Perhaps initially named in honor of the Charles Carrington classic, Beatrice Bude is one of the best-written Gargoyles. The story of a young woman who marries a man much older, becomes an actress, and later discovers (and satisfies), the incredible, burning sexual desires within.

This long-censored gem of Victorian erotica, presented here in its original unexpurgated form, tells the story of our fifty-year-old protagonist as he recounts in sumptuously graphic detail the sexual conquests which have flavoured his life from youth to man.A gentleman of means with an appetite to match, James Clinton uses his wealth and influence to seduce the timid Lady-set of his high-society into an orgiastic frenzy, freeing within each of them a long-suppressed desire to be d...

When I look back at the strange vicissitudes that have chequered my existence, and compare the troubles of the past with the serenity of the present, I can scarcely regret the misfortune which made me retire from active service under the standard of the mighty Venus, and thus afforded me leisure to lay the fruits of my own bitter experience before those who may hereafter serve under the same banners. I am the fruit of the incontinence of the reverend Celestine Fathers of the town of B—. I ...

When Monsieur Dormeuil calls upon a certain Mademoiselle for a spot of lascivious, he is surprised to learn of her humble origins as a convent Sister and of her tale of eventual liberation, of sexual and of her habit, by a man even more predisposed to licentiousness than he; Monsieur Alexis Lorille!When the true object of Dormeuil's lust arrives, Pauline, the three make their way to Hotel X and to the company of Count Alexis. With the rooms of this palatial abode all manner of orgi...

Rarest of the rare. This book, first published in '57 as no. 45 in the Traveller's Companion series, is among the toughest works to find. (No. 44 was a little something called The Story of O, a title that initiated yet another French government crackdown on Olympia, perhaps explaining Rainbow's scarcity.) Whatever, scored a copy. Seeds of the Rainbow is the tale of Sid, a man as gifted in the priapic arts as he is lacking in physical beauty. Not without his charms, he still finds himself b...

An awakening in a whore's bedroom is, as a rule, cheerless. One is vague as to one's whereabouts, as a rule sore on the John Thomas, and a general feeling of having made a bloody fool of oneself is most often mixed with a wonder whose pyjamas you've got on and whether you've got the clap or possibly worse. Charles Vernon St Just Osmond, fifth off the succession to the earldom of Osmond, very much a 'younger son', with a good deal less money even than most younger sons, turned over twice, f...

Scenes depicting the crimes and follies of high life and the dissipation and debaucheries of the day. Young gal is sent away from her village to live with a rich widower and be educated by him. This thorough preparation for marriage is interrupted by a jealous daughter in the couple's midst.

Amidst the colourful backdrop of the roaring twenties, where money talked sweetly and seductively, a man of means and an appetite to match will pursue his sexual proclivities to true libertine proportions.Our 30 something narrator recounts his sexual history, from naive youth to rakish gentleman, in a deliciously graphic prose. With eager fairground adolescents, accommodating prostitutes, coquettish Parisians, and knowledgeable vixens, our protagonist bears witness and partakes in ...

Arabella is no ordinary, docile young lady of the Victorian era. Proud, strong-willed and stunningly beautiful, she sets out at the age of seventeen to experience all of life's hidden pleasures. Delighting in the elegant parties and secret rendezvous on her uncle's country estate, she chronicles a life of erotic cornucopia that is truly remarkable for its time.

Chronicling a British officer as he wanders the globe and samples many different sorts of women, focusing particularly on an Arabian beauty. De Vane's career advances and declines with rapidity, and along the way he often visits a girl's reformatory school, before one day finding himself the owner of a harem. Unique to the period is De Vane's writing style, a second-person kind of thing that really helps to bring a reader into the action.

When the young Monsieur Louis, desperate virgin, witnesses his cousin's vigorous fornicating with one of house maids, the two cavortees promise to arrange a dalliance between our inexperienced protagonist and the similarly virginal younger sister of said maid called Rose. What follows is an epic night of the most profoundly debauched, awakening within each individual a type of hunger that only wild sexual abandon can sate.It is not long before Louis, his two cousins, housemaids, an...

Another young lady who acquires a new perspective on California problems when her own situation changes radically is Anabel Crichton, the heroine of Bella Dietrich's new novel, Enslavement for a Divorcee. The tall, voluptuous, red-haired divorcee is the municipal assistant for Del Monte, a seaside resort and retirement community. She takes the job for the convenience of being near her mother, who will care for her two young children, but throws herself completely into both the job and the ...