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Ashely (?)
Worked for the late F.E.
Campbell. Still trying to find out his or her real name and
background.
Yeah! Still find a great variance on style. An alias for Robert
Bishop (below), using a different style when doing illustrated covers and
interiors for the "Fellowes" series of Frank E. Campbell novels produced
by House of Milan in the '70s and '80s. Worked in pencil, yielding rich
textures and highly detailed historical European costumes and settings.
F.E. Campbell 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".
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
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