Product Description

Haunted? Or blessed? Ghosts? Or guardian angels?

Twelve new stories of gay men and the memories that haunt them. A circuit boy stays at a haunted hotel. An actor recounts a grisly murder in the English countryside. A gay parent unravels a mysterious souvenir. A journalist chases a story through the streets of Amsterdam. An artist grapples with his muse. A musician is inspired by the spirit of a sailor. Jameson Currier modernizes the traditional ghost story with gay lovers, loners, activists, and addicts, blending history and contemporary issues of the gay community with the unexpected of the supernatural.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1126925 in Books
• Published on: 2009-09-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 212 pages

Review
... Currier's writing is flawless and his knack for conveying emotion, with both the spoken words and thoughts of his characters, is unparalleled. Fans of the author have come to expect that his work isn't exactly light or escapist, which makes it all the more affecting. --Edge Boston

Jameson Currier's The Haunted Heart and Other Tales expands upon the usual ghost story tropes by imbuing them with deep metaphorical resonance to the queer experience. Infused with flawed, three-dimensional characters, this first-rate collection strikes all the right chords in just the right places. Equal parts unnerving and heartrending, these chilling tales are testament to Currier's literary prowess and the profound humanity at the core of his writing. Gay, straight, twisted like a pretzel--his writing is simply not to be missed by any reader with a taste for good fiction. --Vince Liaguno, Dark Scribe Magazine

Summer's over and autumn creeps up on us like a shadow in the sunlight. Celebrate it by reading this perfectly chilling collection of tales from one of the modern masters of the genre. And don t let that squeaky floorboard distract you there's no such thing as ghosts, right? --Jerry Wheeler, Out in Print

About the Author
Jameson Currier is the author of the novel, Where the Rainbow Ends, and three collections of short stories. His ghost stories have also appeared in Wilde Stories, Unspeakable Horror, Best Gay Romance, Velvet Mafia, Icarus, and All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society. He resides in Manhattan.

Customer Reviews

Universally Personal
Currier, Jamieson. "The Haunted Heart and Other Tales", Lethe Press, 2009.

Universally Personal

Amos Lassen

Jamieson Currier has the unique ability to make a personal story resound in the reader. In this new collection of short stories, Currier takes the traditional ghost story and brings it to the modern age by using history and contemporary issues of our community and mixing in a bit of the supernatural. His stories are metaphorical of our lives and he adds to that wonderful characterizations. It is Currier's ability to use the English language to tell a story that causes us to sit with the book in our hands and read with great pleasure. His stories are unnerving and heartfelt at the same time.
The 12 stories here are all new and they are all about gay men and the memories they have and that haunt them. There is something here for everyone and this is everything here for all of us. It is Currier's ability to write in the English language that keeps me coming back more. One does not just read him but he also savors him and for that I am truly thankful.