Horrotica

Ellen Datlow's anthos often include sexy horror stories, not erotica, yet hot. She also edited Alien Sex, erotic science fiction.

Ramsey Campbell's Scared Stiff.
Anthos and/or stories by Thomas Roche, M. Christian, Michael Rowe (ed. of Queer Fear), Michael Thomas Ford.
Lucy Taylor is amazing, yet while sexually explicit, her work is often more disturbing than erotic.
Poppy Z. Brite.

I have sold a little in this genre as well, but I can think of any classics of the genre I would recommend except perhaps some stories in the Alien Sex anthology, and a novel that I just cannot remember the name of that boggled my mind a little as a teen (a sexual blob alien that captured and amalgamated people into itself and they liked it).

What is your novella about? Erotic horror can be a lot of things. If it's not monsters, is it more true crime or mystery or suspense or a kidnapping or serial killer (with graphic sex)? I can probably recommend something if I know more what you're looking for! I've read a lot of erotic horror/dark erotica. There are definitely clear "types" of stories that readers search for, if that matters to you.

I can't. Well, I'm not widely read. But how about Clive Barker? Read him at all? I suppose his stuff wouldn't be considered erotica, per se, though.

I like the idea of horrotica, anyway.

Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite. I will warn you though it's disturbing.

I've published two erotic horrors. Better After Death went out of print on January 1 of this year, but if you want a copy I can email you a file. It's a zombie/necromancer novella. Black Feather is still available on Amazon. It's co-authored with Amber Marie (UK) and is a necro-shifter novel.

As far as who else to read, I agree with Brite and Barker. If you can find any I'd add old William Johnstone horror novels. His early works had some eye-popping eroticism, particularly Rockinghorse. I'd also recommend Tanith Lee, whose work is so exquisite she can make you writhe and cringe at the same time. And the awesome China Mieville. ("I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye." See? my adolescent heart flutters!)

And for the sake of the goddess, don't leave off Mama Rice, Anne and Papa Lovecraft, H.P. I'd devour their respective collections.

Now with all that to read, when are you going to write?

Cheers,
Tux

I recently got done with Kraken and LOVED it. It's M/M erotic horror, by M. Caspian.

It was pretty much everything I want out of erotic horror. Disturbing at times, often skin-crawling with its determination to push the boundaries of what the human body is capable of, yet also with the suffocating and claustrophobic feeling of being trapped on this island you can't get off of, where everyone seems in on something but you just don't know what...but never losing its thread of eroticism and sensuality.

So yeah, freaky and erotic all at once. ♥