Lucy Debussy's Library Salon

Olalla

Robert Louis Stevenson’s haunting tale of a bloodthirsty family in war-torn Spain interrogates the erotic power and mortal terror of the vampire myth

Feb 10, 2024 • Lucy Debussy

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The Duke of Burgundy by Peter Strickland

The film that will give you a Miss Jean Brodie fetish

Feb 2, 2024 • Lucy Debussy

January 2024

The Virgin and the Gipsy

D.H. Lawrence's precursor to Lady Chatterley's Lover has not dated well. But it still delivers a powerful insight into the stifling constraints of life…

Jan 26, 2024 • Lucy Debussy

Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille

Fantasising the extreme

Jan 13, 2024 • Lucy Debussy

May 2023

Blue Angel Nights by Margarete von Falkensee

Psychosexual dramas and kinky scenarios abound in this satirical collection of stories from Berlin’s Mutti of Erotika

May 19, 2023 • Lucy Debussy

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April 2023

Five Japanese Love Stories - an introduction to Ihara Saikaku

This beautifully bound book of short stories by the 17th century Japanese author cuts across the years with its vivid depictions of the body and nature

Apr 28, 2023 • Lucy Debussy

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'Secretary'/Secretary

Mary Gaitskill’s short story on which the erotic film is based, is a startling, discomfiting read. But there’s an honesty to its exploration of the…

Apr 7, 2023 • Lucy Debussy

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March 2023

The Story of the Brass Nutcrackers

While I tackle my data disaster, and reacquaint myself with the erotic treasures I'd written about, here's a story about one of my own erotic treasures…

Mar 24, 2023 • Lucy Debussy

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Boccaccio, and the filthy side of The Decameron

These medieval Italian tales are full to bursting with sex, but does that make them erotic?

Mar 10, 2023 • Lucy Debussy

February 2023

'The Erl King' from Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber

Wander deep into the woods where the mesmerising Erl King presides over nature (and cooks delicious mushrooms)

Feb 24, 2023 • Lucy Debussy

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The Butcher by Alina Reyes

Where is the line drawn when fiction explores arousal stemming from toxic behaviour?

Feb 10, 2023 • Lucy Debussy

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January 2023

Welcome to Lucy Debussy's Library Salon

Perch your reading glasses on your nose, and prepare to meet Anaïs Nin's 'The Woman on the Dunes'

Jan 27, 2023 • Lucy Debussy

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