Part 4

_The Haunting of Hill House._ Viking, 1959. During the investigation of a reputed "haunted house", two of the investigating party--Theo, an admitted lesbian, and Eleanor, a lonely, inhibited spinster--go through a curious, subtly delineated relationship wavering, with the intensity of the "haunting" of the house, from attraction to intense love to unexplained revulsion. Macabre; good of its kind.

JAMES, HENRY. _Turn of the Screw._ Macmillan 1898, hcr Modern Library n d, Pocket Books and other editions. Available everywhere. Some authorities consider subtle and understated lesbianism to be the mysterious motivations behind the scenes of this curious psychological ghost story of the struggle of a governess for the souls of two young children.

_The Bostonians._ Century Magazine 1885, hcr Dial 1945.

JOHNSON, KAY. _My Name is Rusty._ Castle Books, 1958. Allegedly a novel of a woman's prison, complete with glossary of "prison slang"--but if the author has ever been inside a woman's prison, or even done any authentic research, your editors will eat a copy of the book, complete with cover jackets. Brief plot; butchy Rusty makes a pass at prison newcomer Marcia, in order to share her commissary credits. When Rusty gets out of prison she marries and goes straight and Marcia kills herself. Read it and weep.

JONES, JAMES. _From Here to Eternity._ Scribners 1951, pbr Signet ca. 1952, (m).

KASTLE, HERBERT D. _Koptic Court._ Simon & Schuster 1958, pbr tct _Seven Keys to Koptic Court_, Crest 1959, (m).

KEENE, DAY and Leonard Pruyn. _World Without Women._ pbo Gold Medal, 1960, Science-fictional evening waster; all the women in the world die off, except a few, who must be carefully protected as potential mothers of the human race. One episode involves all the surviving lesbians, who barricade themselves in a prison. Good of type.

KENNEDY, JAY RICHARD. _Short Term._ World, 1959. This one is just out; reviews indicate some lesbian content, but this could be anything from a paragraph to three chapters. BAYOR.

KENT, JUSTIN. _Mavis._ Vixen Press 1953, pbr Beacon 1960. scv. "Mavis is married to a lush, so she dallies and so does he, and they are really a pair of dillies dallying...."

+ KENT, NIAL. (pseud of William LeRoy Thomas) _The Divided Path_, (m). Greenberg 1949, Pyramid pbr 1951, 1952, 1959. For once the plus is used to promote personal prejudice; various authorities call this book overly sentimental. But when this hardened reviewer finds herself in tears, she's apt to think there must be something to it. Childhood, adolescence and manhood of Michael, a young homosexual, and his long-continued, scrupulously self-denying relationship with a boyhood friend who does not suspect his friend's "difference".

KENYON, THEDA. _That Skipper from Stonington._ Messner, 1946. A juvenile novel, strangely enough, found in a high school library. The hero runs away to sea as a small boy and is protected by a man who is obviously homosexual, though the boy does not know it; the other men on the ship, suspecting that this relationship is unhealthy (it isn't) hound the boy's protector to suicide.

KEOGH, THEODORA. _Meg._ Creative Age Press 1950, pbr Signet 1952, 1956. Sublimated lesbianism in a very young girl.

_The Double Door._ Creative Age 1950, pbr Signet 1952, (m).

KESSEL, JOSEPH. _The Lion._ (trans. from French by Peter Green). N. Y. Knopf 1959. One editor saw subtle variant emotion in the mother's attachment to a school friend.

KING, DON. _The Bitter Love._ Newsstand Library Magenta Book, 1959. Rather good evening waster about a supposed double murder, gradually solved by the slow revelation of the affair between Brenda and her 16 year old stepdaughter.

KING, MARY JACKSON. _The Vine of Glory._ Bobbs-Merrill, 1948. This won a prize as the best novel on race relations by a Southern writer for its year. A repressed, inhibited, small-town girl, Lavinia, at the mercy of elderly tyrannical relatives, forms a close friendship with a Negro man who was her only childhood friend. The friendship between Lavinia and Augustus is purely platonic; she attends a school he has set up for colored girls who wish to improve themselves, and he helps to find her a job; but enraged small-minded bigots bring on a lynching. Early in the book a preparation is laid for Lavinia's lack of friends of her own sex and status by her unfortunate friendship with Dixie Murdoch, teen-age daughter of a Holy-roller preacher. While spending the night, Dixie attempts to make homosexual advances to the younger girl, and Lavinia becomes hysterical. The episode is brief, condemnatory and very realistic.

KIN, DAVID GEORGE. _Women Without Men._ Brookwood, 1958. The author calls this "True stories of lesbian life in Greenwich Village". It represents a roundup of a dozen or so famous literary and artistic figures, presented as case histories. They are presented, picture after sordid picture, without a glimmer of understanding or real insight, though he sometimes shows smug sympathy for a few he claims to have reformed by something he calls "cultural therapy". He baldly states in the preface: "I take my mental hygiene from Moses, rather than Freud, and have the Mosaic horror of homosexuality". Despite this vicious slanting, the book is explicit, funny in places, and presumably verifiable--but certainly makes homosexuality look like a Fate Worse Than Death. The writing is straight from the tabloid newspapers.

KINSEY, CHET. _Kate._ pbo, Beacon 1959. scv.

KOESTLER, ARTHUR. _Arrival and Departure._ Macmillan 1943. A man makes the most important decision of his life on the rebound of disillusion after discovering that a woman who risked her life to save him is a lesbian.

+ KRAMER, N. MARTIN (pseud. of Beatrice Ann Wright). _Hearth and The Strangeness._ Macmillan 1956, pbr Pyramid 1957. An excellent novel of the fear of inherited insanity in a family. The youngest child, Aliciane, becomes a lesbian; this is one of the few realistic and unromanticized portraits of the factors in the development of homosexuality from childhood.

_Sons of the Fathers._ Macmillan 1959, (m).

LACRETELLE, JACQUES DE. _Marie Bonifas._ (trans. from the French of La Bonifas) London & N. Y., G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. Classic novel of feminine variance. Exclusively lesbian characters are rare in French literature (although bisexual women are relatively common), and this was one of the best known; it follows the heroine from childhood to old age.

LACY, ED. _Room to Swing._ Harper Bros. 1957, pbr Pyramid 1958. A colored detective is retained by a pair of lesbians to solve a murder; is instead accused of committing it. Good.

+ LANDON, MARGARET. _Never Dies the Dream._ Doubleday, 1949. An unmarried woman missionary in Siam incurs criticism and suspicion when she shows marked favor to an unfortunate American girl at the mercy of the Orient; later, when she risks her own life by isolating herself to nurse Angela through typhoid, she loses her own position. Neither the author nor the heroine of the novel admit the faintest tinge of lesbianism to the relationship, which is full of warmth and selfless sacrifice, and India angrily denies the accusation when it is made; but the high emotional intensity of the whole story bring it well within the boundaries of the field and place it high on the list.

LA FARGE, CHRISTOPHER. _The Sudden Guest._ Coward-McCann, 1946. The human driftwood blown up by a hurricane includes a pair of lesbians, stirring latent memories in the novel's heroine--an embittered, abandoned spinster.

+ LAPSLEY, MARY. _Parable of the Virgins._ R. R. Smith, 1931. High-keyed novel of many emotional fevers, hetero and homosexual, in a woman's college.

LAWRENCE, D. H. "The Fox", ss in Dial Magazine 1922, also in hcr but NOT in pbr edition of _The Captain's Doll_, Thomas Seltzer, 1923.

_The Rainbow._ Modern Library 1915, 1943, pbr Avon 1959, 1960. In a long, three-generation novel of the Brangwyn family, one variant episode between young Ursula and a teacher.

LAURENT-TAILHADE, MARIE LOUISE. _Courtesans, Princesses, Lesbians._ (Trans. from French by G. M. C.) Paris, Libraire Astra. Casanova-ish memoir; French pamphleteering of Pre-revolutionary days. Bitter, explicit and mildly disgusting; mentioned mostly to state emphatically that the French Libraire Astra, and the Astra's Tower Checklist, have NO connection.

LE CLERQ, JACQUES. _Show Cases._ Macy-Masius, 1928. Offbeat short stories, dealing with male and female homosexuality.

LEAR-HEAP, WINIFRED. _The Shady Cloister._ Macmillan, 1950. Quiet, understated and sympathetic story of feminine relationships in a school setting--but without the melodramatic atmosphere of tragedy which usually surrounds such stories.

+ LEE, MARJORIE. _The Lion House._ Rinehart, 1959. Well-written attempt to capture and document the confused and shifting morals of modern suburban living. Brad, husband of Jo, starts the story by flirting with Frannie; this backfires when Frannie and Jo become friends. As the relationship grows more intense, it proves so disturbing that even after Frannie has admitted its nature Jo cannot accept it; Frannie attempts to solve her problems via psychoanalysis, while Jo continues floundering in her unresolved conflicts. This year's best new novel.

LEE, GYPSY ROSE. _Gypsy, a Memoir._ Harper Bros. 1959, pbr Dell 1959. In a fascinating, probably largely fictional autobiography, the ex-burlesque queen/novelist shows one thoroughly comical lesbian character. This is really minor, but marvelously funny, and anyone who plows through all the crud we mention will get a real break from this.

LE FANU, SHERIDAN. "Carmilla" in _Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories._ Also in Vol III of "The Forgotten Classics of Mystery", entitled _Sheridan Le Fanu, the Diabolical Genius_. Also in _Strange and Fantastic Stories_, ed. by Joseph Margolies, McGraw Hill, 1946. Fantastic lesbian vampire.

LEIBER, FRITZ. "The Ship Sails at Midnight", in _The Outer Reaches_, ed. August Derleth, Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisc. 1951. Science-fiction or fantasy of a strange, unusual woman who captivates a whole group of college students; tragedy is touched off by their jealous rage when it is discovered that she has been making love to all of them--not simultaneously of course. Extremely well done, hint of allegory.

LEGRAND, NADIA. _The Rainbow Has Seven Colors._ N. Y. St Martins, 1958. After the death of the heroine her life is reviewed by seven people who loved her (as with _Of Lena Geyer_) including a lesbian who loved her and a young girl who wanted to.

+ LEHMANN, ROSAMOND. _Dusty Answer._ N. Y., Holt, 1927. Still in print. Well-known novel in which the heroine's whole life is conditioned by her love for a college classmate. Delicate, beautifully written.

LENGEL, FRANCES. _Helen and Desire._ Olympia Press, Paris, 1954. scv, and you can't buy it in this country legally. If you locate a copy you'll know why we say you aren't missing a thing. Seamy novel of a nymphomanic ----ing her way around the world. (It's not worth going to Paris to read.)

LESLIE, DAVID STUART. _The Man on the Beach._ London, Hutchinson 1957, (m).

LEVAILLANT, MAURICE. _The Passionate Exiles._ (trans. Malcolm Barnes.) Farrar, Straus & Cudahy 1958. Historical "dual biography" of Madame de Stael and Madame Recamier.

+ LEVIN, MEYER. _Compulsion._ Simon & Schuster 1956. pbr Pocket Books 1958, (m).

LEWIS, SINCLAIR. _Ann Vickers._ Doubleday, 1933. One important lesbian episode in a novel of woman suffrage, viciously condemnatory.

LEVERIDGE, RALPH. _Walk on the Water._ Farrar, 1951, pbr tct _The Last Combat_, Signet 1952, Pyramid 1959, (m).

LEWIS, WYNDHAM. _The Apes of God._ N. Y., R. M. McBride & Co, 1932, London, Arthur Press 1950, London, Arco, 1955. Satire, including sharp studies of homosexuality, male and female.

LIN, HAZEL. _The Moon Vow._ Pageant Press, 1958. A Chinese woman psychiatrist, attempting to solve a patient's problems, is led into seamy byways of Peking, including a somewhat gruesome lesbian cult.

LINDOPS, AUDREY ERSKINE. _The Outer Ring._ Appleton 1955, pbr Popular Library tct _The Tormented_. (m)

LINGSTROM, FREDA. _Axel._ Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1939. Wealthy man adopts two boys and a girl. One boy, Valentine, has homosexual affair with an older boy, Teddy, who later commits suicide; the girl, Auriol, studying music in Germany, lives with 2 older women, one of whom is very innocently but very ardently in love with her. Well-written.

LIPSKY, ELEAZAR. _The Scientists._ Appleton-Century-Crofts 1959, pbr Pocket Books, 1960. Minor character in a long novel is a vaguely treated, but explicit lesbian.

LIPTON, LAWRENCE. _The Holy Barbarians._ Messner, 1959. Love among the beat generation, including all kinds of homosexuality.

LITTLE, JAY. _Somewhere between the Two._ Pageant, 1956, (m).

_Maybe Tomorrow._ Pageant, 1952, (m). Amusing.

LIVINGSTON, MARJORIE. _Delphic Echo._ London, Andrew Dakers, 1948, (m). Minor, in a novel of ancient Greece.

LODGE, LOIS. _Love Like a Shadow._ Phoenix Press, 1935. Purple-passaged novel of a lesbian seeking true love.

+ LOFTS, NORAH. _Jassy._ Knopf 1945, pbr Signet 1948, others. Roughly a third of this novel, about a young English girl who, herself innocent, brings tragedy on everyone, is lesbian in emphasis. In a girl's school she comes between Mrs. Twysdale, a rather slimy, neurotic woman who has adored her boyish cousin, Katherine, for years. Katherine, chafing at this adoration, turns to Jassy for undemanding friendship and Mrs. Twysdale connives to have her expelled--which spurs Katherine to precipitate a long-desired break with her.

_The Lute Player._ Doubleday, 1951; pbr Bantam 1951, (m). Fine historical of Richard III, based on the thesis that he was homosexual.

+ LONG, MARGARET. _Louisville Saturday._ Random 1950, pbr Bantam 1951, 53, 56, 57, 59. A study of women in wartime includes a brief study of a woman's acceptance of a variant friendship (the sections titled GLADYS).

LORD, SHELDON. _A Strange Kind of Love._ N. Y., Midwood-Tower Pubs pbo 1959. Evening waster about a writer who discovers that two of his (dozens of) girl friends are involved with one another.

_69 Barrow Street._ Midwood-Tower pbo 1959, scv. Love, if you can call it that, in Greenwich Village.

+ LOUYS, PIERRE. _Aphrodite._ (Many editions, of which the standard English translation seems to be The Collected Works of Pierre Louys, Liveright, 1926, still in print. Also various Avon paperbacks.) The beautifully written story of an Alexandrian courtesan also includes the story of two young Greek girls, Rhodis and Myrtocleia, no more than children, who wish to marry one another.

_The Adventures of King Pausole._ As above. Fine, funny, highly risque story of the king of a strange country, who has a thousand wives, like Solomon, and believes in freedom for everybody except his daughter, Aline--who eventually runs away with a "boy" who is really a girl.

_The Songs of Bilitis._ As above. Prose or poetry, depending on translation, and perhaps the classic story of lesbianism in an ancient setting.

LUCAS, RICK. _Dreamboat._ pbo, Berkley, 1956, 1957. scv.

LYNDON, BAREE, and Jimmie Sangster. _The Man who Could Cheat Death_, based on the screenplay, for the recent movie, which in turn was based on a play, The Man in Half Moon Street. Without the fantastic photography which made the movie superb, this is a remarkably silly pseudo-science thing about a man who finds away to survive indefinitely by glandular transplants. To camouflage his deathlessness he pulls up his roots and moves every ten years and during one such interlude he falls for beautiful Avril Barnes, who turns out to be a lesbian. He converts her, and she becomes such a pest that he murders her. Shocker, silly.

MacCOWN, EUGENE. _The Siege of Innocence._ Doubleday, 1950, (m). And minor lesbian element.

MacKENZIE, COMPTON. _Extraordinary Women._ Martin Secker, London; Macy-Masius N. Y. 1928, hcr New Adelphi 1932. The Winston Book Service offered this for sale quite recently. Amusing, satirical and well-known novel of lesbians.

_The Vestal Fire._ N. Y. Doran, 1927, (m). However, in this novel of Americans living abroad, there are also important lesbian characters.

MacRAE, KEVIN. _Nikki._ Vantage. 1955. Not to be confused with the rubbishy book by the same title by Stuart Friedman, this is a story of Nikki, who loses her beloved in an air raid in London and nearly cracks up before finding a home in a lesbian "colony" in Southern California; silly, but a lot of fun.

+ MacINNES, COLIN. _Absolute Beginners._ London, MacGibbon & Rae, 1959. A novel about London teen-agers, told in Soho idiom--a sort of bastard hip-talk. The characters in this novel include several male homosexuals, and one lesbian, Big Jill. Enough space is devoted to social problems, by an author who is quite obviously one of the "angry young men", to give this novel real status.

McMINNIES, MARY. _The Visitors._ Harcourt, Brace 1958. A diplomat's wife abroad, fancying herself as Madame Bovary, attempts to use everyone around her for her own purposes. She has an affair with an American correspondent and also captivates Sophie, a countess, and an extremely well-portrayed character. One of the most sympathetic portraits of a lesbian in recent fiction, as well as a ruthless portrayal of women who enjoy flirting in both fields.

+ MAHYERE, EVELINE. _I Will not Serve._ Dutton 1959, 1960. This book, boycotted by many major reviewers, was written by a young Frenchwoman who committed suicide before its publication. Precocious, nonconformist Sylvie has been expelled from a convent for writing, in a letter, that she loves one of the nuns. The story deals with the unfolding pattern of Sylvie's meetings with Julienne, an older novice in the convent. The conflict is clear; Sylvie's creed is "I will not serve"--a statement of her refusal to become a good wife and mother--and she wants nothing of life but Julienne. Julienne, has given herself to God. Refusing to accept this, Sylvie commits suicide. The book is profound and sincere, and on the basis of this one work the author's premature death was a loss to the field of literature.

MAINE, CHARLES ERIC. _World Without Men._ pbo, Ave Books 1958. Science fiction of a world thousands of years in the future, where the men have all died out, reproduction is scientific and the women, having no one else to love, love one another. In defiance of all conceivable theories of heredity and environment, a few women still think this state of affairs is "unnatural" and band together to create a male birth, assuming everyone will turn normal overnight. Silly.

MALLET, FRANCOISE. _The Illusionist._ (Trans. by Herma Briffault). Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1952 tct _The Loving and the Daring_, Popular 1953. (pbr). Now well-known novel, by a young French writer, of a girl captivated by her father's mistress.

_The Red Room._ (trans. by Herma Briffault). Farrar, Strauss & Cudahy 1956, pbr Popular 1958. Sequel to the above.

MALLOY, FRED. _The End of the Road._ Woodford Press 1952, pbr Berkley tct _Wicked Woman_, 1959. Good evening waster about a girl who is picked up by Charlotte, a truck-driver "dike" type; Charlotte gives Alice a home, but eventually Alice runs off with a man who is worse than she is. Surprisingly, for this type of thing, the author implies that there _is_ a fate worse than lesbianism.

MANNING, BRUCE. _Triangle of Sin._ Intimate Novel (Universal Pub.) 1952, pbr Beacon Books 1959; same title, but author listed as Manning Stokes. Evening waster.

MANNIX, DANIEL P. _The Beast._ pbo Ballantine Books 1959, (m).

MARECHAL, LUCIE. _The Mesh_ (trans. by Virgilia Peterson.) Appleton 1949, pbr Bantam, 1951, 1953, 1959. Excellent novel of a Belgian family; the weakling son marries, brings his bride into home dominated by his mother, shadowed by his lonely sister. Eventually sister takes the young woman away from her brother.

MARLOWE, STEPHEN. _Homicide is My Game._ Gold Medal 1959 pbo. Hardboiled murder mystery involving a teen-age sex club--a businessman is involved of running it, but the real culprit is his daughter, Liz. She is also a lesbian. Evening waster.

MARK, EDWINA. (pseud of Edwin Fadiman jr). _My Sister, my Beloved._ Citadel 1955, pbr Berkley 1956. Two young sisters, daughters of a drunken lush of a mother, fall into a too-close relationship as Eve, the older, protects young Sheila from their mother's beatings and tantrums. Sheila plays around and gets pregnant; mother, at the stage where alcohol will kill her, is given a big drink by Eve, who then arranges for Sheila to have an abortion and the two of them to live happily ever after; instead, Sheila marries the boy and Eve is whipped half to death by one of her mother's gigolos. One of _those_ books--where anything from abortion to rape is preferable to lesbianism.

+ _The Odd Ones._ Berkley pbo, 1959. Jean, small-town girl running away, comes to New York and falls in with Sherri, tied to a crazy husband. Rather good and not condemnatory at all; rather restrained for a pbo, although of course it has the obligatory sexy stuff.

MARR, REED. _Women without Men._ Gold Medal pbo, 1956. Naive, if not too intelligent girl sent to a woman's reformatory, encounters the usual hardening experiences--corrupt matrons, police-court-type lesbians, trusties and well-meaning officials who have their lives to live and can't or won't do anything to better conditions. Good of its kind.

MARSHE, RICHARD. _A Woman Called Desire._ (Orig. pub. 1950 under title of _Wicked Woman_) Berkley pbr 1959, scv.

MARSTON, JOHN. _Venus With Us; a Tale of the Caesars._ N. Y. Sears, 1932. pbr Universal Pub. 1953 tct _The Private Life of Julius Caesar_. Fast, funny, risque historical novel--or romance--with approximately six historical errors per chapter, but a lot of fun nevertheless. The scenes laid in the College of Vestals are exclusively lesbian; there are both serious, emotional affairs between women, and funny light-hearted ones in the manner of King Pausole. Good of kind.

+ MARTIN, KENNETH. _Aubade._ London, Chapman & Hall 1957, (m).

MASEFIELD, JOHN. _Multitude and Solitude._ Macmillan 1909, 1916.

MASSIE, CHRIS. _The Incredible Truth._ Random, N. Y., 1958, pbr Berkley 1959. Victorian husband narrates, many years afterward, his wife's successive attachment to two woman friends.

MAUGHAM, SOMERSET. _Theatre._ Doubleday 1937, Bantam pbr tct _Woman of the World_, 1951, pbr Bantam tct _Theatre_ 1959. Theatrical novel of a worldly actress, Julia, contains brief mention of a fat, elderly lesbian admirer who finances her works; one amusing scene where Julia's husband advises her on how to manipulate Dolly's feelings. Smart, brittle.

MAUPASSANT, GUY DE. _Paul's Mistress._ ss in various collections including Cory, _21 Variations on a Theme_.

MAYHALL, JANE. _Cousin to Human._ Harcourt, Brace 1960. Valeda, friend of the heroine, has a sad, depressing affair with an adolescent schoolgirl athlete friend, named Mildred.

MEAGHER, MAUDE. _The Green Scamander._ Houghton Mifflin, 1933. A novel of the Trojan war, largely concerned with the passionate friendship between Penthesilea, co-queen with the Amazon tribe, and her co-ruler Camilla. Beautifully written, available in most medium-sized libraries.

MEEKER, RICHARD. _The Better Angel._ Greenberg 1933, pbr Universal Pub. tct _Torment_ ca. 1952, (m).

+ MEREZOWSKII, DMITRI. (Trans. from Russian by Natalia A. Duddington) London, J. M. Dent & Co, 1925, 1926. _Birth of the Gods._ A fine novel of Crete and the bull-dancers (and perhaps the first of its kind). Dio, a strangely bisexual young girl, priestess of the Great Mother, though attracted and attractive to men, is vowed to remain a virgin in the service of the Goddess; much of the novel is devoted to her passionate friendship for her young novice, Eoia. One of Dio's rejected lovers, believing that the "little witch" has cast a spell on Dio to prevent her loving him, plots to have Eoia killed in the ring; instead Eoia's death nearly destroys Dio as well.

_Akhnaton, King of Egypt._ (as above) London, Dent, 1927. Continues and concludes the story of Dio.

MERGENDAHL, CHARLES. _The Girl Cage._ pbo Gold Medal 1953, 1959. Brief, minor lesbian episode in a novel about war widows.

MERRITT, A(braham); _The Metal Monster._ Copyright Munsey Magazines, (this ran serially in Argosy ca. 1920) Revised version, Frank A. Munsey 1941, pbr Avon, 1946. Offbeat variant episode in an adventure-fantasy; Norhala, pagan slave of the "metal people" steals the explorer's sister, Ruth, to "play with her"; after her death Ruth weeps, saying "she loved me dearly, dearly," but significantly can remember nothing of their time together. Wildly fantastic, good of type.

METALIOUS, GRACE. _Return to Peyton Place._ Messner 1959, pbr Dell 1959. Another sexy "expose" of a small town. In one episode, the unpleasant wife of a local boy recalls her schooldays, when she taunted and enslaved a lesbian schoolmate.