Eric's Body
Subtitle: "Gay erotica at its zenith!" - Amazon
Publisher: Open Road Books
Published: November 2016
Place of publication: New York, USA
Format: Paperback, Kindle, Nook
Number of pages: 395
Description: In 1993, Badboy Books, an imprint of Masquerade Books, published ERIC'S BODY, a collection of the most popular stories by former prize-winning journalist Jery Tillotson--writing as 'Jason Fury'--culled from America's leading gay magazines. This story collection became an overnight sensation and became publisher Richard Kasak's number one best-seller for several years, going through numerous editions. Hailed as "the zenith of gay erotica!" by Amazon and "A landmark of gay literature!" by Barnes and Noble, ERIC'S BODY was followed by the author's second book, the true-crime based THE ROPE ABOVE THE BED BELOW, which became another smash-hit, praised by critics and readers for "it's feverish, non-stop action" of a murderer stalking go-go boys in sex mad Manhattan of 1990. Both books soon swept Europe and even Soviet Russia and were both hailed as "masterpieces" of their genre. Because of their phenomenal success, both tomes were then re-issued by the Author's Guild of America's Back-in-Print  collection of American masterpieces. Both volumes repeated their sensational success and found a new generation of readers. And then in November, 2016, Open Road Books re-issued both ERIC'S BODY and THE ROPE ABOVE, THE BED BELOW in its collection of past all-time best-sellers, thus adding the work of 'Jason Fury' alongside such masters as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Carson McCullers and Edith Wharton. Author Jery Tillotson remembers the countless censorship problems he faced by both manuscripts when originally published in the early 1990s because "gay literature was considered pornographic in many states. Numerous booksellers were arrested for selling my work and those of other gay authors--although it was considered perfectly okay for stores to sell sexually explicit 'hetero' magazines like Penthouse, Playboy with no problems." In addition, both titles were banned in  Canada until recently--all becauses of their antiquated censorship laws. Also, Jery Tillotson remembers the tremendous hurdles he experienced in even finding a publisher for ERIC'S BODY. For two years, he submitted ERIC'S BODY to over 120 literary agents and editors. They all rejected the manuscript. Several were enraged and insulted that I had even sent them a manuscript of male-male romances. This was considered pornographic by many--but luckily I found a young, new agent who found a place for my book with Richard Kasak--and the rest is history."
Table of contents: title: The Stories; title: Our Unregenerate Author; title: Barbed Wire; title: Animal; title: Janu; title: Strange Young Man; title: Forbidden Fruit; title: Kiss Me, Kill Me; title: Eric's Body; title: The Return of Bubba Lee; title: Mr. White Lightning; title: Poochie Woochie; title: The Leader of the Pack; title: A Merry Little Christmas; title: Cock of the Walk; title: Wild, Wild Young Men; title: White Gods; title: Dance with the Devil; title: The Bull of the Blue Ridge Mountains; title: The Bastard of the County; title: Him; title: They Won't Forget; title: Miracle on 55th Street; title: The Faggot and the Redneck; title: King Of the City; title: The Last of the Seven Beauties