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Hot Blood #10
Hot Blood X
In this tenth edition of Hot Blood, the "original" award-winning erotic horror series, fear has never felt so X-citing, X-quisite, or X-traordinary. Join seventeen of today's top authors as they X-pose the evil side of human -- and not-so-human -- nature. Take a seat in a bar where "three in the side pocket" has nothing to do with pool....Sexercise in a gym with a woman whose appetite for murder is insatiable....
Enter a body-piercing shop where betrayl and revenge are on the tip of the customer's tongue....Get seduced by a horror groupie with a body to undie for....
Join two amateur filmakers as their video camera captures the most gorgeous -- and deadly -- creature anyone has ever encountered.
Enter a body-piercing shop where betrayl and revenge are on the tip of the customer's tongue....Get seduced by a horror groupie with a body to undie for....
Join two amateur filmakers as their video camera captures the most gorgeous -- and deadly -- creature anyone has ever encountered.
335 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1998
About the author
Jeff Gelb
41 books39 followersJeff Gelb is a former disc jockey and music columnist who created the SHOCK ROCK series of music-based horror fiction. He has also written a number of short stories, including Graveyard Shift, The Last Victim and The Portrait. In 2001, he collaborated with Max Allan Collins to create the anthology series FLESH AND BLOOD, tales of erotic noir from some of the finest writers in crime fiction. Mr. Gelb is now in his fifth decade producing the comic book fanzine MEN OF MYSTERY.
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February 10, 2024
Some stories were good.
Some were meh.
One I skipped because it’s my mothers name so no thank you
Some were meh.
One I skipped because it’s my mothers name so no thank you
September 21, 2026
Hot Blood X - Started 17/09/2026. Finished 20/09/2026
THREE IN THE SIDE POCKET \[Lawrence Block\] 3.5/5 I really liked this one. Straightforward, and a nice twist on the “getting caught by husband” premise. A good, strong opener.
THE SEDUCTRESS \[Ramsey Campbell\] 2.5/5. Ramsey Campbell’s stories have always felt quite odd to me. I liked this one, although there was something slightly off/inconsistent about the main character.
APPETITE \[Nancy Holder\]. 3.5/5. I liked this one too. I liked the simple, brutal, straightforward way this one was told. Just a fun story.
REGENERATION \[Max Allan Collins and Barbara Collins\] 3.5/5. Another good one, about the older people that lose their jobs, but then sign up to a deal the regenerates them with plastic surgery etc. A good story. Worked well in short form, but would have also made a great novella.
STRANGE THINGS \[O’Neil De Noux\] 2.5/5. A bit of a strange one. A plane jane discovers her sexuality and then goes to a haunted house or something.
BODY PIERCING, BY NED \[Marthayn Pelegrimas and Robert J. Randisi\] 3/5. Bizarre, about the middle aged guy that goes in for a piercing, but had just been at his school reunion, where he bumps into his ex.
THE SEX FILES \[Michael Garrett\] 3/5. Reminded me of Species or something. A hooker turns out to be an alien species. I enjoyed this one as well.
THE CELLOPHANE HEART \[Dawn Dunn\] 2.5/5. A bit of a weaker one for me. The one about the woman who falls in love with the wrestler. It didn't work for me.
INVISIBLE \[Jeff Gelb\] 3/5. About the guy who becomes invisible to young hot women.
OLIVIA IN THE GRAVEYARD WITH PABLO \[Greg Kihn\] 3.5/5. I really liked this one. The woman reminded me of C Love.
EMPATHY \[Brian Hodge\]. 2.5/5. It was ok, but only ok.
THE SAINT, THE SATYR, AND THE SNAKEHOLE \[Stephen Gresham\]. 2.5/5. Just another ok one. About the nurse during the civil war. Not really much to say about it.
MEMENTO MORI \[Melanie Tem\]. 2.5/5. This one made me so sad. This wasn’t sexy or scary. Fairly sure it was just a story of a woman with post partum depression. In another collection, this story could have been really good, but here it is very out of place.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN \[Judith Tracy\] 3/5. The one about the doctor that dates the fat woman, and it turns out he has quite extreme fetishes.
PICNIC AT LAC DU SANG \[Graham Masterton\]. 3.5/5. Really good. I did expect at the end for the baby to age rapidly within the woman and come exploding out.
PLAYING WITH FIRE \[Bentley Little\]. 2.5/5. Some interesting commentary in this one, but I didn't really care for the story that much.
FULFILLMENT \[Graham Watkins\] 3.5/5 another really strong one, about the woman who joins the love death chat room.
So far, one of the stronger collections. I really enjoy the author biographies and then a description of why the author wrote the story at the end of each story. Felt like more love was put into this collection.
THREE IN THE SIDE POCKET \[Lawrence Block\] 3.5/5 I really liked this one. Straightforward, and a nice twist on the “getting caught by husband” premise. A good, strong opener.
THE SEDUCTRESS \[Ramsey Campbell\] 2.5/5. Ramsey Campbell’s stories have always felt quite odd to me. I liked this one, although there was something slightly off/inconsistent about the main character.
APPETITE \[Nancy Holder\]. 3.5/5. I liked this one too. I liked the simple, brutal, straightforward way this one was told. Just a fun story.
REGENERATION \[Max Allan Collins and Barbara Collins\] 3.5/5. Another good one, about the older people that lose their jobs, but then sign up to a deal the regenerates them with plastic surgery etc. A good story. Worked well in short form, but would have also made a great novella.
STRANGE THINGS \[O’Neil De Noux\] 2.5/5. A bit of a strange one. A plane jane discovers her sexuality and then goes to a haunted house or something.
BODY PIERCING, BY NED \[Marthayn Pelegrimas and Robert J. Randisi\] 3/5. Bizarre, about the middle aged guy that goes in for a piercing, but had just been at his school reunion, where he bumps into his ex.
THE SEX FILES \[Michael Garrett\] 3/5. Reminded me of Species or something. A hooker turns out to be an alien species. I enjoyed this one as well.
THE CELLOPHANE HEART \[Dawn Dunn\] 2.5/5. A bit of a weaker one for me. The one about the woman who falls in love with the wrestler. It didn't work for me.
INVISIBLE \[Jeff Gelb\] 3/5. About the guy who becomes invisible to young hot women.
OLIVIA IN THE GRAVEYARD WITH PABLO \[Greg Kihn\] 3.5/5. I really liked this one. The woman reminded me of C Love.
EMPATHY \[Brian Hodge\]. 2.5/5. It was ok, but only ok.
THE SAINT, THE SATYR, AND THE SNAKEHOLE \[Stephen Gresham\]. 2.5/5. Just another ok one. About the nurse during the civil war. Not really much to say about it.
MEMENTO MORI \[Melanie Tem\]. 2.5/5. This one made me so sad. This wasn’t sexy or scary. Fairly sure it was just a story of a woman with post partum depression. In another collection, this story could have been really good, but here it is very out of place.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN \[Judith Tracy\] 3/5. The one about the doctor that dates the fat woman, and it turns out he has quite extreme fetishes.
PICNIC AT LAC DU SANG \[Graham Masterton\]. 3.5/5. Really good. I did expect at the end for the baby to age rapidly within the woman and come exploding out.
PLAYING WITH FIRE \[Bentley Little\]. 2.5/5. Some interesting commentary in this one, but I didn't really care for the story that much.
FULFILLMENT \[Graham Watkins\] 3.5/5 another really strong one, about the woman who joins the love death chat room.
So far, one of the stronger collections. I really enjoy the author biographies and then a description of why the author wrote the story at the end of each story. Felt like more love was put into this collection.
October 15, 2020
Well, I still haven't been disappointed by any of the collections in the Hot Blood series. This book now makes it ten collections of erotic horror to tantalize, tease and titillate you. And HOT BLOOD: X does exactly that. Overall I don't think that this book is as strong as some others in the Hot Blood series but that still didn't stop me from staying up late and reading through the entire book in just a couple of nights. Obviously I still enjoyed it greatly. Once more my top picks are below.
"Appetite" by Nancy Holder - A gym brings together one who hungers for fame and one who hungers for food.
"Regeneration" by Max Allen Collins and Barbara Collins - The old get another chance at the young life.
"Invisible" by Jeff Gelb - Not quite the fantasy that you would think it would be.
"Picnic at Lac Du Sang" by Graham Masterton - The girl that you've always wished for who isn't quite.
"Appetite" by Nancy Holder - A gym brings together one who hungers for fame and one who hungers for food.
"Regeneration" by Max Allen Collins and Barbara Collins - The old get another chance at the young life.
"Invisible" by Jeff Gelb - Not quite the fantasy that you would think it would be.
"Picnic at Lac Du Sang" by Graham Masterton - The girl that you've always wished for who isn't quite.
July 16, 2010
Anthology of erotic horror. I'll review the stories as I go.
1. Three in the Side Pocket by Lawrence Block. Psycho killer meets prey at the bar. Short freaky story.
2. The Seductress by Ramsey Campbell. This one was pretty good. Going back to his mom's house, Betty finds out Alastair has been doing a little witchcraft with her and runs out of his house not letting him explain. Well, he kills himself and his mom blames her. Then some really, really way too disturbing stuff happens but you don't know until the end.
3. Appetite by Nancy Holder. This was very strange. Tabitha is newly out of prison after killing her husband and "wins" a free month at the gym. Blaine works at the gym. She tries to scam him into a meal and ends up going home with him. She has a really big this about red meat. He makes great steaks, she gives great blow jobs. What else does a relationship need. They make a deal for her to help him with his acting career and he'll keep making her steaks. At first I thought this was just another girl with low self esteem who shows everyone story, but as strange as the story is, it's pretty good.
4. Regeneration by Max and Barbara Collins. Joyce is forced into retirement. With no savings and unable to find a job because of her age, she's on the verge of committing suicide when she is offered a job with a complete makeover and new identity. She meets another man like her. Sad ending.
5. Strange Things by O'Neil De Noux. My favorite story so far. Short but really good. The heroine starts walking around town at night naked because her ex-husband said she was boring and she thought this would be fun. Well, one night she has a whole lot of fun, if you know what I mean. Very hot story.
6. Body Piercings by Ned by Marthayne Pelegrimas and Robert Randisi. Another super short short story. Bob walks into Ned's shop for a tongue piercing and then tells him how his 10 year high school reunion when wrong. I'm on the fence about this story.
7. The Sex files by Michael Garrett. Mitch and Johnny are amateur porn movie producers who hire unknowing hookers as their stars. Well one of them is a lot more than she seems. More gross than scary but maybe that's because I'm a girl.
8. The Cellophane Heart by Dawn Dunn. The heroine is invited by her best friend to a professional wresting match, Hulk Hogan ish. She's been dumped by her boyfriend after he used her for years and years. She gets entranced by "The Wolfman" and follows him to his hotel. All I can tell you is I felt really sorry for The Wolfman. I'm not sure how I felt about this story.
9. Invisible by Jeff Gelb. Parker starts to become invisible to young gorgeous girls, so he takes advantage of it. I might like this story more if I was a man. Not my cup of tea.
10. Olivia in the Graveyard with Pablo by Greg Kihn (yes that Greg Kihn). Kyle meets Olivia at a hotel when she's complaining about stolen luggage. They later talk in the bar and she says she is going to become a real vampire. Then the story is pretty much Kyle saying over and over and over again that vampires aren't real. Didn't really like any of the characters and the ending was ho-hum.
11. Empathy by Brian Hodge. Jane/Zoe meets Strauss through a personal ad. At their first meeting, he has her slit her pants and puts a butt plug in her. Then there are strange tattoos, bondage, needles, anal sex, with a WTF ending. The author then writes a really pretentious paragraph about how he came up with the idea. I probably would have enjoyed (can I even say I enjoyed this story?) more if the author didn't let us know how full of himself he is.
12. The Snake, the Satyr and the Snakehole by Stephen Gresham. This is a story of Esther, a civil war nurse, a pervert reverend and Sturgis, an amputee accused of rape. I liked the idea of the story, but the ending was lacking.
13. Memento Mori by Melanie Tem. Ann and Phillip just had a baby. She keeps envisioning everything dying - Phillip, the baby, roses in the backyard. And then she makes it happen. I didn't care for this story. Short and not very good.
14. To Whom it May Concern by Judith Tracy. A woman falls for a drop dead gorgeous doctor who is really sick in the head. Horrible ending. Not sure I liked this story.
15. Picnic at Lac Du Sang by Graham Masterton. Vincent goes to a bordello, meets Catherine who is about 5 months pregnant. He has sex with her and then wants to save her but doesn't realize there's a reason she can't be saved. This story was pretty goo.
16. Playing with Fire by Bentley Little. This starts out with Elise having a green vagina and I would say it gets weirder but that's pretty strange especially since he loves his green vaginas. I myself have never heard of one that didn't have a horrible infection, but maybe that's in my narrow slice of the world. Didn't like this story.
17. Fulfillment by Graham Watkins. Leah has some extreme fantasies about dying while having sex. So she's goes online and talks with Simon about it. They talk and he comes over to do the job, but she has a few secrets he didn't know about. Average story.
1. Three in the Side Pocket by Lawrence Block. Psycho killer meets prey at the bar. Short freaky story.
2. The Seductress by Ramsey Campbell. This one was pretty good. Going back to his mom's house, Betty finds out Alastair has been doing a little witchcraft with her and runs out of his house not letting him explain. Well, he kills himself and his mom blames her. Then some really, really way too disturbing stuff happens but you don't know until the end.
3. Appetite by Nancy Holder. This was very strange. Tabitha is newly out of prison after killing her husband and "wins" a free month at the gym. Blaine works at the gym. She tries to scam him into a meal and ends up going home with him. She has a really big this about red meat. He makes great steaks, she gives great blow jobs. What else does a relationship need. They make a deal for her to help him with his acting career and he'll keep making her steaks. At first I thought this was just another girl with low self esteem who shows everyone story, but as strange as the story is, it's pretty good.
4. Regeneration by Max and Barbara Collins. Joyce is forced into retirement. With no savings and unable to find a job because of her age, she's on the verge of committing suicide when she is offered a job with a complete makeover and new identity. She meets another man like her. Sad ending.
5. Strange Things by O'Neil De Noux. My favorite story so far. Short but really good. The heroine starts walking around town at night naked because her ex-husband said she was boring and she thought this would be fun. Well, one night she has a whole lot of fun, if you know what I mean. Very hot story.
6. Body Piercings by Ned by Marthayne Pelegrimas and Robert Randisi. Another super short short story. Bob walks into Ned's shop for a tongue piercing and then tells him how his 10 year high school reunion when wrong. I'm on the fence about this story.
7. The Sex files by Michael Garrett. Mitch and Johnny are amateur porn movie producers who hire unknowing hookers as their stars. Well one of them is a lot more than she seems. More gross than scary but maybe that's because I'm a girl.
8. The Cellophane Heart by Dawn Dunn. The heroine is invited by her best friend to a professional wresting match, Hulk Hogan ish. She's been dumped by her boyfriend after he used her for years and years. She gets entranced by "The Wolfman" and follows him to his hotel. All I can tell you is I felt really sorry for The Wolfman. I'm not sure how I felt about this story.
9. Invisible by Jeff Gelb. Parker starts to become invisible to young gorgeous girls, so he takes advantage of it. I might like this story more if I was a man. Not my cup of tea.
10. Olivia in the Graveyard with Pablo by Greg Kihn (yes that Greg Kihn). Kyle meets Olivia at a hotel when she's complaining about stolen luggage. They later talk in the bar and she says she is going to become a real vampire. Then the story is pretty much Kyle saying over and over and over again that vampires aren't real. Didn't really like any of the characters and the ending was ho-hum.
11. Empathy by Brian Hodge. Jane/Zoe meets Strauss through a personal ad. At their first meeting, he has her slit her pants and puts a butt plug in her. Then there are strange tattoos, bondage, needles, anal sex, with a WTF ending. The author then writes a really pretentious paragraph about how he came up with the idea. I probably would have enjoyed (can I even say I enjoyed this story?) more if the author didn't let us know how full of himself he is.
12. The Snake, the Satyr and the Snakehole by Stephen Gresham. This is a story of Esther, a civil war nurse, a pervert reverend and Sturgis, an amputee accused of rape. I liked the idea of the story, but the ending was lacking.
13. Memento Mori by Melanie Tem. Ann and Phillip just had a baby. She keeps envisioning everything dying - Phillip, the baby, roses in the backyard. And then she makes it happen. I didn't care for this story. Short and not very good.
14. To Whom it May Concern by Judith Tracy. A woman falls for a drop dead gorgeous doctor who is really sick in the head. Horrible ending. Not sure I liked this story.
15. Picnic at Lac Du Sang by Graham Masterton. Vincent goes to a bordello, meets Catherine who is about 5 months pregnant. He has sex with her and then wants to save her but doesn't realize there's a reason she can't be saved. This story was pretty goo.
16. Playing with Fire by Bentley Little. This starts out with Elise having a green vagina and I would say it gets weirder but that's pretty strange especially since he loves his green vaginas. I myself have never heard of one that didn't have a horrible infection, but maybe that's in my narrow slice of the world. Didn't like this story.
17. Fulfillment by Graham Watkins. Leah has some extreme fantasies about dying while having sex. So she's goes online and talks with Simon about it. They talk and he comes over to do the job, but she has a few secrets he didn't know about. Average story.
January 16, 2016
A nice collection of short stories that are more erotic than horror. Recommended
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January 2, 2017If you're into erotic horror then this is a good book. Short storie, some of which, will keep you up at night!
January 10, 2017
Most of the stories in this compilation were unimpressive though a few stood out toward the end.
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November 14, 2017Spicy, fun, exciting, had me crying one minute and panting the next.
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