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It's been fun doing one of these chats, and it was fun doing the story too.( Read more... )

Concluding my exploration of the other contributions.

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These aren't reviews of the stories my fellow contributors wrote for this anthology, more my idiosyncratic commentary.

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When I first considered this assignment, some of my doubts about it were because of how Lovecraft himself wrote horror, and the parallels between horror and erotica (defined very broadly as telling stories about sex.)

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One of the stories in my forthcoming collection is "The Impurity", an erotic retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." I know that Nancy Kilpatrick already did an erotic treatment of this story in her Darker Passions series, writing as Amarantha Knight. I'm less of a humorist than Ms. Kilpatrick, and I ( Read more... )

The last story in my steampunk collection, "The Spirit of the Future", included a woman from "Samarah," (in the story, a hybrid of Turkey and India, with the name borrowed from the Gothic novel Vathek.) Oh the one hand, I really wanted a character from the colonies of the setting's empire. Oh the other hand, I didn't want the character to fall ( Read more... )