A kinky one from the 'Linda Lovecraft' school to celebrate five years of Vault(!). Selected by Gregory Pendennis with a foreword by James Manfred OBE, it's
The Devil's Swishes!
John Llewellyn Probert - Six Of The Best
Alistair Bogaert - The Leather Mask
Franklin Marsh - The Late Bus
L A. Lewis - The Author's Tale
Karl E. Wagner - The Kind Men Like
Leslie Manette - The Girl In The Iron Collar
Edward E. Kramer - Forgotten Promises
Frank Neate - Miss Fletcher's Plum Tree
Ramsey Campbell - Cold PrintRamsey Campbell - Cold Print: (August Derleth,
Tales Of The Cthulhu Mythos, Arkham House, 1969). A Cthulhu Mythios story for Christmas, this is the cautionary tale of kinky school-teacher Sam Strutt whose obsession with CP literature - he's particularly hot for
Miss Whippe, Olde Style Governess,
Prefects & Fags,
The Caning Master,
The Secret Life Of Wackford Squeers and other Ultimate Press classics - leads him into the tentacled clutches of a Lovecraftian abomination. Ramsey seems to be something of a serial offender in this sub-genre - who could ever forget his comprehensive guide to Brit Spanking Films in
Shock Xpress? According to friend Sean of Giant Albino Penguin repute, a colleague of Mr. Strutt's stars in
The Other Side, but i don't have a copy to follow up the lead.
John Llewellyn Probert - Six Of The Best : (
Charles Black, 6th Black Book Of Horror, 2009). David Rhys, producer of
Wales's Scariest Places, hires Suzanna Draganska as his new technical assistant, a position for which she has no aptitude whatsoever, although she's more than happy to indulge his his strict headmaster versus naughty St. Trinians pupil caning fantasies. For the show's next episode, the team will be filming at the condemned Cwnfelin Girl's School and Rhys and Suzanna travel ahead of the others to enjoy some serious role-playing fun - or, at least, that's what he tells her ....
Franklin Marsh - The Late Bus : (Vault Of Evil, 2008). In one of the episodes, James Waddicot - who may or may not be modelled on James Manfred OBE from
Death Line - comes a cropper in Larrikin's Gentleman's Club. Provided you're logged in, you can read it
HEREL A. Lewis - The Author's Tale : (Christine Campbell Thomson,
Terror by Night, Selwyn & Blount, Aug, 1934).
"He would kidnap the venomous swine of a woman and hold her captive in a secret place that he knew, flogging her daily until brute force brought her to absolute subjection."He is 'Lester', usually an amiable enough fellow with a weakness for the ladies, and she is his third wife who has ruined him, while the remote spot is a deserted farmhouse where he has rigged up his apparatus, a frame with straps and pulleys attached easily capable of suspending his greedy ex until she sees the error of her ways. What he hadn't accounted for was the place being haunted - and by fiends of particularly sadistic bent who commandeer his torture device and use it to discipline one of their own with a savagery that has even the vengeful Lester squirming. What he witnesses that night persuades him to make a significant amendment to his plans ...
Karl E. Wagner - The Kind Men Like : (Jeff Gelb & Michael Garrett,
Hotter Blood: More Tales Of Erotic Horror, Pocket, 1991). 'fifties glamour model Kirsti Lane (obviously based on Betty Page, who is mentioned several times in the text) disappeared at the height of her popularity, an exit that sparked many a wild rumour. "People said that Kirsty could get a little rough on the submissive model when she was the dominant one", her one-time photographer Steinman to Chelsea, who is trying to trace her for reasons which become apparent at the (spectacular) close of the story. "I know some of the girls wouldn't work with her unless they played the mistress." The late Betty also features prominently in Nancy Kilpatrick's
Teaserama from Stephen Jones's
The Mammoth Book Of Dracula.
Edward E. Kramer - Forgotten Promises : (Nancy A. Collins & Edward E. Kramer,
Forbidden Acts, Avon, 1995). Mrs. Ginny 'Two-whacks' Matthews is the most feared teacher in the school and when she catches Tina in the boys changing room giving Robbie head after a football match, she brutally punishes her. A decade (and the best part of a sex-change) later, the person now known as 'Chris' looks up his retired tutor with vengeance in mind.
Frank Neate - Miss Fletcher's Plum Tree : (Herbert Van Thal,
12th Pan Book Of Horror Stories, 1971). New Zealand. Doddery old Miss Anita Fletcher is a closet sadist with worsening mental problems and when she catches little Ian Reeves scrumping plums from her favourite tree it goes badly for him. Between attending her housework, admiring the garden and offering tea and sympathy to the police searching for the missing boy, she tortures Ian over a period of days, tying him in a sack which she then sets about with a stick, finally realising that it would not be in her interests to ever let him go. It's rather frustrating having to dump him in the river, but doubtless there will be other little tykes to replace him.
Leslie Manette - The Girl In The Iron Collar : (
Web Terror Stories #1 (August 1962) "Lydia Anselm was one of those modern, drivingly brilliant college women who have seized upon the present day total emancipation of women to push her way forcefully into the world of science." She has also "used her curvaceous figure to distract her fellow workers" and - unforgivably - learned how to operate a slide rule "with the best of them", so she's well overdue a good head de-swelling! Being pushy into the bargain, she persuades Prof. Tomkins to consider her above the others to test drive his time machine. Tomkins sends her back 500 years to the Middle East where she's enlisted into the Harem over a cruel Prince for three hours. Naturally, she has to show off, so the surly fellow has no option but to strip her to her undies, suspend her upside down and thrash her soundly. If only she'd stayed home and done her little dusting - but they won't listen, will they?
Actually, we could fill the whole anthology with selections from from
Web Terror Stories. The same issue features a little something entitled
Victim Wanted - Female while #8 (June 1965) introduces
Alistair Bogaert's The Leather Mask -
"Meeting his admirers was a painful lesson for "Bircher" Middleton" and
Blake Burnham's The Whipping Cure ("The sauna bath was supposed to be relaxing, but for Harry it was sheer torture").
There's another story whose name escapes me from a 'nineties (?) horror antho I had from the library which begins with a discussion on the merits of
Sadie Stern which, I'm reliably informed (not having any truck with this kind of material myself, you understand), is/ was a fem dom glossy of some repute. Any ideas?