Introduction

Tentacle monsters don’t use safewords.

This ought to come as no surprise, but it really ought to be said, right out in front, with no lack of emphasis. There are stories in this anthology with dubious or even absent consent. If that’s a problem for you, then you will find stories in this anthology that will bother you.

Of course, that’s usually the whole point of tentacle sex stories—helplessness before mindless, ravenous, inhuman lust. In reading them, we want to be bothered. We want to be uncomfortable. In no sub-genre is this fact more thoroughly demonstrated: erotica and horror are allied disciplines, as both evoke a physical response.

So when you squirm in your chair, and you’re not sure if it’s because you’re horny or horrified, then we will smile a bit to ourselves, satisfied in a job well done.

~ Nobilis Reed

1 August 2012