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Pornography

Ian McEwan

First published 1978
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

"Two brothers work in a porn shop - one owns it, and the other tries to get customers to actually purchase some magazines and balances a relationship with two mistresses in the meantime..." (Maciek) When the mistresses find out some things the 2nd brother has been concealing, things take a violent turn.

First published in the magazine The New Review, 1978.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1978 Cover In Between the Sheets and Other Stories Jonathan Cape Collection |1
1978 Cover In Between the Sheets and Other Stories Simon & Schuster Collection |1
1981 Cover The 22nd Pan Book of Horror Stories Pan Books Anthology 131
February 1990 Cover In Between the Sheets and Other Stories Penguin Books (US) Collection 11
April 1990 Cover Dark Voices: The Best from the Pan Book of Horror Stories Pan Books Anthology 175
April 1990 Cover Dark Voices: The Best from the Pan Book of Horror Stories Pan Books Anthology 175
May 1997 Cover In Between the Sheets and Other Stories Vintage (UK) Collection |1