Lurid Editions
Publishing queer books from the 20th century archive
Cult books and rediscovered authors
For queer readers, accessing the queer literary past is as much a psychic need as it is a reading pleasure.
For many of us who grew up before LGBTQIA+ books became widely and uncompromisingly published, access to queer narratives and stories was limited.
Queer readers are often intuitively attached to the archive, attentive to how marginalised histories are forgotten and remembered, hungry to rediscover overlooked queer books.
These elements come together with Lurid Editions.
We patch the gaps and listen to silences, enabling circulation to occur.
A publishing project committed to intentional and conscientious acts of archival repair.
A Way of Love by James Courage
‘Beautifully written, like all Courage’s fiction, and leavened by wry humour, A Way of Love provides a varied and sharply observed portrait of gay life in the 1950s’—Peter Parker, editor of Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1945-1959
Publishing 24 September 2026
A Jingle Jangle Song is the lost lesbian novel of the 1960s.
Quirky, sweet, eccentric and filled with the sounds and energies of the era’s counterculture, from a forgotten queer author who deserves to be remembered.
Publishing 29 January 2026
“A Jingle Jangle Song brings into the light neglected modes of daily, queer, racialised experience, and commits to being wholly new and strange. It’s a triumph and I’m so glad Lurid Editions has put it in our hands again”—Noreen Masud
In Transit
“Brigid Brophy’s “brilliant apostrophe” fizzes with (re)invention of language, gender and convention. As unairport as a novel can get, In Transit will make your mind soar.” —So Mayer