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The Mammoth Book of Erotica
A newly revised and updated edition of the bestselling collection of contemporary erotic fiction, this anthology of erotic short stories has been revised and expanded with new sensual tales especially commissioned for the volume. So it is that Vicki Hendricks, Michael Hemmingson, Thomas Roche, Marilyn Jaye-Lewis, Mark Pritchard, and Stewart Home contribute original works to a collection already distinguished by such major names as Kathy Acker, Samuel Delany, Clive Barker, Leonard Cohen, and Anne Rice.
624 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1994
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Maxim Jakubowski
279 books161 followersMaxim Jakubowski is a crime, erotic, and science fiction writer and critic.
Jakubowski was born in England by Russian-British and Polish parents, but raised in France. Jakubowski has also lived in Italy and has travelled extensively. Jakubowski edited the science fiction anthology Twenty Houses of the Zodiac in 1979 for the 37th World Science Fiction Convention (Seacon '79) in Brighton. He also contributed a short story to that anthology. He has now published almost 100 books in a variety of areas.
He has worked in book publishing for many years, which he left to open the Murder One bookshop[1], the UK's first specialist crime and mystery bookstore. He contributes to a variety of newspapers and magazines, and was for eight years the crime columnist for Time Out and, presently, since 2000, the crime reviewer for The Guardian. He is also the literary director of London's Crime Scene Festival and a consultant for the International Mystery Film Festival, Noir in Fest, held annually in Courmayeur, Italy. He is one the leading editors in the crime and mystery and erotica field, in which he has published many major anthologies.
His novels include "It's You That I Want To Kiss", "Because She Thought She Loved Me", "The State Of Montana", "On Tenderness Express", "Kiss me Sadly" and "Confessions of a Romantic Pornographer". His short story collections are "Life in the World of Women", "Fools for Lust" and the collaborative "American Casanova". He is a regular broadcaster on British TV and radio and was recently voted the 4th Sexiest Writer of 2,007 on a poll on the crimespace website.
Jakubowski was born in England by Russian-British and Polish parents, but raised in France. Jakubowski has also lived in Italy and has travelled extensively. Jakubowski edited the science fiction anthology Twenty Houses of the Zodiac in 1979 for the 37th World Science Fiction Convention (Seacon '79) in Brighton. He also contributed a short story to that anthology. He has now published almost 100 books in a variety of areas.
He has worked in book publishing for many years, which he left to open the Murder One bookshop[1], the UK's first specialist crime and mystery bookstore. He contributes to a variety of newspapers and magazines, and was for eight years the crime columnist for Time Out and, presently, since 2000, the crime reviewer for The Guardian. He is also the literary director of London's Crime Scene Festival and a consultant for the International Mystery Film Festival, Noir in Fest, held annually in Courmayeur, Italy. He is one the leading editors in the crime and mystery and erotica field, in which he has published many major anthologies.
His novels include "It's You That I Want To Kiss", "Because She Thought She Loved Me", "The State Of Montana", "On Tenderness Express", "Kiss me Sadly" and "Confessions of a Romantic Pornographer". His short story collections are "Life in the World of Women", "Fools for Lust" and the collaborative "American Casanova". He is a regular broadcaster on British TV and radio and was recently voted the 4th Sexiest Writer of 2,007 on a poll on the crimespace website.
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March 3, 2014
Pretty much a waste of paper. The Mammoth Book of Erotica: New Edition is full of short stories from different authors. The majority are crap, especially the ones about coprophagia. I started reading this book years ago, when women were embroiled in the Fifty Shades of Grey epidemic. I've only just finished and it was a struggle. There are a few good narratives amongst the forgettable, most notably authored by Clive Barker, Anne Rice and Leonard Cohen. The best thing about this book is its cover.
July 6, 2007
I haven't really liked the books in this series that I have read. A lot of the sex is violent or somehow linked to violence. I didn't think the stories were all that good or all that hot. I recommend The Best American Erotic series instead.
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February 28, 2011A mix representative of the genre. Some brilliant pieces and most not so much. Again, the problem I have with the genre - must the presence of sex subsume all else, even and esp. good writing? the perennial problem of genre fiction and its constraints, more out of convention than necessity...
June 7, 2013
Some stories I enjoyed, while others were so-so.
May 28, 2022
Some things you read, and you're never the same again. They change you, damage you, deaden your heart a little (or a lot). I've unfortunately already read a number of things like this: the authors Edward Lee, Ryan Harding, and Peter Tuesday Hughes are among the chief offenders. And as I read "Fist ****er" (not its actual title) by Marco Vassi, I knew with a sinking heart that I'd found another one.
Vassi takes up 76 pages in this book, with a collection of short stories called "A Carcass of Dreams." Why the editor gave him so much space, I have no idea. The editor must be one sick puppy.
"Fist ****er" is about a boy named Carl, who at the age of seven is introduced to oral sex by an elderly retired judge. Carl is a very amenable boy, not a bright one. He keeps going to the judge's house until he's nine, and then his appetite becomes too great. While still a child, he starts hitching rides with men whom he services. "The gasps and moans which showered his ears as his delicate child's mouth would cover a cock and his tongue tingle intricate patterns over a thigh he appreciated only through empathy. What he did seemed to make others happy, and that was gratification enough." At age 14, a truck driver fucks him. The emphasis is on how small Carl is, and how brutally the truck driver twists him into different positions. Carl leaves home soon after, because "he had already begun to see that the semi-conscious world of home and school was a restricting and artificial façade imposed over the true facts of life. He was developing a wisdom which transcended the artifacts of conventional knowledge, and he could no longer pretend to possess the naiveté and immaturity expected of someone his age." For some reason, these lines makes me just as sick as the actual pornography.
Carl goes to San Francisco, becomes a favorite in gay circles while still a young teenager, and joins a millionaire's harem. Then he leaves, I guess because he wants to be abused more, and hitches a ride with a "bestial-looking biker" who takes him to his camp and throws him to the other bikers "the way meat is thrown to lions in a zoo." It's here that Carl is finally introduced to the titular act. He loves it.
He keeps wandering, until one day he realizes that he's "utterly superior" to the rest of the human herd, because of his life of excessive perversion. He roams the country like a ghost, satisfying men, and only asking for you-know-what in return. The only known photograph of him shows him being double-fisted, suspended from a wooden crossbeam. "His eyes are closed…his face is in repose, and his body is in a state of complete relaxation. A Buddhist monk, seeing the picture, was heard to exclaim, 'That man has attained Nirvana.'"
He's found dead in a ravine at age 24. No one knows who he is, so he's buried in a public grave. The last sentence: "Several of the members of Troy Perry's Gay Church subsequently began an official movement to have him proclaimed as their first saint."
How the f*ck is this story even legal?
It's affected my stomach, my heart, and my mind. And the worst part is, absolutely nothing seems to have been written about it and I have absolutely no one to talk to about it. It's hurting me.
I checked this book out on archive.org because it contained an excerpt from Orf, by David Meltzer, a book I'm interested in reading. I read that, and it was interesting, and I also read "The Girl in Booth Nine", by Adam Troy-Castro, and that was really good, although also cruel and upsetting (but nowhere near as immoral and horrifying as "Fist ****er"). But I deeply regret reading what I did of this book.
Vassi takes up 76 pages in this book, with a collection of short stories called "A Carcass of Dreams." Why the editor gave him so much space, I have no idea. The editor must be one sick puppy.
"Fist ****er" is about a boy named Carl, who at the age of seven is introduced to oral sex by an elderly retired judge. Carl is a very amenable boy, not a bright one. He keeps going to the judge's house until he's nine, and then his appetite becomes too great. While still a child, he starts hitching rides with men whom he services. "The gasps and moans which showered his ears as his delicate child's mouth would cover a cock and his tongue tingle intricate patterns over a thigh he appreciated only through empathy. What he did seemed to make others happy, and that was gratification enough." At age 14, a truck driver fucks him. The emphasis is on how small Carl is, and how brutally the truck driver twists him into different positions. Carl leaves home soon after, because "he had already begun to see that the semi-conscious world of home and school was a restricting and artificial façade imposed over the true facts of life. He was developing a wisdom which transcended the artifacts of conventional knowledge, and he could no longer pretend to possess the naiveté and immaturity expected of someone his age." For some reason, these lines makes me just as sick as the actual pornography.
Carl goes to San Francisco, becomes a favorite in gay circles while still a young teenager, and joins a millionaire's harem. Then he leaves, I guess because he wants to be abused more, and hitches a ride with a "bestial-looking biker" who takes him to his camp and throws him to the other bikers "the way meat is thrown to lions in a zoo." It's here that Carl is finally introduced to the titular act. He loves it.
He keeps wandering, until one day he realizes that he's "utterly superior" to the rest of the human herd, because of his life of excessive perversion. He roams the country like a ghost, satisfying men, and only asking for you-know-what in return. The only known photograph of him shows him being double-fisted, suspended from a wooden crossbeam. "His eyes are closed…his face is in repose, and his body is in a state of complete relaxation. A Buddhist monk, seeing the picture, was heard to exclaim, 'That man has attained Nirvana.'"
He's found dead in a ravine at age 24. No one knows who he is, so he's buried in a public grave. The last sentence: "Several of the members of Troy Perry's Gay Church subsequently began an official movement to have him proclaimed as their first saint."
How the f*ck is this story even legal?
It's affected my stomach, my heart, and my mind. And the worst part is, absolutely nothing seems to have been written about it and I have absolutely no one to talk to about it. It's hurting me.
I checked this book out on archive.org because it contained an excerpt from Orf, by David Meltzer, a book I'm interested in reading. I read that, and it was interesting, and I also read "The Girl in Booth Nine", by Adam Troy-Castro, and that was really good, although also cruel and upsetting (but nowhere near as immoral and horrifying as "Fist ****er"). But I deeply regret reading what I did of this book.
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December 31, 2021this book being the least of my favorite Erotica reads won’t recommend it…
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November 29, 2022I don't really understand the app
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