directness and whimsicality of primitive paintings—it is like spiked gingerbread or surprising samplers. The tone is sweetly bold. And the tale evokes many kinds of frontier at once. —Village Voice
fiction / lesbian isbn 978-1-55152-191-6 $17.95
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LGBT FICTION
In this collection, horror (including gothic, noir, and speculative writing) is defined as that which both titillates and terrorizes, forcing readers to confront who they are. Subversive, witty, sexy—and scary—Fist of the Spider Woman poses two questions: “What do queer women fear the most?” and “What do queer women desire the most?”
edited by Amber Dawn