Engines of Desire: Tales of Love and Other Horrors

✍ Llewellyn, Livia 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Lethe Press 🌐 English ⚖ 200 KB

Death and pleasure. Freud’s Todestrieb, his statement that “libido has the task of making the destroying instinct innocuous, and it fulfills the task by diverting that instinct to a great extent outwards....The instinct is then called the destructive instinct, the instinct for mastery, or the will t

Engines of Desire: Tales of Love and Other Horrors

✍ Livia Llewellyn 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Lethe Press 🌐 English ⚖ 173 KB 👁 3 views

"In his introduction to this volume, Laird Barron writes 'Scant difference exists between exquisite pleasure and pain.' An orphan girl with a mind for anthracite falls into the hands of a cult worshiping an entombed god. In the Pacific Northwest, evergreens lull prepubescent girls into their trunks

Engines of Desire: Tales of Love and Other Horrors

✍ Llewellyn, Livia 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Lethe Press 🌐 English ⚖ 178 KB

Engines of Desire: Tales of Love and Other Horrors: SSC

✍ Livia Llewellyn 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Lethe Press 🌐 English ⚖ 173 KB 👁 3 views

"In his introduction to this volume, Laird Barron writes 'Scant difference exists between exquisite pleasure and pain.' An orphan girl with a mind for anthracite falls into the hands of a cult worshiping an entombed god. In the Pacific Northwest, evergreens lull prepubescent girls into their trunks

Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers: Magical

Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers: Magical Tales of Love and Seduction: Magical Tales of Love and Seduction : 22 Stories of Desire

📂 Standards 📅 1998 🏛 Open Road Media 🌐 English ⚖ 890 KB

Prepare to be seduced by powerful magic — the sorcery of lust, need, and sensuality. Multiple award-winners Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have gathered together twenty-two tales of unearthly temptations wickedly concocted by some of today's most potent literary conjurers — including Neil Gaiman, J

Cupid- A Tale of Love and Desire

✍ Lester, Julius 📂 Fiction 🏛 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 🌐 English ⚖ 106 KB

This is the story of Cupid--the god responsible for heartache, sleepless nights, and all those silly love songs--finally getting his comeuppance. When the god of love falls in love himself, things are bound to get interesting. And when he crosses his mama, Venus, in the process . . . Well, things co