Works by
Steve Berman
(Writer)

• Trysts: A Triskaidecollection of Queer and Weird Stories (2001)
  Talented newcomer Steve Berman has assembled his most compelling stories of trysts that range from the eerie to the horrifying to the wondrous.
  
  Cut and paste a voodoo doll made of magazine clippings…watch as a ouija board spells out your deepest secret…mourn the loss of your boyfriend while awaiting his ghost… listen to the ancient whisperings of a threadbare flapper dress…gamble for more than money on a Southern riverboat…renounce your citizenship to walk through a restricted area, rife with magic.
  
  Experience passion and loss, all within the pages of this triskaidecollection — thirteen stories where the supernatural is as likely to doom as to save those that are drawn to its power.
  
  Trysts offers readers dark and quirky tales from a distinctive new voice in gay fiction.

• Vintage: A Ghost Story (March 2007 Release)
  lonely gay teen bides his time with trips to strangers' funerals and Ouija board sessions, desperately searching for someone to love—and a reason to live following a suicide attempt. Walking an empty stretch of highway on an autumn night, he meets a strange and beautiful boy who looks like he stepped out of a dream. But the vision becomes into a nightmare when the boy turns out to be the local urban legend, the ghost of a star athlete killed in 1957—a ghost with a deadly secret and a dangerous obsession. Vintage: A Ghost Story is an intense thriller that looks at the dark side of gay urban fantasy, where the dead can never rest and trapped spirits never find peace.

See also:

• Blood Sea: The Crimson Abyss (2004) with Graveyard Greg and Will Timmins

• Charmed Lives: Gay Spirit in Storytelling (2006), Edited with Toby Johnson -- Finalist 2006 Lambda Literary Award for Anthologies
  Storytelling can be a way of spinning straw into gold, of showing ourselves we have drawn a long straw in this life. Charmed Lives offers readers a collection of over thirty short works of fiction and personal essays as an alternative to the stories that society often tells about gay men. Some are whimsical with a touch of enchantment, some profoundly spiritual, others romantic--all offer insight into modern gay life that will inspire and shed light on the grace of being gay with tales of hope against adversity and love over loneliness.