Title: Portrait of a Sadist
Author: Paull Hill
Cover artist: Uncredited
Gift to the collection from reader "Stacy" (Thanks!)
Best things about this cover:
- This cover won the "Least Sexy Bondage Painting" contest of 1959.
- Seriously, stare at that foot for a few moments. It just gets creepier.
- You have to admire a sadist whose bondage technique involves colorful ascots.
- Curlicues on the "R"s make the "T" look like it has a fancy mustache.
Best things about this back cover:
- I like the jagged black-and-white electricity that engirds this cover copy. High voltage!
- I like books that express the dark confusion between horror and titillation. "This man sex was sex a hot dirty sex monster sex whose sex story should serve as a sex cautionary sex tale and definitely not masturbation material sex."
- You say "perverted psychopathic lusts," I say "sexual irregularities," let's call the whole thing off.
Page 123~
His whip was at that moment reposing in his suitcase at Bournemouth West railway station, but once again he had his supply of handkerchiefs.
OMG I love that sentence so much. Not sure which is my favorite part: "whip," "reposing" (so genteel), "handkerchiefs" (!!!), or "once again" (!!!!?).
~RP
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