#401 - House of Pain Bizarre Books Paul Black Bill Ward

House of Pain
BB - 116
a novel by Paul Black
illustrated by Bill Ward
Eros Publishing, Co.
Wilmington, Delaware
1974

digital replica

During the 1970s, Eros Publishing Company launched the Bizarre Books series with diagonal Eros Goldstripe ribbons on covers. The series featured male domination and female domination themes, often with forced transvestism and fetish rituals, usually illustrated by a gifted artist.

At Aunt Carla's request, Martin Thatcher's wife Ellen visits palatial Desmond Hall in rural Desmondville. The young woman dies under mysterious circumstances and her widower doesn't believe she was frightened to death by a ghost.

As soon as her niece is in the ground, sexy Aunt Carla makes unexpected advances toward Martin. But this is deceit intended to conceal her scheme to wrest ownership of the Desmond estate, and all the valuable real estate surrounding it, from the heirs.

With assistance from young Susan Hastings and Rusty, her well-endowed houseboy, Carla seduces, then punishes Martin. She enforces a painful program of punishment and degradation, always accomplished when she and Susan are dressed in stockings, corsets and high heels. He's introduced to bondage, whipping, restrictive garments and a two-headed dildo.

The ghost of Desmond Hall assails Martin in two episodes, but he unmasks the woman in the disguise. Carla also follows a “regimen of physical and mental torment and abuse” with strong but submissive Rusty.

Except for advertising, the ebook has all the content of the paperback volume, including the color cover and back cover. House of Pain has 12 illustrations by the Great Bill Ward. Tasty fetish features of these dynamic images are repeated, enlarged, on separate pages. The ebook shows pictures on more than 30 pages.

Illustrations depict some incidents in the story and the grand female figures of exquisite sadists. As permitted by story content, page sequence was revised to position each picture close to related prose, but not every picture is described precisely. Some pictures do not relate to events in the story. Some events in the story are not reflected in the pictures. One picture is repeated in the ebook.

The text has been completely re-set for the ebook version. Editing changes spelling and punctuation. A few sentences were revised for simplicity and some redundancy reduced. 39,000+ words. All original scans.

In the context of a mystery, Mr. Black crafts sexy sadists who men find irresistible. The author does a skillful job of describing contact between characters, thoughts, bodies and costumes. With expert vocabulary, he artfully sketches the architecture of female genitalia. His narrative delivers ornate masochist fantasy with strong fetish elements that will please those with an interest in femdom fiction. The ebook offers the most convenient mechanism for enjoying this rare artifact of 1970s fetish culture.

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