I am all at sea

[valarltd]

I want to write erotic horror.
I have NO idea what (other) (real) people find sexy and scary. Left to my own accord I'll end up doing incestuous necrophiliac bukakke to raise the dead sibling to life. Hell, I may just write that anyway. Doesn't have to be fanfic...

I kind of like the title DEAD MAN'S WIND and the idea of a priest, who converted in middle age to atone for all his youthful wickedness, having to stave off some sort of undead attack that is the direct result of his youthful wickedness.


So, my question to you:
What scares you, yet is still kinda sexy?

Vampires and werewolves not allowed. Vamps are overdone and the rent-boy werewolf story, "The Wash-and-wear Werewolf's Wares," is backburnered.

Comments

I guess I'm mostly thinking of what's still scary.

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

Sleepwalking, the Night Hag, and REAL banshees--the kind that wail when there's a Doom on This House still bother me. I'm a sucker for the kind of ghosts you aren't sure are there, but that appear to be family members from a hundred years back--all you ever see are images in a mirror or shadows on a wall. That kind of tenuous thing scares the crap out of me. Cross-gender ghosts with strange messages, weird legacies and family mysteries have erotic possibilities, I guess.

[kadath.livejournal.com]

The Unseelie are simultaneously scary and hot, for certain interpretations of the Fair Folk.

Nature spirits from the mode of Blackwood--that is, primal forces with incomprehensible motives rather than just pretty nymphs for the satyrs to chase--also hit that creepy/sexy balance, for me.

I'm probably the only person in the world who finds Peter Watts's take on vampires kinda sexy, but that version is most definitely not overdone.

[stormsdotter.livejournal.com]

I think Hellboy is, well, sexy as hell. :) Demons are terrifying yet rather appealing to our darker sides. Plus, HB gets loads of extra points for struggling to fit in.

[chickenfried-jo.livejournal.com]

I've always loved the incubus/succubus trope. Scares the crap out of me and yet, that siren song of seduction, unable to say no, just, is sooo cool. I've only ever read a handful of them in fandom and only one was memorable: Dragon by Aristide in the Sentinel fandom.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry but I must confess that Dead Man's Wind hits a childish and puerile part of my brain. It's not a title I can get behind. *ba-dump-bump* not sure what to suggest about horror erotica. Most of the things that frighten me are things that most people like and many of the things I find erotic, others find unpleasant or creepy.

So I guess I could just tell you some of my fantasies about stitched together rag doll people (not zombies mind you) and mannequins.

(sadly) I confess that vampires sort of worked for me before they became so mainstream but more in the classic sense of soul-stealing and becoming a monster than the current variety and not strictly vampires. More like Faustian sexual deals.


When I was a teen, I also had some unpleasantly and graphically violent auto castration fantasies and sometimes went so far as to do some rather impressive hurt to my body. (I've been much better since surgery, of course. ;) As I understand it, most males consider this to be pure terror but there's probably an edge in there they might find exciting none the less and if not, there's a transgendered market that might be spellbound by it. ;)


Lots of weird stuff like that. Sorry it's not much help.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

As I said to another (male) horror writer:
"When you and Shrews (Stephen Shrewsbury, horror author) write severed penises, you're just having another day at the office. When I write them, I'm a crazy radical man-hater."

He laughed and said "Crazy and manhater I can see, but probably not radical."

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yeah. I can see that. I know I've been called man-hater and told I'm 'trying too hard' and other bits of condescension any time I've said anything negative about the behaviors of a man. I can only imagine the sort of screaming a feminist writer would get. Throw in a little penis mutilation and they'd be burning effigies of you.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

You should read Alive on the Inside. Penis mutilation, self-castration, on-stage crucifixion, sex with a flaming penis... I covered the waterfront there.