BiscuitHammer
The Hentenno
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I've had a request thrown my way to write and submit a story in the Erotic Horror category. No specifics as to what, but having read some of my other works, the person requesting seems to think I'd do a bang-up job in that category.
I went a perused the section, looked at the HoF, etc. It mostly seems to be about vampires and succubi/incubi, and various levels of non-concent with said denizens of the infernal realms.
So I went and read the Submissions Guidelines as a refresher. Went away from them for a few days, came back and read them again, to see if I gleaned anything different from the last reading.
No sex with dead bodies or snuff sex. Check. Vampires seem to be okay.
No bestiality/zoophilia. Check. Not sure about werewolves, but apparently give it a human weenie instead of one of those dog red rocket/Christmas tree light things.
No underage human sex. Check-a-doodle-doo.
But the supernatural/infernal aspect that seems to predominate the category doesn't really strike me as 'erotic horror', per se. If I WERE to publish something in the category, it would either have a cosmic, Lovecraftian wrongness to its horror, or it would plumb the depths of human depravity in terms of horror.
I don't actually know anything about how submitted stories are screened and who makes what must amount to arbitrary calls about what submissions meet or violate the Guidelines.
Does anyone in the know have a quick-and-dirty about the Erotic Horror category? I'm asking questions that the Guidelines don't directly answer, and I'm not terribly interested in writing the story if it's too intense or horrific to go through.
Helpful advice/thoughts?
(I guess the person requesting was reading The Great Khan, because it's the one with the brütal violence and sex in it)
I went a perused the section, looked at the HoF, etc. It mostly seems to be about vampires and succubi/incubi, and various levels of non-concent with said denizens of the infernal realms.
So I went and read the Submissions Guidelines as a refresher. Went away from them for a few days, came back and read them again, to see if I gleaned anything different from the last reading.
No sex with dead bodies or snuff sex. Check. Vampires seem to be okay.
No bestiality/zoophilia. Check. Not sure about werewolves, but apparently give it a human weenie instead of one of those dog red rocket/Christmas tree light things.
No underage human sex. Check-a-doodle-doo.
But the supernatural/infernal aspect that seems to predominate the category doesn't really strike me as 'erotic horror', per se. If I WERE to publish something in the category, it would either have a cosmic, Lovecraftian wrongness to its horror, or it would plumb the depths of human depravity in terms of horror.
I don't actually know anything about how submitted stories are screened and who makes what must amount to arbitrary calls about what submissions meet or violate the Guidelines.
Does anyone in the know have a quick-and-dirty about the Erotic Horror category? I'm asking questions that the Guidelines don't directly answer, and I'm not terribly interested in writing the story if it's too intense or horrific to go through.
Helpful advice/thoughts?
(I guess the person requesting was reading The Great Khan, because it's the one with the brütal violence and sex in it)