#401441 - House of Horror Bill Ward 1972 Hilbarth

House of Horror
illustrated by Bill Ward
Hilbarth, Inc.
Buffalo, New York
1972

optimized for ebook viewing

and

pictures-only optimized ebook

During the past 11 years of making ebooks for our international clientele, quality and entertainment value have been guiding ideals. Hilbarth magazines with text and illustrations were scanned, page-by-page, and pages (about 48) were sequenced in a magazine-sized ebook. Many of these products have a second optimized ebook of the pictures.

For the House of Horror product, the text was scanned separately and placed on wide pages as text rather than as pictures of pages containing paragraphs. The technique permits closer correlation between images, optimized details, and the prose they picture.

Hilbarth magazines that integrate text with illustrations divide the prose into two parts. House of Horror presents five scenes from the life of Rita, a sexy sadist who lives for pleasure. In the ebook, the text was divided into five chapters.

Rita comes of age in the home of her aunt and uncle, where she spies on the kinky couple while they're in the throes of sadomasochistic ritual. By example, Rita learns about the delights of fetish attire, and buys her own stockings, heels and gloves. When she offers herself to her uncle, he explains that he cannot enjoy sex without pain. She obliges with a hairbrush.

Later in life, Rita lives luxuriously in her House of Horror. She realizes that she doesn't enjoy punishing masochists as much as she likes hurting men who prefer sex without whips.

Because of his size, she keeps Pete on the premises for her multi-faceted pleasure. He pretends to object to repeated punishments by his mistress, which intensifies her enjoyment of their boudoir playtime. When she learns that he's not a genuine masochist, she becomes angry.

She punishes her maid and encourages Pete to paddle her as well. At a party, a guest toys with Pete, which makes Rita jealous. Later, she hurts a man bound to a spiked rack, just to make him beg for mercy. When she seduces Georgie into her bed, Rita urges him on with flicks of her quirt.

The competent narrative explores the aggressive and hedonistic drives of bizarre characters. Text describes thoughts, sensations, anatomy, bondage and costumes, often using vulgar vernacular. Prose often refers to the bloody consequences of punishment incidents.

At about 11,000 words, the text is about 2,000 words shorter than other Hilbarth magazines. In pursuit of alignment of images and prose, the text was reset in a larger typeface. While pictures were placed within the chapters that describe them, alignment of illustrations and prose lacks precision for some scenes.

The prose was edited, with changes to punctuation, sentence structure, paragraphing, and in a few cases, excising modifiers. The colorful vocabulary was retained.

The pictures that illustrate the story show the skill of the Great Bill Ward at the peak of his abilities. Rita's facial expressions vary from vicious rage to serene satisfaction. Skillful strokes delineate grand female forms in provocative fetish regalia.

These 1972 ink renderings show little nudity — a few pubic curls. The ladies wear panties or have limbs arranged to conceal genitalia. Males bulge within their briefs.

Female characters dress in fetish attire. Nylons, corsets, garter belts, long gloves and high-heeled footwear gleam on fantastic bodies.

The brightness and contrast of images were adjusted for clarity.

All new scans.

The optimized ebook page size was expanded for this volume to make the most of the large pictures in the paper publication. Tasty fetish details — such as action, legs, high heels and corsets — appear on separate pages as virtual enlargements, reducing the need for zooming and scrolling.

The original publication had the construction and dimensions of a full-sized magazine. The layout alternated text on even-numbered pages with pictures on odd-numbered pages. In the original, a caption was placed below each illustration. In the ebook, complete illustrations, including borders, are placed on the right end of pages, and captions appear on the left, in italics.

The product includes an optimized ebook containing only the fine Bill Ward art. In both ebook iterations, his 24 pictures are optimized on more than 80 pages.

Enlargements of illustration details expose the energy and artistry of a prolific 20th century illustrator. The ebooks express appreciation and respect for his talent at showing fantasy hedonists at play.

Two optimized ebooks, delivered by download from your 30th Street Graphics account.