Johannes T. Evans Gift Guide

Interested in purchasing a book of mine for a loved one? Here’s a handy guide!

Remember, if you’re interested in purchasing eBooks for friends and loved ones, it’s very nearly the Smashwords End of Year Sale, and many of my eBooks will be heavily discounted or available entirely for free!

That sale begins on December 8th and runs until January 1st, and it’s extremely easy to send gift copies out through Smashwords – you can even buy gift copies and keep them aside to send out as gifts in the future!

Heart of Stone by Johannes T. Evans

An Uncommon Betrothal by Johannes T. Evans

The year is 1764, and following a glowing recommendation from his last employer, Henry Coffey, vampire, takes on a new personal secretary: young Theophilus Essex. The man is quite unlike any secretary – or any man, for that matter – that Henry has ever met.

Alexos Fox, an introverted academic and polio survivor, is naturally quite sad when the long-time butler of his household, the man who all but raised him, retires. He is not at all prepared for the old man’s replacement: his exceedingly attractive and painfully tempting nephew. Unbeknownst to Alexos, his old butler chose Henry Sutton hoping the two of them might marry their interests together, and the gentleman is as suspicious as he is entranced when the new butler comes to him with talks of a secret marriage between them.

Saint Jude’s Kitchen by Johannes T. Evans	Deep Breath by Johannes T. Evans	The Devil’s Mark by Johannes T. Evans	Paper Houses by Johannes T. Evans
After an injury stops him working, a failing deckhand gets a new lease on life. 20k, rated M, cis M/M romance and light comedy! Themes around cooking and nurturing, identity and sense of self, and complex family dynamics.	A painter is obsessed with the butcher across the road. 7k, M/M, rated M. A painter is utterly obsessed with the butcher across the road, and the butcher is a little obsessed back.	In medieval Bohemia, a young man trails after the executioner after the hanging of his father. Eventually taking pity on him, the executioner invites him inside. 11k, rated E, M/M.	A train conductor begins a relationship with a regular passenger. 7k, rated M, M/M. Some sweet autistic 4 autistic love and affection with a build to the relationship and some fantastical elements on the side.

Divine Bodies by Johannes T. Evans	A Gift for the Wolfmen by Johannes T. Evans	The Stasis Box by Johannes T. Evans
The god Freyr expects good work from his priests, but gives good rewards. In Medieval Norway, Esben, a trans man, is a devoted priest of the god Freyr, and as reward for his good service, Freyr administers testosterone hormonal treatment in a very magical and satisfying manner. Featuring transness, divinity, magical HRT, size differences, come inflation, gangbangs, stomach bulges, come inflation, public humiliation, power dynamics, nature imagery, gender expression and embrace of gender identity as faith and worship!	A young man in a brothel is invited to join a quartet of hulking wolf-like warriors. 6.4k, rated E. Two trans men, both being gangbanged and cumflated by four huge cis wolfmen.	A trans prisoner is frozen in time with his holes still accessible for the crew of a mining vessel to use. 5k, rated E, trans M/cis M but hundreds of other people. A trans twink agrees to be involved in an experiment in lieu of his year-long prison sentence — he’s placed in a stasis box, frozen in time, with his holes still accessible for the crew of a mining vessel to make use of. Full consent is given throughout, the twink knows what he’s in for, but I’m tagging as dubious consent because of the nature of duress over him as a convict in a carceral system.

Fallen Dust by Johannes T. Evans	Personal Hole by Johannes T. Evans	The Stasis Box by Johannes T. Evans
14k, cis M/trans M. A young trans man fleeing an abusive home finds sanctuary at a strange temple buried in a mysterious valley. Featuring some Eldritch tentacles and mild horror, oviposition, breeding, some DP, and just the end of the world! CW for some threats of sexual coercion and pregnancy + transphobia and threatened detransitioning. This piece was originally written for and published in Issue 103 for the Shousetsu Bang Bang: Off The Beaten Path.	5k, cis M/cis M. A professor of magical history, Jan Jeschek, modifies his younger lover’s body — namely, replaces his original genitalia with a new set of equipment — for the pleasure of divulging him of its virginity and then, getting him pregnant. Size difference and age difference, body transformation, domination and submission, power dynamics, crying, overstimulation, dirty talk, daddy kink, impregnation, a snapshot of some pregnant sex. Eager and enthusiastic consent throughout. No gendered terms are applied to the original or the new genitalia, and nor does this story contain feminine language such as “mother” or similar, barring a singular instance of the word “maidenhead”.	A trans prisoner is frozen in time with his holes still accessible for the crew of a mining vessel to use. 5k, rated E, trans M/cis M but hundreds of other people. A trans twink agrees to be involved in an experiment in lieu of his year-long prison sentence — he’s placed in a stasis box, frozen in time, with his holes still accessible for the crew of a mining vessel to make use of. Full consent is given throughout, the twink knows what he’s in for, but I’m tagging as dubious consent because of the nature of duress over him as a convict in a carceral system.

Sweet On by Johannes T. Evans	Dirk and the Weaver by Johannes T. Evans	Alexander’s Angel by Johannes T. Evans
A chocolatier falls head over heels for one of his most austere customers. 4.7k, rated M, M/M. A very exuberant chocolatier crushes on desperately on the deadpan professor who begins coming into his shop for coffee. Autism for autism and lots of flirting and teasing.	A shopkeeper slowly comes to fall for a quiet fae weaver when he comes to town. Slow romance and fantasy short between a shopkeeper in an isolated Scottish village, and a fae weaver that comes up to town from somewhere way down south, fleeing a pursuer. 12k, rated M, M/M.	An information merchant struggles with the angel that’s Fallen into his lap. Rated T, 6.6k, M/M. Light-hearted bickering and some mild antics between a reluctant “hero” determined to feel sorry for himself and be lonely, and an angel who’s determined to have a pleasant time alongside him despite that.

Hunger at Sea by Johannes T. Evans	Touch-Starved by Johannes T. Evans	Strange Liberty by Johannes T. Evans
A sailor turns out to have met one of the ship’s passengers before. Rated E, 7.3k, cis M/M. Age of sail, a Jewish sailor and a vampire. Featuring some biting, some D/s and age dynamics, power dynamics, dirty talk, and anal. Originally written for and published in Shousetsu Bang Bang, Issue 109, The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.	When a man finds out about his disabled coworker’s active sex life, he’s very jealous, and maybe… something else, too. Rated E, cis M/ cis M, 15k! Arden Rice has been friends with Sebastian April for years, and it’s never occurred to him before now that April might have an active sex life — let alone a sex life he want to involve himself in. Contains massage, touch starvation, anal sex, size difference, D/s throughout, praise + affection kink, kink for following orders, frotting with intergluteal, somnophilia, mating press, rough sex, power dynamics.	Salvo Caine, a young man cursed with a magically sapping touch, is convicted of manslaughter and dispatched to an island prison. Once there, he’s offered limited freedom — and affection — by the cold and manipulative prison warden, Guillaume Villiers. Rated M, 27.5k, dark fantasy with some M/M dark romance on the side. Good bit of age gap sexiness, and some medical and care-giving kink as well.

Sun-Kissed and Lightning-Touched by Johannes T. Evans

Very Well by Johannes T. Evans

A mercenary and a messenger travel together to an isolated mountain shrine. 9k, rated E, cis M/M. Euclides, a mercenary, accompanies the haughty messenger Iridoros to an isolated shrine on the top of a mountain. Euclides knows their destination well in advance — Iridoros knows flirtation and sex, and tries to ply or be plied with one or the other. Some sexy non-bloody sacrifice, anal, teasing, back-and-forth, rough sex, some electricity play. Mostly a lot of Ancient Greek banter.

A herbalist is dispatched for his role in an arranged marriage of sorts with a priest of Aristaeus far from home. With time – and effort – the two of them come to an understanding. Age difference, dry dialogue and banter, relationship negotiations within an arranged marriage, possessive behaviour, topping from the bottom, intimacy.

Agreements and Curses by Johannes T. Evans	The Many Deaths of Baldr the Undying by Johannes T. Evans	Bone-Eater, Hungry for Fire by Johannes T. Evans	Divine Bodies by Johannes T. Evans
A young man is dispatched to a fae land and joins the princes’ retinue. 20k, rated M, M/M. As part of an exchange program between the magical city from which he hails and the fae island state of Einsamal, a young man is sent as a child to explore fable and adventure, and in the process falls in love with one of the princes. The prince, a child of Loki, faces his own trials.	One of Odin’s record-keepers interviews the god Loki on the subject of the god Baldr – his life, his death, and what came after. 13.6k, rated M for violence, featuring some Loki and Baldr, some Odin scheming off-screen. Lots of delving into and playing with the Norse stories, with an angel thrown in for flavour.	A warrior a-viking stumbles upon a burned man in monk’s robes. Rated M, M/M. A warrior a-viking in England is interrupted in a raid by a mad monk who is even madder than he seems. Some fire-crossed lovers for you! Early Medieval England. 4.5k. Some fucked-up power dynamics, mentions of period-typical slavery and human trafficking, branding, burns, and fire play.	The god Freyr expects good work from his priests, but gives good rewards. In Medieval Norway, Esben, a trans man, is a devoted priest of the god Freyr, and as reward for his good service, Freyr administers testosterone hormonal treatment in a very magical and satisfying manner. Featuring transness, divinity, magical HRT, size differences, come inflation, gangbangs, stomach bulges, come inflation, public humiliation, power dynamics, nature imagery, gender expression and embrace of gender identity as faith and worship!

Strange Liberty by Johannes T. Evans	Archival Management by Johannes T. Evans	Powder and Feathers by Johannes T. Evans	Ambitious Men by Johannes T. Evans
Salvo Caine, a young man cursed with a magically sapping touch, is convicted of manslaughter and dispatched to an island prison. Once there, he’s offered limited freedom — and affection — by the cold and manipulative prison warden, Guillaume Villiers. Rated M, 27.5k, dark fantasy with some M/M dark romance on the side. Good bit of age gap sexiness, and some medical and care-giving kink as well.	An archivist with a messy life finds himself intensively managed by his sexy, older boss. Erotic short, 10k, cis M/M. Magical archivists in Camelot with the most mundane of delicious emotional and sexual issues. Featuring age difference, orgasm denial, oral, desperation, crying, a bit of mild humour and nastiness, delicious emotional manipulation, and a heavy dose of mind-reading.	Aimé Deverell, a depressed and lonely artist finishing up his degree in Dublin, watches the world go by, and paints it as it goes. Life is short, he thinks – and thank God! He’s tired of living it. That philosophy shatters like glass when his life is threatened by the beautiful Jean-Pierre, a Fallen angel. — Powder and Feathers is a dark romance featuring a complex relationship between an immortal several centuries the senior of his new boyfriend. Note warnings for manipulation, non-consensual body modification, twisted power dynamics, gaslighting, infidelity, consent issues, and BDSM vibes somewhat removed from the realms of SSC. There are multiple explicit sex scenes, many of them kinky.	Archie had idolised Casper Hugo almost his entire life. 11.6k. Rated M. M/M. Deeply messed up fantasy-horror, wherein a man finds that his dream of taking over his hero’s restaurant is not to proceed as smoothly as he hoped.

The Angel in the Woods by Johannes T. Evans	Gellert’s New Job by Johannes T. Evans	The Lord of the Wood’s Spring Bride by Johannes T. Evans	For Want of Time by Johannes T. Evans
Two short stories. Warden Gordon and the Angel in the Woods – Working in a magical national park, Gryff Gordon has a contentious relationship with a local angel. The Lost Boy in Llallwg – In this one, an angel and his park warden boyfriend are slow and lazy in the summer evening heat, and the angel tells the warden a story.	Gellert has worked as a business manager for the King family for nearly a decade when an error in judgement brings his employment to an abrupt end. Lucien Pike, a rival kingpin, employs his services instead. Fantasy, crime, and a good bit of dark humour. 21k. Rated M. Transgender, autistic man’s POV; both protagonists are autistic.	Every spring, the Lord of the Wood is honoured with a bridal ceremony. Fantasy, humour, and a little romance! Rated M — raunchy but not explicit — and about 10k. A trans dressmaker is embroiled in the strange schemes of a local deity, and he lets himself be carried away with the tide.	A delivery man is quite infatuated with the clerk at a magical toy shop. Sweet and loving M/M romance developing bit by bit here. Rated T, 6k, with teasing and flirtation throughout. CW for loss of a parent and grief.

Au Naturale by Johannes T. Evans	Like A Thief And An Assassin by Johannes T. Evans	Remnants of a Bygone Era by Johannes T. Evans	Hitting the Book by Johannes T. Evans
A student at Camelot University gets involved with a stablemaster. Explicit M/M short between two cis men. 7k. Featuring size kink, size different, large cocks, overstimulation, stomach bulging, mind break/aheago, dirty talk, D/s, age difference, rough sex, being pinned down, and dirty talk about piss play but no actual piss play.	A thief-for-hire mounts a seduction of his handler. Rated M, 6,7k, M/M. A kooky thief at a for-hire intelligence agency starts to romance his handler. Banter and some back-and-forth, mounting sexual tension, age difference. Tone is playful and restrainedly horny.	After his roommate brings him to his bondage tutorial, Ignatius pursues a very grumpy little nurse – a sexy old bastard a good few decades his senior. Rated E, cis M/M, 7.5k. Rope bondage tutorials and sexy lectures about safe sex, age difference, power dynamics, leather, size difference, role reversals and dynamic play, anal sex, hairy bodies, dirty talk, mild humiliation, teasing, nipple piercings, tattoos.	A young man (age 24) returns to his old school to teach and attempts to pursue his old history teacher. Rated M, 12.6k, cis M/M. A man returns to his old school to teach, and also returns to his old school crushes. Obviously there’s a big age difference here and a teacher with his ex-student, oral, some implied BDSM, some daddy issues, some sex at work, et cetera.

A Bite of Rope by Johannes T. Evans	Cold Comfort by Johannes T. Evans	Chosen by Johannes T. Evans	For Want of Time by Johannes T. Evans
An ex-soldier, Arthur “Kuhn” Conrad, now a debt collector of sorts for a corrupt company, can’t sleep one night, and as he’s walking the streets, sees a coworker – on a whim, he follows, and ends up in an underground club. The older man, Ignatius Kasovitz, likes to tie people up, it seems, and Kuhn finds he wants to try being tied up, if it’s Kasovitz doing the tying. Set in London, circa 1953, in my Magic Beholden universe, readable as standalone. 15k, rated E, cis M/M.	14k, M/M, rated E for equally explicit sex and violence. Set in 1920s New Jersey. Nasty and violent. Alvis Hunter, boss of a significant crime operation, steals a captive out from under a rival—Naham, a rabbi’s son who immediately attempts to kill himself. In the aftermath, Alvis tries to keep him alive; Naham tries to find something worth living for.	7.2k, rated M, Gen. After nursing the dying Hildebrand Grouse on his deathbed, Harry Kahner, an ex-whore, is given a position as footman by Hildebrand’s brother, Dietrich Grouse – known to the world primarily by his title, Lord Altham. Harry is less suited to life in the big house than he might have hoped, and Lady Altham intervenes on his behalf. Quiet and pensive fiction with some slice-of-life, a standalone short set in 1830s England.	A delivery man is quite infatuated with the clerk at a magical toy shop. Sweet and loving M/M romance developing bit by bit here. Rated T, 6k, with teasing and flirtation throughout. CW for loss of a parent and grief.

Hunger at Sea by Johannes T. Evans	Remnants of a Bygone Era by Johannes T. Evans	Like a Thief and an Assassin by Johannes T. Evans	Sweet On by Johannes T. Evans
A sailor turns out to have met one of the ship’s passengers before. Rated E, 7.3k, cis M/M. Age of sail, a Jewish sailor and a vampire. Featuring some biting, some D/s and age dynamics, power dynamics, dirty talk, and anal. Originally written for and published in Shousetsu Bang Bang, Issue 109, The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.	After his roommate brings him to his bondage tutorial, Ignatius pursues a very grumpy little nurse – a sexy old bastard a good few decades his senior. Rated E, cis M/M, 7.5k. Rope bondage tutorials and sexy lectures about safe sex, age difference, power dynamics, leather, size difference, role reversals and dynamic play, anal sex, hairy bodies, dirty talk, mild humiliation, teasing, nipple piercings, tattoos.	A thief-for-hire mounts a seduction of his handler. Rated M, 6,7k, M/M. A kooky thief at a for-hire intelligence agency starts to romance his handler. Banter and some back-and-forth, mounting sexual tension, age difference. Tone is playful and restrainedly horny.	A chocolatier falls head over heels for one of his most austere customers. 4.7k, rated M, M/M. A very exuberant chocolatier crushes on desperately on the deadpan professor who begins coming into his shop for coffee. Autism for autism and lots of flirting and teasing.

The Gravedigger’s Tale by Johannes T. Evans	Dudes Rock: A Celebration of Queer Masculinity in Speculative Fiction Edited by Jay Kang Romanus. Published by the Circus Collective.	Between the Stacks: Stories of Lusty Librarians, Amorous Authors, & Bawdy Bookstores Edited by Elisabeth Dove. Published by Carmine Pen Press.
The Gravedigger’s Tale is a collation of nine short stories all with horror themes – several have been adapted from old posts of mine on the realistic-style subreddit, /r/NoSleep; several have been adapted from old TweetFics of mine; a few others are just scattered horror stories from my archives.	What does masculinity mean to you? Whether the answer is “toxic” or something more aspirational, speculative fiction can help you find the language to talk about it. The stories in this anthology visualize all the different ways masculinity might look in a world different than our own, for better or worse. Imagine living in a universe where you’d feel safe telling your best friend you’ve always loved him, or where smoking hot demons exist to indulge all your worst impulses. From buff aliens to gender-affirming werewolf bites, Dudes Rock is about celebrating everything that queer masculinity can become beyond the confines of a single world, and we want you to rock with us. Featuring stories by Chase Anderson, Johannes T. Evans, Oliver Fosten, Jonathan Freeman, Rick Hollon, Sam Inverts, S. C. Mills, Franklyn S. Newton, Jay Kang Romanus, Aubrey Shaw, Simo Srinivas, Candy Tan, and Scott Vaughn.	The wet dreams of book lovers come to life in these seven erotic stories of library liaisons, bookstore hookups, and book convention orgies. Gay, straight, sapphic, cis and trans–everyone has a place between the stacks. A bookstore meet-cute gets steamy. Closeted gay men find connection in libraries. Roommates act out scenes from a smutty book. A man meets his favorite author—and gets invited to the author’s dungeon. A she-orc uses books to send messages to her human crush in the university library. An orgy at a book convention turns into a backdoor gangbang for one author.