RANDY ELROD

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

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  • The Dream of Salvation Breeds Monsters

    From the Inquisition to the voting booth to the human heart In 1799, Francisco Goya etched a man asleep at his desk, head buried in his arms, while owls and bats swarm out of the darkness behind him. Below it he scratched a caption: El sueño de la razón produce monstruos. In Spanish, sueño means both sleep and…

  • Kiss Me, Then Leave Me Alone

    What Barcelona taught a highly sensitive man about personal space Every Sunday at Mt. Olive Church of God, a six-foot-four mountain of a man named Jubal Whitener made his rounds. He wore his finest Liberty overalls. He had no teeth, hands like dried-out leather, and one holy mission: to greet every woman in the building…

  • 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,…