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  MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI is a London-based novelist and editor. He was born in the UK and educated in France. Following a career in book publishing, he opened the world-famous Murder One bookshop in 1988 and has since combined running it with his writing and editing career. He has edited a series of 12 bestselling erotic anthologies and two books of erotic photography, as well as many acclaimed crime collections. His novels include It’s You That I Want To Kiss, Because She Thought She Loved Me and On Tenderness Express, all three recently collected and reprinted in the USA as Skin In Darkness. Other books include Life In The World Of Women, The State Of Montana, Kiss Me Sadly and Confessions Of A Romantic Pornographer. In 2006 he will be publishing a major erotic novel which he directed and on which 15 of the top erotic writers in the world have collaborated on, America Casanova and his collected erotic short stories as Fools For Lust. He is a winner of the Anthony and the Karel Awards, a frequent TV and radio broadcaster, crime columnist for the Guardian newspaper and Literary Director of London’s Crime Scene Festival.

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  Constable & Robinson Ltd

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  First published in the UK by Robinson,

  an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd, 1996

  This revised edition published by Robinson,

  an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd, 2006

  Collection copyright © Maxim Jakubowski 1996, 2006

  All rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

  A copy of the British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available from the British Library.

  ISBN-13: 978-1-84529-272-0

  ISBN-10: 1-84529-272-3

  eISBN: 978-1-78033-351-9

  Printed and bound in the EU

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  CONTENTS

  Acknowledgments

  INTRODUCTION Maxim Jakubowski

  Canada

  MRS FOX Michael Crawley

  Czechoslovakia

  TRUCK STOP RAINBOWS Iva Pekarkova

  Canada

  ROSES Evelyn Lau

  France

  WHITE NIGHT Françoise Rey

  USA

  THREE FOR THE MONEY Marilyn Jaye Lewis

  USA

  FOURTH DATE, FIRST FUCK Dion Farquhar

  Austria

  LUST Elfriede Jelinek

  Great Britain

  UNTITLED Paul Mayersberg

  USA

  BEAUTY’S RELEASE Anne Rice

  Russia

  RUSSIAN DRESSING Svetlana Boym

  France

  THE OPERA Sonia Rykiel

  Canada

  CUCKOO Brian Fawcett

  France

  LIES Geraldine Zwang

  USA

  THE NAUGHTY YARD Michael Hemmingson

  Singapore

  LILING’S CURE Delilah De Silva

  USA

  SWEATING PROFUSELY IN MÉRIDA: A MEMOIR Carol Queen

  Japan

  ALMOST TRANSPARENT BLUE Ryu Murakami

  Great Britain

  WHERE THE WILD ROSES GROW Mark Timlin

  USA

  NICOLE William T. Vollman

  USA

  THE NEW FIANCÉE N.T. Morley

  Great Britain

  THE PLEASURE CHATEAU Jeremy Reed

  China

  JOU PU TUAN Li-Yü

  USA

  WATCHING J. P. Kansas

  USA

  HER FIRST BRA Cris Mazza

  Czechoslovakia

  EMILIA COMES IN MY DREAMS Jindrich Styrsky

  Great Britain

  A MAP OF THE PAIN Maxim Jakubowski

  USA

  GINCH Michael Perkins

  USA

  BLACK LILY Thomas S. Roche

  France

  LEONE Régine Deforges

  New Zealand

  THE GIFT Stella Duffy

  USA

  MOBIUS STRIPPER Bana Witt

  Great Britain

  A CASTLE IN MILTON KEYNES Sonia Florens

  Italy

  THE SEX LIVES OF CHAMELEONS Cristiana Formetta

  Argentina

  MEMORIES THAT LINGER ON Carlos Benito Camacho

  France

  THE CASTLE OF COMMUNION Bernard Noël

  France

  LILLY’S LOULOU Michèle Larue

  USA

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bsp; ALL EYES ON HER M. Christian

  Canada

  KISMET Michael Crawley

  France

  TAROT Florence Dugas

  Great Britain

  CRASH J. G. Ballard

  USA

  PRENUPTIALS Lucy Taylor

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  MRS FOX by Michael Crawley, © 1996 by Michael Crawley. Reproduced by permission of the author and his agent Tal Literary Agency.

  TRUCK STOP RAINBOWS by Iva Pekarkova, © 1993 by Iva Pekarkova. First appeared in YAZZYK. Reproduced by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc.

  ROSES by Evelyn Lau, © 1993 by Evelyn Lau. First appeared in FRESH GIRLS. Reproduced by permission of the author’s agent Denise Bukowski and Hyperion Publishing.

  WHITE NIGHT by Françoise Rey, © 1994 by Françoise Rey. First appeared in NUITS D’ENCRE. Reproduced by permission of Franck Spengler.

  THREE FOR THE MONEY by Marilyn Jaye Lewis, © 2004 by Marilyn Jaye-Lewis. First appeared in THREE-WAY, edited by Alison Tyler. Reproduced by permission of the author.

  FOURTH DATE, FIRST FUCK by Dion Farquhar, © 1996 by Dion Farquhar. Reproduced by permission of the author.

  LUST by Elfriede Jelinek, © 1989 by Elfriede Jelinek. First appeared in LUST. Reproduced by permission of Serpent’s Tail.

  UNTITLED by Paul Mayersberg, © 1996 by Paul Mayersberg. Reproduced by permission of the author.

  BEAUTY’S RELEASE by Anne Rice writing as A. N. Roquelaure, © 1985 by Anne Rice. First appeared in BEAUTY’S RELEASE. Reproduced by permission of Dutton Signet, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc. and Little, Brown, UK.

  RUSSIAN DRESSING by Svetlana Boym, © 1993 by Svetlana Boym. First appeared as “Romances of the Era of Stagnation” in CHEGO KHOCHET ZHENSHCHINA. Reproduced by permission of the author.

  THE OPERA by Sonia Rykiel, © 1998 by Sonia Rykiel. First appeared in PLAISIRS DE FEMMES. Reproduced by permission of Editions Blanche.

  CUCKOO by Brian Fawcett, © 1994 by Brian Fawcett. First appeared in GENDER WARS. Reproduced by permission of the author.

  LIES by Geraldine Zwang, © 2005 by Geraldine Zwang. First appeared in FEMMES AMOUREUSES. Reproduced by permission of Editions Blanche.

  THE NAUGHTY YARD by Michael Hemmingson, © 1994 by Michael Hemmingson. Reproduced by permission of Permeable Press.

  LILING’S CURE by Delilah De Silva, © 2005 by Delilah De Silva. First appeared in THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EROTICA. Reproduced by permission of the author.

  SWEATING PROFUSELY IN MÉRIDA: A MEMOIR by Carol Queen, © 1994 by Carol Queen. First appeared in a different form in LOCOMOTIVE. Reproduced by permission of the author and Down There Press.

  ALMOST TRANSPARENT BLUE by Ryu Murakami, © 1976 by Ryu Murakami. Reproduced by permission of Kodansha International.

  WHERE THE WILD ROSES GROW by Mark Timlin, © 1996 by Mark Timlin. Reproduced by permission of the author.

  NICOLE by William T. Vollman, © 1991 by William T. Vollman. First appeared in WHORES FOR GLORIA. Reproduced by permission of the author.

  THE NEW FIANCÉE by N. T. Morley, © 2004 by N. T. Morley. First appeared in THREE-WAY, edited by Alison Tyler. Reproduced by permission of the author.

  THE PLEASURE CHATEAU by Jeremy Reed, © 1994 by Jeremy Reed. Reproduced by permission of Creation Books.

  JOU PU TUAN by Li-Yü, first appeared in English in 1963, translated from the German version by Richard Martin. Translation by permission of Grove Press. Public domain.

  WATCHING by J. P. Kansas, © 1996 by J. P. Kansas. Reproduced by permission of the author.

  HER FIRST BRA by Cris Mazza, © 1996 by Cris Mazza. Reproduced by permission of the author.

  EMILIA COMES IN MY DREAMS by Jindrich Styrsky, © 1933 by Jindrich Styrsky. First appeared in YAZZYK. Reproduced by permission of YAZZYK.

  A MAP OF THE PAIN by Maxim Jakubowski, © 1996 by Maxim Jakubowski. First appeared in LIFE IN THE WORLD OF WOMEN. Reproduced by permission of the author.

  GINCH by Michael Perkins, © 1977 by Michael Perkins. First appeared in PRUDE. Reproduced by permission of the author.

  BLACK LILY by Thomas S. Roche, © 1996 by Thomas S. Roche. Reproduced by permission of the author.

  LEONE by Régine Deforges, © 1988–1993 by Régine Deforges. First appeared in LOLA ET QUELQUES AUTRES. Reproduced by permission of Franck Spengler.

  THE GIFT by Stella Duffy, © 1996 by Stella Duffy. Reproduced by permission of the author.

  HOT NAZIS, DABBLING IN S&M, LOWER HAIGHT, TAHOE and HIGHWAY 1 by Bana Witt, © 1992 by Bana Witt. First appeared in MOBIUS STRIPPER. Reproduced by permission of Manic D Press.

  A CASTLE IN MILTON KEYNES by Sonia Florens, © 1996 by Sonia Florens. First appeared in. Reproduced by permission of the Dolorès Rotenberg Literary Agency.

  THE SEX LIVES OF CHAMELEONS by Cristiana Formetta, © 2005 by Cristiana Formetta. Reproduced by permission of the author.

  MEMORIES THAT LINGER ON by Carlos Benito Camacho, © 2003 by Carlos Benito Camacho. First appeared in THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EROTICA. Reproduced by permission of the author.

  THE CASTLE OF COMMUNION by Bernard Noël, © 1990 by Bernard Noël. Reproduced by permission of Paul Buck.

  LILLY’S LOULOU by Michéle Larue, © 2000 by Michéle Larue. First appeared in EROTIC TRAVEL TALES, edited by Mitzi Szereto. Reproduced by permission of the author.

  ALL EYES ON HER by M. Christian, © 1996 by M. Christian. Reproduced by permission of the author.

  KISMET by Michael Crawley, © 1996 by Michael Crawley. Reproduced by permission of the author and his agent Tal Literary Agency.

  TAROT by Florence Dugas, © 1998 by Florence Dugas. First appeared in PLAISIRS DE FEMMES. Reprinted by permission of Editions Blanche.

  CRASH by J. G. Ballard, © 1973 by J. G. Ballard. Reproduced by permission of the author, the author’s agent Margaret Hanbury and Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc.

  PRENUPTIALS by Lucy Taylor, © 1996 by Lucy Taylor. Reproduced by permission of the author.

  INTRODUCTION

  Ever since the collapse of the Tower of Babel, sex has been the common language uniting men and women (as well as other fascinating combinations all reflected by the all-inclusive and indulgent field of erotic writing) throughout the world, so following the success of The Mammoth Book of Erotica, we put together an International version in 1996, of which this is now a reissue, with a couple of handfuls of the original stories consigned to the depths of the past and replaced by another ten previously uncollected tales to refresh the volume.

  Initially, it was my intention to demonstrate how wide the spectrum of writing on sex, love and sensuality could be. And how the art of the erotic tale actually thrived in contemporary writing. Little did I know that over ten years later, the series would reach over 15 volumes which have since included Historical Erotica, Short Erotic Novels, five annual best of the year volumes, Gay, Lesbian and Erotic Poetry as well as two volumes I am very proud of, displaying the best of the world’s erotic photography (an ironic state of affairs as I am known to have taken a somewhat limited number of photographs in my whole life, much preferring the art of voyeurism to the act of photography . . .).

  So, mission accomplished and, today, the bookstore shelves are now crowded by a plethora of competing, thematic and otherwise anthologies from colleagues in the UK and America, and I would hazard a higher standard of sensuous, provocative writing than was the case when this series began.

  Another fact that brings a satisfied smile to my face is the fact that since the initial volume of The Mammoth Book of International Erotica, two of the authors who willingly accepted to be part of the project have been rewarded most gratifyingly: Elfriede Jelinek of course has won the Nobel Prize for Literature and Stella Duffy made the shortlist for the Orange Prize for fiction. A random demonstration that not all occasional erotic scribes are just hacks . . .

  And there has been resounding acclaim for a whole slew of novels and books from foreign shores singing the flesh and the erotic: viz the commercial succ
ess of books in translation by Alina Reyes, Almudena Grandes, Régine Deforges, Vanessa Duriès, Cathy Millet, Marthe Blau, Tobsha Learner, Florence Dugas, Melissa P. and countless others.

  So, erotic prose is not just an Anglo-Saxon phenomenon but a universal one and this revised edition of this influential volume still only skims the surface of what is being written in France and Italy for instance, both countries so fertile right now that they could provide their own bumper Mammoth volumes of erotica and still neglect dozens of worthy writers such is the depth of talent currently active there. And I deplore my own lack of fluency in other languages like Spanish and German where, browsing through publishers’ catalogues reveals possible treasures . . .

  But I am confident there is enough here to satisfy your curiosity and tease your senses most delightfully.

  So I will end by repeating what I said in the introduction to the first edition: welcome again to a realm of bizarre and fascinating beauty as imaginations run galore in an empire of the senses that literally spans the globe. By ready for everything as anything literally goes, leave your clothes and your blinkers at the door, allow your emotions to control you, sit yourselves down and relax and follow the words of all these true artists of the flesh, the erotic writers who can blend emotion and sex into a dizzy, seductive maelstrom that will often have you catching your breath in sheer excitement.

  Let the great worldwide carnival begin!

  Maxim Jakubowski

  MRS FOX

  Michael Crawley

  ELEVEN DAYS AFTER I broke up with Angie I ran into Jeff, sitting in a booth at Sombrero Jack’s. He was with a woman, so I tried to make it “Hi and Bye”, but he insisted I join them.

  “Paul, this is Mrs Fox – Cynthia Fox. Cynthia – Paul. We worked at Blackstock’s together, years ago.”

  I half-stood and reached across to squeeze limp fingers.

  “Call me ‘Cyn’.” Did her fingertips drag on my palm for a fraction of a second? I wasn’t sure.