A tribute to FE Campbell...(and who is your favorite commercial Author?)

[simons]

I want to introduce my absolute favorite in commercial BDSM-pulp: the late F.E. Campbell.
He published over one-hundred paperbacks for the BD-specialist "House Of Milan" (HOM now Lyndon Distributors) with cover-art by the legendary "Bishop".
He never wrote really hardcore stuff,but I consider his sophisticated style and language as highly erotic. In his books he visited settings like kinky boarding schools and reformatories ("Monica", "Iron Bars & Love", "The Lash of Maiden Hall"), Mid-East harems and slave-markets ("The Prisoner Of Ismaul", "Slaves of Jehdra", "Dungeons Of Hagadar"), Southern plantations ("Susan") etc. etc.
He also published a series of sixteen novelettes about the sadistic butler "Fellowes", illustrated by "Ashely". (Today you can find these Ashely-drawings in many BDSM-Art-collections of the www ,for example in the members' area of the "Library".)
In his old-age he lost his eye-sight, so that the last ten novels published under his name were ghost-written by his successor John Savage (also a fine author but not as good as Campbell)
Unfortunately most of Campbell's work is today out-of-print and very hard to get.
Let's hope for an E-book-reissue...

So and who is your favourite commercial author?

[drayman]

I agree with your comments about F E Campbell and have several of his novels. Kenneth Harding and A deGranamour are two names that spring to mind when considering past Masters of BDSM fiction. Also the late Victor Bruno was a substantial contributor to the genre, especially in the UK.

I have a book called Sentenced to Servitude Volume 1 by A deGranamour and I have been unable to trace the sequel Volume 2. The story is about a woman called Caroline Martin and if anyone is able to provide me with information which will help me obtain Volume 2 I would be obliged.

In addition, I especially like Ian Smith's novels of the current authors.

[simons]

There is only one A. de Granamour-booklet in my collection.

It's called "In the Hands Of The Inquisition" and it contains 12 rare Bishop-drawings.

The TAO booklet-series, for which Granamour and Harding wrote, is today even harder to get than the Campbell novels.

To collect Victor Bruno-novels is much more easier, because most of his work is still in print at
www.olympia-press.co.uk

[drayman]

Further to my earlier post, I have been successful in obtaining "Sentenced to Servitude Part 2". It was on sale at the Olympia Books site.

[Spitman]

I am also a long term fan of FE Campbell, and I have almost all of his books (HOM) in hard copy. See also my comments in the 'about new members' thread, about page 16 which are very much on the same lines as simons' post.

Some of the later books are in very small print and would be hard to scan.

I also have some by de Granamour and others, Marcus van Heller for instance, Morgan Drake's amazing 'Flowers of Hell' (Ophelia Press) which probably gave a few ideas to Dolcett, several by Victor Bruno.

One of my favourites by FE Campbell is Slave Market which had an unusual sex machine in it, quite Dali-esque (to quote Campbell). But every one of them had something special in it.

Early ones like The Siblings, many of them set in a country estate. Lots of pony girl stuff, nipple rings used for bondage, whips and chains galore and not a thought of PC.