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Love In a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodóvar is a collection of essays by Irish writer Colm Tóibín published in 2002.

The first essay was a long review, published originally in the London Review of Books, on A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition by Gregory Woods.

"Writing these pieces", said Tóibín, "helped me to come to terms with things - with my own interest in secret, erotic energy ( Roger Casement and Thomas Mann), my pure admiration for figures who, unlike myself, weren't afraid ( Oscar Wilde, Bacon, Almodóvar), my abiding fascination with sadness ( Elizabeth Bishop, James Baldwin) and, indeed, tragedy ( Thom Gunn and Mark Doty)." ^[1] The book also contains an essay on Henry James, a figure to whom the author would later devote a novel, The Master.

• London Review of Books — first chapter of the book