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The Butterfly's Wing Martin Foreman

Cocksuckery
Ian Stewart

First and Fiftieth
and other stories
Martin Foreman

Goodmans Hotel
Alan Keslian

A Little Chat
and other stories

Michael Harth

Merle
Elsa Wallace

Nailing Frank
Paul Mann

A New Man in Old Steine
Graham Robertson

The Physent
and other stories
Michael Harth

The Picnic
and other stories
Michael Harth

The Queer Commando
Paul Mann

Queer Haunts
an anthology of ghost stories

Rid England of This Plague
Rex Batten

The Seaman's Mission
Paul Mann

A Sense of Loss
and other stories
Martin Foreman

A Short History of Lord Hyaena
Elsa Wallace

Slivers of Silver
poems by gay men and women

Weekend
Martin Foreman
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Parable With Foreskin And Redheads
Ian Stewart

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The Physent
and other stories
Michael Harth


"There are good things in ... The Physent ... The 'spook' stories are imaginative, and stray into territory familiar from the tales of M R James ... and H P Lovecraft ... but generally also possess a sexual frisson.
Peter Burton, Gay Times, December 2003



"There was somehow an atmosphere about it, almost as if it was waiting for something to happen, and as Gary stepped into the hollow he could feel the air crackle. He knew he was dicing with danger, but something over and above any fears drew him on till he was standing in the centre."


A collection of frightening, humorous and challenging fantasies, featuring weretigers, vampires and other creatures that live in the shadows of our present day.

156pp; £6.99; 978 1 904585 03 9



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Michael Harth's stories have appeared in various gay publications, as far back as Quorum, one of the earliest gay magazines. He wrote the words and music for Going Gay, a revue produced on the the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and later in London, while his one-act science-fiction musical, Briefer Encounters, was put on with two other one-acters during Gay Pride week in the 1990s. He currently edits and contributes to Lightning Fingers, a symposium on the British composer-pianist.

He generally prefers observing people to mixing with them, but socialises readily with four cats.


Also available by Michael Harth from Paradise Press:

A Little Chat
and other stories


The Picnic
and other stories

and a story in

Queer Haunts