Cordelia Speedicut's Bedtime Stories
Further Amusing Links (to January 2017):
Alt Sex Stories Text Repository - The adult story website, free and
user-supported. You probably
already know about this site, since they are hosting this one – thank you,
folks - but if not, go there and check them out. And then, it the mood takes you,
give them some money. Hey – why not?
Other free ASSTR
hosted sites:
- The Erotic Mind-Control Archive - Simon bar Sinister's self-explanatory story site. The
vulcanized-girl thing in my ‘Club Latex’ comes from a story on EMCSA called ‘Latex
Clad Lovelies’, by Robotunit8. I took the liberty of borrowing her fetish club
locale & threw in fragments of imagery drawn
from some of Tang’s tales on the same
site. There’s also a nod to S.S. Crompton’s Demi
character. That last link shows the original Demi entangled in some tentacle
porn – perhaps there are elements of that in the whole over-the-top
trouser-snake thing.
Various
related sites:
- Doctor Faustus. Not the Doctor Faustus (probably); this one
hosts a blog called EroticMadScientist.com. He provides discussion about and
links to his EMS colleagues, such as Dr. Phibes,
Rotwang (from Metropolis), and the obscure Dr. Humpp. Oh, and Faustian
screenplays.
- Another fine source of free stories is Literotica.
- In the spirit of Keeping It Silly, check out Hoot Island
- Host Chris Bridge is a self-described 'silly erotica writer'. Sadly
his site is now dormant and reduced to something more of an islet. See
also Chris's stories archived on his no-longer-live journal.
The classics:- Firstly,
a literally classical tf collection - Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Navo, born 43 BC) was big in his day - his lines turn
up as graffiti on the walls of Pompeii. This work consists of retellings of the
tales of the gods, wherein a great deal of effort was made to get laid.
Jupiter becomes a swan, a bull and a golden shower (?!) to get the girls.
Contrariwise, there were occasional transformations to avoid celestial rape -
such as when Daphne’s father turns her permanently into a laurel tree to
dodge being heroically boinked by Apollo. Thanks a lot, Dad. A
thoughtful summary of the stories may be found here. Also another image of that Bernini statue, because I don't remember folks laughing out loud when I was there ...
- Fanny Hill : Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland. England, first
published in 1748. Supposedly the original pornographic novel - hardly because rude
stories were new, but by virtue of the fact that the word pornography was
forged at the time (from Greek roots) specifically to condemn 'writing
about prostitutes'. Also available (free)as read in a sexy voice.
- Gamiani, or deux nuits d'exces (Two Nights of Excess) by Alfred de Musset. France, 1833. Said to be a 'portrait of Musset's lover, Mademoiselle George Sand; includes various other players, human and otherwise. Ooh LaLa. One of the many excellent illustrators of this tale was Suzanne Ballivet. Warning - it all ends badly for our heroine.
- The Pearl : A Journal of Facetiae and
Voluptuous Reading. Authors unknown.
England, published 1879 to 1881. Contains a half dozen serialized novellas plus
miscellaneous short stories, poems and bawdy ballads. Find an annotated version here,
with a historical review. (Note - the speciality of this site is
spanking.)
As mentioned
elsewhere, my own characters are, of course, all above the age of majority in your
jurisdiction (anything from twelve in Tashkent to twenty-eight in Tallahassee,
unless I am misinformed). The above stories were written before such legal
concepts. They were often banned, regardless – possibly because of their rude
illustrations. Now, because they are old, they are regarded as literature, and
can usually be read without risk of being sent to crowbar hotel. (Unless you
are already in there, in which case you must be reading this in the internet café of
one of those country-club prisons where they send the perpetrators of white
collar crimes, like bilking old ladies of their entire life savings … But I digress.)
There are many 20th Century classics as well, including:
- Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov.
Although I have yet to read it, I understand it also ends badly.
- Candy by
Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenburg.
(Very loosely based on Candide, although Candide was a boy; but then Voltaire
was French, so there you go.)
- The six
Alba books by Delecourt (who was also French). Alba's Magic Man tells her she must properly anticipate getting formally laid - so she
does, spending a good deal of time fantasizing about it in commendable detail – as does
most every character who lays eyes on her. (One of these stories, Diva, was made into a very decent movie.)
- Since we’re on a roll ‘Françoise’ - Manuel de Civilite by Pierre-Félix Louÿs deserves a mention. The illustrated pdf edition linked here is from
the delightful and apparently defunct Cypher Press (motto: beautiful, pointless books) who also
provide, gratis, an illustrated collection of Aubrey Beardsley’s
writings; also a volume entitled ‘Some Limericks Collected for the use of Students, &
ensplendour’d with Introduction, Geographical Index, and with Notes Explanatory
and Critical’ – the limericks in question being, as is traditional, all
rude. (The also have, incongruously, a lovely edition of Sir Richard Burton’s ‘The
Search for the Source of the Nile’).
All the mentioned books are
pre-seventies and so are now sufficiently old to be deemed literature (see
above). They’re certainly before my time Oooh whoa whata freaky flashback
woowoowoo … so all right, maybe not all of them.
Some publishers of classical erotica:
- Maurice Girodias's legendary Olympia
Press (and his father Jack Kahane's Obelisk
Press, before that) - including all the green-covered Travellers Companions and much
more - can still be found online.
- Britain's
Erotic Print Society began as a publisher of archival erotica, and then began
publishing some lovely books under their own under imprint. Before going under they
seem to have begat the excellent Erotic Review Magazine (and Erotic review
Books), which have since evolved to become the on-line only Erotic Review. They offer digital editions of both new material and some of their
old EPS titles. If you are old-school like me, you may prefer the no-batteries-required
versions. A search at AbeBooks will
bring up lightly used offerings from their wide catalogues.
More generally, and slightly more
mainstream:
- Christopher Moore’s books all
involve transformation
and/or mythology (in a modern setting) – just to get the plot rolling, to
paraphrase the author. Very funny, & sexy. They feature recurring
characters: such as Kendra, Warrior Babe of the
Outland; Jody Stroud (AKA Bloodsucking Fiend) & her sometime goth minion, Abby
Normal; the
Emperor of San Francisco; and,
more recently, a revisiting of Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa -
along with his Parisian friends and associates. On the other hand, the only two-foot cocks belong to porpoise people.
(Did I mention these books are a little different?) Highly recommended.
- Thorne Smith's books
likewise involve transformation, in a 1930's setting. You may
remember 'Topper'; the book (and its sequel) included a good deal more sexual
innuendo and general bad behaviour than the film versions. Of course, the
primary transformation in that tale was to being dead, and ghost stories don't
usually qualify for this particular genre. Most of his other books did:
'Turnabout', for example, is a classical gender reversal story; another, 'The Glorious Pool' focuses on
a couple of senior reprobates and an animated statue of a naiad wanton who guards a
fountain of youth. Worth a look - some of you can find them here...
- George MacDonald Fraser’s books - My 'Dunyazad' has
an indirect literary source – I’d been re-reading Flashman. I love his combination of humour and history (with heavy doses of poltroonery,
plus some sex). Hence my story’s Victorian theme & a background occasionally based in fact. (For
instance, it seems Pope Boniface VIII really was accused by his enemies of keeping a small tame
demon in his ring for his depraved amusement - although probably he didn't. And Sir Richard Burton himself
wrote of his youthful brothel creeping in Naples – although he was notorious
for lying just for the shock value.)
- 'Cinderella'
was already an old story when Charles Perrault added the pumpkin in 1697. (See
Andrew Lang’s 1889 translation here.) His version spares the stepsisters – whereas in the German one
collected by the Brothers Grimm (here) their eyes are pecked out. Ugg. This site - SurLaLune Fairy Tales - will also gladly sell you a delightfully unsettling Rackham, Dore, or Dulac t-shirt.
The pictures:
- Welcome page: 'La Femme Chauve-Souris' (Bat Woman)
by Albert-Joseph Penot (France ~1890)
- Home page top: 'Rolla', by Henri Gervex. (France, again, 1878) This painting, based on a poem by Alfred de Musset (see above), was
rejected by the jury of the Salon de Paris for immorality, because the
naked lady is a courtesan and the gentleman a regular client. He should
have expected it - Manet's 'Olympia'
was booted out twenty-odd years previously for the same offence.
- Home page bottom: 'L'indolence' by Pierre Bonnard.
The girl is Marthe, Mr. B's longtime model and lover (and later wife).
She is described as having been a midinette - a Parisian seamstress
(which may or may not have been
a euphemism. See also Marthe's reverse - 'Siesta'.
- This page:
Woodcut, by Max Kislinger (Austria, early 20th c)
And a plug:
My version of Cinderella was first published in Into the Woods: Erotic Fairytales and Other Stories.
No royalties for yours truely (and you can find the updated version of my contribution right here)
but you may find the other stories enjoyable. Plus, Amazon has
links to a good selection of related erotica.
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