Velvet Nightmares

In this extraordinary collection of twelve exquisite short stories, most definitely not for the faint-hearted and each illustrated by one of his photographs, renowned photographer China Hamilton tells of the shadowy world he inhabits. Here pleasure and pain merge into one unbearably intense sensation and the boundaries between slave and master are subtly blurred. Drawn from his own journeys into a very dark imagination they transport the reader to a world of S&M fantasy unparalleled in contemporary fiction. Read Velvet Nightmares with extreme caution, you have been warned...

China Hamilton’s photographic work has been published in several books, among them: A View From Behind, Woman, Bittersweet Sex and The Cabinet of Dark Things.

“My stories are appreciated as much by women as by men. Often even more...” 
CHINA HAMILTON 

“The gas lights aided by the desk lamp had no trouble now in illuminating the round bottom and the gaping moist sex beneath. As the expanse of pale thighs ran outward from the bottom the skin of their backs tightened as the muscles strove to keep the legs out straight. Mrs. Wixon spent time finding the ideal position. At each adjustment she tapped the last few inches of the cane upon the target area of youthful skin. Her cruelty knew the ideal place, just below the sharp line of the base of the cheeks with the cane well angled so that it would be more upon the inside of the thigh and quite deliberately, frighteningly close to the pouting virgin lips. Methodically she pulled back her white-cuffed sleeve to the elbow and re-gripped the shaft of the cane. Then, after all the anticipation of the involved preparations, it finally rose up and behind her head, paused, only to descend with a savage whip of the arm. The air whistled with its passage and the rattan was halted, with a cunning back flip of the wrist so producing a sharp crack as it found its tender mark. Sarah Jane’s whole body seemed to shudder in response, a vibration of intense agony gripping it, as a gasping cry broke from her open mouth.”