Edward Lee - Trolley No. 1852m, A Fine and Filthy Erotic Lovecraft Recall

Edward Lee is a fascinating horror author on his own right. However, I love him more for his special liking for H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos (see The Innswitch Horror).



Trolley No. 1852 is another tribute to Lovecraft from Edward Lee.
In 1934, F. Wilcox asks Lovecraft to write a new short fiction; as the author is short of money, he is more than glad to comply. The story has to have a risqué line - thus Lovecraft comes up with a most bizarre erotic horror story. The setting is 1852 Club, which is a parlour for certain gentlemen with strange taste. Ladies of the club are beautiful, true, but there are other creatures with dangerous needs and purposes. Behind them there is a dark, ancient, and blood-thirsty cult...
No doubt Lovecraft himself would find the story a tad rude (with his erotica related writings like Medusa’s Coil and Sweet Ermengarde). Today’s horror readers will absolutely love it.