Fantasy encounters with Sigmund Freud, Joan Collins, Warren Beatty, Rudolph Valentino, Chairman Mao, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and God (among others)

What made Lincoln's hat stand up? Did Chairman Mao keep a Little Black Book? "Seduction" follows Warren Beatty on his tireless erotic journey, with characters like Joan Collins and Joyce Carol Oates chiming in on his legendary prowess. In "The Ballad of Scott and Zelda," Maxim Jakubowski traces the passion and the slow, bitter disconnection of those idols of the Jazz Age. "Love, Zora," by Fiona Zedde, is a graceful, poetic evocation of a young woman's affair with Zora Neale Hurston.

Editor Mitzi Szereto brings together a playful and varied collection, not only gratifying our curiosity about acknowledged sex symbols like Marilyn Monroe and Rudolph Valentino, but exciting readers with the imaginary adventures of such unlikely figures as Toulouse-Lautrec, Sigmund Freud, and God.

"Funny, sexy, hot, clever, witty, erotic, provocative, poignant and just plain smart—this anthology is an embarrassment of riches. Each story should be savored, like the first time with a new lover." —M. J. Rose, author of Lip Service and The Halo Effect

"Marilyn Monroe, Dali, Abe Lincoln the cast is as creative as the fantasies and the stories as arousing as they are imaginative." —Playgirl

"Cunningly crafted, polished performances that are enticingly readable. There is wit and skill here. Szereto is a writer and editor who makes clear that the erotic is all intellect." —3 AM Magazine

"Wicked sheds new light on the Great and the Famous, reminding us all of their essentially sexual appeal." —The Erotic Review (London)

MITZI SZERETO is the author of Erotic Fairy Tales and highway, and the editor of the anthologies Erotic Travel Tales, Erotic Travel Tales 2, and Foreign Affairs. She is a regular contributor to Penthouse magazine as well as the Erotic Review. Szereto lives in Leicestershire, England.

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