RANDY ELROD

Sensuality | Curiosity | Intimacy | Freedom
Taste the body. Feed the mind. Bare the soul. Free the spirit.

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Fair warning: This isn’t a place for the prudish. Here we dive deep and uncensored into sensuality, curiosity, intimacy and freedom—and the courage it takes to live authentically. If you’re looking for safe, sanitized perspectives and art, you’ll find richer hunting grounds elsewhere. But if you’re hungry for real talk about what it means to be human—body, mind, soul, and spirit—pull up a chair.

My Latest Posts

  • Half-Price Kindle Announcement

    For Immediate Release For One Month Only: The Mysteries of Barcelona Kindle Edition Is Half Price Randy Elrod’s erotic Gothic serial, reviewed by the Historical Novels Review, drops to $4.99 in the US and €4.99 in Spain through December 5 BARCELONA, Spain — From now through December 5, the Kindle edition of The Mysteries of Barcelona: An Erotic Gothic…

  • An X-Rated Mary Shelley Kind of Way

    The Historical Novel Society reviews The Mysteries of Barcelona The journal of the Historical Novel Society reviewed The Mysteries of Barcelona in its November issue. If the name is new to you, HNS is the leading voice for historical fiction in the English-speaking world. Its reviewers sift through mountains of submissions, and an independent novel earns a…

  • Barcelona Gothic

    A Brief Tribute to America’s Halloween and Barcelona’s Castanyada (5 min read) Why We Reach for the Dark This morning, a timely New York Times article asked a question: Why is every book Gothic now? Deirdre Coyle’s answer wanders through crumbling manors, family secrets, and a governess trapped in a gloomy mansion in the twenty-second century. The…

  • Obituary of a Democracy

    She was 250. The family asks that you hold the flowers one more week. AMERICAN DEMOCRACY, 250, THE WORLD’S MOST IMITATED EXPERIMENT IN SELF-RULE An advance obituary. To be published, or burned, after November 3, 2026. BARCELONA — American democracy, the restless, contradictory, gloriously unfinished experiment that taught half the planet to say we the people,…

  • My Grandmother’s Bible Made Me Do This

    As a boy, I sat with my grandmother’s family Bible on my lap, turning past the genealogies to find Gustave Doré’s engravings—Adam and Eve in Eden, lit like marble against the dark. They were the most beautiful and sensual pictures I had ever seen. So this week I set out to illustrate a scene from…

  • Why Can’t We Just Be Honest?

    My friend Ray has known me for over thirty years. We’ve made music together, carried each other through some hard seasons, and can talk about anything. Yesterday he sent me a note about my writing here: “I continue to be amazed at the vulnerability in your writing. I haven’t reached the point where I can…