TERMINUS

Another long out of print entry in the late-1960s Essex House line of erotic fiction, written by one of its most prolific contributors

SINS OF THE SIRENS

The third release from Dark Arts Books, a publisher specializing in sampler anthologies of genre fiction. SINS OF THE SIRENS contains stories by four women authors

STORY OF THE EYE

Those of you who read this short novel as the “erotic classic” it’s commonly classified as may be disappointed, if not totally bewildered

SWAN LAKE

This story reportedly pissed off a lot of people when it was first published in an anthology. Even the author, in a newly written afterward, acknowledges readers may want “to kick his ass for writing this story”

SANTA STEPS OUT

Here’s a Yuletide favorite I’m betting you won’t find on any traditional Christmas reading list: SANTA STEPS OUT by Robert Devereaux, a true “Fairy Tale for Grown-ups”

PORTRAIT OF AN ENGLISHMAN IN HIS CHATEAU

A profoundly vile piece of work that I’ve long wanted to read. L’ANGLAIS DECRIT DANS LE CHATEAU FERME was initially published in Paris (under the pseudonym Pierre Morion) back in 1953, and then banned for over 25 years

RIPPLE

A graphic novel that may not be horrific enough for my readers, yet will almost certainly be too freaky and aberrant for the mainstream

RED STAINS

If nothing else, this gross-out anthology definitely lives up to its billing. It contains (as the back cover proclaims) “Tales of the Darkest Biological Extremes and the Psycho-Sexual Imagination”