Harriet Daimler: 6 books

Considered the best work by author Harriet Daimler (Iris Owens), Darling is an oddly titled but very explicit rape fantasy. How explicit: after accepting Owens, and offering her the $2 a day he gave to all his writers, Girodias took the young woman aside, and asked her to, please, tone down the work...

Manche Frauen, wusste sie, waren freiwillig untertan. Sie entdeckten, was für gezüchtigte, gequälte Geschöpfe sie waren, und lebten, ihr Leid pflegend und hegend. Sie suchten einen Herrn, der sie bestrafte, der ihren Hunger nach Strafe stillte.

A joint effort between Olympia authors Harriet Daimler (Iris Owens) and Henry Crannach (Marilyn Meeske), The Pleasure Thieves is an account of two men, burglars, who share a woman and each other, upping the ante at every turn. The book has its origins in a screenplay Meeske wrote with Terry Southern...

Harriet Daimler's (Iris Owens) second work for Olympia is the account of Adrian, a '50s heiress, neurotic and bed-ridden control fiend, who abuses her nurse Rose, lusts after her father, and despite her invalid state feels herself on top of things. From across the pond arrives Andre, a disinherited...

The third solo effort by author Daimler gives us a contemporary recreation of all the scenes from de Sade's Bedroom Philosophers. They deserve much credit for their thoroughness, and author Daimler gets kudos for her wit and early attempt at post-modernism.

One of author Daimler's more unusual works, involving debates about philosophy, madness, religion, and the screaming tender demon inside. Martha and Macdonald sit in Paris, debate and chat, and need, and desire, and reject... and fuck.