March Hastings Knihy

The impassioned story of a tormented woman, desperate for physical satisfaction of all kinds, seeking peace of mind, heart...and body. A woman with an insatiable desire for sex seeks help from a psychiatrist... telling him her emotional story, hoping to end her unquenchable lust, find her true self, and live have a normal life. But is it too late? "March Hastings was the pen name of Sally Singer. Her works focused on the world of wealthy people and their psycho-sexual troubles. Her plots are convincing, style confident, characters unapologetically passionate yet believable, and dialogues top notch." The Book Haven For The Retro Reader “March Hastings" was one of the pseudonyms (along with Laura Duchamp, Viveca Ives, and Alden Stowe) of Sally M. Singer, a lesbian writer born in 1930s and the author of more than 130 novels. She is undoubtedly best-known for her string of ground-breaking, lesbian-themed, sexy pulp paperbacks in the 1950s and early 1960s, including Three Women, The Third Theme, Veil of Torment , and The Demands of the Flesh . She wrote many other sexy novels as Hastings, not all of them with a lesbian theme. However, by the late-60s/early 70s, the “March Hastings” pseudonym was co-opted by her publisher and became a house name for many different authors penning lurid paperbacks, diluting and confusing her early legacy as an influential author of lesbian pulp and straight erotic fiction.

This classic of lesbian pulp fiction was banned, deemed "unmailable" by the U.S. Postal Services, in 1960 and rated "indecent" in the U.S.A and Canada by the National Organization for Decent Literature. Now back in print for the first time in over sixty years. Her blood raced, her body pulsed, her desire was a thing of madness. There's the Ivy Sherwood the public the actress, the glamorous, beautiful darling of the stage, living a storybook life of champagne and roses with her glittering future ahead of her. And then there's Ivy off-stage, away from family and friends, prowling the streets, hardly recognizeable without make-up, her eyes shining with tension and craving, picking up any stranger, going into any dingy bedroom. She's running furiously through her days, seeking escape, needing release, fighting the passionate demon which lives inside her, torturing her, wildly demanding more liquor, more men, more women, anything to sate her uncontrollable sexual desire. Also published as The Sherwood Scandal

Karen is a woman trapped in a marriage to an impotent man...who finds the passion she craves with other men...and in the willing arms of Jean, a married woman who can never be satisfied by any man. It is the story of Karen's emotional and physical torment as she seeks what her body craves... and the love her soul needs

Perscription: Sex Kitty is happily married to a young, virile man...but she's never experienced a desire that scorches her from head to toe...or the great, body-shaking climax that other women have...... so she goes looking for it, a personal and physical journey that will change her life. "Her writing is amazingly good, far too good for 'sleaze.' March Hastings ups the ante, and is on par with Joyce Carol Oates's 1960s work. Her prose is smooth, her dialogue top notch, her charcters and their situations believable, if we want to believe the angsts of the upper crust of society." Those Sexy Vintage Sleaze Books "March Hastings" was one of the pseudonyms (along with Laura Duchamp, Viveca Ives, and Alden Stowe) of Sally M. Singer, a lesbian writer born in 1930s and the author of more than 130 novels. She is undoubtedly best-known for her string of ground-breaking, lesbian-themed, sexy pulp paperbacks in the 1950s and early 1960s, including Three Women, The Third Theme, Veil of Torment, and The Demands of the Flesh. She wrote many other sexy novels as Hastings, not all of them with a lesbian theme. However, by the late-60s/early 70s, the "March Hastings" pseudonym was co-opted by her publisher and became a house name for many different authors penning lurid paperbacks, diluting and confusing her early legacy as an influential author of lesbian pulp and straight erotic fiction.

To Sarine, sex was weapon, to be used whenever she wanted. Cabaret singer Sarine Duvall's style and voice are sultry, sexy and magnetic...and it drives reasonable men wild with lust. That is Sarine's power, and she knows how to wield it, using it to move to bigger and better New York clubs, and more attractive, possessive, and deadly men. No one wants her more than Paul, a married musician whose wife isn't about to let him out of her matrimonial grip, and is willing to fight tooth and claw, lips and breasts, to keep him. A raw, sensual, classic of pulp fiction noir, back in print for the first time in over 60 years.

A dangerously intimate, explosive pulp fiction classic, a landmark novel banned in 1960 and finally back in print for the first time in decades. This was a strange family -- they had wealth, prestige and the stature befitting their heritage. Yet beneath the veneer of respectability, smouldered a hidden evil. Why was the father so intent on securing the seduction of his own son? Why did the hauntingly beautiful Robin have a look of fear in her eyes? Before Eric Spokane could find all the answers and feel his way through the dark labyrinth of conflicting emotional entanglements, there was bitterness and shock and the violence of many sins. Originally published under the title Fear of Incest in 1960, and later retitled for a subsequent release. The book was one of 12 by March Hastings that were deemed “unmailable” by the US Postal Services, which called the books “obscene, lewd, lascivious and indecent.” For selling copies of this book, Samuel Dodd Williamson, a Los Angeles bookseller, was arrested, jailed and fined for criminal obscenity, a case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, who upheld the conviction.