Writing About Faeries, Spirits and Ghosts

A lot of my stories feature naughty and mostly horny supernaturals

Following in from my post Demons Incubi and Succubae another group of naughty and often horny supernaturals are spirits, faeries and ghosts.

Tending to be more mischievous and less malevolent than demons, spirits and faeries are ideal subjects for the writer of erotica, although researching tales and fables will reveal that they can also reek a certain amount of mayhem.

I have included ghosts in this post as the entities I write about may or may not fall into this category. I love to leave the reader with the question was that character just fucked by a real person, a ghost or a supernatural being?

I love the idea of the living interacting with the transcendent and since what I write here is erotica a lot of that interaction is going to involve sex. When your characters are not bound by the constraints of the physical world it gives the writer freedom to let their mind wander into a myriad of, ‘what ifs’.

I have included ghosts in this article because it is often difficult to distinguish between what is a spirit, a faerie or a ghost. In Release Me, is Celia submitting to a ghost, a spirit, a real person or is her lover just in her imagination?

In The Girl in the Green Dress is he lured into the woods by a real girl or a spirit?

We all see or experience events in life that, initially, appear as unexplained. There is usually a rational explanation but, by the time you or I have worked this out our imaginations running riot.

For example: I once felt myself falling into a painting - the rational explanation was that the guide had just told us that people were rumoured to see a ghost in the painting. I am not going to let the rational explanation get in the way of a good story and some arousing sex and my experience inspired The Bride Was A Picture (a paid subscriber story)

Painted Stripes (read episode 1 free) also features a magical painting, although this one owes more to Oscar Wilde’s A Picture of Dorian Gray than personal experience. Jocelyne finds her life spirals into a series of evermore erotic adventures after she commissions a nude painting of herself.

In Demons Incubi and Succubae I mentioned that some might argue that sex is about procreation so why would preternatural beings indulge in it? Who is to say that is not possible? Human sex is often about the power dynamic, especially when domination and submission are involved. Why would not preternatural beings use it as a way to exercise their power?

Sex is also fun, that is one of the reasons we continue to do it in later years after the chances of reproducing our genes have faded. I like my ghosts and spirits to have characters and motivations - why shouldn’t they lust after a bit of fun?

Read my Supernatural Erotica and Ghostly Horror collections on Substack. Many of the stories are free to read some are open only to the more daring - paid subscribers.

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My series At the Edge of Dreams looks at faeries from another angle. What if they do exist, but they are beings from another dimension?

At the Edge of Dreams -Prologue

Kate Mason is a successful business woman, queen of her empire. Hiding away in a remote cottage she finds herself having strange, erotic dreams. When she follows an ethereal girl into a wood near the cottage she finds her dreams, fantasies and reality blurring as she slips between worlds.

At the Edge of Dreams was partially inspired by William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I love the chaos of this play generated by the interaction between earthly and ethereal characters. The use of love spells and the blurring of the boundaries between reality and dreams is all woven into my story.

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In my writing I differentiate between demons and spirits; demons deliberately interact with humans, often in a predatory manner; spirits and faeries live in a different dimension, sometimes their world bumps into ours, when it does their interaction is more mischievous. Much like humans, spirits and faeries, can be out to have some fun with other lifeforms and hang the consequences.

See the full list of my free and paid subscriber supernatural stories

My stories are also listed by theme on my website. Check out: Supernatural Erotica, Folklore, Erotic Ghost Stories, Dark Erotica and Horror

The lists give brief details, tell you if the story is paid or free and link back to it on Substack.