The short story collection the 21st century truly deserves.
They say it’s impossible to feel two extreme emotions at the same time. In the world of Erotic Nightmares, the first short story collection from acclaimed novelist Richard Blandford, anything is possible.
A presenter on a pre-school kids’ TV channel finds himself an unlikely sex symbol, before a blackmail plot threatens to see his sex secrets splattered across the internet. Two university house mates develop very different seduction techniques to win over the women of their dreams. An imaginary friend has grown up long unseen by the girl who dreamt him up, but has fallen in love with her. A young man infiltrates a local ghost-hunting group and stumbles into a world of odd ideas, unusual kinks, and, quite possibly, an actual demon. And ’80s pop sensation Paul Young turns up at a house, places his hat down, and refuses to leave.
These are just some Erotic Nightmares. Funny, dark, sexy and repulsive, often at the same time, these are truly the short stories the 21st century deserves.
(Published by Abandoned Bookshop in 2017)
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