The Way of a Man with a Maid

The Way of a Man with a Maid is an anonymous, sadomasochistic, erotic novel, probably first published around 1908. It is the story of a man who takes revenge on a woman who rejected him. Most of this story takes place in a room in his house called 'The Snuggery', which the narrator, Jack, converts into a kind of erotic torture chamber equipped with beds to which women can be strapped, and which is soundproofed to make their screams unheard. Other equipment includes cords and pulleys, flagellation implements and a mechanical 'Chair of Treachery' to which helpless females are lured to be restrained in.