COMING IN NOVEMBER
2013, ChiZine Publications
The crumbling summerhouse called Wild Fell, soaring above the desolate shores of Blackmore Island, has weathered the violence of the seasons for more than a century. For a hundred years, the townspeople of Alvina have prayed that the darkness inside Wild Fell would stay there, locked away from the light.
2011, ChiZine Publications
Finalist for the Prix Aurora and the Sunburst Award
Parr's Landing is a town with secrets of its own buried in the caves around Bradley Lake. A three-hundred-year-old horror slumbers there, calling out to the insane and the murderous for centuries, begging for release—an invitation that has finally been answered.
2006, Alyson Books
Michael's novella "In October" appears alongside novellas by acclaimed authors David Thomas Lord and John Michael Curlovich in this Halloween collection.
2002, Arsenal Pulp Press
This second volume includes among its stories new work by some stars of the previous volume—International Horror Guild Award winners Gemma Files and Michael Marano, Bram Stoker Award winners David Nickle and Edo van Belkom, and screenwriter Ron Oliver.
2000, Arsenal Pulp Press
A striking and groundbreaking collection of gay horror fiction by some of today's hottest authors and talented newcomers, covering a wide spectrum of creatures of the night and all manners of urban terrors.
2007, Cormorant Books
Winner of the 2008 Randy Shilts Award for Nonfiction and a finalist for two Lambda Literary Awards
Michael's second collection of essays, including some of his best journalism and creative non-fiction written between 2000 and 2005.
1999, Mosaic Press
Michael's first collection of award-winning essays and journalism, offering a multitude of perspectives on the common threads that run through gay men's lives, prompted Hero magazine to note that his "concise presentation of facts without hyperbole is a model for the type of journalism many American writers have long since forgotten."
1995, Richard Kasak Books
Michael's first book was a groundbreaking study of erotica and popular culture as seen through the eyes of fourteen of America's best erotic authors, as well as a devastating indictment of censorship in literature and the arts.