Cthulhurotica edited by Carrie CuinnĬontrary to what the title may imply, you won’t find graphic tentacle sex here. We all love our gothic horror here, right? Given the sensual undercurrents that usually run through those tales, an anthology of gothic-style erotic horror was a foregone conclusion. That’s kind of the point.īitten: Dark Erotic Stories by Susie Bright Some of them blend discomfort with titillation. There will be sexual themes that shock you. Since erotic horror works often push against the limits of our comfort zones, I want to offer a blanket content warning for all the titles included on this list. It’s that you need to look beyond mainstream publishers to find them. But as I delved deeper, it’s not so much that there aren’t any erotic horror novels coming out. The heyday of erotic horror books seems to be behind us. Patricia also points out the downside, however. Or maybe, as Patricia Elzie-Tuttle points out in this post on horror erotica of the ’80s and ’90s, it’s just all too easy to sexualize that classic horror monster, the vampire. After all, what we find arousing and we find terrifying often get labeled as taboo. We do have more luck finding erotic horror works. Why doesn’t one exist already? Both horror and romance focus on emotions, and the very best works of each genre hinge on a catharsis of some type. I count myself among those readers who want a horror romance sub-genre.
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