#401408 - Journey into Torment Bill Ward Bizarre Books Paul Black

Journey into Torment
a novel by Paul Black
illustrated by Bill Ward
Bizarre Books BB-105
Eros Publishing Co., Inc.
Wilmington, Delaware
1973

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Imperious Agatha Dodge rounds out her crew of the S.S. De Sade with the addition of Paul Hadley, a sailor of limited experience. After meeting cook Delores, cabin boy Spider, and Captain Red, they depart for a Caribbean cruise aboard Agatha's well-appointed yacht.

The back cover describes perilous circumstances —

. . . . twenty-four-year-old Paul Hadley thought that a summer spent as deck hand aboard the yacht Agatha D. would be the experience of a lifetime. Too late he realized that he was headed on a cruise into the very maelstrom of horror and depravity such as he had never known existed. . . . Agatha Dodge commenced to teach her new deck hand the meaning of respect and complete and blind obedience. She was a woman of uncommonly sadistic tastes, agonizing excesses spawned for a tormented childhood. Paul was her latest victim and as he struggled to free himself from the snare of her evil web, he was led deeper and deeper along the dark depraved paths of monstrous sadosexuality. One torment was heaped upon the other until Paul felt his very sanity being threatened.

Within minutes after saying hello, Delores has the new man on his knees in the galley, delivering body worship. She enforces her demands with a tightening leather belt around his neck.

A sensuous wanton who dresses in leather, corsets and high heels, Agatha insists on compliance from all staff members, no matter how bizarre or painful her whims. Seeing her attendants in pain arouses her.

She dresses both Spider and Paul in women's lingerie and high heels. With his neck and wrists in pillory, Agatha spanks Paul with a hairbrush. She puts him in a corset to whip him. She hangs him from the ceiling and assails him with a cat o' nine tails.

A flashback to her youth exposes abuse from her grandfather. As a teenager, she derives pleasure from punishing the gardener.

The expert prose reveals a world of strange cruelty and ornate sadist ritual driven by the voluptuous meanness of a hedonistic protagonist. Mr. Black weaves exotic fetish elements throughout his hellish sexscape, delivering engaging erotic narrative that forms masochist fantasy.

The text has been completely re-set for the ebook version. Except for spelling corrections, few changes were made to the professional prose. About 39,000 words.

The ebook has all content of the paperback book, except advertising.

Female characters appear in stockings, corsets, long gloves, shoes and boots. Costumes expose aggressive pulchritude.

Tasty fetish features of the 12 narrative-precise images by the Great Bill Ward are repeated, enlarged, on separate pages (see sampling above/right). The ebook shows pictures on more than 40 pages, providing the visual experience of optimized presentation.

Illustrations depict incidents in the story and daydreams of the grand female character. As permitted by story content, page sequence places pictures close to related text, but not every picture is described precisely. Some events in the story do not appear in illustrations.

Brightness and contrast of images were adjusted.

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A second ebook consists only of the optimized illustrations.

The dominating beauty in high heels who functions as protagonist in the scenario is a typical Bizarre-Books sadist who demands hedonist treats and male humiliation. You can judge this book by its colorful cover.

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