In The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (2005), scholar Drewey Wayne Gunn examined the history of gay detectives beginning with the first recognized gay novel, The Heart in Exile, which appeared in 1953. In the years since the original edition's publication, hundreds of novels and short stories in this sub-genre have been produced, and Gunn has unearthed many additional representations previously unrecorded. In this new edition, Gunn provides an overview of milestones in the development of gay detectives over the last several decades. Also included in this volume is an annotated list of novels, short stories, plays, graphic novels, comic strips, films, and television series with gay detectives, gay sleuths of secondary importance, and non-sleuthing gay policemen. The most complete listing available--including the only listing of early gay pulp novels, present-day male-to-male romances, and erotic films--this new edition brings the work up to date with publications missed in the first edition, particularly cross-genre mysteries, early pulps, and some hard-to-find volumes. The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film: A History and Annotated Bibliography lists all printed works in English (including translations) presently known to include gay detectives (such as amateur sleuths, police detectives, private investigators, and investigative reporters), from the 1929 play Rope until the present day. It includes all films in English, subtitled or dubbed, from the screen version of Rope in 1948 and the launch of the independent film Spy on the Fly in 1966 through the end of 2011. Complete with two appendices--a bibliography of sources and a list of Lambda Literary Awards--and indexes of titles, detectives, and actors, this extensively revised and updated reference will prove invaluable to mystery collectors, researchers, aficionados of the subgenre, and those devoted to GLBTQ studies.

Godzilla’s in a twelve-step program. A soul-sucking Mummy stalks Elvis and John F. Kennedy. Joe Bob Briggs has a moral dilemma: If your girlfriend turns zombie on you, what do you do? And that’s the tame stuff. In this red-hot collection from world-champion Mojo storyteller Joe R. Lansdale, you’ll find his best, most outrageous stories. The high priest of Texan weirdness does it all: horror, mystery, satire, suspense, and even Westerns. Prepare to be offended, shocked, and cackling like a crazed redneck. Featuring five Bram Stoker Award–winning stories, this career retrospective contains some of Lansdale’s rarer work, his nonfiction forays into drive-in theaters and B-movies, and the novella Bubba Ho-Tep, later made into a cult-classic major motion picture. Come on in—the weirdness is fine.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A thrilling collection of twenty-one original stories by an all-star list of contributors—including a new A Game of Thrones story by George R. R. Martin! If you’re a fan of fiction that is more than just black and white, this latest story collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin and award-winning editor Gardner Dozois is filled with subtle shades of gray. Twenty-one all-original stories, by an all-star list of contributors, will delight and astonish you in equal measure with their cunning twists and dazzling reversals. And George R. R. Martin himself offers a brand-new A Game of Thrones tale chronicling one of the biggest rogues in the entire history of Ice and Fire. Follow along with the likes of Gillian Flynn, Joe Abercrombie, Neil Gaiman, Patrick Rothfuss, Scott Lynch, Cherie Priest, Garth Nix, and Connie Willis, as well as other masters of literary sleight-of-hand, in this rogues gallery of stories that will plunder your heart—and yet leave you all the richer for it. Featuring all-new stories by Joe Abercrombie • Daniel Abraham • David W. Ball • Paul Cornell • Bradley Denton • Phyllis Eisenstein • Gillian Flynn • Neil Gaiman • Matthew Hughes • Joe R. Lansdale • Scott Lynch • Garth Nix • Cherie Priest • Patrick Rothfuss • Steven Saylor • Michael Swanwick • Lisa Tuttle • Carrie Vaughn • Walter Jon Williams • Connie Willis And an Introduction by George R. R. Martin! Praise for Rogues “Not a single bad story in the bunch . . . The table of contents alone will make fans from all genre aisles salivate.”—Library Journal

A private investigator must unravel a blackmail plot targeting a criminal information brokerage before the FBI and a hired killer stop him. A vigilante justice P.I. series. Finn Harding specializes in finding people who don’t want to be found. Bishop runs a black-market information brokerage on the dark web, selling stolen personal data to the highest bidder. When someone blackmails Bishop, threatening to go public with his identity and crimes, he hires Finn to find the person behind the plot. During his investigation, Finn draws the attention of the FBI’s cybercrime unit investigating Bishop, a psychopathic hitman hired to take out the blackmailer, and a Detroit mob boss hellbent on taking over Bishop’s operation. As Finn gets closer to unraveling the mystery, he discovers his ex-wife and young daughter have become targets in the sinister conspiracy. Can Finn survive long enough to unmask the blackmailer, save his family, and escape the FBI’s and the mob’s grasp? The Shadow Broker is the first novel by award-winning author Trace Conger. The novel won a Shamus Award from the P.I. Writers of America as one of the best crime books of the year.

THE BISON OF THE HIGH MEADOW is Book One of the series, FOOTSTEPS IN THE CANYON. This ten book series is mainly about a canyon located on the Oklahoma panhandle. The first four books cover the activities and life of the inhabitants of the pointed tipi houses. Most of these stories are from the viewpoint of thirteen year old Bluebird as she sketches on stretched hide with her charcoal. 1.BISON OF THE HIGH MEADOW shows the interaction of the people to this native animal. Two other stories are included. 2.SEARCH FOR THE PROCUPINE is about two boys searching for the spiny animals to collect quills to decorate a sisters wedding dress. Two other stories are included 3.THE STORY OF MANY BLANKETS was not the name she was given, but the girl was determined to earn it. Two other stories are included. 4.THE KINGDOM OF THE BLACK STALLION honors the fierce black horse as he protects his band. Two other stories are included. The following six books leap forward 200 years to a modern guest ranch on the exact, same canyon. Illustrations are made by thirteen year old Caitlyn with pencil on her clipboard. Activities cover, among other things, a prairie fire, a flood, a buried treasure of long ago, a diary of a girl she would never meet, and the ditching of a hot air balloon. Each book contains two complete stories. 5. HIDDEN IN THE BLUFF and THE BIG SNOW 6. DIGGIN UP BONES and THE REALLY BAD BAG 7. THE MEMORY BOOK and THE WOLF AND THE WAPITI 8. THE TOSSED CONTAINER INCIDENT and STORIES FROM UNCLE RAYMOND 9. TWISTER and BULLRIDING AND SKYDIVING 10.ANGLERS AND TOAD STRANGLERS and SUMMER TRAIL

Only Hap and Leonard would catch a cold case with hot cars, hot women, and ugly skinheads. The story starts simply enough when Hap, a former 60s activist and self-proclaimed white trash rebel, and Leonard, a tough black, gay Vietnam vet and Republican with an addiction to Dr. Pepper, are working a freelance surveillance job in East Texas. The uneventful stakeout is coming to an end when the pair witness a man abusing his dog. Leonard takes matters into his own fists, and now the bruised dog abuser wants to press charges. One week later, a woman named Lilly Buckner drops by their new PI office with a proposition: find her missing granddaughter, or she'll turn in a video of Leonard beating the dog abuser. The pair agrees to take on the cold case and soon discover that the used car dealership where her granddaughter worked is actually a front for a prostitution ring. What began as a missing-person case becomes one of blackmail and murder. Filled with Lansdale's trademark whip-smart dialogue, relentless pacing, and unorthodox characters, Honky Tonk Samurai is a rambunctious thrill ride by one hell of a writer.

Presents a story of a man riding a unicycle across America. The author tells of his 50-state unicycle trip from the West Coast to the Statue of Liberty and back again. He describes his spoke-by-spoke trek through a Mojave dust storm, past breathtaking, snow-capped Montana mountains, and close to a raging hurricane.