Erotica Obscura

Dante Remy | Black Fern Press

Follow us: Insta ✦ erosetti_press | X ✦ erosettipress | Erotica Obscura presents voice and literature entwine, unravelling stories of pleasure, art, and fetish. Produced by Dante Remy and Black Fern, an imprint of Erosetti Press, the podcast performs both contemporary and classic erotic literature and commentary, reviews, and reflections from the Erotica Obscura Blog. Each episode features immersive performances by the podcast team and the authors themselves. Created for the sapiosexual listener, Erotic Obscura is a haunting, literary journey into the secret life of eroticism.

  1. Apollonia Saintclair: The Writer Who Draws | Erotica Osbsura Blog | Hosted by Zhanna Z with Guest Dante Remy

    08/02/2025

    Apollonia Saintclair: The Writer Who Draws | Erotica Osbsura Blog | Hosted by Zhanna Z with Guest Dante Remy

    Learn more at apolloniasaintclair.com⁠⁠. Buy and read Bloodlust and The Mysteries, written by Dante Remy and illustrated by Apollonia Saintclair at ⁠⁠ErosettiPress.com⁠⁠. Follow the author at ⁠⁠danteremy.com. In this intimate, fireside episode of Erotica Obscura, host Zhanna Zee welcomes special guest Dante Remy to her cabin deep in the woods—for tea, ink, and a whispered conversation about the mysterious, magnificent artist known as Apollonia Saintclair. Together, they explore what it means to call her “the writer who draws.” Saintclair’s illustrations are not decoration—they are literature rendered in shadow, stories compressed into flesh, gaze, and gesture. Each drawing invites you to narrate, implicates you in its ambiguity, and refuses to resolve. Her anonymity is not a veil to be lifted, but the very condition of her art. Zhanna and Dante move through several unforgettable images—from the wounded lioness to the kneeling reader by candlelight—drawing out how Saintclair’s work lives in the liminal: between ecstasy and estrangement, parody and prayer, climax and collapse. They reflect on themes of erotic tension, ritual, voyeurism, absurdity, surrender, and sacred obscenity. And with the arrival of Project M, her new image-text series, they glimpse something even more explosive: a graphic novel as scripture, composed from the body itself. Step into the threshold. Let the ink draw you in. Read the full article on the Erotica Obscura Blog at danteremy.com. Learn more about ⁠⁠apolloniasaintclair.com⁠⁠. Explore The Mysteries and Bloodlust, illustrated by Apollonia Saintclair, now available in large-format Collector’s Editions from erosettipress.com

    38 min
  2. The Erotic and the Gothic: LeFanu’s Vampire Classic “Carmilla” | Erotica Osbsura Blog | Hosted by Zhanna Z

    08/02/2025

    The Erotic and the Gothic: LeFanu’s Vampire Classic “Carmilla” | Erotica Osbsura Blog | Hosted by Zhanna Z

    Buy the erotic illustrated Carmilla at Erosetti Press and the illustrated pocket book edition on Amazon, worldwide! Step into the candlelit crypt of forbidden desire with host Zhanna Zee as Erotica Obscura resurrects one of the most sensual and subversive vampire tales ever written—Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Before Dracula, there was Carmilla—a story of sapphic longing, blood-soaked intimacy, and erotic horror so potent it still seduces readers 150 years later. In this lushly narrated episode, Zhanna delves deep into the dark psyche of this gothic masterpiece—exploring the symbolism of blood as menstruation, loss of virginity, and transformation; the legacy of Carmilla as both monster and lover; and the forbidden, fatal tenderness between predator and prey. With insights from Freud, Foucault, and Butler, this isn’t just a book discussion—it’s a rich, intoxicating journey into the shadows where desire and death entwine. Zhanna also confesses her own obsession with the erotic Black Fern Restored Edition—a sensually illustrated volume that reclaims Carmilla as the erotic, psychological ritual it was always meant to be. Whether you're drawn by gothic lore, vampire history, or simply the lure of a kiss that lingers within the erotic imagination, this episode will haunt you in the best possible way. And yes, Carmilla is now available in audio on the podcast too...if you dare. Buy the erotic illustrated Carmilla at ⁠Erosetti Press⁠ and the illustrated pocket book edition on ⁠Amazon⁠, worldwide!

    16 min

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Follow us: Insta ✦ erosetti_press | X ✦ erosettipress | Erotica Obscura presents voice and literature entwine, unravelling stories of pleasure, art, and fetish. Produced by Dante Remy and Black Fern, an imprint of Erosetti Press, the podcast performs both contemporary and classic erotic literature and commentary, reviews, and reflections from the Erotica Obscura Blog. Each episode features immersive performances by the podcast team and the authors themselves. Created for the sapiosexual listener, Erotic Obscura is a haunting, literary journey into the secret life of eroticism.