The Story Keeper (A Carolina Heirlooms Novel)

Elephantis (fl. late 1st century BC) was a Greek poet and physician apparently renowned in the classical world as the author of a notorious sex manual.[1] Due to the popularity of courtesans taking animal names in classical times, it is likely Elephantis is two or more persons of the same name.[1] None of her works […]

Richard Arthur de Yarburgh-Bateson, 6th Baron Deramore (9 April 1911 – 20 August 2006) was a British architect, writer of erotic fiction, and a peer of the United Kingdom. Lord Deramore was educated at Harrow School and St. John’s College, Cambridge, and after graduation he earned a diploma from the Architectural Association School of Architecture. […]

Pierre-François Hugues, known as ‘baron d’Hancarville’ (Nancy 1719 – Padua 1805) was an art historian and historian of ideas. Pierre Francois Hugues was born in 1719 at Nancy, France, the son of a bankrupt cloth-merchant. He himself later added the title of ‘baron d’Hancarville’ to his name. Read:  Gypsy Blood (All The Pretty Monsters Book […]

Edith Cadivec (27 November 1879, Sveti Martin [hr], Buzet, Croatia – 1952) was an Austrian teacher, erotic novelist and notorious sex criminal of Slovenian descent. Cadivec was arrested, tried, and convicted in 1924 on the charge of sexually abusing eight underage girls under her care, including her own daughter. After a three-day trial, in the Viennese […]

Hanns Heinz Ewers (3 November 1871 – 12 June 1943) was a German actor, poet, philosopher, and writer of short stories and novels. While he wrote on a wide range of subjects, he is now known mainly for his works of horror, particularly his trilogy of novels about the adventures of Frank Braun, a character […]