Stories to Sing in the Dark

The speculative shines bright in the dark with these stories by Matthew Bright: a boy with a secret begins work at a strange library housing all the books never written; Dorian Gray's love of beauty struggles in the face of AIDs-era San Francisco and the Castro; the tomb of the Empress is adrift in space and hungry for the concubines aboard her; two men in an old film finally realize that they are trapped but still they seek the means for finally declaring their love for each other. These and other tales of the queer fantastic should be the perfect bedtime read. A finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Speculative Fiction!

About the Author

Matthew Bright is a writer, editor and designer who is uncomfortable writing in the third person, but soldiers on regardless. His short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of venues, including Tor.com, Nightmare's Queers Destroy Fiction, Glittership, Harlot Magazine, Clockwork Iris, Queen Mob's Teahouse and others. He is the co-author of Between The Lines, an experimental novella, with Christopher Black. He is also the editor of several anthologies, including The Myriad Carnival, Threesome: Him, Him and Me, Clockwork Cairo: Steampunk Tales of Egypt, Gents and the forthcoming A Scandal in Gomorrah. With the release of Threesome, Publishers Weekly declared him 'unambiguously...an editor to watch', which is faintly sinister the more you think about it. By day, he pays the bills as a book cover designer in Manchester, England.

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