Van Heller: 32 books

Early fake van Heller about an Edie-Sedgwick-like socialite who's introduced to her sexuality at the hands of a family maid and rises through her family fortune to become a top socialite and actress. Something of a first-wave feminist, the sympathetic portrayal of young Mandy is one that doesn't quite sync with other accounts in the post-Paris van Heller genre, but still merits a look.

Marcus van Heller's Roman Orgy skillfully captured the savage, sprawling epic of the rebellion of the slaves led by Spartacus, and the tragic failure of their rise against the Roman Empire. Now, in The Loins of Amon, the same scholarly acumen is again evident as van Heller brings to life ancient...

Not to be included in the canon of Hellerotica, as laid down by Patrick Kearney, our sacred bibliographer. Still this work, part of Girodias' revival of the van Heller name for the late '60s Ophelia line, is an impressive account of a Hollywood star, marooned in England, imprisoned by hypocrites,...

Author van Heller is a legend among writers of erotic fiction, so good that his name and craft were often imitated, but never duplicated. Considered by many to be his finest work, Roman Orgy is a retelling of Spartacus. In this case, our hero is a servant, willful but submissive, until one day when...

Marcus Van Heller (John Stevenson) wrote this book for Olympia in 1961. The work presents detective Nick Harding, and wraps a thriller between amorous adventures and recollections of same.

Marcus van Heller, author of such world-famous classics as Kidnap, The House of Borgia, and Roman Orgy, now sets his sights on the vicious traffic in black-market drugs and the innocent lives ruined by lust and greed. Cruel Lips is the startling expose of the seamy side of London which tourists and royalty...

Marcus van Heller's (John Stevenson's), account of a boy and a girl, innocent and in Eve's case somewhat frigid, who flee the countryside for London, him to be a painter, her an actress. Along the way, she trades her innocence for a career, with sometimes disastrous results, he gets caught up in the...

The oft-imitated but never duplicated Marcus Van Heller (John Stevenson), is back with this fast-paced account of rebellion, Algeria, the National Liberation Front and quite a bit of sex, some of it forced, some of it paid for, some given sweetly.

One of the rarest of the later van Hellers, possibly only a TC edition. It's the story of the physical and emotional wanderings of a young woman, and the many, many partners she meets along the way.

A sequel of sorts to the Hard Guys (OPB643). Our hero wants to join the mob, but to get there, he's gotta get through a 14-year-old guy, some time in the slam, and not a few gals of easy virtue.

Duke had a gambling joint, and this joint had many girls--and Ape was there to make sure the girls behaved themselves for the customers. But Duke's beautiful wife had an even more beautiful teen-age sister, and that was the start of their big trouble.

With shades of an erotic Jack the Ripper, Nightmare is the story of an African physician, set against the backdrop of race relations in the UK in the '50s. Dr. Patterson first witnesses and intervenes against whites out to committ acts of barbarity against women, then, when he finds himself on trial...

Tale of a young girl who finds herself abducted from the arms of her lover in Paris. She's eventually returned to her family, but not without gaining in experience.

The Wantons wandered London's soot-blackened suburbs, constantly craving far-out drug stimulation and promoting promiscuity as a way of life. Without the fetters of conventional morality, they asked only to be left alone with the frenzied pleasure they took from a hypodermic needle and each other.