There are many reasons one should seek never to anger an ancient vampire, including a few that you would not expect. For instance, their sadism is not as widely known as their thirst for blood:
This artwork is from the cover of I Sanguinari #8: Stori di Mostri e di Vampiri.
This is a real gentleman. He gives enough ruler spankings in his office that he keeps a pillow handy to support the faces of the big-chested ladies he bends over his desk:
Every now and then you see a bit of spanking art … often of the pulp variety … that makes you realize that the artist either did not know or does not care how a spanking works. This spanking cover from an Italian pulp is one of the most spectacular “spanking fail” artworks I have ever seen, I think:
It simply fails in every dimension. The posing is bad, the women are too close together, the swoosh marks indicate that the ruler is swooshing in the wrong direction, it’s unclear what part of her anatomy might have been the target but it was surely never her bottom, and last but not least, the ruler itself is entirely out of proportion!
The last time we saw Kiki and Alice, they were fixin’ to get their bottoms beat for unspecified sleepover shenanigans. Now they have apparently brought the cheerleading squad into disrepute, which takes considerable effort because everybody already knows all those girls are a bunch of dirty little… ahem, where was I? Yes, I was discussing the self-empowering relationship and pleasure decisions of modern young women, and their inevitable resulting conflicts with unsympathetic conservative authoritarian figures in their lives:
According to A Pictorial History Of Horror, this bondage whipping artwork appeared in the September 1935 Horror Stories pulp magazine, illustrating a story called Satan’s Lash:
This artwork is said to be from Châtie bien ou la Flagellation dans la Vie moderne. The signature (lower left) is not really legible, but both the artwork and the signature look to my eye very similar to that of Louis Malteste.