"The Bloomsbury Nudes" forthcoming in Unspeakable Horror
My short story "The Bloomsbury Nudes" is forthcoming in December in the Dark Scribe Press anthology, Unspeakable Horror: Shadows from the Closet, edited by Vince Liaguno and Chad Helder.
The Dark Scribe folks have posted an online Q&A with me about the story here.
And they have also released a book trailer here. Enjoy!
Jameson Currier is the author of eight novels: Where the Rainbow Ends, The Wolf at the Door, The Third Buddha, What Comes Around, The Forever Marathon, A Gathering Storm; Based on a True Story, and We Are Made of Stars, and five collections of short fiction: Dancing on the Moon; Desire, Lust, Passion, Sex; Still Dancing: New and Selected Stories; The Haunted Heart and Other Tales, and Why Didn't Someone Warn Me About Prince Charming? His recent publications include his illustrated tales: Paul's Cat, The Candlelight Ghost, and The Man That Got Away. His short fiction has appeared in many literary magazines, anthologies, and Web sites. His reviews, essays, interviews, and articles on AIDS and gay literature and culture have been published in many national and local publications. In 2010 he launched Chelsea Station Editions, an independent press focused on gay literature. He currently divides his time between a studio apartment in Manhattan and a farmless farmhouse in the Hudson Valley.
A witty tour de force of spirits, spooks, and sinners, a supernatural roller coaster set in the Big Easy that is giddy, soulful, and sentimental.
"Currier is one of the few writers who can be equally literary, erotic, dramatic, and damn funny, sometimes all in the same sentence."
Sean Meriwether, The Silent Hustler
The Haunted Heart and Other Tales
ghost stories by Jameson Currier
In his newest collection of short stories, The Haunted Heart and Other Tales, author 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.
“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
Still Dancing: New and Selected Stories by Jameson Currier
Still Dancing: New and Selected Stories by Jameson Currier, published by Lethe Press, brings together 20 of the author’s short stories about the impact of AIDS on the gay community which have been written over the last three decades. Along with ten stories from Currier’s debut collection Dancing on the Moon (1993), praised by The Village Voice as “defiant and elegiac,” are ten newly selected stories written by one of our preeminent masters of the short narrative form. And for this new collection the author has also chosen stories that revolve around gay New Yorkers—those lost, those surviving, those displaced, those undaunted, and those who became expatriates.