#203293 - Bondage Dungeon Rosslyn News 1970

Bondage Dungeon
story by Jack Owen
Rosslyn News
Studio City, California
1970

digital replica

In Steely Dan's 2003 album Everything Must Go, the song “Green Book” refers to paperbacks with green covers published under many brands including Oakmore, Greenleaf and Liverpool. The boys poke fun at the rhetoric of adults-only paperback novels: intransitive verbs, superfluous modifiers, gratuitous observations that satisfy publisher word quantity requirements but don't advance the plot, comparisons to cultural icons to avoid the chore of drafting nuanced descriptions. When they sing,

“The new cashier looks like Jill St. John,”

they suggest that the author doesn't spend effort (or have the skill) to describe facial features of a pretty character.

Jack Owen, author of Bondage Dungeon, goes a step further in his prose and also borrows the first names of famous personae.

Sandy, the pert little blonde, looked like a carbon copy of young Sandra Dee. . . . Equally stunning, her classmate from Fairfield College, Ann, was a striking redhead with a figure comparable to Ann-Margaret, the Hollywood sex kitten.

Their tour of Europe takes Ann and Sandy to Bavaria, where they walk through a restored castle. In the distance they see another structure. The tour guide explains that the old building is in a state of disrepair, off limits to tourists. But the co-eds explore the grounds on their own, and enter the decrepit building.

In a lower level dungeon . . .

. . . . no sooner did the two girls turn to make their exit up the stairs than were they virtually paralyzed by the steady clicking of approaching heels.

Yet before they could run, or scream, two strange forms met them head on at the corridor between the dungeon and the stairs. The foremost was a striking brunette woman dressed in a skin tight black patent leather dress with knee high black shiny leather boots.

Around her neck and flowing to the floor behind her was a long, black cape, apparently made of velvet. Her face as bizarre, yet beautiful, and her jet black hair was streaked with silver-grey strands at the temple. Even in her panic, poor Ann could not help but think how much this woman resembled Yvonne De Carlo in her role on the TV series, "The Munsters.”

If the girls were panic stricken with surprise at the first figure, they were literally petrified by the appearance of the second. A hugh, muscular man with an ape like carriage of a Neanderthal stood behind the woman and stared blankly at the two young tourists.

"So you two little Yankee girls decided to pay the Baroness a visit did you?" snapped the woman in borken German-English. As she held a lantern toward the two girls.

"Oh, we're very sorry" stammered Sandy, amazingly fluent for the state of fear in which she was engrossed, "we didn't know anyone lived here and — "

"Never mind" interrupted the Baroness, duawing a pistol from a holster beneath the cape, "you want to see what we have in the castle, I'll show it to you. I will give you a demonstration that you will never forget, or never relate to anyone else again! Take them to the rack, Hans!"

The girls now began to scream as the burly, ape-like man approached them.

Hans attaches the co-eds to two racks and stretches them painfully. Then, he ties them in rope, hangs them upside down and the Baroness whips them. After that, they get locked in a cell.

After a short rest, the young women get roped back-to-back, hung from a beam, and tickled with a feather as they swing. Later, they get fastened to a huge log and used as lasso targets. And so on . . . .

Twenty illustrations — cartoons, really — illuminate the story, showing women restrained by ropes, chains, clamps and cuffs. In most pictures they wear nothing but their bonds, and in others bits of lingerie and high heels.

The ebook presents all content of the 1970 booklet in the original page sequence, including two pages of Rosslyn News advertising.

Brightness, contrast and levels were adjusted and many specks re-retouched. Illustrations and text pages transposed to ebook format with clarity.

All new scans. 48 pages.

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