A Succubus for Saint Patrick's Day - Out now in Paperback!

I know it's the wrong time of year for Saint Patrick's Day, but this is part of the updates I've been making to my short story collections. I'm replacing the AI cover art with art commissioned from marwmellow (who has done a great job turning the nameless succubus into a sort of heavy-metal-album-cover mascot) and making them available as paperbacks for the first time since my old publisher, eXcessica, shuttered.

Here is the link to amazon page:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HN52X9C2

This is my 6th collection, which was originally published in 2015. This used up pretty much all the spare short stories I had around at the time, hence a lengthy gap before the 7th collection (A Succubus for Social Justice) came out last year.

Here is the blurb for the collection:

Who is the lucky one – the man given sensual pleasure beyond his dreams, or the succubus that ensnares and drains him?

Dangerous and delectable sirens abound in M. E. Hydra’s sixth collection of horror erotica. Within these pages you’ll find thirteen tales that will tempt, tease, titillate and terrify. Read and enjoy as dark temptresses weave their seductive webs and draw in their (un)fortunate prey.

In “A Succubus for Saint Patrick’s Day” a down-on-his-luck gambler thinks his fortune has changed when a magical succubus comes to his aid. A strange agency provides an unusual service in “The High-School Sweetheart Removal Agency”. A researcher has a dangerous and highly sensual encounter with an alien creature in “A Real-Life Goo Girl”. In “Number 66” an expat searches for an unusual girl in the fleshpots of Bangkok. An accomplished thief falls prey to a shadowy guardian in “Rogue vs Lamia”. A rich man gets the bigger dick he’s always wanted in “Crabs”, only to discover the treatment has some alarming side effects. And finally, a young man gets a surprise when he tries to rape the wrong victim in “Joe Boyega Picks a Bad Night to Become a Rapist”.

They'll give you pleasures beyond your wildest dreams, and terrors beyond your darkest nightmares...

I've also updated the ebook version on Amazon and other places to have the new cover. It usually takes a day or two for the updates to go through. Unfortunately, I still need to fix the problem with merging my Smashwords account after Draft2Digital took them over. This will happen some day!

Anyway, A Succubus for Saint Patrick's Day is now available in print for people who prefer their books to be actual books. I hope you consider checking it out.

Public Demo of House of Hellish Harlots updated to v0.059

Maintaining the recent run of regular monthly releases, this weekend I put out v0.061 of the text version of House of Hellish Harlots.  This adds the 2nd of the Round 9 elites - Arch-Suffocatrix Aranearia Obruo.  Aranearia is an arachne specialising in heavy rubber bondage and erotic asphyxiation.  For details on how to see her, please check out my Patreon or SubscribeStar.

With v0.061 out for patrons, this means the public version can be updated to v0.059.  This was the release that added the imp harem, otherwise known as the Dancers of Olümzül bir Haz.

This is a troupe of lust daemon imps armed with magical devices gifted to them by a Goddess of Pleasure.  They claim to be sensual entertainers, but their true profession is much darker...

As one of the harlot elites, their scenario consists of 5 sub-scenarios as well as a bonus Bad End if the player chooses poorly.  As always, the public version can be found by pressing the "public demo" version on the houseofhellisharlots website.

Progress is definitely out of the rut I was in around the start of the year.  I've had a nice run of regular releases that has finished off the Round 5 elites and is now into the Round 9 elites.  Work on the art version is also progressing nicely.

House of Hellish Harlots [art] release - v0.021 (imp harem)

I keep forgetting to post the harlot art previews on Monday, but at least I'm on time with this update.

I've ported the Dancers of Olümzül bir Haz (aka the Imp Harem) over to the art version of House of Hellish Harlots, complete with full notebook and reply mode functionality.

The v0.021 also adds some graphical polish.

The Doctoress's potion shop icons have been updated to have labels hinting at their function.

And I've also updated the ailment icons to have a more consistent appearance.

In continuing to add notebook and replay mode functionality to the existing low-tier harlots, I've updated Kanna bi Grafolita.

The current version of the art version of HoHH is up on the houseofhellishharlots website under the experimental tab.  It can be reached by pressing the "Private Demo" buttom.  Currently this version is paywalled.  For the password check out my Patreon or SubscribeStar.

I'm keeping this one paywalled until I have a full public demo ready that includes the Round 5 elites and all harlots have full notebook and replay functionality.  I'm hoping that will be ready before the end of the year, or early 2027.  Overall, it's shaping up very nicely.

Harlot Profile - The Dancers of Olümzül bir Haz

I haven't made one of these for a while. Originally it was going to show off the pinup art once the paywall period of exclusivity had worn off, and also promote the game. Yeah, I was copying the Monster Girl Encyclopaedia and also hoping the profiles would get shared among monster girls fans in a similar way.

I have profiles done for most of the low-tier harlots. You can find them all up on the houseofhellishharlots website here:
https://houseofhellishharlots.com/harlots/

It went on pause for a while because I thought it better to wait until I was porting the harlot over to the art version, so they'd be fresh in my mind for writing their profile. Then some feature creep happened and other aspects of HoHH [art] had gobbled up my attention.

Currently, I've ported the imps over and are testing them. I thought I'd rattle off a profile piece for them as well, especially as marwmellow's artwork of this assemble is rather good.

The italicised portions are The Madam trying to make her girls as enticing as possible. The text below is from The Portly Gentleman, who has a better grasp of the harlots' true natures...

So here are the Dancers of Olümzül bir Haz. They are some lovely harem imps dedicated to bringing pleasure to all. They are absolutely not a specialised and highly effective assassination squad.

Public Demo of House of Hellish Harlots [text-only] Updated to v0.058

 I seem to have regular releases rumbling again.  At the weekend I put out v0.060 of House of Hellish Harlots [text] for patrons and subscribers.  This adds the first of the Round 9 elites - Huntmistress Napoleena.  It's actually 3 separate scenarios in one as the player will need to complete challenges against Napoleena's three "hounds" - Rhin, the mermaid; Thémis, the crab girl; and Cornélie, the sea anemone girl.  For more details on how to access that, check out my Patreon or SubscribeStar.

With that out, I can now push the public demo version up to v0.058.  This added the Round 5 elite from The Sanctum of Strangulated Sighs - Mother Voluptua Obruo.

Voluptua is a tarpillow cushionblob, a special type of slime girl daemon.  She is devoted to worship through the art of erotic asphyxiation, and the malleability of her body allows her to be very creative in how she sexily smothers a man.

You can play with her over on the houseofhellishharlots website, by clicking the public demo button on this page.

Development is currently running fairly smoothly for both the text and art versions of HoHH.  I'm currently adding bits of polish to the art version of HoHH to get it ready for a public release.  For the text version, I'm currently in the middle of the Round 9 elites.  Hopefully I'll be able to continue to put out regular monthly releases. 

Harlot Art Preview - Kiki Sumoppai

And it's back to the art previews.  I'm near the end of the existing pinups, but after a recent writing blitz on the harlot elites, I have some new ones commissioned that are on the way.

This week is Kiki Sumoppai and her pair of "special deadly weapons".

Great art again by marwmellow.

While I have some harlots that have made the jump from short story to harlot scenario, Kiki is the first that went the other way around.  I needed a new story at short notice for my most recent collection and Kiki fit very well as a Bond-style femme fatale assassin.  She was indeed very effective at taking out her target and leaving no trace.  That story is "The Curious Disappearance of Daniel Drake from Flight 363" and is included in the A Succubus for Social Justice collection I put out last year.  If you're curious, it's available from Amazon here.

She won't be the last.  There are quite a few harlots in the House I'd like to give their own stories.  I do still write erotic horror short stories.  I know it's been a while.  The HoHH project is nearing completion and I'm putting a concerted push in on that to write the last remaining pieces.  You can keep up to date with current progress by following my Patreon or SubscribeStar.  

A Succubus for Remembrance - Out now in Paperback!

I knew I'd forgotten something.  This post should have gone out last Friday.

I've been gradually commissioning new cover art for the A Succubus for collections and putting out paperback versions.  This is the first time they've been available in print version since my old publisher, eXcessica, closed down a few years ago.  I'm now onto the 5th collection - A Succubus for Remembrance.

This is now live on Amazon and can be picked up in paperback version here.

It looks like this:

This is my 5th collection of erotic horror short stories, originally published in 2013.

Here's the full blurb:

Think paranormal erotica is only about sparkly vampires and fluffy werewolves?

Think again!

You’re about to enter the bizarre and twisted universe of M. E. Hydra.  His sexy succubi and other assorted femme fatales will give you a wild ride, but be careful they don’t eat you whole in the process.

This, his fifth collection, contains thirteen tales of darkest erotica.  A terrifying succubus wreaks vengeance on a group of former soldiers in “A Succubus for Remembrance”.  A man is sent by his therapist to an unusual nudist camp in “Iron Girders and Steel Springs”.  Two lovers look to a magical artefact to solve their problems in “The Skinning Knife”.  A sinister mobster engages sexy diabolic help to demonstrate “Ways to Break a Good Man, #1” (and no.2 and 3).  Bizarre and imaginative sex demons abound in a triptych of tales set in the hell-space universe.  Also includes an extra bonus tale, “Nazi vs Succubus,” for lovers of extreme, no-holds-barred fiction.

You will be surprised, shocked and aroused by these and other tales of fiendish femme fatales.  They'll give you pleasures beyond your wildest dreams, and terrors beyond your darkest nightmares...

I've also updated the ebook versions to use marwmellow's new cover art.  He's done a great job of turning the nameless succubus into a sort of mascot for the series.  Don't be tricked by her cute appearance.  That one has a very black heart....

If you haven't previous checked out the collection, I hope you give it a look.  Some very nice erotic horror in this one, with emphasis on both halves of the erotic horror equation.