Really licentious, horny, male-gazey books

https://www.reddit.com/r/horrorlit/comments/1bs3srg/really_licentious_horny_malegazey_books/

created by Inkshooter on 31/03/2024 at 06:31 UTC

185 upvotes, 51 top-level comments (showing 25)

A lot of people understandably ask for books that avoid these tropes. But I want the opposite.

Give me the horror books that deserve to be on /r/menwritingwomen the MOST. Books where the women breast boobily down the stairs. Books full of sex scenes that are irrelevant to the plot.

I'm already familiar with the usual suspects - Richard Laymon, Bentley Little, Ray Garton.

Comments

Comment by firealot at 31/03/2024 at 09:23 UTC

201 upvotes, 6 direct replies

Jack Ketchums Off Season!

There's a scene where a main characters sister is dragged outside and about to be strung up and eaten alive, and she takes a few moments to talk about how big and lush her friends badonkers are.

Comment by parker-luck at 31/03/2024 at 15:20 UTC

69 upvotes, 3 direct replies

Coldheart Canyon by Clive Barker is even hornier than his usual fare. At one point during an orgy a guy yells "OH YEAH" like the Kool-aid man. There's an assault by a peacock-man hybrid and a little goblin baby that's obsessed with knockers. A wild time all around. Before anyone jumps me, I'm familiar with Barker and his place of honour in queer horror! But the amount of shiny sweaty bodies in this book fits this request to a T imo haha.

Comment by probablyinpajamas at 31/03/2024 at 08:24 UTC

96 upvotes, 7 direct replies

Hell House—Richard Matheson. Good Lord.

Comment by StevenMarkMaine at 31/03/2024 at 06:38 UTC

121 upvotes, 3 direct replies

1984. Absolute classic, wonderful read. Orwell couldn’t write an interaction between a man and a woman to save his life, and it’s up in the air in whether he did it on purpose.

Comment by MordorRuckMarch at 31/03/2024 at 07:25 UTC

50 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Gotta be *Cum for Bigfoot*. I think it fits your criteria, but it's written by a woman. It's like a novelization of a really shitty b-movie/porn. It's horny, it's licentious, and maybe read a synopsis before diving in...

Comment by 3kidsnomoney--- at 31/03/2024 at 16:22 UTC

16 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Anything by Richard Laymon!

Comment by mtheory11 at 31/03/2024 at 15:29 UTC

15 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Still a fun story though.

Comment by zeeke87 at 31/03/2024 at 09:59 UTC

98 upvotes, 4 direct replies

I’m loving this thread.

Just because you like fiction full of morally questionable trash doesn’t make you a bad person. Being a bad person makes you a bad person. 😌

Also the necroscope series.

Where women are either victims or to perv on. And the only good woman is a woman who thinks like a man!

Oh, Brian. You really were a relic even in the 80s.

Comment by hypoestes at 31/03/2024 at 12:32 UTC

27 upvotes, 2 direct replies

The Vanishing and The Haunting by Bentley Little both have "Oh no this supernatural entity MADE Me want rough/kinky sex"

Comment by micklynchcomposer at 31/03/2024 at 19:31 UTC

11 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Colleen Hoover is a woman and somehow is one of the biggest perpetrators

Comment by RunningOnATreadmill at 31/03/2024 at 06:48 UTC

92 upvotes, 2 direct replies

I picked up Brand New Cherry Flavor by by Todd Grimson at the library because I loved the Netflix adaptation. The book is absolute trash. The boobs are all boobing very boobily, especially since its a creep writing a woman main character. Lots of racism, homophobia, bigotry, and lots of bad 90's style writing where everyone's outfit must be described to the most minute detail and everything must have been acquired at hot topic. I couldn't make it far in, it was very, very, very bad.

Comment by bat_shit_insane at 31/03/2024 at 07:12 UTC

100 upvotes, 1 direct replies

ಠ_ಠ

Comment by MisterTalyn at 31/03/2024 at 14:26 UTC

9 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Anything by Karl Wagner. He was writing Conan-inspired horror fantasy, and it was very clear that his target audience was young men who had never actually interacted with a woman in their entire lives.

Every single female character in his stories ends the story raped, murdered, or secretly the villain, and in one notable case all three. (She was a vampire.)

Start with Death Angel's Shadow, it's the pulpiest of the lot.

Comment by [deleted] at 31/03/2024 at 08:19 UTC

21 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Most of Edward Lee's work.

Comment by HappyN000dleboy at 31/03/2024 at 12:30 UTC

13 upvotes, 0 direct replies

I have just started reading Richard laymon and "beware" and " darkness, tell us "are very much this

Comment by p3achplum3arthsun at 31/03/2024 at 06:44 UTC

24 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Final Girls by Riley Sager is exactly this for me. ridiculous pulp but a fun one-day read.

Comment by Secret_Ladder_5507 at 31/03/2024 at 11:36 UTC

12 upvotes, 1 direct replies

The Monk. I actually just stopped reading it cause of how perverse the monk was, just spending every moment plotting how to capture/SA women

Comment by scribblerjohnny at 31/03/2024 at 15:37 UTC

5 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Dominion by Bentley Little It Came from the Drive-In Book of the Dead (especially On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks)

Comment by gaybatman75-6 at 31/03/2024 at 12:21 UTC

9 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Flesh Gothic by Edward Lee is ridiculous and I couldn’t put it down.

Comment by HotRails1277 at 31/03/2024 at 11:06 UTC*

16 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Richard Laymon. Lots of sex (having it or thinking about having it) in his books. I love his books and The Stake is one of my favorite all time books that could easily be made into a hit movie. If you haven’t read it I strongly recommend it.

Sorry, missed that you mentioned Laymon already but I stand by The Stake recommendation for anyone who hasn’t!

Comment by Over-Appointment-11 at 31/03/2024 at 07:01 UTC

11 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Are you familiar with the works of Brian Lumley?

Comment by soldoblanko at 31/03/2024 at 12:34 UTC

8 upvotes, 1 direct replies

You gotta read Brian McNaughton. Check out Throne of Bones, House Across the Way, or Downward to Darkness. The sex sizzles, but he's a quality writer, understands the hypocrisies and foibles of human psychology, and knows how to write some truly fearful horror.

Comment by dirt_operator at 31/03/2024 at 06:56 UTC

14 upvotes, 1 direct replies

My Monster by Thomas J Kline. Even as a male reader it felt as if it’s written in a fedora on pages of neckbeard hair. It’s a pretty violent splatterpunk book so if you’re a person who has triggers, approach with caution.

Comment by prisoner_007 at 31/03/2024 at 14:22 UTC

6 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons, the horny male mind controlling villains use their powers just how you would except.

Comment by cakebats at 31/03/2024 at 16:54 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Depraved by Bryan Smith is 1000% what you're looking for. Also anything by Graham Masterton.