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Dionysus in Wisconsin

Wisconsin Gothic, v1

by E. H. Lupton

Dionysis in Wisconsin - E.H. Lupton
Part of the Wisconsin Gothic series:
Editions:Paperback - First Ed.: $ 13.99
ISBN: 979-8988394402
Size: 5.00 x 8.00 in
Pages: 356
ePub - First ed.

A graduate student and an archivist fight a god.

Fall, 1969. Ulysses Lenkov should be working on his dissertation. Instead, he's developing an unlucrative sideline in helping ghosts and hapless magic users. But when his clients start leaving town suddenly—or turning up dead—he starts to worry there's something afoot that’s worse than an unavenged death or incipient insanity. His investigation begins with the last word on everyone's lips before they vanish: the mysterious Dionysus.

Sam Sterling is an archivist who recently moved back to Madison to be closer to the family he's not too sure he likes. But his peaceful days of teaching library students, creating finding aids, and community theater come to an end when the magnetic, mistrustful Ulysses turns up with a warning. There's a god coming, and it looks like it's coming for Sam.

Soon the two are helping each other through demon attacks, discovering the unsavory history of Sam's family, and racing to find a solution that doesn't lead to heartbreak and death. But as the year draws to a close, they'll face a deadly showdown as they try to save Sam—and the city itself.

Dionysus in Wisconsin is the first in a new series of urban fantasy/historical M/M romances set in Madison, WI in the late 1960s/early 1970s. It doesn't end on a cliffhanger and can be read as a stand-alone.

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Finalist, Lambda Literary Awards, gay romance

Third place winner, New England Romance Writers' Readers Choice Awards, fantasy romance

Finalist, Midwest Book Awards, fantasy

About the Author

E. H. Lupton (she/they) lives in Madison, WI. Her debut novel, Dionysus in Wisconsin (2023) was a finalist for a Lambda Literary award in gay romance and a Midwest Book Award in fantasy. Its sequel, Old Time Religion, was released in January 2024, with book three due out in October 2024. Lupton is also the author of the novella The Joy of Fishes (Vagabondage Press, 2013) and half the duo behind the hit podcast Ask a Medievalist. Her poetry has been published in various journals, including Asimov's Science Fiction, Paranoid TreeUncanny Science Fiction, and House of Zolo's Journal of Speculative Literature. In her free time, she enjoys running long distances, fiber art, and painting.