A novel about Ralph Eckhart, a gay bookstore clerk, who meets a rising right-wing journalist named Bill O'Connor on an Internet date. He falls in love despite the difference in their politics. Then, discovering that his new love has slandered his best friend in his new book, Ralph breaks off the relationship--and when, shortly after that, Bill is ...
The complete text of Bram Stoker's classic of horror, together with background information, the cultural history of the Dracula myth, a selected filmography, and commentary by leading contemporary horror writers.
The author of "Gods and Monsters" and "The Notorious Doctor August" probes the dark depths of the human heart in this insightful and heartstopping novel that explores how the personal becomes the political. "Exiles in America "demonstrates the skill and imagination that have garnered Bram widespread critical acclaim.
Just after the Civil War, Augustus Fitzwilliam heads home to New York along with a former slave named Isaac, and en route the two fall in love. But when Isaac has qualms about their "sinful" relationship, they split up. As "Dr. August," Fitzwilliam becomes successful and rich holding séances for war widows, and hires Isaac as his manager. They ...
This novel explores the last days of James Whale, the director of such classic horror films as "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein," who died under mysterious circumstances in 1957. The novel features such figures as Charles Laughton and Elizabeth Taylor as we see how Whale devised the dramatic story of his own life.
Playwright Caleb Doyle's life is going spectacularly badly: his lover died of AIDS, and his last play was a disaster, thanks mainly to a devastating review by the New York Times critic, Kenneth Prager. Now Kenneth is doing a piece for the newspaper on Henry Lewse, the gay British actor managed by Caleb's sister, Jessie. And Jessie herself is a ...
Previously titled "Father of Frankenstein," this acclaimed novel was the basis for the 1998 film starring Sir Ian McKellen, Lynn Redgrave, and Brendan Fraser. It journeys back to 1957 Los Angeles, where James Whale, the once-famous director of such classics as Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, is living in retirement, haunted by his past. ...
From the acclaimed author of Hold Tight and In Memory of Angel Clare comes a brilliant novel covering 35 years in the life of American diplomat Jim Goodall. Expanding his scope beyond his previous novels about gay life, Bram crafts a tale of political power, compromise, and corruption--an intimate epic about sex, family, and American foreign ...
This novel explores the last days of James Whale, the director of such classic horror films as "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein," who died under mysterious circumstances in 1957. The novel features such figures as Charles Laughton and Elizabeth Taylor as we see how Whale devised the dramatic story of his own life.
Hold Tight confirms Christopher Bram's status as one of the outstanding gay novelists of our time. Erotic, romantic, and suspenseful, this wholly original story is a thriller set in a homosexual brothel in 1942 New York City.
Continuing a tradition of presenting distinguished sexual writing, "Best Gay Erotica 1998" features a list of writers on a par with those whose work appeared in the 1996 and 1997 editions.
The new novel by the bestselling author of Hold Tight, this brilliant comedy of manners set among a group of Manhattan sophisticates depicts the friends of a dead filmmaker trying to put their lives back together--a task made more arduous by the young boyfriend he left behind.
Novelist Christopher Bram has been writing essays for twenty-five years. Mapping the Territory, his first collection of nonfiction, ranges through such topics as the power of gay fiction, coming out in the 1970s in Virginia, low-budget filmmaking with friends in New York, and the sexual imagination of Henry James. He describes the heady experience ...
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