Can anyone elucidate the expectations of readers in Erotic Horror?

[EmilyMiller]

I'm giving my recommendation. 'Dollhouse' HannahBaird. A remarkable writer. Horror is her specialty. Good luck. She makes it hard to sleep.

Yeah - I don’t want to read that. Which is I guess the problem.

 

[RagnarHairyBreeches]

I've experimented in this with a ScFi story.

Themes included consensual sex that becomes painful due to the misuse of technology; loss of control where the pleasure gradually becomes unbearable; a rape scene where the victim is successful in killing the rapist (very slowly). Then there were extreme body modifications using surgery, alien tech, and accidents which has it's own slant on torture as well as pleasure. If you want to read it go to https://www.amazon.com/Alternate-Earth-R-P-Crichton/dp/B08HT86WNG

 

[EmilyMiller]

I've experimented in this with a ScFi story.

Themes included consensual sex that becomes painful due to the misuse of technology; loss of control where the pleasure gradually becomes unbearable; a rape scene where the victim is successful in killing the rapist (very slowly). Then there were extreme body modifications using surgery, alien tech, and accidents which has it's own slant on torture as well as pleasure. If you want to read it go to [REDACTED]

You can’t advertize off-site stories here. And I won’t be reading it due to its content either.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I've only dabbled there once and wasn't all that concerned with the readers expectations. That story was a hell of a brain worm and I had to get it out.

 

[Statius]

Yeah - I don’t want to read that. Which is I guess the problem.

It's tough. I don't do horror either. Not in movies, not in books (anymore), but HannahBaird has been good to me, and I'll promote her work. She's an excellent writer and no way could I do what she does.

 

[DeMont]

The more I read about the category, the more stupid I feel about publishing in it. It’s really not me from many perspectives.

@EmilyMiller,
Good evening my dear colleague,
That may possibly be the case but perhaps your stories do hold elements of "tension", "unspoken but alluded to fear/s" perhaps even situations "putting characters at risk of physical/ psychological harm" all of which can be afforded a "horror" theme of varying degrees. Just because someone doesn't pull out a chainsaw and start carving the guests up doesn't mean a story can't be "psychological horror".

This, I think, is where your choice of category and tags is going to become more important than the actual content of the story. As I mentioned, I am an avid reader of Poe and Lovecraft and Mr. Poe certainly wrote items more suspenseful than horrific and the tale "Beyond the Mountains of Madness" was not directly a hack and slash story but rather centred on the speculations, brief glimpses and discoveries without confirmations of an investigating/rescue party.

As I said, it's the perceptions of people of "horror" that hold sway in such a forum.
If you really want to develop an out and out horror story then I would, as I think I have mentioned before, take your lead from Dean R. Koontz.
Deepest respects and try not to go mad,
D.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I am an avid reader of Poe

People on EH don’t want Poe (I’m a Poe afficiandao) they want R/NC with ghosts. They don’t want cerebral horror, they want rape porn without the guilt.

 

[DeMont]

People on EH don’t want Poe (I’m a Poe afficiandao) they want R/NC with ghosts. They don’t want cerebral horror, they want rape porn without the guilt.

@EmilyMiller, Good evening my dear colleague. If that is your summation of what the reader wants in that category then you have the decision to make. Either to write exactly that, for the reader, or, write for yourself and select a different category and use the tags to indicate content. No one can tell you what to do except you and that, in essence, is what our initial, "I'm going to write a..." decision is based on. Where the story goes after that is in your hands.
Deepest respects,
D.

 

[dirk2024]

People on EH don’t want Poe (I’m a Poe afficiandao) they want R/NC with ghosts. They don’t want cerebral horror, they want rape porn without the guilt.

My EH story has no R/NC or rape porn and its rated 4.65. It's more of a traditional horror story, with a wild sex scene and a little foot fetish work at the same time.

 

[dirk2024]

People on EH don’t want Poe (I’m a Poe afficiandao) they want R/NC with ghosts. They don’t want cerebral horror, they want rape porn without the guilt.

And isn't one of the over riding themes amonth the AH denizons to write for you, and not the reader?

Give us Poe, woman!

 

[EmilyMiller]

Give us Poe, woman!

Literotica isn’t ready for phantasmagoric armorial trophies, trust me, I’ve tried.

 

[dirk2024]

Literotica isn’t ready for phantasmagorical armorial trophies, trust me, I’ve tried.

I don't know what that is, but it sounds hot!

 

[DeMont]

I don't know what that is, but it sounds hot!

@dirk2024,
I believe our colleague may be referring to an arrangement full of different images, like something in a confused dream about the weapons and military equipment that a country owns and are trophies, a prize, that is given to the winner of a competition or race after the fact.

Trying to work the sex angle into that lot might be a little tough though!
Respectfully,
D.