Favorite (non-Literotica) Erotic Authors

[SimonDoom]

Who are people's favorite erotica authors, not on this site? Are there any that have inspired you or whose works are, in your opinion, models for writing good erotic stories?

I haven't read that much published erotic fiction, and I'm looking for authors to add to my reading list.

 

[SimonDoom]

Hmmm. Why would Literotica support discussion on reading those writing erotica who aren't writing for this site?

Why wouldn't it? I'm not thinking about authors at competing websites so much as I am authors of published fiction, which I don't think presents meaningful competition for this site. If one is going to offer authors a forum on this site to discuss what they do it makes sense to give them free rein to discuss works they like or that inspire them. Writers tend to be readers. They may be inspired by what they read. It seems like an obvious subject for discussion -- to me, at least.

Whether one agrees or not I haven't seen any posted rules precluding such a discussion, and I can't see why another author would want to discourage it.

 

[lovecraft68]

Hmmm. Why would Literotica support discussion on reading those writing erotica who aren't writing for this site?

Seeing laurel created a 'good reads' thread in the GB I don't think she'd mind.

 

[lovecraft68]

My favorite off lit erotica writer is....the famous...

Anonymous.

I still have a bunch of those hard core porn paperbacks from decades ago written by 'anonymous' they introduced me to many of the fetishes I write about now.

 

[hylas_]

uhm, ignoring the meta dimension here...

I haven't read a lot of "properly" published erotica (I intend to read more), but I did enjoy "A Companion to Wolves" by Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette immensely.

 

[HeyAll]

Anne Rice writes amazing erotic stuff. Even in her non-erotic stories, there are bits of erotic scenes that are always great.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Those old Softcover Library books. I have a few I've picked up recently.

Venus in India - old 1900s novel
Confirmation by Gianni Segre
Stuart Cloete - the 1001 nights of jean macaque
The Love Pagoda (its an old chines one)
Any book by Marcus van Heller - lusts of the borgias is good
the girl on the motorcycle

I collect these whenever I find a good one. Most are total trash but there ard some classics and if you want to write good stuff, study the masters.

Writers as models? Cloete is an excellent author. The 1001 nights is a collection of short stories. Great plots. If u added actual sex they'd blow your socks off.

Van Heller is a master.

And Venus in India is just an excellent novel.

 

[lovecraft68]

I read a book in my teens called the Devil's Kiss. I don't feel like googling the author. It was a horror novel and in all honestly not a great one. But it had several sex scenes that really grabbed my attention, group, non con (which I didn't find offensive at that time as I do now because it was before some events in my personal life) and a lot of incest, to a level I hadn't seen before in a 'regular horror novel'.

It has the dubious distinction to being the first non erotica or porn vid/mag I ever jerked off to.

 

[ChloeTzang]

I respect your different opinion, but I hope you are wrong.

I guess we'll see.

And btw, I left out all those women's romances. I don't find them especially erotic. Theres the occasional exception but not many. The sex is often okay but not especially erotic even tho some are big sellers. Like Sylvia Day. Oh well, I'm a purist.

 

[SimonDoom]

I thought Carrie's Story by Molly Weatherford was a well-written BDSM story, a kind of updated, Americanized Story of O. I read it after I read Shades of Grey and was glad to find a story about BDSM that had more well-drawn, rounded characters. Using characters that at least give the appearance of being real people makes the story more erotic and interesting for me, and that's something I'm trying to do in my stories, or in some of them, at least.

 

[Areala-chan]

I read a book in my teens called the Devil's Kiss. I don't feel like googling the author. It was a horror novel and in all honestly not a great one. But it had several sex scenes that really grabbed my attention, group, non con (which I didn't find offensive at that time as I do now because it was before some events in my personal life) and a lot of incest, to a level I hadn't seen before in a 'regular horror novel'.

It has the dubious distinction to being the first non erotica or porn vid/mag I ever jerked off to.

Oh my god, please tell me that's the William W. Johnstone book you're talking about.

I read it a few years ago (bought a stack of Zebra Horror from a local bookstore), and it was just gut-bustingly awful in every way imaginable, up to and including blaming rock music for luring children away from Christian values. Absolute crap for story, but just like a made-for-Sy-Fi movie, it's so bad it's entertaining.

 

[oggbashan]

I like Thorne Smith's 1920s/30s novels for implicit erotica particularly:

Turnabout
The Night Life of the Gods
The Stray Lamb
The Bishop's Jaegers
Rain in the Doorway
The Glorious Pool

Thorne Smith writes about the joys of illicit sex fuelled by illegal booze.

 

[lovecraft68]

Oh my god, please tell me that's the William W. Johnstone book you're talking about.

I read it a few years ago (bought a stack of Zebra Horror from a local bookstore), and it was just gut-bustingly awful in every way imaginable, up to and including blaming rock music for luring children away from Christian values. Absolute crap for story, but just like a made-for-Sy-Fi movie, it's so bad it's entertaining.

I did go and google it now after your post and yes it is. I think there may be a series of them after that, but this one was enough for me.

I recall reading this and Jack Ketchum's infamous "Off Season" back to back in the same weekend. There is never any doubt in my mind why I am the way I am today

 

[FortySixtyFour]

Embarrassingly enough, it wasn't an actual writer but comic artist Milo Manara who influenced me to get into writing and drawing erotica. Found many of his works translated on an old site back in the early days of the internet (24kbps AOL dial-up, was living the dream), and it opened my eyes to the fact that erotica--, arousal, attraction and raunchiness could be so much more than just porn--although it made great porn, too.

 

[Nezhul]

Disclaimer: all of the below is dark erotica about enslavement and dubious consent. So beware! =)

From what I last read, Kitty Thompson made an impression on me. Not all her stories are to my liking though.

Also I kinda liked Jakob Anneke's "Owned and Owner", but towards the end I felt like the narration was dragging on and on over the same old thing, and there was no meaningful resolution that left me satisfied. There was a lot of really hot scenes, but I wanted some character development and there was none (except for the acceptance of the heroine). It kinda fits with the setting, but I still would have preferred a more satisfying ending that makes you sigh when you read the last line, and leaves the feeling of "The end.".

 

[CharleneBarr]

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Anaïs Nin with her 'Delta of Venus' amongst others.
She also supported Henry Miller financially before he was ever published and his 'Tropic of' books became classics.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Karen Kay posts at LIT.

The others are: Elliott Silvestri and Lawrence Block.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Laurell K Hamilton and her Meredithe Gentry series are rather erotic, mixed in with a lot of fantasy, bdsm and violence. She's a wonderful writer most of the time.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Tobsha Learner, an Australian writer - "Yearn", "Tremble", "Quiver"

Three collections of very good erotic short stories, each story stand-alone, with an inconsequential link between them. Worth looking up. A sort of latter day Anais Nin.

 

[R. Richard]

Books that I have personally read:
Family retreat - R. Richard
The Nude Adventures of Plain Jane - R. Richard
Aftermath - R. Richard
Emerging - R. Richard

 

[Slowride_]

Al Steiner is my favorite non-Literotica author. Greenies was an amazing read.

 

[Handley_Page]

Almost anything published by the Olympia Press in the 1960s.

 

[Auden James]

The Greatest of All Time

Georges Bataille, of course.

'nuff said . . .

 

[legerdemer]

No one has yet mentioned Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus, or the actual Story of O, by Pauline Réage. And the four volume Thousand and One Arabian Nights was probably my first sexual awakening companion. The uncut version has amazingly erotic stories.

 

[lovecraft68]

Surprised this one hasn't been mentioned. I would hazard to say its the most infamous by far and parts of it certainly are so far into sadism its not erotic.

Read this for the first time when I was in either grade. Re-read it in my mid twenties and by then in the lifestyle and its an eye opener as to what BDSM would be without safe sane and consensual.

For anyone out there with nerves of steel and a strong stomach, there is a movie called Salo which is the most banned movie in history and heavily based on 120 days. Disturbing doesn't cover this movie. I watched it back in my 'blunted days' watching it now would make me ill for a variety of reasons.