The Spreading Stain
Ida was thirty-four years old and had been driving a forklift since she was twenty-two, which meant she knew a thing or two about heavy…
Matter-of-fact erotic horror stories
Stories in Erotic Horror tagged matter-of-fact, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 22 to 26 minutes. Writers to know: Tawny Grammar, Olive Whisper and Shadow Lodge. Readers usually start with “The Spreading Stain” and “The Locked Pantry”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Matter-of-fact erotic horror stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Locked Pantry
Joan Tomlinson was forty-four years old and she had been arranging the same tray of canapés for ten minutes without actually arranging…
03 His Secret Room
Elly had been in the house for exactly one hour when she started arguing with her own suitcase.
04 The Auger and the Paddock
Britney Robbins was forty-four years old and had been a hairdresser for twenty-two years, and in all that time she had learned that when a…
05 The Dress That Eats
*This one came from a single image: a wedding dress that behaves like a living mouth.
06 The standing lamp
Shawn showed up at my door on a Tuesday with a lamp.
07 The House on Ambervein Lane
The house had been sitting empty for two years before Luce moved into it.
08 The Off-Season House
Val took the house-sitting job out of spite.
09 The Anniversary Special
Caitlin had planned this night for three weeks, and so far the rain was winning.
10 Postcards from the Missing Groom
Mel and Camila had been dating for three years now, ever since they met in a community college night class when Mel was fifty-nine and…
11 Her Ladle Weaves
Camila Costa was forty-six years old, and she had spent most of those years being sensible.
12 The After-Hours Wager
Cheryl Delgado was forty-seven years old and she had poured drinks in Quartz Creek long enough to know every kind of quiet man there was.
13 The After-Hours Tour
Georgina typed the last line of the sales summary, read it back, and deleted it.
14 The Layover Game
Nik Hartley was thirty-four years old and he had been flying the same Denver to Newark route for six years, and if you told him that was a…
15 The Drywall Sermon
A construction site at night is a different animal.
16 The Tuner's Hands
Cass had been tuning pianos for twenty years, and in all that time she had never once had to fight a festival crowd to get to a client's…
17 When the Night Vet Hungers
Stacy Kincaid woke up on a cot that wasn't hers, under a scratchy blanket that definitely wasn't hers, with her bra somewhere in the…