Craig Gidney: 5 books

In the tradition of Angela Carter and Tanith Lee, Fur & Gold explores the the bestial side of a familiar tale.

Kyle hates living in the frozen northern city. He's lonely, under-employed and a person of color in a mostly white city. A chance meeting with a member of the mysterious Frost Collective opens him to new possibilities. The second in Gidney's Variations series riffs on Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen, with chillingly sensuality.

A finalist for the Lambda Literary Award! Magic and myth mingle in dark and dazzling ways in Craig Laurance Gidney's debut collection. A tourist meets an African sea god... A 12th century Japanese monk attracts the attention of a mischievous shapeshifter... The Earl King lives in a briar patch on...

Magic is more than skin-deep. It hides in the folds of a haunted quilt and illuminates the secret histories of Negro memorabilia. Magic reveals the destiny of a great storyteller and emanates from a sculpture by an obscure Harlem Renaissance artist. Magic lurks in the basement of an inner-city apartment...

For generations, the marsh-surrounded town of Shimmer, Maryland has played host to a loose movement of African-American artists, all working in different media, but all utilizing the same haunting color. Landscape paintings, trompe l'oeil quilts, decorated dolls, mixed-media assemblages, and more,...