The Mammoth Book of Erotica includes what themes?
prostitution, orgies, homosexuality, sadomasochism, and many other taboo subjects and fetishes
Erotic literature
Erotic literature comprises fictional and/or factual stories and accounts of human sexual relationships which have the power to or are intended to arouse the reader sexually.
 Such erotica takes the form of novels, short stories, poetry, true-life memoirs, and sex manuals.
 A common feature of the genre is sexual fantasies on such themes as prostitution, orgies, homosexuality, sadomasochism, and many other taboo subjects and fetishes, which may or may not be expressed in explicit language.
 Other common elements are satire and social criticism.
 Despite cultural taboos on such material, circulation of erotic literature was not seen as a major problem before the invention of printing, as the costs of producing individual manuscripts limited distribution to a very small group of readers.
 The invention of printing, in the 15th century, brought with it both a greater market and increasing restrictions, like censorship and legal restraints on publication on the grounds of obscenity.
 Because of this, much of the production of this type of material became clandestine.
The Mammoth Book of Erotica
The Mammoth Book of Erotica (ISBN  ) is an Erotic literature anthology edited by Maxim Jakubowski that was originally published in 1994, with a revised edition published in 2000.
 It was published by Robinson Publishing in the United Kingdom (2000 reprint by Robinson imprint of Constable & Robinson), and by Carroll & Graf (Avalon Publishing Group imprint) in the United States.
The Mammoth Book of New World Science Fiction
The Mammoth Book of New World Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1960s is a themed anthology of science fiction short works edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, the fourth in a series of six samplers of the field from the 1930s through the 1980s.
 It was first published in trade paperback by Robinson in 1991.
 The first American edition was issued in trade paperback by Carroll & Graf in the same year.
 A later edition, also in trade paperback, was published by The Book Company under the variant title The Giant Book of New World SF: Short Novels of the 1960s in 1997. Simon Sheppard (writer)
Simon Sheppard is a writer of gay erotica and a sex-advice columnist from San Francisco.
 He is the author of many books of gay sex writing, including "Man on Man: The Best of Simon Sheppard", "Sodomy!"
, "Jockboys," "Kinkorama: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Perversion," "In Deep", and "Sex Parties 101".
 He is also the editor of "Homosex: 60 Years of Gay Erotica," winner of the 2007 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT erotica; the anthology "Leathermen"; and is the coeditor of the anthologies "Rough Stuff" and "Roughed Up."
 Sheppard's work is wide-ranging, often combining history, philosophy, and culture — high and low — with hardcore sex.
 His first book, "Hotter Than Hell and Other Stories", won the Erotic Authors Association Award for Best Collection of the Year, and the title story of "In Deep" was shortlisted for the Rauxa Prize for Erotic Fiction.
 His work has also appeared in over 300 anthologies and magazines, including many editions of "Best Gay Erotica" and "The Best American Erotica".
 He wrote the syndicated column "Sex Talk," and the online columns "Perv" and "Notes of a Cranky Old Fag."
 The online serial "The Dirty Boys' Club,” which he wrote for OutPersonals, was published as a novel in 2012.
 He also curates and co-hosts, with Carol Queen, the San Francisco performance series Perverts Put Out!
 Sheppard is openly gay, and is active in the queer artistic, political and AIDS-activist communities.
 He lives with his husband in San Francisco, where "San Francisco" magazine dubbed him “our erotica king.” The Eye of Tandyla
"The Eye of Tandyla" is a fantasy story by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, part of his Pusadian series.
 It was first published in the magazine "Fantastic Adventures" for May, 1951, and first appeared in book form in de Camp's collection "The Tritonian Ring and Other Pusadian Tales" (Twayne, 1953).
 The story has also appeared in the magazine "Fantastic" for November 1965, the anthologies "Time Untamed" (1967), "The Magic of Atlantis" (1970), "Wizards" (1983), and "The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy" (1999) (also published as "The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy II"), and the de Camp omnibus collection "Lest Darkness Fall/Rogue Queen/The Tritonian Ring and Other Pusadian Tales" (2014).
 It has also been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German and Russian. Colleen Gleason
Colleen Gleason lives near Ann Arbor, Michigan with her husband and children.
 She has a degree in English and a MBA from the University of Michigan.
 She started writing in primary school and wrote nine complete stories before selling the first book of her "The Gardella Vampire Chronicles" series to a division of Penguin Books, which published it in January 2007: the series arrives at a conclusion on March 2009.
 In 2008 she wrote a short story, a prequel to the series, titled "In Which a Masquerade Ball Unmasks an Undead", published first in the "Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance", then as "Victoria Gardella: Vampire Slayer".
 Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked in sales and marketing and started her own business in the insurance field. The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction is a science fiction anthology edited by Mike Ashley, originally published in 2006 in the United Kingdom by Robinson, an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd.
 It was reprinted in the United States, also in 2006, by Carroll & Graf, and imprint of Avalon Publishing Group.
 It is one of a long series of "Mammoth Book" short story collections edited by Ashley and published by Robinson, most of which have themes outside of science fiction. The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga
The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga is edited by ILYA.
 The book contains works by a variety of artists.
 The first book was released in North America by Running Press on 3 December 2006.
 It was licensed by Carroll & Graf Publishers before it was phased out by parent company, Perseus Books Group.
 The second book was released in the United Kingdom by Constable & Robinson on 25 October 2005.
 The third book was released in the United Kingdom by Constable & Robinson on 6 November 2008 and in North America by Running Press on 1 December 2008. The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror is an anthology series published annually by Constable & Robinson since 1990.
 In addition to the short stories, each edition includes a retrospective essay by the editors.
 The first six anthologies were originally published under the name "Best New Horror" before the title was changed beginning with the seventh book. Convent pornography
Convent pornography, convent erotica, friar erotica, priest erotica, monk erotica, or clergy erotica includes paintings, sculpture, photographs, dramatic arts, music and writings that show scenes of erotic or sexual nature involving clergy.