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Erotic Horror

For some reason, I'm unable to tear myself away from a movie or book that has erotic horror elements in it. It's the darkness in my own soul that fascinates me, I guess. I've always felt drawn towards the horror genre. One of my biggest wishes in life is to be one of the extras that "die" in one of those low budget (heck, even high budget would be ok) movies. Someday I'll be pumping gas into my car, and some unknown local director will shriek "Her! I have to have her die in my movie! Wouldn't that be fabulous?" 'Cause that's what life's about...ya gotta have goals... But enough about me... Let's dig into the meat of the matter. These are some of the best erotic horror books I've been able to find. I'm always foraging at local bookstores, and happily enough, there's been a huge amount of it available lately. As with any page, this one is constantly

I Shudder at Your Touch

I Shudder at Your Touch

22 Tales of Sex and Horror

Edited by Michele Slung

This is a very...ah...stimulating anthology. A delightful collection of stories that will keep you awake all night just thinking about them. Definitely one of the better Erotic Horror Collections out there, in my opinion...

From the back cover:

Killing Me Softly

Killing Me Softly

Edited by Gardner Dozois

This is a wonderful collection of "Necromantic Erotica". There are some truly touching stories in this book. "The Gardener" and "The Affair" are my favorites. It's more of a Horror/Romance collection than anything else. A couple of the stories are downright creepy...

Shudder Again

22 Tales of Sex and Horror

Edited by Michelle Slung

I've just started reading this, but picked up several other books at the same time, so it'll be a while before I get 'round to reviewing it.

Shudder Again

From the back cover:

True Love is a rapture that outlives the flesh, a desire that reaches beyond the grave, a passion that transfigures even death. This hauntingly seductive new collection of erotic stories by today's most celebrated authors probes the shadowy realm where life's two great mysteries - love and death - meet and embrace.

Edited by one of today's most acclaimed anthologists of fantasy and speculative fiction, Killing Me Softly evokes all the terror, the beauty, and the awesome wonder of love after death. Nothing is left out. Nothing is forbidden.

An out-of-body romance - with slow hand
A vampire lover seeking a red-blooded replacement
A woman double-dating with her stillborn twin
All your old girlfriends coming back from the dead - at once!
A dancer calling to his partner from the grave
Two cross-dressers on the last train to Hell
A two-headed man with two of everything...

And much, much more...

Featured authors and stories are:

Unchosen Love - Ursula K. Le Guin
The Gardener - Mary Rosenblum
The Jaguar Hunter - Lucius Shepard
She's Not There - Pat Cadigan
The Affair - Robert Silverberg
Hard Drive - Nancy Kress
Relationships - Robert Sampson
Waltzing on a Dancer's Grave - Kristine Kathryn
Rusch In the Air - Maureen F. McHugh
North of Diddy-Wah-Diddy - Michael Swanwick
Nunc Dimittis - Tanith Lee
Chihuahua Flats - Michael Bishop
The Two-Headed Man - Nancy A. Collins
The Joy of Hats - Mike Resnick and Nicholas A. DiChario
The Fire When It Comes - Parke Godwin

Dark Seductions

Dark Seductions

Alice Alfonsi and John Scognamiglio

OUT OF PRINT

This book has my absolutely favorite story of all time in it...Good Vibrations. A vibrator called "Mr. Wonderful" turns out to be just that when it defends the main

female character in this story from her evil ex. A definite MUST read! All in all this is a pretty keen collection of dark eros.

From the back cover:

In these fourteen stories, discover the dark side of human lust and love, of fatal attractions and unearthly obsessions. Walk the all-too-thin line between pain and pleasure, sweet desire and mind-numbing terror...
A crippled model's wish to make love again is granted - with horrific consequences...
a saleswoman is terrorized, then seduced by an amorous elevator...
a high school football star loses more than his virginity in a backwoods bordello...

So, turn down the silk sheets, light a scented candle, and get ready to be teased and aroused, thrilled and terrified...

Featured authors and stories are:

Horror Heaven - C. Dean Andersson and Nina Romberg
Gloves - Richard Lee Byers
Playing the Victim - Scott Ciencin
Hard - Stephen R. George
Ups and Downs - Pat Graversen
The Nameless One - Kathryn Meyer Griffith
Cousin's Curse - Rick Hautala
Whorehouse Hollow - Ronald Kelly
Private Pleasures - Edward Lee
Dark Seduction - Jean Simon
Good Vibrations - Tamara Thorne
Spring Wine - Lois Tilton
Just One More Thing People Can Do - J. N. Williamson
Satisfaction - T. Lucien Wright

 

The Hot Blood Series

I have yet to be disappointed with any of the stories in this collection, and more books keep popping out all the time. The tales range anywhere from completely horrific, yet oddly seductive, to hysterically funny. They definitely keep you on your toes...

Sadly, I seem to be missing Deadly after Dark and Seeds of Fear, but once I dig 'em up...I'll add them to the pile...

"Unbearable isn't it? The suffering of strangers, the agony of friends. There is a secret song at the center of the world, and its sound is like razors through flesh." -Hellraiser

 

Hot Blood

Tales of Erotic Horror

Edited by Jeff Gelb and Lonn Friend

From the back cover:

Hot Blood

Robert R. McCammon...Graham Masterton...Harlan Ellison...Ramsey Campbell...F. Paul Wilson...Robert Bloch...Richard Christian Matheson...Dennis Etchison...

these and other masters of the macabre take you into their private world of fear, fantasy, and fatal attraction. In twenty-four tales of dread and debauchery, a preternatural lust lures the beast out ofa beguiling beauty...a voodoo sorceress sells a potion that promises men really BIG things...in a carnal boardinghouse, the living seduce the unquiet dead...and a passionate one-night stand leads a lonely salesman into an ancient rite of sexual madness.

Who could ask for anything more? Great fun, this book is...

Featured authors and stories are:

Changeling - Graham Masterson
The Likeness of Julie - Richard Matheson
The Thang - Robert R. McCammon
Menage A Trois - F. Paul Wilson
Mr. Right - Richard Christian Matheson
Blood Night - Chet Williamson
Chocolate - Mick Garris
Again - Ramsay Campbell
Bug House - Lisa Tuttle
Vengeance Is. - Theodore Sturgeon
The Unkindest Cut - J.N. Williamson
Reunion - Michael Garrett
Footsteps - Harlon Ellison
Pretty is... - Mike Newton
Aunt Edith - Gary Brandner
Daughter of the Golden West - Dennis Etchison
Meat Market - John Skipp and Craig Spector
The Voice - Rex Miller
The Model - Robert Bloch
Carnal House - Steve Rasnic Tem
They're Coming for You - Les Daniels
Suzie Sucks - Jeff Gelb
Punishments - Ray Garton
Red Light - David J. Schow

Hotter Blood

Hotter Blood

Tales of Erotic Horror

Edited by Jeff Gelb and Lonn Friend

From the back cover:

Richard Laymon...Lisa W. Cantrell...Stephen Gresham... Gary Brandner...Graham Masterton...Ray Garton...

Chet Williamson...Karl Edward Wagner...Rex Miller...Nancy A. Collins and a cast of masters of the ghastly arts are here to entice you into the nether realms of horror. Here, for your pleasure, are grisly whimsy, the lubricious and the grotesque. Here to arouse, amuse and abuse your senses are twenty-four all-new stories of nocturnal submission, impossible vices and eyes-open nightmares, in which compromising position takes on a screaming new meaning. Shiver as a geek wreaks a hideous revenge...a devil's deal is gruesomely updated when a rock star sells his soul for success...and the stuff of men's dreams lives after them.

Featured authors and stories are:

Nocturne - John L. Byrne
The Tub - Richard Laymon
The Picture of Health - Ray Garton
Change of Life - Chet Williamson
Demonlover - Nancy A. Collins
Confession - Kurt Busiek
Wolf in the Memory - Stephen Gresham
To Have and to Hold - Gary Brandner
Cruising - Lisa W. Cantrell
Dream on Me - Mick Garris DeVice Stephen Gallagher
The Best - Paul Dale Anderson
Something Extra - J.N. Williamson and James Kisner
Juice - Kiel Stuart
Surprise - Rex Miller
Rococo - Graham Masterton
Dear Diary - Elsa Rutherford
The Splicer - Don D'Ammassa
A Hard Man is Good to Find - R. Patrick Gates
Bedroom Eyes - Michael Newton
Atrocities - Lucy Taylor
Pearldoll - John Shirley
The Kind Men Like - Karl Edward Wagner
The Braille Encyclopaedia - Grant Morrison

Hottest Blood

Edited by Jeff Gelb and Michael Garrett

From the back cover:

Graham Masterton...Bentley Little...Rex Miller...Elizabeth Massie...David J. Schow...Matthew Costello...John Shirley...Thomas Tessier...Grant Morrison...and other established masters, as well as rising stars in the galaxy of horror writers, weave riveting tales of sex and terror -

Hottest Blood

the fresh fusion of genres that is fast becoming the new American obsession. Here are stories that arouse our most primordial instincts, stories to heat the blood and chill the mind...stories of lovers united to purge the world's evil...a porn queen's most shocking performance...a seduction by hypnosis that takes an unforseen detour...an otherworldly gender bender racing against midnight...and nightmares of bloodlust that are more that mere dreams.

Featured authors and stories are:

I Hear the Mermaids Singing - Nancy Holder
Llama - Bentley Little
Where the Heart Was - David J. Schow
The Last Crossing - Thomas Tessier
Damaged Goods - Elizabeth Massie
Hillbettys - Graham Watkins
Abuse - Matthew Costello
Forever in My Thoughts - Don D'Ammassa
Blind Date - Julie Wilson
Sex Object - Graham Masterton
Box 69 - Rex Miller
Prized Possession - Jeff Gelb
Mr. Right - Chris Lacher
At the Count of Three - Michael Garrett
Genderella - Ron Dee
Safe at Home - Steve and Melanie Tem
How Deep the Taste of Love - John Shirley
Hard Evidence - John Edward Ames
The Room Where Love Lives - Grant Morrison
Black Cars - J.L. Comeau

Stranger by Night

Stranger By Night

Edited by Jeff Gelb and Michael Garrett

From the back cover:

Ramsay Campbell...Brian Lumley...Graham Masterton...Brinke Stevens...Brian Hodge...Edward Lee...Lucy Taylor...Mike Newton...and other conjurers of the

darkest demons of the human id bring all-new stories to the award-winning Hot Blood series. Here are the sex-driven, horror-laced tales that thousands of fans have clamored for, from master writers who follow no rules, except one: hold back nothing.

Travel on the high-tech back alleys of cybersex toward primitive passions and the timeless dark...spy on partners creating an erotic thriller who help their story along with a very real, very bloody plot twist...fear the tiny creature who takes you to the hidden core of your erogenous self...and ask yourself, is it really necrophilia when the dead make the first move?

Featured authors and stories are:

Take It as It Comes - Tom Piccirilli
The Body in the Window - Ramsey Campbell
Jacking In - Brinke Stevens
End of the Road - Edo van Belkom
Just Sex - Michael Garrett
Skin Deep - Christa Faust
Home Movies - Bruce Jones
The Jajouka Penis-Beetle - Graham Masterton
Beached - Wendy Rathbone
Hot Phosphor - John B. Rosenman
Male-Call - Lucy Taylor
Five Card Stud - Michael Newton
Video Date - Jeff Gelb Impulse - Yvonne Navarro
Dead Girls in Love - Edward Lee and Gary Bowen
Getting Wet - Alexa deMonterice
Back Row - Brian Lumley
Godflesh - Brian Hodge

Kiss and Kill

Edited by Jeff Gelb and Michael Garrett

From the back cover:

Kiss and Kill

The realms of the psychotic, neurotic and erotic come together in Hot blood, the original award winning horror series. And Hot Blood remains the premier source for erotic chills, with this latest collection showcasing today's best writers ina pageturning orgy of lust-laden terror that knows no bounds.

Nancy Holder...Max Allan Collins...Graham Masterton...Brian Hodge...Ray Garton...Thomas Tessier...O'Neil DeNoux...and other provocateurs of fright flaunt their exquisitely nasty talents in sixteen all-new, shockingly seductive tales.

Get your kicks fromfantasy-fulfilling cheerleaders on Interstate 666...enter a modern den of sin where centuries-old acts of debauchery are on the house...follow a porn star to a secluded studio where he'll do his best not to end up on the cutting room floor... travel to an exotic island for the rich and depraved, where forbidden desires are par for the corpse...and keep score as the competition for the greatest sexual conquest propels two wives to a carnage-filled climax

Featured authors and stories are:

Heroine - Graham Masterton
Players - Deidra Cox
The 121st Day of Sodom - Brian Hodge
Comeback - Graham Watkins
Razorblade Valentines - Thomas S. Roche
Vampires of London - Rex Miller and Lynne Gauger
Trophies - John B. Rosenman
Interstate 666 - Max Allan Collins
The Healing Touch - Terry Campbell
Death Fetish - T. Diane Slatton
Hair of the Dog - Ray Garton
One Last Time - Michael Garrett
Close Encounters of Madison County - Gary Brandner
La Mourante - Thomas Tessier
Erotophobia - O'Neil DeNoux
Bonus Notches - Nancy Holder

Fear the Fever

Fear the Fever

Edited by Jeff Gelb and Michael Garrett

From the back cover:

Jack Ketchum...Edward Lee...Graham Masterton...Lucy Taylor...Bruce Jones...J.N. Williamson... P.D. Cacek...Alan Brennert

These and other masters of the erotic subconscious are about to hijack your dreams.

Fear

drives your body into a cold sweat and fills your soul with a strange heat. Resistance is futile. Not because you can't fight the fever - because you don't want to.

The

journey will ensure that you burn with a message from thh rain forest carrying tidings of love and destruction...hunger at a banquet whose main course is forbidden flesh... tremble before the sign of the rose that consumes all who worship its beauty...quake with an obsession that turns desire into deadly reckoning...and surrender to the hot call of the blood. Don't bother praying for a cure - after all, it's just a

Fever

Featured authors and stories are:

The Five Percent People - Lucy Taylor
Feeding The Beast - Bruce Jones
Purple Hearts and Other Wounds - Stephen Woodworth
The Sinister Woods - Wendy Rathbone
Love Letters from the Rain Forest - Jack Ketchum and Edward Lee
Orifice - John F. D. Taff Sole Man - Lois Gresh
The Portrait - Jeff Gelb
Two Hands Are Better Than One - J. N. Williamson
Untamed Sex - James Crawford
Metalica - Patricia D. Cacek
Call It - Tom Piccirilli
Daddy's Dirty Books - Michael Garrett
Restin Piece - Net Gertler
Flesh and Blood - Elsa Rutherford
Fantasies - Alan Brennert
The Secret Shih Tan - Graham Masterton


Unreviewed books in the Hot Blood series are:

Deadly After Dark
The Seeds of Fear
Crimes of Passion

Crimes of Passion

Here are 22 supremely talented manipulators of the macabre, writers who set free some outrageous fantasies and fears, and turn our dark erotic anxieties in to art. This anthology displays the best of their chilling, thrilling, upsetting, and unsettling experiments with our sexual psyches. And rest assured, flesh will tingle - But whether from horror or pleasure or a bit of both, we'll leave you to judge...

Featured authors and stories are:

The Revelations of 'Becka Paulson - Stephen King
Sea Lovers - Valerie Martin
Psychopomp - Haydn Middleton
A Glowing Future - Ruth Rendell
The Tiger Returns to the Mountain - T.L. Parkinson
Consanguinity - Ronald Duncan
Keeping House - Michael Blumlein
The Villa Desiree - May Sinclair
Cleave, the Vampire, or, a Gothic Pastorale - Patrick MKcGrath
The Swords - Robert Aickman
Salon Satin - Carolyn Banks
How Love Came to Professor Guildea - Robert Hichens
Wings - Harriet Zinnes
The Basilisk - R. Murray
Gilchrist A Quarter Past You - Johnathan Carroll
The Master Builder - Christopher Fowler
Festival - Eric McCormack
Ladies in Waiting - Hugh B. Cave
Death and the Single Girl - Tomas M. Disch

Master - Angela Carter
The Conqueror Worm - Stephen R. Donaldson
Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament - Clive Barker