Christa Faust

Featuring stories by: Loren Rhoads, Maria Alexander, Mehitobel Wilson, and Christa Faust
2008, Dark Arts Books

Horror and erotica go together quite a bit in this genre (that being, 'horror') but sometimes erotica can miss out on one of the most important parts of what is sexy: desire. These stories are not about cold or nameless desire, poetry, or making the disgusting palatable. They're about some very real people (most of them women) who crave love, flesh, and other less normal aspects of human sexuality. The authors of Sins of the Sirens have gone out of their way to write stories that are not the usual fare in horrorotica. In fact, some of the stories hardly qualify as horror, being more like series of one-act dramas, albeit with a dark slant. Rarely does the supernatural rear its head, (it does in a few, like Rhoads Last Born and The Angel's Lair) Sins deals mostly with relatable characters and fetishes...

By Alan Kelly

Stories by Caitlin R. Kiernan, Christa Faust, Bev Vincent, Jane Gwaltney, James S. Dorr, Amy J. Benesch, Gary McMahon, Gill Ainsworth, Larisa Walk, Louise Bohmer, Lisa Mantchev, and AC Wise
Simian Publishing

Have you ever been curious what it would be like to wander through the minds of other sleepers; to taste their dreams and live their nightmares, even for just a moment? Into the Dreamlands is otherworldly, surreal, nightmarish, sorrowful, and disturbing. Each story takes you into a winding path that is like the circuitry of a brain.