A new collection of dark, erotic tales blurs the lines between what is scary and what is sexy.
Meet Damien, a jaded young writer that finds himself compelled to purchase a pricey art photograph of a seductive nude woman rumored to be a dead occult priestess; one whose likeness he is convinced is as aware of him as he is of it. Join Alton and his neglected married acquaintance Thora; friends with "benefits," they enjoy one another regularly - right up until Thora's husband tracks her to Alton's house and reveals himself to be far less inattentive than they'd imagined. Crawl inside the head of a woman that every man wants a piece of, whether he realizes it or not. Their frightening worlds and others await readers amid the pages of "Funereal Diseases of the Mind: Fifteen tales of dark erotica," a collection of short fiction written by Dark Erotica Author Anthony Beal. The fifteen tales of horror erotica gathered here will bring you face to face with gods and vampires, psychotics and witches, shapeshifters and demons, and strip them bare for your delight and theirs. These stories they will tell huddled in crumbling dive motels and moonlit lakeside cabins where life and death are equally fleeting. They will bring you along on 2 a.m. pub crawls and sex club excursions that know their darkest sins. Most importantly, these offerings will awaken both character and reader to the fact that while love may or may not make the world go 'round, lust conquers all.
Professional Reviews
Macabre Mansion:
This book, Funeral Diseases of the Mind by Anthony Beal, is subtitled Fifteen tales of dark erotica. The fifteen short stories are broken up amongst 135 pages and read fairly quickly. If you have just a few minutes of time then you can knock back a couple of these stories. The author of this book has definite talent. His skillful use of language meant that there were places in this book that I was disgusted, creeped out, amused, and even horrified. At no time while reading this book did I feel that I had been written down to or that the work had been dumbed down to appeal to the masses. His wicked and macabre sense of humor also shows through his writing.
This book contains murder, mystery, goddesses, adultery and enough twists and turns to satisfy most readers.
This book is definitely dark!
It is definitely erotica!
It certainly fits the bill for Dark Erotica Genre and I will be on the look out for Mr. Beal's work in the future
